Re: [Frameworks] cat films
Beautiful film by a wonderful filmmaker. I'm guessing 'De Poes' means 'The Puss' ? Nicky. -Original Message- From: jembere janinejemb...@gmail.com To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 17:39 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] cat films very interesting topic! one of my favourite films is all on cats and live: de poes (the cat) by johan van der keuken: http://vimeo.com/79608970 janine ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] cat films
very interesting topic! one of my favourite films is all on cats and live: de poes (the cat) by johan van der keuken: http://vimeo.com/79608970 janine ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] cat films
Also, not sure if any of you folk are involved in this, but just saw this on the face machine. Plenty of avant-cats (including an appearance in Poetic Justice!) http://omgcatrevolution.tumblr.com/post/94169619350/our-500th-post On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Cathy Crane ccr...@ithaca.edu wrote: I named my cat Cleo for the little black ones in varda's film. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 16, 2014, at 5:19 AM, nicky.ham...@talktalk.net nicky.ham...@talktalk.net wrote: Bell Book and Candle, The Incredible Journey (Disney film abut three pets on a 200 mile journey. Includes a swimming siamese cat). Nicky. -Original Message- From: Benjamin Leon benj.l...@gmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 9:19 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] cat films *Fuses* of course ! And* Plumb Line* (1968-1972) by Carolee Schneemann too. 2014-08-16 9:49 GMT+02:00 nicky.ham...@talktalk.net: Gummo and Withnail and I have cats in them, albeit briefly. Nicky -Original Message- From: Peter Mudie peter.mu...@uwa.edu.au To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 5:48 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] cat films It's an odd question, really - looking for films with/about cats. If you get onto YouTube and type in a search for 'cats', 'wacky cats' and/or 'awesome cats' you will find something around 2 billion choices to build your exhibition around - none of them worthwhile. Do a search (with the same criteria) for 'chipmunks' or 'hamsters' and you'll find less, but about as discerning as the 'wacky cats' list. Any exhibition that results from a deep curatorial insight about cats will probably leave you in the same zone as all the YouTube ones. If someone asked me what my favourite film was that had a cat within it - that is, different from 'a hard-boiled cheap detective getting away from the grips of a femme fatale' or 'a Joe-Bob Mr America saves the world from certain destruction' scope of subjects (which I guess isn't all that dissimilar to 'wacky chipmunk' or 'look what a hamster can fit in his mouth' videos) - I would have to say Nightcats (by Brakhage). Peter (Perth) What else could we shown in a Cat Film Fest? As Ekrem mentioned, there's Cat Cradle and Fuses. Dunno if the amount of kitteh-kontent is high enough for a feline fest, but the presence of the pussy... er, scratch that [Meow!] I mean the context of the cat, is the unraveling intertextual ball of string tying the two works together, or maybe being batted away from StanCat by CaroleeCat, or maybe the mirrored meowser is Schneeman's way of saying, 'my little furry pet is purring because she just pounced on some wee bit of pickle, and by the way, did you know that cats are independent creatures who do their own thing instead of licking their masters fantasy boots, and cats have really sharp claws they can dig into your untutored eye if you piss them off by mixing up which human is owned by which cat, and somehow indicate you think you own even one cat much less two, so go pine in the pines with your poor putrefying pooch and leave my kitty alone! You could show Marker's 'Case of the Grinning Cat' which also might be a little light on actual kitty-kontent, but again the cat-concept is pretty important, and any excuse to show Marker is always a good excuse. Or you could go conceptual rather than representational: I read somewhere that felines large and small are creatures who spend most of the time sleeping between brief bursts of activity. So I'm thinking you could show all 5 hours and 21 minutes of Sleep, in a room filled with sofa and actual cats, so after puzzling over what do do with themselves for awhile, instead of getting annoyed and heading to the box office in angry mass protest to The Management, the viewers would figure they can emulate the cats and sooner or later pretty much the whole audience would be sleeping along with John Giorno, curled up on a couch like Giorno, but with cuddling kitties, sometimes coming and going but mostly sleeping as cats mostly do. Taking the cat cues, they might conclude that 'Sleep' is not the title of a 'movie' you 'watch' but might be a gentle imperative, like a Yoko Ono instruction, to stage the most simple and mundane action as a form of Art. Or not. Either way, they're in cat-mode, so it's basically nappy time whenever they feel like it no matter what else is going on in the room, and from time to time they'll wake up, yawn, stretch, look around a little bit ‹ maybe watch the screen for awhile, maybe watch the other people sleeping, maybe think about how many hours John Giorno has spent sleeping since 1963, maybe wonder how many hours of sleep they'll have before they join Warhol in eternal slumber, maybe think about what a room of people sleeping because a silent black and white film
Re: [Frameworks] cat films
*Fuses* of course ! And* Plumb Line* (1968-1972) by Carolee Schneemann too. 2014-08-16 9:49 GMT+02:00 nicky.ham...@talktalk.net: Gummo and Withnail and I have cats in them, albeit briefly. Nicky -Original Message- From: Peter Mudie peter.mu...@uwa.edu.au To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 5:48 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] cat films It's an odd question, really - looking for films with/about cats. If you get onto YouTube and type in a search for 'cats', 'wacky cats' and/or 'awesome cats' you will find something around 2 billion choices to build your exhibition around - none of them worthwhile. Do a search (with the same criteria) for 'chipmunks' or 'hamsters' and you'll find less, but about as discerning as the 'wacky cats' list. Any exhibition that results from a deep curatorial insight about cats will probably leave you in the same zone as all the YouTube ones. If someone asked me what my favourite film was that had a cat within it - that is, different from 'a hard-boiled cheap detective getting away from the grips of a femme fatale' or 'a Joe-Bob Mr America saves the world from certain destruction' scope of subjects (which I guess isn't all that dissimilar to 'wacky chipmunk' or 'look what a hamster can fit in his mouth' videos) - I would have to say Nightcats (by Brakhage). Peter (Perth) What else could we shown in a Cat Film Fest? As Ekrem mentioned, there's Cat Cradle and Fuses. Dunno if the amount of kitteh-kontent is high enough for