Re: [Frameworks] Experimental works about presidential election cycles?

2015-05-25 Thread Jason Halprin
Bill Stametts has a number of films that address this, from the '80s and early 90s, primarily in Super8. I also have two (Infantry Politics and Field Piece Politics, both 2004) is Super 8. Let me know and I can send links to mine, and I can also contact Bill to see if he has previews. - Jason Hal

Re: [Frameworks] FrameWorks Digest, Vol 60, Issue 25

2015-05-25 Thread Brian Frye
On "election films," can I recommend Jonas Mekas's Time & Fortune Newsreel? Tongue in cheek, but very funny. -- Brian L. Frye Assistant Professor of Law University of Kentucky College of Law brianlf...@gmail.com brianlf...@uky.edu 145 Woodland Avenue Lexington, KY 40502 (859) 218-0632 (office) (9

Re: [Frameworks] things

2015-05-25 Thread Francisco Torres
men are free to make films . there is no law against it. 2015-05-25 17:20 GMT-04:00 Salise Hughes : > BTW, Ben River's Things will be screening at Other Cinema this Saturday > along with a program full of women filmmakers. Looks like a great program... > > On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Ekrem

[Frameworks] °**° Directors Lounge Screening - Distruktur - Perspectives - On Moving - 28 May 2015 °**°

2015-05-25 Thread Klaus W. Eisenlohr
Directors Lounge Screening: Distruktur - Melissa Dullius & Gustavo Jahn perspectives - on moving Thursday, 28 May 2015 21:00 Z-Bar Bergstraße 2 10115 Berlin-Mitte A program of shorts by the artist couple Melissa Dullius and Gustavo Jahn with some new and rare films, some German and Berlin pre

Re: [Frameworks] things

2015-05-25 Thread Salise Hughes
BTW, Ben River's Things will be screening at Other Cinema this Saturday along with a program full of women filmmakers. Looks like a great program... On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Ekrem Serdar wrote: > You have to wonder where the men are. >> > > they're on frameworks, wondering where their

Re: [Frameworks] Andrew Noren

2015-05-25 Thread Albert Alcoz
Two years ago I was able to watch a copy of his film Charmed Particles at the New York Public Library (image attached).Researching their catalogue it seems they own three parts of The Adventures of The Exquisite Corps on 16 mm copies:Charmed Particles, Imaginary Light and The Lighted Field.http

Re: [Frameworks] looking for copy/animation stand (or tips on making one)

2015-05-25 Thread Lady Snowblood
I made the “Amanda Bonaiuto” model last year, using the directions found on this page (scroll down) : http://smfaanimation.blogspot.com/p/animation-workspaces.html Its kindof gigantic, but I made it so that I could fit a set of gla

Re: [Frameworks] Andrew Noren

2015-05-25 Thread director
The fact that Noren was an archivist by trade gives hope to the fact that his elements are probably thoughtfully stored somewhere (at least the ones that weren't destroyed in an early fire, if I remember correctly) and would be eventually available for preservation. C > When I first walked into t

Re: [Frameworks] Andrew Noren

2015-05-25 Thread Rick Prelinger
When I first walked into the Sherman Grinberg Film Library in the old Film Center Building at 630 9th Avenue in the fall of 1983, I was quite surprised when I was introduced to Andrew Noren, one of the librarians in that strange place. I couldn't quite put together my emerging life as a business

Re: [Frameworks] Andrew Noren

2015-05-25 Thread Steve Polta
This is a lot like what his films seem to aspired to be, and clearly demonstrates Noren's sensitivity to these things. P. Adams Sitney has described that Scott MacDonald interview with Noren (which was conducted through mail I believe and subject to intense scrutiny and amendment by Noren) as basi

Re: [Frameworks] Andrew Noren

2015-05-25 Thread Carl E Bogner
The concluding -- and personal favorite -- passage from that Andrew Noren / Scott MacDonald interview (in Critical Cinema 2) that Mr. Youngblood referred to earlier: “The absolute best thing I’ve seen recently and certainly the most avant-garde was a lightning storm over southern New Jersey.

