[Frameworks] Bruce Baillie

[William Wees, Dr.]

Reading the sad news, I suddenly found myself thinking of the dancing woman in 
"Tung" as Bruce's spirit-guide into darkness.

--Bill Wees


William C. Wees
Emeritus Professor
McGill University

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Re: [Frameworks] Independent research- looking for recommendations

[William Wees, Dr.]

If you haven't already, you should read Ara Osterweil's excellent book, "Flesh 
Cinema".

--Bill Wees

William C. Wees
Emeritus Professor
McGill University

-Original Message-
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Flannery
Sent: January 24, 2020 8:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Independent research- looking for recommendations

Friday, January 24, 2020, 10:01:14 AM, one wrote:

> Dear Frameworks,

> Does anyone have recommendations for similar films I can study?

Willard Maas, Geography of the Body (1943)

http://ubuvideo.memoryoftheworld.org/Maas_Willard_Geography-of-the-Body_1943.mp4

-- 
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Re: [Frameworks] Labor Movement films?

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Solidarity
by Joyce Wieland
Canada / 10:40 / 1973 / sound / colour
A film on the Dare strike of the early 1970s. Hundreds of feet and legs, 
milling, marching and picketing with the word Solidarity superimposed on the 
screen. The soundtrack is an organizer's speech on the labour situation. Like 
her films "Rat Life and Diet in North America," "Pierre Vallieres" and "Reason 
Over Passion," Solidarity combines a political awareness, an aesthetic 
viewpoint and a sense of humour unique in Wieland's work.


>From the online catalogue of the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre.


--Bill Wees

William C. Wees
Emeritus Professor
McGill University




From: FrameWorks  on behalf of mary 
billyou 
Sent: April 8, 2018 3:43 PM
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Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Labor Movement films?

Abigail Child's Acts and Intermissions

On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 3:23 PM, Brandon Walley 
> wrote:
Looking for experimental, nonfiction, feature or shorts that deal with the 
works right, labor unions or related for a May Day screening. Suggestions?

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Re: [Frameworks] Shower scenes...

[William Wees, Dr.]

George Kuchar’s “Hold Me While I’m Naked” includes not one but two great shower 
scenes.

--Bill Wees


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Daniel Hess
Sent: December 31, 2015 3:15 PM
To: Experimental Film Discussion List
Subject: [Frameworks] Shower scenes...

Hello all,

I need to call on the great well of obsessive cinema knowledge that is 
Frameworks. I am on a mission to collect as many shower/bath scenes as 
possible. How many films with a shower/bath scene can you recall? Don't forget 
prison showers, bathhouse showers (I will also allow sauna scenes), someone 
cleaning a shower, dog showers...

Thanks in advance.

Daniel
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Re: [Frameworks] The eye in experimental cinema

[William Wees, Dr.]

See my book “Light Moving in Time,” pp. 13-20.

--Bill Wees


From: FrameWorks [mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of 
Ryder White
Sent: October 29, 2015 4:38 PM
To: Experimental Film Discussion List
Subject: [Frameworks] The eye in experimental cinema

Hello Frameworkers,
I am currently embarked on designing an installation the draws on cinematic 
instances of the human eye and, as I write about it, I'm interested in finding 
examples of the eye as a major symbolic device, particularly in the realm of 
experimental and avant-garde cinema. I can think up a couple of examples...Man 
With The Movie Camera, for instance, or Un Chien Andalou, but I'd be happy to 
hear of other such appearances.
If it helps narrow the (admittedly broad) field, of particular interest are 
examples where the eye is used to refer to the cinematic apparatus itself, or 
the camera's voyeur qualities.
Thanks in advance!
Ryder
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Re: [Frameworks] Women filmmaker autobiographies

[William Wees, Dr.]

Sorry, I'm late getting into this discussion. But has anyone mentioned Barbara 
Hammer's "Hammer! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life" (New York: The Feminist 
Press, 2010)?