a feline fest, but the presence of the pussy... er, scratch that [Meow!] I mean the context of the cat, is the unraveling intertextual ball of string tying the two works together, or maybe being batted away from StanCat by CaroleeCat, or maybe the mirrored meowser is Schneeman's way of saying, 'my little furry pet is purring because she just pounced on some wee bit of pickle, and by the way, did you know that cats are independent creatures who do their own thing instead of licking their masters fantasy boots, and cats have really sharp claws they can dig into your untutored eye if you piss them off by mixing up which human is owned by which cat, and somehow indicate you think you own even one cat much less two, so go pine in the pines with your poor putrefying pooch and leave my kitty alone! You could show Marker's 'Case of the Grinning Cat' which also might be a little light on actual kitty-kontent, but again the cat-concept is pretty important, and any excuse to show Marker is always a good excuse. Or you could go conceptual rather than representational: I read somewhere that felines large and small are creatures who spend most of the time sleeping between brief bursts of activity. So I'm thinking you could show all 5 hours and 21 minutes of Sleep, in a room filled with sofa and actual cats, so after puzzling over what do do with themselves for awhile, instead of getting annoyed and heading to the box office in angry mass protest to The Management, the viewers would figure they can emulate the cats and sooner or later pretty much the whole audience would be sleeping along with John Giorno, curled up on a couch like Giorno, but with cuddling kitties, sometimes coming and going but mostly sleeping as cats mostly do. Taking the cat cues, they might conclude that 'Sleep' is not the title of a 'movie' you 'watch' but might be a gentle imperative, like a Yoko Ono instruction, to stage the most simple and mundane action as a form of Art. Or not. Either way, they're in cat-mode, so it's basically nappy time whenever they feel like it no matter what else is going on in the room, and from time to time they'll wake up, yawn, stretch, look around a little bit ‹ maybe watch the screen for awhile, maybe watch the other people sleeping, maybe think about how many hours John Giorno has spent sleeping since 1963, maybe wonder how many hours of sleep they'll have before they join Warhol in eternal slumber, maybe think about what a room of people sleeping because a silent black and white film of a man dozing on a couch can't keep them awake means in light of Warhol's claimed intent of documenting sleep for historical purposes since no one slept anymore due to the miracles of modern chemistry. But, being cat-people for the evening, they wouldn't think about those things too long or too hard before slipping back into a REM state with a dreamy revelation that the proper nouns 'Walter' White' and 'Warhol' all begin with a 'W'. Then, maybe 90 minutes later, they wake up since the man-cat on the next couch is shattering the silence with loud irregular apneas and hypopneas because he didn't think to bring his C-PAP to a film screening, only, on awakening, they don't dig out their cell phones to check how much longer the film is going to run, they just realize they're hungry, and the smell of chicken and fish is coming
Re: [Frameworks] cat films
Bell Book and Candle, The Incredible Journey (Disney film abut three pets on a 200 mile journey. Includes a swimming siamese cat). Nicky. -Original Message- From: Benjamin Leon benj.l...@gmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 9:19 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] cat films Fuses of course ! And Plumb Line (1968-1972) by Carolee Schneemann too. 2014-08-16 9:49 GMT+02:00 nicky.ham...@talktalk.net: Gummo and Withnail and I have cats in them, albeit briefly. Nicky -Original Message- From: Peter Mudie peter.mu...@uwa.edu.au To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 5:48 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] cat films It's an odd question, really - looking for films with/about cats. If you get onto YouTube and type in a search for 'cats', 'wacky cats' and/or 'awesome cats' you will find something around 2 billion choices to build your exhibition around - none of them worthwhile. Do a search (with the same criteria) for 'chipmunks' or 'hamsters' and you'll find less, but about as discerning as the 'wacky cats' list. Any exhibition that results from a deep curatorial insight about cats will probably leave you in the same zone as all the YouTube ones. If someone asked me what my favourite film was that had a cat within it - that is, different from 'a hard-boiled cheap detective getting away from the grips of a femme fatale' or 'a Joe-Bob Mr America saves the world from certain destruction' scope of subjects (which I guess isn't all that dissimilar to 'wacky chipmunk' or 'look what a hamster can fit in his mouth' videos) - I would have to say Nightcats (by Brakhage). Peter (Perth) What else could we shown in a Cat Film Fest? As Ekrem mentioned, there's Cat Cradle and Fuses. Dunno if the amount of kitteh-kontent is high enough for a feline fest, but the presence of the pussy... er, scratch that [Meow!] I mean the context of the cat, is the unraveling intertextual ball of string tying the two works together, or maybe being batted away from StanCat by CaroleeCat, or maybe the mirrored meowser is Schneeman's way of saying, 'my little furry pet is purring because she just pounced on some wee bit of pickle, and by the way, did you know that cats are independent creatures who do their own thing instead of licking their masters fantasy boots, and cats have really sharp claws they can dig into your untutored eye if you piss them off by mixing up which human is owned by which cat, and somehow indicate you think you own even one cat much less two, so go pine in the pines with your poor putrefying pooch and leave my kitty alone! You could show Marker's 'Case of the Grinning Cat' which also might be a little light on actual kitty-kontent, but again the cat-concept is pretty important, and any excuse to show Marker is always a good excuse. Or you could go conceptual rather than representational: I read somewhere that felines large and small are creatures who spend most of the time sleeping between brief bursts of activity. So I'm thinking you could show all 5 hours and 21 minutes of Sleep, in a room filled with sofa and actual cats, so after puzzling over what do do with themselves for awhile, instead of getting annoyed and heading to the box office in angry mass protest to The Management, the viewers would figure they can emulate the cats and sooner or later pretty much the whole audience would be sleeping along with John Giorno, curled up on a couch like Giorno, but with cuddling kitties, sometimes coming and going but mostly sleeping as cats mostly do. Taking the cat cues, they might conclude that 'Sleep' is not the title of a 'movie' you 'watch' but might be a gentle imperative, like a Yoko Ono instruction, to stage the most simple