[Frameworks] Bryan Konefsky's Experiments in Cinema v15.1

2020-06-23 Thread Dana Duff
Congratulations to Bryan Konefsky on a splendid rendition of Experiments in Cinema under these challenging circumstances! It was skillfully curated with a truly international group of films—so many!—and the Q&A were thoughtfully conducted. Having attended this festival in Albuquerque in the pas

[Frameworks] Long shot: Looking for Canon Scoopic 16m (Mike Stoltz)

2020-04-27 Thread Dana Duff
Hi Mike, I have a beloved Scoopic of that type you could borrow in a pinch since we live so close to each other. But doesn't Echo Park Film Center still have a couple of good ones? Renting theirs is what led me to buy my own. xo Dana Dana Berman Duff https://www.redcat.org/event/catalogue-seri

[Frameworks] Bolex repair in LA

2019-11-21 Thread Dana Duff
Hi Mariah, Did you try Marv at Photo Center? (323) 653-6688 7961 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90048 Dana Berman Duff +1-323-514-5921 www.danaduff.com ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/li

Re: [Frameworks] suggestions on travelogue and/or road films by women filmmakers?

2019-10-20 Thread Dana Duff
"Crowdog" by Vanessa Renwick —but she's on foot with her dog rather than driving with a partner—that may not count... Dana Berman Duff www.danaduff.com On 10/20/19 5:00 AM, frameworks-requ...@jonasmekasfilms.com wrote: Send FrameWorks mailing list submissions to frameworks@jonasmekasfi

[Frameworks] Saturated color film?

2019-07-27 Thread Dana Duff
Hi Frameworkers, Please give your opinion of a 16mm film with the most color saturation and sharpness available today. Much appreciated, Dana Berman Duff d.nad...@gmail.com www.danaduff.com ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https

Re: [Frameworks] Documentaries-diaries-essays or video/film installations that play with truth or cinema theory

2019-06-10 Thread Dana Duff
On the smaller scale, I love the approach of young Chinese director by Liu Jiayin in her "Oxhide II." She made a film about her family life with her mother, father, and herself by highly structured means: in the camera, the shots, and the characters. They wrote their parts and rehearsed being t

[Frameworks] Subject: Looking for Nizo 6080 service manual

2018-06-06 Thread Dana Duff
Hi Mike, Perfectly appropriate question. I had two of those Nizos poop out last year. I think Super8Exchange website only has users manuals. I'm told that, unfortunately, these cameras have integrated circuit boards—hard to fix, I believe the boards need to be replaced entirely. This camera hobb

[Frameworks] Portrait films

2018-03-27 Thread Dana Duff
Also among the favorites: "Jacquot de Nantes" 1991 by Agnes Varda about her husband Jacques Demy with long closeups of his old skin. A few Tacita Dean portrait films, including "Michael Hamburger," 2007 and "Portraits" 2016. Jonas Mekas "Scenes from the life of Andy Warhol" Dana Berman Duff +1

Re: [Frameworks] Long takes and still images/ photography in experimental films

2018-03-09 Thread Dana Duff
I'd have the same answers of all the the filmmakers listed previously. And add that my 7-minute film "Catalogue" is constructed of long takes /*of*/ still photography. https://vimeo.com/85637218 Password: /Catalogue/ Dana Berman Duff www.danaduff.com On 3/9/18 4:00 AM, frameworks-requ...@jonas

[Frameworks] Braun Nizo 481 macro

2017-07-26 Thread Dana Duff
Hi Stephanie, On Super 8 cameras usually "R" means Run, not reverse. Hope that's true with yours. Dana On 7/26/17 5:00 AM, frameworks-requ...@jonasmekasfilms.com wrote: Subject: [Frameworks] super8: braun nizo only shoots reverse From: Stefanie Weberhofer Date: 7/25/17, 1:43 PM To: framewor

[Frameworks] Subject: optical sound film screening

2017-03-11 Thread Dana Duff
Hi Peter, You should also look at the work of Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, using the image itself as the optical sound track. I saw her compelling installation work "In Medias Res" recently at the Alchemy Film Festival in Scotland, represented on Vimeo here: https://vimeo.com/138349026 Good luck,

[Frameworks] Lying as a theme

2017-02-22 Thread Dana Duff
Not sure this qualifies as lying exactly, but how about Holly the inventive narrator in Terrence Malick's "Badlands"? (Llama's in South Dakota?) On 2/22/17 4:00 AM, frameworks-requ...@jonasmekasfilms.com wrote: Send FrameWorks mailing list submissions to frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com

Re: [Frameworks] "Husbands" and "Wives"

2017-02-11 Thread Dana Duff
Is it possible that I didn't see Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet on the list? Or Jean Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville? On 2/11/17 4:00 AM, frameworks-requ...@jonasmekasfilms.com wrote: Send FrameWorks mailing list submissions to frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com To subscribe or