--Bill Wees


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From: FrameWorks [mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of 
Noé Rodríguez
Sent: September 16, 2015 12:00 AM
To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com
Subject: [Frameworks] Women filmmaker autobiographies

Hello frameworkers,

I am compiling a list of books written by filmmakers about their own work and 
contextualizing it within their life experience in the form of an autobiography 
of their life in relation to film.
I am interested in books by filmmakers reflecting on their practice in a deep 
personal way, where their ideas about film are framed within their particular 
approach to film-making and their personal understanding of what film is.
I am looking for full books, not articles. Books that compile personal essays 
reflecting on the filmmakers work are also considered. i.e Antonioni's 
Architecture of Vision.

I have found numerous books written by filmmakers ranging from Jean Renoir to 
Brackhage, however I am having trouble finding examples of books like this 
written by women filmmakers.
If you could give me some recommendations, that would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much,

Noé
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Re: [Frameworks] Titles of scratch films

[William Wees, Dr.]

Hi, Tess—

Norman McLaren, “Blinkity Blank.” Maybe some other McLaren films?

--Bill


From: FrameWorks [mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of 
Tess Takahashi
Sent: August 25, 2015 3:09 PM
To: Experimental Film Discussion List
Subject: [Frameworks] Titles of scratch films

I'm doing something on films that employ scratching directly on celluloid like 
Brakhage's Chinese Series, David Gatten's Fragrant Portals..., Dona Cameron's 
World Trade Alphabet, Barbel Neubauer's work, Pierre Hebert's work, Storm 
DeHirsch's Peyote Queen, and Len Lye's Free Radicals.
What am I missing? Old and New?
Bonus points it it's set to African drums...

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Re: [Frameworks] What are the 3 Essential Films that you would show Artists on their first foray into the Moving Image Realm ?

[William Wees, Dr.]

There are dozens, no, hundreds of “essential” films for artists to see. But 
here are three I might use: Stan Brakhage, “Dog Star Man,” Robert Breer, “A Man 
and his Dog Out for Air,” Phil Solomon, “The Secret Garden.”

--Bill Wees


From: FrameWorks [mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of 
Donal OCeilleachair
Sent: March 27, 2015 1:43 PM
To: Experimental Film Discussion List
Subject: [Frameworks] What are the 3 Essential Films that you would show 
Artists on their first foray into the Moving Image Realm ?

Dear Frameworkers:

I am working on a new film project with the Ealaíontóirí Mhuscraí
(that's Irish for the Muskerry Region Artists Group)

Part of the project will involve film / video making workshops where I will show
them works from experimental film, creative documentary and artists' moving 
image works
as a point of reference and inspiration for their own initial explorations
into the realm of the moving image

I am compiling a short-list of 'Essential' works to show them during these 
workshops
and I would appreciate responses to the question:
'What are the 3 Essential Films that you would show Artists
on their first foray into the Moving Image Realm ?'

I look forward to hearing any suggestions

Le míle buíochas (with many thanks)
--
Dónal Ó'Céilleachair
www.anupictures.comhttp://www.anupictures.com

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Re: [Frameworks] Montreal Microcinemas

[William Wees, Dr.]

Claude Chamberlan was the guiding force behind the creation and operation of 
Cinema Parallele. And for a number of years he has been the head honcho at Le 
Festival de Nouveau Cinema. Perhaps he could guide you to archival material 
dealing with Cinema Parallele. You should be able to reach him via the FNC 
website.

I spent many an evening at Cinema Parallele, and still have vivid memories of 
some events, such as Ken Jacobs presenting, with limited success, one of his 
early 3-D performances, and Kenneth Anger, wearing a hockey sweater with 
Anger across the front, presenting something, I don't remember what. Anger 
was the show. Cinema Parallel, fronted by Café Melies, was the place to go for 
experimental/avant-garde film beginning somewhere in the mid-late 1970s until 
somewhere in the late '80s. Unfortunately, I don't have anything relevant to 
your research. I hope Claude can help you. It's possible that La Cinemateque 
Quebecoise has archival material of use to you. It's worth a try.

Good luck.

--Bill Wees


From: FrameWorks [mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of 
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Sent: March 13, 2015 10:04 AM
To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com
Subject: [Frameworks] Montreal Microcinemas

Hi, list,

Does anyone out there have leads on writings/archives/information/other on 
previous microcinemas or alternative screenings and spaces in Montreal.