and mundane action as a form of Art. Or not. Either way, they're in cat-mode, so it's basically nappy time whenever they feel like it no matter what else is going on in the room, and from time to time they'll wake up, yawn, stretch, look around a little bit ‹ maybe watch the screen for awhile, maybe watch the other people sleeping, maybe think about how many hours John Giorno has spent sleeping since 1963, maybe wonder how many hours of sleep they'll have before they join Warhol in eternal slumber, maybe think about what a room of people sleeping because a silent black and white film of a man dozing on a couch can't keep them awake means in light of Warhol's claimed intent of documenting sleep for historical purposes since no one slept anymore due to the miracles of modern chemistry. But, being cat-people for the evening, they wouldn't think about those things too long or too hard before slipping back into a REM state with a dreamy revelation that the proper nouns 'Walter' White' and 'Warhol' all begin with a 'W'. Then, maybe 90 minutes later, they wake up since the man-cat on the next couch is shattering the silence with loud
Re: [Frameworks] cat films
Nice titles for 'Jonesy', like the ones for Pierrot le Fou. There are also hundreds of episodes of Top Cat to consider! Nicky. -Original Message- From: Francisco Torres fjtorre...@gmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 16:53 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] cat films here kitty... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo0c8FnjW0k 2014-08-16 5:19 GMT-04:00 nicky.ham...@talktalk.net: Bell Book and Candle, The Incredible Journey (Disney film abut three pets on a 200 mile journey. Includes a swimming siamese cat). Nicky. -Original Message- From: Benjamin Leon benj.l...@gmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 9:19 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] cat films Fuses of course ! And Plumb Line (1968-1972) by Carolee Schneemann too. 2014-08-16 9:49 GMT+02:00 nicky.ham...@talktalk.net: Gummo and Withnail and I have cats in them, albeit briefly. Nicky -Original Message- From: Peter Mudie peter.mu...@uwa.edu.au To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 5:48 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] cat films It's an odd question, really - looking for films with/about cats. If you get onto YouTube and type in a search for 'cats', 'wacky cats' and/or 'awesome cats' you will find something around 2 billion choices to build your exhibition around - none of them worthwhile. Do a search (with the same criteria) for 'chipmunks' or 'hamsters' and you'll find less, but about as discerning as the 'wacky cats' list. Any exhibition that results from a deep curatorial insight about cats will probably leave you in the same zone as all the YouTube ones. If someone asked me what my favourite film was that had a cat within it - that is, different from 'a hard-boiled cheap detective getting away from the grips of a femme fatale' or 'a Joe-Bob Mr America saves the world from certain destruction' scope of subjects (which I guess isn't all that dissimilar to 'wacky chipmunk' or 'look what a hamster can fit in his mouth' videos) - I would have to say Nightcats (by Brakhage). Peter (Perth) What else could we shown in a Cat Film Fest? As Ekrem mentioned, there's Cat Cradle and Fuses. Dunno if the amount of kitteh-kontent is high enough for a feline fest, but the presence of the pussy... er, scratch that [Meow!] I mean the context of the cat, is the unraveling intertextual ball of string tying the two works together, or maybe being batted away from StanCat by CaroleeCat, or maybe the mirrored meowser is Schneeman's way of saying, 'my little furry pet is purring because she just pounced on some wee bit of pickle, and by the way, did you know that cats are independent creatures who do their own thing instead of licking their masters fantasy boots, and cats have really sharp claws they can dig into your untutored eye if you piss them off by mixing up which human is owned by which cat, and somehow indicate you think you own even one cat much less two, so go pine in the pines with your poor putrefying pooch and leave my kitty alone! You could show Marker's 'Case of the Grinning Cat' which also might be a little light on actual kitty-kontent, but again the cat-concept is pretty important, and any excuse to show Marker is always a good excuse. Or you could go conceptual rather than representational: I read somewhere that felines large and small are creatures who spend most of the time sleeping between brief bursts of activity. So I'm thinking you could show all 5 hours and 21 minutes of Sleep, in a room filled with sofa and actual cats, so after puzzling over what do do with themselves for awhile, instead of getting annoyed and heading to the box office in angry mass protest to The Management, the viewers would figure they can emulate the cats and sooner or later pretty much the whole audience would be sleeping along with John Giorno, curled up on a couch like Giorno, but with cuddling kitties, sometimes coming and going but mostly sleeping as cats mostly do. Taking the cat cues, they might conclude that 'Sleep' is not the title of a 'movie' you 'watch' but might be a gentle imperative, like a Yoko Ono instruction, to stage the most simple and mundane action as a form of Art. Or not. Either way, they're in cat-mode, so it's basically nappy time whenever they feel like it no matter what else is going on in the room, and from time to time they'll wake up, yawn, stretch, look around a little bit ‹ maybe watch the screen for awhile, maybe watch the other people sleeping, maybe think about how many hours John Giorno has spent sleeping since 1963, maybe wonder how many hours of sleep they'll have before they join Warhol in eternal slumber, maybe think about what a room of people sleeping because a silent black and white film of a man dozing on a couch can't keep them awake means in light of Warhol's claimed intent
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And Felix the Cat as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxailD4Ofq4 On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 1:22 PM, nicky.ham...@talktalk.net wrote: Nice titles for 'Jonesy', like the ones for Pierrot le Fou. There are also hundreds of episodes of Top Cat to consider! Nicky. -Original Message- From: Francisco Torres fjtorre...@gmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 16:53 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] cat films here kitty... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo0c8FnjW0k 2014-08-16 5:19 GMT-04:00 nicky.ham...@talktalk.net: Bell Book and Candle, The Incredible Journey (Disney film abut three pets on a 200 mile journey. Includes a swimming siamese cat). Nicky. -Original Message- From: Benjamin Leon benj.l...@gmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 9:19 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] cat films *Fuses* of course ! And* Plumb Line* (1968-1972) by Carolee Schneemann too. 2014-08-16 9:49 GMT+02:00 nicky.ham...