Re: [Frameworks] Digital HD projection

2016-12-06 Thread Dana Duff
A light to medium grey screen or painting the wall grey will make a big difference in your blacks! Good luck. Today's Topics: 1. Re: Digital hd projection (Scott Dorsey) 2. Fwd: Considering Marjorie Keller: Saturday Dec 10 (Stephen Anker) 3. Re: Digital hd projection (Dave Tetzlaff

[Frameworks] Super 8 data

2016-11-03 Thread Dana Duff
On 11/3/16 5:00 AM, frameworks-requ...@jonasmekasfilms.com wrote: Send FrameWorks mailing list submissions to frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks or, via email, send a

Re: [Frameworks] FrameWorks Digest, Vol 71, Issue 24

2016-04-21 Thread Dana Duff
Re: Nizo S8 Help: You should also check the film cartridge. My class has had a number of Kodak cartridges give false exposed signals recently and ended up with rolls of unexposed film. This has happened to at least three of my classes in the past 5-6 years, that a batch of Kodak S8 cartridges

[Frameworks] Looking for films with furniture

2016-04-07 Thread Dana Duff
Hello Frameworkers, I'm looking for films from 1940s, 50s, and 60s that use contemporaneous furniture and architecture in their sets: for example a film from 1940s with a Nelson bench, or one from 1950s that has the (currently ubiquitous) Eames chairs, or a Jacobsen Swan chair set in the 1960s,

Re: [Frameworks] Kodak Hollywood

2015-02-21 Thread Dana Duff
Yeah, Kodak's Hollywood outlet closed last November. When I bought the last cases of Super 8 for my class and 16mm for myself, they told me to mail order film from their Rochester, New York facility. You can buy 16mm film from Pro8mm in Burbank, too. Good luck! Dana Berman Duff Subject: Re:

Re: [Frameworks] FrameWorks Digest, Vol 50, Issue 22

2014-07-23 Thread Dana Duff
The old fashioned way to telecine is cheapest: project film on to a wall and shoot with your video camera---did it that way for years and still do with student films. Find the shutter speed on your video camera that minimizes the flicker. OR Costco (yes, the big discount chain) offers film tran

[Frameworks] Advice with screening format for festival. Help! (Dana Duff)

2014-04-28 Thread Dana Duff
ny in this setting. I'm also completely in agreement with Jonas Mekas's position, even though I'll have a digital version made of my work for practical purposes. Ever grateful for your generous help! Dana Duff -- ___ FrameWorks mai

[Frameworks] Advice with screening format for festival. Help!

2014-04-27 Thread Dana Duff
Dear Frameworkers, I have an 8-minute 16mm film scheduled to be screened in a few weeks in Europe and had I hoped to send it in film form. The original was shot in 7266 Tri-X reversal on three 100' rolls and the festival selected it from a low quality transfer, where I cut the three rolls toget

[Frameworks] LA Super-8 borrow/rental

2013-12-28 Thread Dana Duff
I could loan you one for tomorrow only (I have a Canon 1014 and 814, and Nizo). One day only 'cause unfortunately I'm leaving the country for a week on Monday AM. I'll send info off-list. Dana On 12/28/13 4:00 AM, frameworks-requ...@jonasmekasfilms.com wrote: Send FrameWorks mailing list sub

Re: [Frameworks] FrameWorks Digest, Vol 42, Issue 15

2013-11-15 Thread Dana Duff
On 11/15/13 4:01 AM, frameworks-requ...@jonasmekasfilms.com wrote: Subject: [Frameworks] films/videos using/made up of text From: Shelly Silver Date: 11/14/13 9:42 AM To: Experimental Film Discussion List dear collective knowledge base folks: i'm compiling a list of works using text/made up

Re: [Frameworks] FrameWorks Digest, Vol 39, Issue 1

2013-08-01 Thread Dana Duff
You can download a great pdf of the late Helen Hill's /Recipes for Disaster/ here: http://www.hi-beam.net/fw/fw34/0632.html All sorts of hand-processing techniques... with cartoons! D.Duff On 8/1/13 5:01 AM, frameworks-requ...@jonasmekasfilms.com wrote: *From:* Insa Langhorst *To:* Experiment

[Frameworks] Elmo GS1200 ESC bulbs

2013-05-10 Thread Dana Duff
I've bought ESC bulbs from replacementlightbulbs.com for $15.00. http://www.replacementlightbulbs.com/lampesc.html xo Dana 7. Re: ESC bulbs (Adam Hyman) 8. Re: ESC bulbs (Buck Bito - Movette) 9. Re: ESC bulbs (40 Frames) ___ FrameWorks mailing list Fr

[Frameworks] Super-8 looping

2013-04-23 Thread Dana Duff
Looping super-8 isn't so hard without a "looper" (we used to find these on eBay, but not so much anymore), if you remember that the film always has to have a certain amount of easy tension. You can create a track by using metal sewing machine bobbins (which happen to be 8mm) and small springs f

Re: [Frameworks] FrameWorks Digest, Vol 35, Issue 23

2013-04-23 Thread Dana Duff
On 4/23/13 5:00 AM, frameworks-requ...@jonasmekasfilms.com wrote: Send FrameWorks mailing list submissions to frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks or, via email, send a m