I'm particularly interested in the history of places/events that no longer 
exist and particularly:

Cinema Abattoir
Cinema Parallele

Best,

Benjamin R. Taylor

www.benjaminrtaylor.comhttp://www.benjaminrtaylor.com
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Re: [Frameworks] Experimental shorts with science-fiction themes?

[William Wees, Dr.]

In addition to Tribulation 99 there’s Baldwin’s Mock Up on Mu.

--Bill Wees


From: FrameWorks [mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of 
gina marie napolitan
Sent: January 11, 2015 9:31 PM
To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com
Subject: [Frameworks] Experimental shorts with science-fiction themes?

Hello all,

I'm looking for recommendations for experimental film and animated works that 
have science-fiction/visionary themes, both overt (like La Jetee or Tribulation 
99) and subtle (maybe more along the lines of Christopher MacLaine's The End or 
These Hammers Don't Hurt Us by Michael Robinson).

Thank you!
Gina
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Re: [Frameworks] Daïchi Saïto mail

[William Wees, Dr.]

daichi_sa...@yahoo.commailto:daichi_sa...@yahoo.com

--Bill Wwees


From: FrameWorks [mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of 
Albert Alcoz
Sent: February 2, 2014 2:44 PM
To: List Experimental Film Discussion
Subject: [Frameworks] Daïchi Saïto mail

Can someone please send me Daïchi Saïto's mail?
Thanks!

Albert
http://www.visionaryfilm.net/
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Re: [Frameworks] Weapons and the military in avant-garde cinema?

[William Wees, Dr.]

Henri Storck, Histoire du soldat inconnu, B elgium, 1931
Charles Gagnon, The Eighth Day, Canada, 1967

--Bill Wees


From: FrameWorks [mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of 
John McAndrew
Sent: January 28, 2014 3:50 PM
To: Experimental Film Discussion List
Subject: [Frameworks] Weapons and the military in avant-garde cinema?

Hello all,

For a little under a year my main source of income has come through working as 
a gallery warden in a historical museum specializing in arms and armour (it's a 
questionable place to work in admittedly, but anyway...). Recently the museum's 
cinema space has become freely available to staff members to use on evenings 
whenever it's available and given both the digital and potential film 
projection facilities available, and the cinema itself being housed in quite a 
unique location, I've been pondering over the idea of independently programming 
a selection of experimental/underground/artists' films and videos that ties 
together the avant-garde as we commonly know it with its original military 
terminology. Either way, it would make a refreshing change to the current 
programming decisions of showing Hollywood war and action films that everyone 
has seen a hundred times over...

Can anyone on FrameWorks offer any suggestions for moving image works - both 
new or old, landmark or obscure, abstract or representative - that may explore 
such vanguard themes? Or know of any existing curated screenings or written 
texts that have also explored this connection? I'm open to hearing any and all 
suggestions for works involving the military and armed forces, weapon 
technology (firearms, explosives, swords etc), armour, combat and self-defence, 
historical battles or wars (maybe even fictional ones too), appropriated 
war/training films, critiques of the armed forces, militias, laws involving the 
right to keep and bear arms, etc etc etc...

Many thanks for reading!

Best,
John
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Re: [Frameworks] Found Soundtrack Films

[William Wees, Dr.]

Arthur Lipsett’s films are composed almost entirely of “found sound.”

--Bill Wees


From: FrameWorks [mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of 
Albert Alcoz
Sent: November 24, 2013 3:56 PM
To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com
Subject: [Frameworks] Found Soundtrack Films


Hi,

Institutional Quality by George Landow was created from a found soundtrack, in 
this case a tape recorder about an instructional test.

Does anyone know other examples that uses found soundtracks for experimental 
films, especially from the sixties and seventies?

Thanks,

Albert
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Re: [Frameworks] Found Soundtrack Films

[William Wees, Dr.]

How about Ken Jacobs’ “Urban Peasants” with two tape recorded lessons in 
Yiddish on the sound track?