@talktalk.net: Gummo and Withnail and I have cats in them, albeit briefly. Nicky -Original Message- From: Peter Mudie peter.mu...@uwa.edu.au To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 5:48 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] cat films It's an odd question, really - looking for films with/about cats. If you get onto YouTube and type in a search for 'cats', 'wacky cats' and/or 'awesome cats' you will find something around 2 billion choices to build your exhibition around - none of them worthwhile. Do a search (with the same criteria) for 'chipmunks' or 'hamsters' and you'll find less, but about as discerning as the 'wacky cats' list. Any exhibition that results from a deep curatorial insight about cats will probably leave you in the same zone as all the YouTube ones. If someone asked me what my favourite film was that had a cat within it - that is, different from 'a hard-boiled cheap detective getting away from the grips of a femme fatale' or 'a Joe-Bob Mr America saves the world from certain destruction' scope of subjects (which I guess isn't all that dissimilar to 'wacky chipmunk' or 'look what a hamster can fit in his mouth' videos) - I would have to say Nightcats (by Brakhage). Peter (Perth) What else could we shown in a Cat Film Fest? As Ekrem mentioned, there's Cat Cradle and Fuses. Dunno if the amount of kitteh-kontent is high enough for a feline fest, but the presence of the pussy... er, scratch that [Meow!] I mean the context of the cat, is the unraveling intertextual ball of string tying the two works together, or maybe being batted away from StanCat by CaroleeCat, or maybe the mirrored meowser is Schneeman's way of saying, 'my little furry pet is purring because she just pounced on some wee bit of pickle, and by the way, did you know that cats are independent creatures who do their own thing instead of licking their masters fantasy boots, and cats have really sharp claws they can dig into your untutored eye if you piss them off by mixing up which human is owned by which cat, and somehow indicate you think you own even one cat much less two, so go pine in the pines with your poor putrefying pooch and leave my kitty alone! You could show Marker's 'Case of the Grinning Cat' which also might be a little light on actual kitty-kontent, but again the cat-concept is pretty important, and any excuse to show Marker is always a good excuse. Or you could go conceptual rather than representational: I read somewhere that felines large and small are creatures who spend most of the time sleeping between brief bursts of activity. So I'm thinking you could show all 5 hours and 21 minutes of Sleep, in a room filled with sofa and actual cats, so after puzzling over what do do with themselves for awhile, instead of getting annoyed and heading to the box office in angry mass protest to The Management, the viewers would figure they can emulate the cats and sooner or later pretty much the whole audience would be sleeping along with John Giorno, curled up on a couch like Giorno, but with cuddling kitties, sometimes coming and going but mostly sleeping as cats mostly do. Taking the cat cues, they might conclude that 'Sleep' is not the title of a 'movie' you 'watch' but might be a gentle imperative, like a Yoko Ono instruction, to stage the most simple and mundane action as a form of Art. Or not. Either way, they're in cat-mode, so it's basically nappy time whenever they feel like it no matter what else is going on in the room, and from time to time they'll wake up, yawn, stretch, look around a little bit ‹ maybe watch the screen for awhile, maybe watch the other people sleeping, maybe think about how many hours John Giorno has spent sleeping since 1963, maybe wonder how many hours of sleep they'll have before
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Cats are featured prominently in 27 of George Kuchar’s diaries, some of them pretty surreal. My favorite is “Kitty Porn” (1996). From: Ronald Gregg Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2014 11:44 AM To: Experimental Film Discussion List Subject: Re: [Frameworks] cat films And Felix the Cat as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxailD4Ofq4 On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 1:22 PM, nicky.ham...@talktalk.net wrote: Nice titles for 'Jonesy', like the ones for Pierrot le Fou. There are also hundreds of episodes of Top Cat to consider! Nicky. -Original Message- From: Francisco Torres fjtorre...@gmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 16:53 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] cat films here kitty... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo0c8FnjW0k 2014-08-16 5:19 GMT-04:00 nicky.ham...@talktalk.net: Bell Book and Candle, The Incredible Journey (Disney film abut three pets on a 200 mile journey. Includes a swimming siamese cat). Nicky. -Original Message- From: Benjamin Leon benj.l...@gmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 9:19 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] cat films Fuses of course ! And Plumb Line (1968-1972) by Carolee Schneemann too. 2014-08-16 9:49 GMT+02:00 nicky.ham...@talktalk.net: Gummo and Withnail and I have cats in them, albeit briefly. Nicky -Original Message- From: Peter Mudie peter.mu...@uwa.edu.au To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 5:48 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] cat films It's an odd question, really - looking for films with/about cats. If you get onto YouTube and type in a search for 'cats', 'wacky cats' and/or 'awesome cats' you will find something around 2 billion choices to build your exhibition around - none of them worthwhile. Do a search (with the same criteria) for 'chipmunks' or 'hamsters' and you'll find less, but about as discerning as the 'wacky cats' list. Any exhibition that results from a deep curatorial insight about cats will probably leave you in the same zone as all the YouTube ones. If someone asked me what my favourite film was that had a cat within it - that is, different from 'a hard-boiled cheap detective getting away from the grips of a femme fatale' or 'a Joe-Bob Mr America saves the world from certain destruction' scope of subjects (which I guess isn't all that dissimilar to 'wacky chipmunk' or 'look what a hamster can fit in his mouth' videos) - I would have to say Nightcats (by Brakhage). Peter (Perth) What else could we shown in a Cat Film Fest? As Ekrem mentioned, there's Cat Cradle and Fuses. Dunno if the amount of kitteh-kontent is high enough for a feline fest, but the presence of the pussy... er, scratch that [Meow!] I mean the context of the cat, is the unraveling intertextual ball of string tying the two works together, or maybe being batted away from StanCat by CaroleeCat, or maybe the mirrored meowser is Schneeman's way of saying, 'my little furry pet is purring because she just pounced on some wee bit of pickle, and by the way, did you know that cats are independent creatures who do their own thing instead of licking their masters fantasy boots, and cats have really sharp claws they