Many of my films feature found footage collage, including Sonámbula, Is It True Blondes Have More Fun?, elixir, You Are the Product of a Sex Tabú, XXX, Global Medea, and several others. I am a Latina filmmaker based between Havana and Miami. check out my website at the link below or drop me a line to learn more about my work. so glad to see ppl wanting to show more work by women of color. also hats off to the work of Akosua Adoma Owusu.
enjoy today... Dinorah de Jesús Rodríguez Filmmaker, Artist, Writer solislandmediaworks.com <http://solislandmediaworks.com/> artcinematic.blogspot.com <http://artcinematic.blogspot.com/> youtube.com/user/solisland <http://www.youtube.com/user/solisland> > On Aug 30, 2018, at 9:14 PM, Cinema Project <i...@cinemaproject.org> wrote: > > Just thinking of found footage: > > Ina Archer's Hattie McDaniel: Or a Credit to the Motion Picture Industry from > 2002 . I put together a program last year for the Northwest Film Center that > focused on artists of color re-purposing / re-enacting footage, both male and > female (but fwiw, I am a white woman): > https://miacooperferm.com/filmprogramming/reconstructingidentity/ > <https://miacooperferm.com/filmprogramming/reconstructingidentity/> > > From Akosua Adoma Owusu, others have mentioned her, Bus Nut and Intermittent > Delight > Jennifer Chan also works a lot of with internet-sourced footage. > > Sincerely, > Mia Ferm > > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 11:37 AM, jimmyschaus1 <jimmysch...@gmail.com > <mailto:jimmysch...@gmail.com>> wrote: > if i recall correctly cauleen smith's Chronicles of a Lying Spirit (by Kelly > Gabron), shown as part of the traveling canyon program that played chicago > recently, utilized a lot of still photographic ephemera (photos, magazine > clippings, notes etc.) > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 1:29 PM Chrissie Iles, Curatorial > <chrissie_i...@whitney.org <mailto:chrissie_i...@whitney.org>> wrote: > Arthur Jafa said recently “If you point a camera at a Black person, on a > psychoanalytical level it functions as a White gaze. It therefore triggers a > whole set of survival modalities that Black Americans have. It doesn’t matter > if a Black person is behind the camera or not, because the camera itself > functions as an instrument of the White gaze. In other words, it’s recording > evidence of people speaking; hence there are certain things you can say, > certain things you can’t say.” There are profound implications for black > filmmakers’ use of found footage and collage in A.J.’s observation. Here are > some suggestions. 1,3,5, 6 and 9 are in the Whitney’s collection; the others > are in the process of being acquired. > > > > Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley’s film, though two white women, is also > important to mention, and is an important counterpoint to the sexist imagery > of ‘A Movie’ and other similar collage films of the time. > > > > 1. Ja’Tovia Gary’s ‘An Ecstatic Experience’ (on show at the Whitney for > the past nine months in ‘An Incomplete History of Protest’) > > > > 2. Crystal Z. Campbell, ‘Go-Rilla Means War’ (2017) (collaged from a > discarded 35mm film found in a former black civil rights movie theater in > Brooklyn) > > > > 3. Akusoa Adoma Owusu, ‘Split Ends (I Feel Wonderful)’ (2012) made from > 1970s found footage of black women’s hair salons in New York, collaged images > and soundtrack > > > > 4. Yulan Grant, ‘Dis/Place’ > > > > 5. Diamond Stingily, ‘How Did he Die?’ (2016) > > > > 6. Phillip Mallory Jones, ‘No Crystal Stair’ (1976) – viewable on Vimeo > > > > 7. Tony Cokes, ‘Black Celebration’, 1988 > > > > 8. Theaster Gates, Do you hear me calling? (Mama Mamama or What Is > Black Power?) 2018 – an installation using historical collaged footage > > > > 9. Raphael Ortiz, ‘ “Cowboy” and “Indian” Film’ 1957-1958 – very early > example of an indigenous voice critiquing the racist Hollywood portrayal of > native Americans using collaged film clips. > > > > 10. Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley’s ‘Schmeergunz’, 1966 > > > > 11. John Akomfrah (several of his films are currently being shown in his > New Museum surveyin New York) > > > > > > > > > > From: FrameWorks <frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com > <mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com>> On Behalf Of Warren Cockerham > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2018 1:50 PM > To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com > <mailto:frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com>> > Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Conner/Marker and women of color suggestions > > > > Also Cauleen Smith (along with lots of other chicago-based folks) was > commissioned a few years back to make a short piece from their collection.. > this is it: > > > > Songs for Earh and Folk <https://vimeo.com/71024774> > > > she has at least one other found footage short... I don't think it's readily > available .. called T Minus Two > > > > > > also Buki Bodunrin's > > > > even when live is sad people still have a good time > <http://www.adebukolabodunrin.com/even-when-life-is-sad/> uh... made in > Roger Beebe's 16mm class circa 2005... > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 1:30 PM, Beebe, Roger W. <beebe...@osu.edu > <mailto:beebe...@osu.edu>> wrote: > > I just saw An Ecstatic Experience by Ja’Tovia Gary for the second time last > weekend at the Columbus Black International Film Festival & think it’s really > doing interesting work with found footage: > > > > http://www.jatovia.com/an-ecstatic-experience-new/ > <http://www.jatovia.com/an-ecstatic-experience-new/> > > > Not a black woman, but equally worthy of attention is Christopher Harris’s > “Reckless Eyeballing”: > > > > https://www.viennale.at/en/films/reckless-eyeballing > <https://www.viennale.at/en/films/reckless-eyeballing> [Chris, where’s your > website??? Couldn’t find it with a quick google search…] > > > > As for composition & sequence, again not a black woman (just a woman), but I > showed Katherin McInnis’s “Hat Trick” in my intro film production class to > set up a flip book assignment this week, and I think the way she uses contact > sheets of found images could be really interesting for both conversations: > > > > https://vimeo.com/98387497 <https://vimeo.com/98387497> > > > And Jen Proctor’s remake of Bruce Conner’s “A Movie” is already becoming a > classic of the genre (for the YouTube era): > > > > https://vimeo.com/11531028 <https://vimeo.com/11531028> > > > Lots of non-white-dude options out there… > > Roger > > > > On Aug 30, 2018, at 11:30 AM, David Sherman <davidgatessher...@gmail.com > <mailto:davidgatessher...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > In a university production course have shown both Conner's "A Movie" as a > prompt for student found footage editing assignment and Marker's "La Jete" > for photographic composition and sequencing. I would be grateful for > suggestions of short works by specifically women of color that could be used > as I mentioned above. > > Many thanks, > > David > > > > -- > > David Sherman > > 520-366-1573 > > www.explodedviewgallery.org <http://www.explodedviewgallery.org/> > www.davidshermanfilms.com <http://www.davidshermanfilms.com/> > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com <mailto:FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com> > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > <https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks> > > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com <mailto:FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com> > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > <https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks> > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com <mailto:FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com> > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > <https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks> > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com <mailto:FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com> > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > <https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks> > > > > > -- > Cinema Project > www.cinemaproject.org <http://www.cinemaproject.org/> > 971-266-0085 > PO Box 5991 > Portland, OR 97228 > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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