--Bill Wees


From: FrameWorks [mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of 
Albert Alcoz
Sent: November 24, 2013 3:56 PM
To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com
Subject: [Frameworks] Found Soundtrack Films


Hi,

Institutional Quality by George Landow was created from a found soundtrack, in 
this case a tape recorder about an instructional test.

Does anyone know other examples that uses found soundtracks for experimental 
films, especially from the sixties and seventies?

Thanks,

Albert
http://www.visionaryfilm.net/
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Re: [Frameworks] Found Soundtrack Films

[William Wees, Dr.]

Yes, that's a good one too. I was going to mention it but couldn't remember the 
title.

--Bill Wees


There is this one by Ken Jacobs:

GLOBE (1971, 22 mins, 16mm, color, sound on cassette) (Previously titled: 
EXCERPT FROM THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION) “Flat image (of snowbound suburban housing 
tract) blossoms into 3D only when viewer places Eye Opener before the right 
eye. (Keeping both eyes open, of course. As with all stereo experiences, center 
seats are best. Space will deepen as one views further from the screen.) The 
found-sound is X-ratable (not for children or Nancy Reagan) but is important to 
the film’s perfect balance (GLOBE is symmetrical) of divine and profane.” (KJ)  
(pasted in from
http://nightingalecinema.org/ken-jacobs-x-3-old-new/)

I've seen it, and am not completely sure what I thought of it. It is at the 
least extremely interesting.

Fred Camper
Chicago

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Re: [Frameworks] films/videos using/made up of text

[William Wees, Dr.]

See Scott MacDonald's book Screen Writings: Scripts and Texts by Independent 
Filmmakers (U. of California Press, 1995).

--Bill Wees


-Original Message-
From: FrameWorks [mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of 
Shelly Silver
Sent: November 14, 2013 12:42 PM
To: Experimental Film Discussion List
Subject: [Frameworks] films/videos using/made up of text

dear collective knowledge base folks:
i'm compiling a list of works using text/made up of text.  i'm especially 
interested in works by women.

thank you!

best,
shelly
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Re: [Frameworks] seminal writing on American a/g film after 76

[William Wees, Dr.]

I would suggest chapters 13 and 14 of Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 
3rd edition, by P. Adams Sitney, Oxford University Press, 2002; A Line of 
Sight: American Avant-Garde Film Since 1965, by Paul Arthur, University of 
Minnesota Press, 2005; and in all humility, a couple of essays by myself: The 
Changing of the Garde(s) in Public, No. 25, 2002, and No More Giants in 
Women and Experimental Filmmaking, eds. Jean Petrolle and Virginia Wright 
Wexman, University of Illinois Press, 2005.

--Bill Wees


From: FrameWorks [mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of 
Ara Osterweil
Sent: November 5, 2013 10:19 AM
To: frameworks
Subject: [Frameworks] seminal writing on American a/g film after 76

Hello all,
A friend is compiling a bibliography and needs to know the 4-5 most important 
scholarly books or articles on American a/g film made after 1976. My 
scholarship on the a/g is mostly in the 60s and 70s and while I know much of 
the work that comes after, I wanted to confirm my suspicions.
Suggestions welcome and appreciated.
Thanks,
Ara
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Re: [Frameworks] Literature and experimental film

[William Wees, Dr.]

Okay, here are a few of my favourite poetry-films (I warned you they are, shall 
we say, archival):

Three short films from the National Film Board of Canada: Travellers Palm, 
1977 (poem by P.K. Page); Poen [sic], 1967 (Leonard Cohen, Beautiful 
Losers); A Said Poem, 1977 (found poetry by J. R. Colombo)
Ian Hugo, Bells of Atlantis, 1952 (Anaïs Nin, House of Incest)
Rick Hancox, Waterworx, 1982 (Wallace Stevens, A Clear Day and No Memories)
Margaret Doogan, Screw: A Technical Love Poem, 1972 (poem by Diane Wakowski)
Ed Akerman and Colin Morton, Primi Too Taa, 1986 (dada poem by Kurt 
Schwitters)
Max Crosley, Assassination Raga, 1972 (poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Henry Hills, Kino Da! 1981 (Jack Hirschman, poem in manner of Russian 
Futurists)
Rachel Libert, Undertaker, 1995 (poetry performance by Patricia Smith)

--Bill Wees


From: FrameWorks [mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of 
Esperanza Collado
Sent: September 27, 2013 5:28 PM
To: Experimental Film Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Literature and experimental film

And very exciting answers too! Thank you everyone. Hopefully more Frameworkers 
will contribute to this topic.