can dig into your untutored eye if you piss them off by mixing up which human is owned by which cat, and somehow indicate you think you own even one cat much less two, so go pine in the pines with your poor putrefying pooch and leave my kitty alone! You could show Marker's 'Case of the Grinning Cat' which also might be a little light on actual kitty-kontent, but again the cat-concept is pretty important, and any excuse to show Marker is always a good excuse. Or you could go conceptual rather than representational: I read somewhere that felines large and small are creatures who spend most of the time sleeping between brief bursts of activity. So I'm thinking you could show all 5 hours and 21 minutes of Sleep, in a room filled with sofa and actual cats, so after puzzling over what do do with themselves for awhile, instead of getting annoyed and heading to the box office in angry mass protest to The Management, the viewers would figure they can emulate the cats and sooner or later pretty much the whole audience would be sleeping along with John Giorno, curled up on a couch like Giorno, but with cuddling kitties, sometimes coming and going but mostly sleeping as cats mostly do. Taking the cat cues, they might conclude that 'Sleep' is not the title of a 'movie' you 'watch' but might be a gentle imperative, like a Yoko Ono instruction, to stage the most simple and mundane action as a form of Art. Or not. Either way, they're in cat-mode, so it's basically nappy time whenever they feel like it no matter what else is going on in the room, and from
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Burroughs' short book, The Cat Inside is a wondrous and touching elaboration of his relationships with and to cats... Steve Polta On Aug 16, 2014 1:23 PM, Andy Ditzler a...@andyditzler.com wrote: George Kuchar's cat Blackie plays the crucial role of confessor in the video diary Rainy Season (1987). George's grief at losing his beloved cat is the subject of Season of Sorrow (1996). William Burroughs was quite fond of cats, and I believe he lived with many at his final home in Lawrence, Kansas. Perhaps there is a documentary with footage of this? Brakhage's film Pasht is quite striking. Andy Ditzler On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Gene Youngblood ato...@comcast.net wrote: Cats are featured prominently in 27 of George Kuchar’s diaries, some of them pretty surreal. My favorite is “Kitty Porn” (1996). *From:* Ronald Gregg ronald.gr...@yale.edu *Sent:* Saturday, August 16, 2014 11:44 AM *To:* Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com *Subject:* Re: [Frameworks] cat films And Felix the Cat as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxailD4Ofq4 On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 1:22 PM, nicky.ham...@talktalk.net wrote: Nice titles for 'Jonesy', like the ones for Pierrot le Fou. There are also hundreds of episodes of Top Cat to consider! Nicky. -Original Message- From: Francisco Torres fjtorre...@gmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 16:53 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] cat films here kitty... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo0c8FnjW0k 2014-08-16 5:19 GMT-04:00 nicky.ham...@talktalk.net: Bell Book and Candle, The Incredible Journey (Disney film abut three pets on a 200 mile journey. Includes a swimming siamese cat). Nicky. -Original Message- From: Benjamin Leon benj.l...@gmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 9:19 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] cat films *Fuses* of course ! And* Plumb Line* (1968-1972) by Carolee Schneemann too. 2014-08-16 9:49 GMT+02:00 nicky.ham...@talktalk.net: Gummo and Withnail and I have cats in them, albeit briefly. Nicky -Original Message- From: Peter Mudie peter.mu...@uwa.edu.au To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 5:48 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] cat films It's an odd question, really - looking for films with/about cats. If you get onto YouTube and type in a search for 'cats', 'wacky cats' and/or 'awesome cats' you will find something around 2 billion choices to build your exhibition around - none of them worthwhile. Do a search (with the same criteria) for 'chipmunks' or 'hamsters' and you'll find less, but about as discerning as the 'wacky cats' list. Any exhibition that results from a deep curatorial insight about cats will probably leave you in the same zone as all the YouTube ones. If someone asked me what my favourite film was that had a cat within it - that is, different from 'a hard-boiled cheap detective getting away from the grips of a femme fatale' or 'a Joe-Bob Mr America saves the world from certain destruction' scope of subjects (which I guess isn't all that dissimilar to 'wacky chipmunk' or 'look what a hamster can fit in his mouth' videos) - I would have to say Nightcats (by Brakhage). Peter (Perth) What else could we shown in a Cat Film Fest? As Ekrem mentioned, there's Cat Cradle and Fuses. Dunno if the amount of kitteh-kontent is high enough for a feline fest, but the presence of the pussy... er, scratch that [Meow!] I mean the context of the cat, is the unraveling intertextual ball of string tying the two works together, or maybe being batted away from StanCat by CaroleeCat, or maybe the mirrored meowser is Schneeman's way of saying, 'my little furry pet is purring because she just pounced on some wee bit of pickle, and by the way, did you know that cats are independent creatures who do their own thing instead of licking their masters fantasy boots, and cats have really sharp claws they can dig into your untutored eye if you piss them off by mixing up which human is owned by which cat, and somehow indicate you think you own even one cat much less two, so go pine in the pines with your poor putrefying pooch and leave my kitty alone! You could show Marker's 'Case of the Grinning Cat' which also might be a little light on actual kitty-kontent, but again the cat-concept is pretty important, and any excuse to show Marker is always a good excuse. Or you could go conceptual rather than representational: I read somewhere that felines large and small are creatures who spend most of the time sleeping between brief bursts of activity. So I'm thinking you could show all 5 hours and 21 minutes of Sleep, in a room filled with sofa and actual cats, so after puzzling over what do do with themselves for awhile, instead