Re: [Frameworks] things

2015-05-25 Thread Ekrem Serdar
> > You have to wonder where the men are. > they're on frameworks, wondering where their bros are > > 2015-05-24 8:11 GMT-04:00 Chris Kennedy : > > >> > Today's Topics: >> > >> > >> > 1. things (Bernard Roddy) >> > 2. Re: things (Chuck Kleinhans) >> > >> > >> > I just noticed that Ann Arbor gave

Re: [Frameworks] things

2015-05-25 Thread Francisco Torres
'',,,although we probably need to at least remark on > the prominence of women's voices in these matters, both as jurors in the > case of Ann Arbor and as represented artists, not to mention award > recipients)'' Yes, it is worth remarking about it because, as it seems to be the case in many field

Re: [Frameworks] Andrew Noren

2015-05-25 Thread Steve Polta
Yes. Noren was an amazing filmmaker with an incredible body of work that threw done some serious aesthetic challenges and expressed, in purely visual terms, a very complex aesthetics-based philosophy that to me is incredibly deep and profound and still shakes me up to think about. I posted the foll

Re: [Frameworks] Andrew Noren

2015-05-25 Thread director
I can understand that. There was a moment in the early 2000s when Susan Oxtoby brought some of his films (and him) to Toronto over the course of a few years. I likely saw about 4 or 5 of his films over that period and still think of them often. A quick description --- rich high-contrast imagery, lo

Re: [Frameworks] Andrew Noren

2015-05-25 Thread scott
What I don't know as yet is whether the Noren films are available and to what kinds of venues and in what form(s).I'll try to be in touch with MoMA, which has had a continued interest in Noren's work, this week and will report what I find out.Scott Original Message Subject: Re:

Re: [Frameworks] Andrew Noren

2015-05-25 Thread scott
I don't at the moment, Chuck, but will be looking into this.Scott Original Message Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Andrew Noren From: Chuck Kleinhans Date: Mon, May 25, 2015 6:10 am To: Experimental Film Discussion List Sco

Re: [Frameworks] Andrew Noren

2015-05-25 Thread Felix Garcia
MoMA :) Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 16:10:20 +0200 From: elenadu...@gmail.com To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Andrew Noren Chuck, I saw Charmed Particles (in 16mm) last year in the CCCB in Barcelona, Spain, but I don't know the procedence of the print. I can ask them, a

Re: [Frameworks] things

2015-05-25 Thread Theodore Kennedy
Invoking all these other people is specious. It's still not clear what your point is "the real dominance of women"? Sent from my iPhone > On May 25, 2015, at 6:37 AM, Bernard Roddy wrote: > > Chris, I didn't intend a connection between the objection to recognition for > the film and the o

Re: [Frameworks] Andrew Noren

2015-05-25 Thread Elena Duque
Chuck, I saw Charmed Particles (in 16mm) last year in the CCCB in Barcelona, Spain, but I don't know the procedence of the print. I can ask them, although I am sure that there must be some "frameworker" out there that knows better where to find it! Best, Elena 2015-05-25 15:57 GMT+02:00 Gene Youn

Re: [Frameworks] Andrew Noren

2015-05-25 Thread Gene Youngblood
Those of us who were there at the time can recall the excitement when a new film by Andrew was released. We anticipated them almost like we did the next Brakhage or Godard. Scott or Dominic will know better than I when and why Andrew took the films out of distribution, but when I realized I coul

[Frameworks] things

2015-05-25 Thread Bernard Roddy
I was, however, very happy with that whole period of frameworks, the time when there was that flaming. It was remarkable simply because the writers were unfamiliar. But I might be forgiven if I take Jesse McLean to draw this thought out (without any intention to ignore the obituary). If you saw

Re: [Frameworks] Andrew Noren

2015-05-25 Thread Chuck Kleinhans
Scott, Thank you for the tribute. Do you know about the availability of his films for screening in any format? I tried several times to screen his films in classes but it seemed they’d been withdrawn. Chuck Kleinhans ___ FrameWorks mailing

[Frameworks] Andrew Noren

2015-05-25 Thread Scott MacDonald
*Frameworkers:* *It is with profound sadness that I tell you that filmmaker Andrew Noren died on May 2nd, after a bout with cancer.* *Andrew was a remarkable moving-image artist. His series of films made under the general title Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse (including Huge Pupils, Scenes f

[Frameworks] things

2015-05-25 Thread Bernard Roddy
Chris, I didn't intend a connection between the objection to recognition for the film and the observation about the presence of women at festivals. But do you remember Cari Machet? So often the exchanges on this list raise interesting questions that are quite incidental to anything anyone might w