Bill, please feel free to expand on poetry works, would love to know your 
favourite examples and I really dont mind if they arent recent.

Best,

E.

On Friday, September 27, 2013, Kelly Gallagher wrote:
Exciting topic! As a handcrafted cinema maker myself, my mind immediately goes 
to Jan Svankmajer. Many of his films are based off of literary tales and 
stories. (From writers such as Lewis Carroll, Edgar Allen Poe, Horace Walpole, 
etc). Ah, and then thinking of Poe, I think of about Jean Epstein's Fall of the 
House of Usher.
Best of luck!
-Kelly Gallagher
www.purpleriot.comhttp://www.purpleriot.com


On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 3:12 PM, William Wees, Dr. 
william.w...@mcgill.cajavascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'william.w...@mcgill.ca');
 wrote:
There are dozens, no, hundreds of poetry films and poetry videos (or 
videopoems), which is to says, films and videos that incorporate poetry and 
poetic texts on the sound track or in the images or both. Perhaps that is not 
the sort of thing you are looking for, but if it is I could send you titles of 
some of my favourite examples-though I have to say they would not include 
recent work (I haven't paid any serious attention to poetry films/videos since 
the 1990s). The person who has paid attention to the whole development of 
poetry films/videos and has published a manifesto on the subject is Tom 
Konyves. I don't think he would mind my giving you his email address: 
tomkony...@gmail.comjavascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'tomkony...@gmail.com');.

--Bill Wees
william.w...@mcgill.cajavascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'william.w...@mcgill.ca');


From: FrameWorks 
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Subject: [Frameworks] Literature and experimental film

Dear friends,

Im currently lecturing a course on literature and visual arts and i would like 
to approach/show the students experimental films based in/inspired by literary 
pieces, only I need your help to do so. Any recommendations will be very 
welcome.

Thanks very much,

Esperanza.


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Re: [Frameworks] Literature and experimental film

[William Wees, Dr.]

There are dozens, no, hundreds of poetry films and poetry videos (or 
videopoems), which is to says, films and videos that incorporate poetry and 
poetic texts on the sound track or in the images or both. Perhaps that is not 
the sort of thing you are looking for, but if it is I could send you titles of 
some of my favourite examples-though I have to say they would not include 
recent work (I haven't paid any serious attention to poetry films/videos since 
the 1990s). The person who has paid attention to the whole development of 
poetry films/videos and has published a manifesto on the subject is Tom 
Konyves. I don't think he would mind my giving you his email address: 
tomkony...@gmail.commailto:tomkony...@gmail.com.

--Bill Wees
william.w...@mcgill.ca


From: FrameWorks [mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of 
Esperanza Collado
Sent: September 27, 2013 2:06 PM
To: Experimental Film Discussion List
Subject: [Frameworks] Literature and experimental film

Dear friends,

Im currently lecturing a course on literature and visual arts and i would like 
to approach/show the students experimental films based in/inspired by literary 
pieces, only I need your help to do so. Any recommendations will be very 
welcome.

Thanks very much,

Esperanza.


--
Esperanza Collado
- - - - - - - - - - - - - -
www.esperanzacollado.orghttp://www.esperanzacollado.org

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[Frameworks] Catrina Neiman

[William Wees, Dr.]

Does anyone have an address-email or snail mail-for Catrina Neiman, one of the 
editors of The Legend of Maya Deren? Please contact me at 
william.w...@mcgill.camailto:william.w...@mcgill.ca. Thanks.

Bill Wees


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Re: [Frameworks] Wavelengths 2013

[William Wees, Dr.]

What are the dates of the four Wavelength programs? I can't find them on the 
website.