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I named my cat Cleo for the little black ones in varda's film. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 16, 2014, at 5:19 AM, nicky.ham...@talktalk.netmailto:nicky.ham...@talktalk.net nicky.ham...@talktalk.netmailto:nicky.ham...@talktalk.net wrote: Bell Book and Candle, The Incredible Journey (Disney film abut three pets on a 200 mile journey. Includes a swimming siamese cat). Nicky. -Original Message- From: Benjamin Leon benj.l...@gmail.commailto:benj.l...@gmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.commailto:frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 9:19 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] cat films Fuses of course ! And Plumb Line (1968-1972) by Carolee Schneemann too. 2014-08-16 9:49 GMT+02:00 nicky.ham...@talktalk.netmailto:nicky.ham...@talktalk.net: Gummo and Withnail and I have cats in them, albeit briefly. Nicky -Original Message- From: Peter Mudie peter.mu...@uwa.edu.aumailto:peter.mu...@uwa.edu.au To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.commailto:frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 5:48 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] cat films It's an odd question, really - looking for films with/about cats. If you get onto YouTube and type in a search for 'cats', 'wacky cats' and/or 'awesome cats' you will find something around 2 billion choices to build your exhibition around - none of them worthwhile. Do a search (with the same criteria) for 'chipmunks' or 'hamsters' and you'll find less, but about as discerning as the 'wacky cats' list. Any exhibition that results from a deep curatorial insight about cats will probably leave you in the same zone as all the YouTube ones. If someone asked me what my favourite film was that had a cat within it - that is, different from 'a hard-boiled cheap detective getting away from the grips of a femme fatale' or 'a Joe-Bob Mr America saves the world from certain destruction' scope of subjects (which I guess isn't all that dissimilar to 'wacky chipmunk' or 'look what a hamster can fit in his mouth' videos) - I would have to say Nightcats (by Brakhage). Peter (Perth) What else could we shown in a Cat Film Fest? As Ekrem mentioned, there's Cat Cradle and Fuses. Dunno if the amount of kitteh-kontent is high enough for a feline fest, but the presence of the pussy... er, scratch that [Meow!] I mean the context of the cat, is the unraveling intertextual ball of string tying the two works together, or maybe being batted away from StanCat by CaroleeCat, or maybe the mirrored meowser is Schneeman's way of saying, 'my little furry pet is purring because she just pounced on some wee bit of pickle, and by the way, did you know that cats are independent creatures who do their own thing instead of licking their masters fantasy boots, and cats have really sharp claws they can dig into your untutored eye if you piss them off by mixing up which human is owned by which cat, and somehow indicate you think you own even one cat much less two, so go pine in the pines with your poor putrefying pooch and leave my kitty alone! You could show Marker's 'Case of the Grinning Cat' which also might be a little light on actual kitty-kontent, but again the cat-concept is pretty important, and any excuse to show Marker is always a good excuse. Or you could go conceptual rather than representational: I read somewhere that felines large and small are creatures who spend most of the time sleeping between brief bursts of activity. So I'm thinking you could show all 5 hours and 21 minutes of Sleep, in a room filled with sofa and actual cats, so after puzzling over what do do with themselves for awhile, instead of getting annoyed and heading to the box office in angry mass protest to The Management, the viewers would figure they can emulate the cats and sooner or later pretty much the whole audience would be sleeping along with John Giorno, curled up on a couch like Giorno, but with cuddling kitties, sometimes coming and going but mostly sleeping as cats mostly do. Taking the cat cues, they might conclude that 'Sleep' is not the title of a 'movie' you 'watch' but might be a gentle imperative, like a Yoko Ono instruction, to stage the most simple and mundane action as a form of Art. Or not. Either way, they're in cat-mode, so it's basically nappy time whenever they feel like it no matter what else is going on in the room, and from time to time they'll wake up, yawn, stretch, look around a little bit ‹ maybe watch the screen for awhile, maybe watch the other people sleeping, maybe think about how many hours John Giorno has spent sleeping since 1963, maybe wonder how many hours of sleep they'll have before they join Warhol in eternal slumber, maybe think about what a room of people sleeping because a silent black and white film of a man dozing on a couch can't keep them awake means in light of Warhol's claimed intent of documenting sleep for historical purposes since no one slept anymore due
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I mean, Fuses. (+ Brakhage's Cat's Cradle) Speaking of Intercat: Here's a poster a friend got for me for the second edition in 73. (I presume a different program than 69?) http://i.imgur.com/9Iveduv.jpg On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 9:55 AM, JB Mabe jb.m...@gmail.com wrote: Just called to double check, and the Intercat program is alive and well at FMC. It's packed up and ready to be shipped to us at Chicago Filmmakers. On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Steve Polta steve.po...@gmail.com wrote: I believe this intercat program has been withdrawn from distribution at the Film-Makers' Cooperative. Sad I know. Cat films that come to mind... by Brakhage: Night Cats (or is it Nightcats) Cat of the Worm's Green Realm Max (probably there are others) Luther Price: Kittens Grow Up Steve Polta On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Patrick Friel patrick.fr...@att.net wrote: In my one-month stint as Interim Program Director at Chicago Filmmakers earlier this summer, I programmed the INTERCAT '69 program for September. http://chicagofilmmakers.org/cf/content/intercat-69-part-1 5 hours of 16mm cat films from the 1940s-60s. Available from Film-makers' Coop. Last month, South Side Projections here in Chicago presented a 16mm cat screening, and last year SSP and CF co-presented a 16mm cat screening. pf On 8/13/14 6:41 PM, Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu wrote: The Walker is having their third Internet Cat Video Festival http://www.walkerart.org/calendar/2014/internet-cat-video-festival-2 014?mc_cid=70d62a9316mc_eid=770c6fb304 Which reminds me of experimental cat films, like the Hammid and Deren Life of a Cat (remarkably politically correct: daddy cat is shown doing kitten care). What else could we shown in a Cat Film Fest? Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listi nfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks -- ekrem serdar austin, tx ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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What else could we shown in a Cat Film Fest? As Ekrem mentioned, there's Cat Cradle and Fuses. Dunno if the amount of kitteh-kontent is high enough for a feline fest, but the presence of the pussy... er, scratch that [Meow!] I mean the context of the cat, is the unraveling intertextual ball of string tying the two works together, or maybe being batted away from StanCat by CaroleeCat, or maybe the mirrored meowser is Schneeman's way of saying, 'my little furry pet is purring because she just pounced on some wee bit of pickle, and by the way, did you know that cats are independent creatures who do their own thing instead of licking their masters fantasy boots, and cats have really sharp claws they can dig into your untutored eye if you piss them off by mixing up which human is owned by which cat, and somehow indicate you think you own even one cat much less two, so go pine in the pines with your poor putrefying pooch and leave my kitty alone! You could show Marker's 'Case of the Grinning Cat' which also might be a little light on actual kitty-kontent, but again the cat-concept is pretty important, and any excuse to show Marker is always a good excuse. Or you could go conceptual rather than representational: I read somewhere that felines large and small are creatures who spend most of the time sleeping between brief bursts of activity. So I'm thinking you could show all 5 hours and 21 minutes of Sleep, in a room filled with sofa and actual cats, so after puzzling over what do do with themselves for awhile, instead of getting annoyed and heading to the box office in angry mass protest to The Management, the viewers would figure they can emulate the cats and sooner or later pretty much the whole audience would be sleeping along with John Giorno, curled up on a couch like Giorno, but with cuddling kitties, sometimes coming and going but mostly sleeping as cats mostly do. Taking the cat cues, they might conclude that 'Sleep' is not the title of a 'movie' you 'watch' but might be a gentle imperative, like a Yoko Ono instruction, to stage the most simple and mundane action as a form of Art. Or not. Either way, they're in cat-mode, so it's basically nappy time whenever they feel like it no matter what else is going on in the room, and from time to time they'll wake up, yawn, stretch, look around a little bit — maybe watch the screen for awhile, maybe watch the other people sleeping, maybe think about how many hours John Giorno has spent sleeping since 1963, maybe wonder how many hours of sleep they'll have before they join Warhol in eternal slumber, maybe think about what a room of people sleeping because a silent black and white film of a man dozing on a couch can't keep them awake means in light of Warhol's claimed intent of documenting sleep for historical purposes since no one slept anymore due to the miracles of modern chemistry. But, being cat-people for the evening, they wouldn't think about those things too long or too hard before slipping back into a REM state with a dreamy revelation that the proper nouns 'Walter' White' and 'Warhol' all begin with a 'W'. Then, maybe 90 minutes later, they wake up since the man-cat on the next couch is shattering the silence with loud irregular apneas and hypopneas because he didn't think to bring his C-PAP to a film screening, only, on awakening, they don't dig out their cell phones to check how much longer the film is going to run, they just realize they're hungry, and the smell of chicken and fish is coming from the lobby. So they amble out of the screening room and over to the concessions area set up especially for the screening, where they get served sashimi and/or poulet kabobs, (or Tuna hot dish if it's at The Walker), and at this spot there are benches set up by big picture windows where they can sit awhile and watch birds fly back and forth from the feeders outside, but the benches aren't that comfy so they head back to the couches in the screening room soon enough, tummies full and fall back into the rhythm of Sleeps sleep. When they wake up again after a big orange Maine Coon cat licks some hot-dish off their cheek, they sit up, the cat hops onto their lap and starts to purr, they reach down to pet it without thinking about it. Then it dawns on them that since they're doing the stroking and not getting stroked, their personal cat analogy is breaking down, and they start thinking like a human again, but still retaining a kind of felinious disposition. Some thoughts that might follow: Andy Warhol was like some kind of mutant future-cat, since he maintained a feline indifference and inscrutability while never sleeping and working constantly; Sleep is celluloid-projection-as-cat since it has 'bursts of activity' mixed in with the sleeping, and combining the two is pretty much the only way to make it from beginning to end (though 'sleeping' might be more figurative than literal); why am i
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³Cat Food² by Joyce Wieland. LAUREN HOWES // EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CANADIAN FILMMAKERS DISTRIBUTION CENTRE SUITE 245-401 RICHMOND ST. WEST TORONTO, ON M5V 3A8 direc...@cfmdc.org // 416.588.0725 www.cfmdc.org P Before printing, think about the environment. On 2014-08-13 8:09 PM, Ronald Gregg ronald.gr...@yale.edu wrote: Saul Bass' opening title sequence for Walk on the Wild Side http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jVRePj1Iq0 On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu wrote: The Walker is having their third Internet Cat Video Festival http://www.walkerart.org/calendar/2014/internet-cat-video-festival-2014?mc_ci d=70d62a9316mc_eid=770c6fb304 Which reminds me of experimental cat films, like the Hammid and Deren Life of a Cat (remarkably politically correct: daddy cat is shown doing kitten care). What else could we shown in a Cat Film Fest? Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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Has this already come up? http://film-makerscoop.com/rentals-sales/search-results?fmc_author=135 * Intercat '69 * (1969 http://film-makerscoop.com/rentals-sales/search-results?fmc_year=1969) 16mm, color, 96 min Genre: Documentary http://film-makerscoop.com/rentals-sales/search-results?fmc_genre=genre_documentary, Experimental http://film-makerscoop.com/rentals-sales/search-results?fmc_genre=genre_experimental Keywords: Environment Nature http://film-makerscoop.com/rentals-sales/search-results?fmc_keyw=key_environment_nature, Found Footage http://film-makerscoop.com/rentals-sales/search-results?fmc_keyw=key_found_footage, History http://film-makerscoop.com/rentals-sales/search-results?fmc_keyw=key_history, Landscape Architecture http://film-makerscoop.com/rentals-sales/search-results?fmc_keyw=key_landscape_architecture A cat anthology by Pola chapelle. Ten films from the 5 hours of films about cats and by cats shown at the First International Cat Film Festival (INTERCAT '69) which took place at the Elgin Theatre, NYc, on December 20, 1969. Rental: $245.00 16mm Rental: $245.00 On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 1:20 AM, Lauren Howes direc...@cfmdc.org wrote: “Cat Food” by Joyce Wieland. LAUREN HOWES // EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CANADIAN FILMMAKERS DISTRIBUTION CENTRE SUITE 245-401 RICHMOND ST. WEST TORONTO, ON M5V 3A8 direc...@cfmdc.org // 416.588.0725 www.cfmdc.org P Before printing, think about the environment. On 2014-08-13 8:09 PM, Ronald Gregg ronald.gr...