[Frameworks] Reviews, press for new Oskar Fischinger DVD

[C Keefer]

a. Animation historian John Canemaker reviews the new Oskar Fischinger DVD
in his blog, Animated EYE:

http://animatedeye.johncanemaker.com/blog/eye-looks-four-books-dvd/

He also reviews some new books, including Dali/Destino & Disney.


b.  Animation World Network announces the new DVD:
https://www.awn.com/news/center-visual-music-restores-oskar-fischinger-work-dvd


*Direct link to order the new Fischinger DVD*:
www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Fischinger/newdvd.htm

Cindy Keefer
Center for Visual Music
Contact CVM at cvmaccess (at) gmail.com
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Re: [Frameworks] 7360 Sukiyaki

[Jonathan Walley]

David,

That’s awesome - I’m very grateful (as I’m sure everyone on the list is). Can’t 
wait to listen.
All best,
Jonathan

Dr. Jonathan Walley
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Cinema
Denison University
wall...@denison.edu

> On Feb 26, 2018, at 5:15 PM, David Baker  wrote:
> 
> Dr. Walley,
> 
> I can not help with regard to the question, where did 7360 Sukiyaki premier?
> However I have uploaded to Vimeo an audio recording of Tony's projection / 
> performance
> at Millennium Film Workshop on 6-15-74 
> which may be of interest to you, your research associate or others on this 
> list.
> 
> https://vimeo.com/257530075 
> 
> This recording includes:
> 
>  Film Feedback
> 
>   Projection of film that has been subjected to hammering, reassembled.
> 
>   Projection of films subjected to electrocution
>   
>   Projection of curried film.
>   ( Curry by Marian Zazeela)
> 
>   Projection of creoled film stock
> 
>  7360 Deep Fried - to be looked at sans projection
> 
>  Discussion of film pickling, film as a culinary ingredient
>  “film material behaves more or less like onions”
> 
> 7360 Sukiyaki
> 
> Q & A
> 
> Power to the people,
> 
> David
> 
> 
>> On Feb 26, 2018, at 10:54 AM, Jonathan Walley > > wrote:
>> 
>> Thank you, d.olivier, for that perspective. I remember Tony telling me 
>> something similar about cost, specifically that he had a notion of scale 
>> where the cooked, etc. films could be made for the cost of a lunch. 
>> 
>> You’re right about the missing scholarship on Tony’s video and public access 
>> work. A million years ago I did a very little bit of work on it, which was 
>> included in my dissertation but never made it any further. 
>> 
>> The only works I know of during this period that could genuinely be 
>> characterized as being “performances about projection” are Sukiyaki, Bowed 
>> Film, and Film Feedback (of course, it depends upon how elastic Tony’s 
>> definition of “performance” is, but still…). So I’m even more (reasonably) 
>> confident that Sukiyaki began its life at Antioch. [Interesting side note, 
>> the “premiere” date Tony listed for Sukiyaki in the MFJ article - 12/17/73 - 
>> was the same day that Antioch announced the firing of a couple dozen 
>> teaching faculty because the college was in dire financial straits. I have 
>> to guess that this included Tony, who moved on to Binghamton the following 
>> spring.] 
>> 
>> Thanks again - if anyone else has clues for the great 7360 Sukiyaki 
>> investigation, chime in. 
>> 
>> Best,
>> JW
>> 
>> Dr. Jonathan Walley
>> Associate Professor and Chair
>> Department of Cinema
>> Denison University
>> wall...@denison.edu 
>>> On Feb 24, 2018, at 6:01 PM, d. olivier delrieu-schulze 
>>> > wrote:
>>> 
>>> Tony talked about doing a performance of “film projection” at Antioch.  He 
>>> also said that his pickled films and cooked films were a response to being 
>>> criticized by other makers at Antioch.  Primarily for making work that 
>>> wasn’t directly engaging with social justice issues.  That film was 
>>> expensive and to make work that didn’t directly address isssues like 
>>> poverty was irresponsible.
>>> 
>>> So.  In t0ny’s positively spiteful way he said “fine I’ll just use scraps 
>>> of film and pickle them! That costs almost nothing!”
>>> 
>>> It’s not a surprise that there isn’t a clear record as Antioch went through 
>>> a lot of changes since then.
>>> 
>>> This incidence along with the video activism/public access work, I think, 
>>> shows a significant shift of tony’s work pre/during/post Antioch.  This is 
>>> glaringly absent from most of the scholarship about Tony’s work.
>>> 
>>> -d.olivier 
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 1:17 PM Jonathan Walley >> > wrote:
>>> Hello Frameworkers,
>>> 
>>> I have a question about Tony Conrad’s performance 7360 Sukiyaki, which I’m 
>>> asking on behalf of another researcher. It’s a simple question, really, but 
>>> has become quite the little puzzle. 
>>> 
>>> The question is where the work was “premiered.” In an essay he wrote for 
>>> MFJ called “Is This Penny Ante or a High Stakes Game?”, Tony listed three 
>>> performance dates for the work: December 17, 1973, April 27, 1974, and June 
>>> 15, 1974. The latter two dates I have been able to nail down: The Walker 
>>> Art Center and the Millennium. That leaves the December 17, ’73 date, 
>>> apparently the premiere. My educated guess is that this took place at 
>>> Antioch, which Tony was teaching at the time (he left shortly after to 
>>> teach at Binghamton, then, of course, SUNY Buffalo). The researcher I’ve 
>>> been talking to has not been able to find anything about a performance at 
>>> Antioch (my guess is that it was a very low-key affair, possibly connected 
>>> with 

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