--Bill Wees


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Sent: August 14, 2013 2:01 PM
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Subject: [Frameworks] Wavelengths 2013


Hi Frameworkers,



Wavelengths is the Toronto International Film Festival's presentation of the 
best in international artist film and video. This selection has expanded to 
include narrative and documentary features as well as four experimental shorts 
programmes.
This year, we will be featuring new short films by Basma Alsharif, Kenneth 
Anger, Robert Beavers, Nathaniel Dorsky, Helga Fanderl, Shambhavi Kaul, Chris 
Kennedy, Andrew Lampert, Tomonari Nishikawa, Luther Price, Lucy Raven, João 
Pedro Rodrigues, Jean-Marie Straub, Naoko Tasaka, Scott Stark, and Akram 
Zaatari.

Shorts programs visible here:

Wavelengths 1: Variations On...  
http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/festival/2013/wavelengths1variatio



Wavelengths 2: Now  Then

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/festival/2013/wavelengths2nowthen



Wavelengths 3: Farther Than the Eye Can See

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/festival/2013/wavelengths3farthert



Wavelengths 4: Elysium

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/festival/2013/wavelengths4elysium



We will also premiere the Academy Film Archive restoration of David Rimmer's 
classic Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper.



Look out for experimental features by Yervant Gianikian  Angela Ricci Lucchi, 
Peter Hutton, and Ben Rivers  Ben Russell.



See the whole line-up here: http://tiff.net/wavelengths
Buy the Wavelengths Pack.
http://tiff.net/tickets

Seven screenings for $90 | 25  under $79
On sale until August 21

Schedule is announced August 20
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Re: [Frameworks] Texts on appropriation, collage and ethics/fair use

[William Wees, Dr.]

Recycled Images: The Art and Politics of Found-Footage Films by William C. 
Wees, distributed by Anthology Film Archives.

--Bill Wees


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Adam R. Levine
Sent: May 24, 2013 12:51 PM
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Subject: [Frameworks] Texts on appropriation, collage and ethics/fair use

Hello,

I'm looking for any books or short texts that might offer a survey of the 
history and practice of the appropriation and collage in the field of moving 
images. In addition, if there is any such work that also address questions of 
copyright, ethics and fair use, that would be great.

Thanks,
Adam
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Re: [Frameworks] texts on Light

[William Wees, Dr.]

You might find something useful in my essay (and bibliography), Light-Play and 
the Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film, in the book Avant-Garde Film, edited by 
Alexander Graf and Dietrich Scheunemann (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007), 
pp.183-196.

--Bill

William C. Wees
Emeritus Professor, McGill University

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Esperanza Collado
Sent: March 4, 2013 6:04 AM
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Subject: [Frameworks] texts on Light

Dear Frameworkers,

Could you please recommend theory writings or artists' texts about projected 
light or just light as a sculptural matter?
So far I can only think of McCall's writings and the Luminist Suprematism 
article Karin Schneider wrote on Kubelka's work.

many thanks,

e.



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Re: [Frameworks] Films composed to music

[William Wees, Dr.]

Several hand-drawn animation films by Norman McLaren fit the bill: Boogie 
Doodle, Fiddle-De-Dee, Hen Hop, Hoppity Pop, Begone Dull Care (the best of the 
bunch, I think. Like their titles, the others are too cute for my taste).

--Bill

William C. Wees
Emeritus Professor (McGill University)


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[mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of Herb Shellenberger
Sent: January 9, 2013 4:32 PM
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Subject: [Frameworks] Films composed to music

Hello Frameworkers. There have been a few really great 
looking-for-this-type-of-film threads recently, so I thought I would throw my 
query out there.