@yale.edu wrote: Saul Bass' opening title sequence for *Walk on the Wild Side *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jVRePj1Iq0 On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu wrote: The Walker is having their third Internet Cat Video Festival http://www.walkerart.org/calendar/2014/internet-cat-video-festival-2014?mc_cid=70d62a9316mc_eid=770c6fb304 Which reminds me of experimental cat films, like the Hammid and Deren Life of a Cat (remarkably politically correct: daddy cat is shown doing kitten care). What else could we shown in a Cat Film Fest? Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks -- ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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Chuck, so glad you are asking this question. I tried to get my feline film *focusing* to play in the Walker Cat Video Film Festival just to shake things up and fuck with people by forcing them to be more contemplative than they ever expect to be, but alas, it was not programmed. Everyone else can watch it here though! https://vimeo.com/82347369 Best, Anna -- Anna Swanson 360.970.6579 cargocollective.com/annaswanson *experimental scholarly creative nonfiction* On 8/13/14 6:41 PM, Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu wrote: The Walker is having their third Internet Cat Video Festival http://www.walkerart.org/calendar/2014/internet-cat-video-festival-2 014?mc_cid=70d62a9316mc_eid=770c6fb304 Which reminds me of experimental cat films, like the Hammid and Deren Life of a Cat (remarkably politically correct: daddy cat is shown doing kitten care). What else could we shown in a Cat Film Fest? Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listi nfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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It's not on film, but I invite you to view my own cat video, Wanda: https://vimeo.com/26779562 Ruth Hayes http://www.randommotion.com blogs.evergreen.edu/hayesr On Aug 13, 2014, at 4:41 PM, Chuck Kleinhans wrote: The Walker is having their third Internet Cat Video Festival http://www.walkerart.org/calendar/2014/internet-cat-video-festival-2014?mc_cid=70d62a9316mc_eid=770c6fb304 Which reminds me of experimental cat films, like the Hammid and Deren Life of a Cat (remarkably politically correct: daddy cat is shown doing kitten care). What else could we shown in a Cat Film Fest? Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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Also, worth knowing-- Radical Cats of Cinema // A cat is never on the side of power-- http://omgcatrevolution.tumblr.com/ ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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Fone Fur Follies by Vivian Ostrovsky Am 14.08.2014 um 01:41 schrieb Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu: The Walker is having their third Internet Cat Video Festival http://www.walkerart.org/calendar/2014/internet-cat-video-festival-2014?mc_cid=70d62a9316mc_eid=770c6fb304 Which reminds me of experimental cat films, like the Hammid and Deren Life of a Cat (remarkably politically correct: daddy cat is shown doing kitten care). What else could we shown in a Cat Film Fest? Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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I believe this intercat program has been withdrawn from distribution at the Film-Makers' Cooperative. Sad I know. Cat films that come to mind... *by Brakhage:* *Night Cats *(or is it *Nightcats*) *Cat of the Worm's Green Realm* *Max* (probably there are others) *Luther Price: **Kittens Grow Up* Steve Polta On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Patrick Friel patrick.fr...@att.net wrote: In my one-month stint as Interim Program Director at Chicago Filmmakers earlier this summer, I programmed the INTERCAT '69 program for September. http://chicagofilmmakers.org/cf/content/intercat-69-part-1 5 hours of 16mm cat films from the 1940s-60s. Available from Film-makers' Coop. Last month, South Side Projections here in Chicago presented a 16mm cat screening, and last year SSP and CF co-presented a 16mm cat screening. pf On 8/13/14 6:41 PM, Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu wrote: The Walker is having their third Internet Cat Video Festival http://www.walkerart.org/calendar/2014/internet-cat-video-festival-2 014?mc_cid=70d62a9316mc_eid=770c6fb304 Which reminds me of experimental cat films, like the Hammid and Deren Life of a Cat (remarkably politically correct: daddy cat is shown doing kitten care). What else could we shown in a Cat Film Fest? Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listi nfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] cat films
The Walker is having their third Internet Cat Video Festival http://www.walkerart.org/calendar/2014/internet-cat-video-festival-2014?mc_cid=70d62a9316mc_eid=770c6fb304 Which reminds me of experimental cat films, like the Hammid and Deren Life of a Cat (remarkably politically correct: daddy cat is shown doing kitten care). What else could we shown in a Cat Film Fest? Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] cat films
Alexander Hammid's film. I'm blanking on the name. I think it's on Meshes DVD. -Original Message- From: Chuck Kleinhans Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 5:41 PM To: Experimental Film Discussion List Subject: [Frameworks] cat films The Walker is having their third Internet Cat Video Festival http://www.walkerart.org/calendar/2014/internet-cat-video-festival-2014?mc_cid=70d62a9316mc_eid=770c6fb304 Which reminds me of experimental cat films, like the Hammid and Deren Life of a Cat (remarkably politically correct: daddy cat is shown doing kitten care). What else could we shown in a Cat Film Fest? Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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Saul Bass' opening title sequence for *Walk on the Wild Side* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jVRePj1Iq0 On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu wrote: The Walker is having their third Internet Cat Video Festival http://www.walkerart.org/calendar/2014/internet-cat-video-festival-2014?mc_cid=70d62a9316mc_eid=770c6fb304 Which reminds me of experimental cat films, like the Hammid and Deren Life of a Cat (remarkably politically correct: daddy cat is shown doing kitten care). What else could we shown in a Cat Film Fest? Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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I have been making installations with 16mm loops of cat gifs https://vimeo.com/102428745 -Eric Stewart On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Ronald Gregg ronald.gr...@yale.edu wrote: Saul Bass' opening title sequence for Walk on the Wild Side http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jVRePj1Iq0 On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu wrote: The Walker is having their third Internet Cat Video Festival http://www.walkerart.org/calendar/2014/internet-cat-video-festival-2014?mc_cid=70d62a9316mc_eid=770c6fb304 Which reminds me of experimental cat films, like the Hammid and Deren Life of a Cat (remarkably politically correct: daddy cat is shown doing kitten care). What else could we shown in a Cat Film Fest? Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