A colleague and I were discussing experimental films that were composed to 
music. In general we think of film scores being added after the fact, but there 
are few films that I can think of that are composed specifically to fit a piece 
of music:


Studies for the Decay of the West (dir. Klaus Wyborny)
In Wyborny's musical film, every new sound triggers a new image: 6,299 shots, 
all directly edited within his Super-8 camera. An intoxicating, stroboscopic 
trip to industrial, natural and urban landscapes in East Africa, New York, the 
Ruhr region and Rimini. This experimental music film refers to Oswald 
Spengler's world-famous 1918 philosophical work The Decay of the West. Culture 
pessimist Spengler argues that progress is an illusion and that the modern era 
brings little good. People are no longer able to understand the rationality of 
the world. Wyborny does not set out to make a film version of Spengler's 
theories, but rather a visual reflection on the modern age; a stroboscopic 
journey in five parts to industrial, natural and urban landscapes. He uses 
6,299 shots, edited directly in a Super-8 camera. Each piano note and violin 
vibrato evokes a new image: demolished buildings, rubble, destruction and 
nature. This film forms a counterpart to Wyborny's previous films series Eine 
andere Welt. Lieder der Erde II(2004/2005). [Film Society of Lincoln Center]


Passage Through: A Ritual (dir. Stan Brakahge)
When I received the tape of Philip Corner's Through the Mysterious Barricade, 
Lumen 1 (after F. Couperin), he included a note that thanked me for my film, 
The Riddle of Lumen, he'd just seen and which had in some way inspired this 
music. I, in turn, was so moved by the tape he sent I immediately asked his 
permission to set it to film. It required the most exacting editing process 
ever; and in the course of that work it occurred to me that I'd originally made 
The Riddle of Lumen hoping someone would make an answering film and 
entertain my visual riddle in the manner of the riddling poets of yore. I most 
expected Hollis Frampton (because of Zorn's Lemma) to pick up the challenge; 
but he never did. In some sense I think composer Corner has - and now we have 
this dance of riddles as music and film combine to make passage, in every 
sense of the word, further possible. (To be absolutely true to the ritual of 
this passage, the two reels of the film should be shown on one projector, 
taking the normal amount of time, without rewinding reel #1 or showing the 
finish and start leaders of either - especially without changing the sound 
dials - between reels.) [Stan Brakhage, via CFMDC]


These are both films that use film to play music in a sense, or use music to 
generate images or structures. While some filmmakers may have used music in 
this way in a portion of a larger film, I'm more interested in films that 
exclusively use this method, whether it is with one complete piece or a few. 
Also, I'm trying to focus on films that integrate music more deeply than just 
cutting on specific beats.

Any ideas would be much appreciated!

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Re: [Frameworks] Vaudeville silent clowns in experimental film?

[William Wees, Dr.]

Just thought of another one: The Eighth Day by the Quebec artist and 
filmmaker Charles Gagnon. It includes a clip from a Laurel and Hardy short and 
a couple of clips from Keaton's Cops. Although clearly influenced by Conner 
and Lipasett, Gagnon's 1967 found footage film deserves to be recognized as 
strong condemnation of war and a critique of post-war consummerism.

--Bill

William C. Wees
Emeritus Professor, McGill University
Postal addess: Dept. of Art History and Communication Studies
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Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 2T6

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[frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] on behalf of William Wees, Dr. 
[william.w...@mcgill.ca]
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Saul Levine, The Big Stick with footage of Chaplin.



--Bill Wees



William C. Wees
Emeritus Professor, McGill University
Postal addess: Dept. of Art History and Communication Studies
Arts Building West
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 2T6

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[frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] on behalf of John MacKay 
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Sent: May 19, 2012 3:37 PM
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On May 19, 2012, at 3:27 PM, Shona Masarin wrote:

Hello all,

Does anyone know of any experimental films that have explored vaudeville, 
slapstick and/or silent era clown films (eg. Buster Keaton) in some way or 
another?

Ken Jacobs, Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye, Molly (2005).


I am working on a collaborative dance film with choreographer, Cori Olinghouse, 
who has been studying movement forms like eccentric dance, mime, and voguing. 
Our film will seek to invoke the spaces of Vaudeville through a Dada/Surrealist 
eye. We are attracted to the way these two forms share aspects of humor, 
oddity, and slapstick.
Here's a link to a preview of our film project on our Kickstarter page: 
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/139958170/ghost-line

Some films that have inspired us thus far are Hans Richter's Ghosts Before 
Breakfast and Anna Halprin in James Broughton's Golden Positions.

Any leads will be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Shona Masarin

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