Re: [Frameworks] American Indian and Indigenous experimental filmmakers

2015-03-05 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
"Navajo Film Themselves" http://www.penn.museum/sites/navajofilmthemselves/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWMO2UGfaBI Rob From: Nate Cummings mailto:ncummingslamb...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: Experimental Film Discussion List mailto:frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com>> Date: Thursday, 5 March 2015 0

Re: [Frameworks] Optical sound ­ Structural film

2015-02-11 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
Guy Sherwin's DVD collection of 'Optical Sound Films' from Lux Phase Loop (1971), Sound Shapes (1972), Cycles 1(1972/1977), Newsprint (1972), At the Academy (1974), Soundtrack (1977), Musical Stairs (1977), Railings (1977), Night Train (1979), Interval (1974), Interval #2 (1974/2007), Notes (

Re: [Frameworks] Books on the History of Avant-Garde film in US

2015-01-29 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
Film Is - Steve Dwoskin From: Michael Betancourt mailto:hinterland.mov...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: Experimental Film Discussion List mailto:frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com>> Date: Thursday, 29 January 2015 18:16 To: Experimental Film Discussion List mailto:frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com>> Subject:

Re: [Frameworks] Process Advice

2014-11-11 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
Thanks for sharing this. Everything you need to know! Rob On 10/11/2014 23:46, "JANA DEBUS" wrote: >Hi Vail, > >check out Esther Urlus great website, >with extensive information, >including DIY booklets for download. > >http://estherurlus.hotglue.me/d-i-y > > >Best, > >Jana > > >On 06.11.2014,

Re: [Frameworks] Constructing A Foley / Sound Studio

2014-11-10 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
Hi Matt While what Dave says is true, it is still possible to do something workable with little money. By not having parallel walls you can eliminate standing waves. The space between the walls and the 'false' non-parellel walls (and ceiling if possible) can be filled with insulating material of

Re: [Frameworks] films on film-making/unfinished films

2014-10-09 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
Shirley Clarke's The Connection Rob From: Suyash Barve mailto:suyashba...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: Experimental Film Discussion List mailto:frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com>> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 12:11:53 +0530 To: mailto:frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com>> Subject: [Frameworks] films on film-making/un

Re: [Frameworks] films using the optical printer

2014-08-06 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
Monkey's Birthday, David Larcher; - colour separation, superimposition, bi-packing etc. Slides, Annabel Nicholson; pulling film through the gate etc Film Sound, Andy Moss; short edits/loops (sound and picture), superimpositions (all at LUX, London.) Rob From: Caryn Cline mailto:carynycl...@gm

Re: [Frameworks] Films about labor and leisure

2014-05-12 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
The "Free Cinema" movement in the UK is important here. See http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/444789/ and Humphrey Jennings' "Spare Time" Rob On 11/05/2014 16:43, "Chris G" wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for films that portray situations of labor and leisure > together. It would be gr

Re: [Frameworks] Disney Paris imposter

2014-03-07 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
ncisco Torres wrote: >> >>> And there was Francis Alys' "re-enactments" twin screen video where he >>> bought a gun and bullets and paraded down the street with it until >>> arrested. >>> He then re-enacted it with police collaboration. >&g

Re: [Frameworks] Disney Paris imposter

2014-03-07 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
And there was Francis Alys' "re-enactments" twin screen video where he bought a gun and bullets and paraded down the street with it until arrested. He then re-enacted it with police collaboration. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Ty4TTAX48 Rob On 07/03/2014 15:26, "Francisco Torres" wrote: >

Re: [Frameworks] Turner and Film

2014-03-07 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
Hi Aaron It would be worth looking at English experimental filmmakers working with landscape in the 70s-80s - William Raban, Jo Millett, Chris Welsby and Malcolm LeGrice etc. all figure - as landscape painting (impressionism in particular) was frequently cited. To claim direct influence is diffic

Re: [Frameworks] artist portraits

2014-02-07 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
Arnulf Rainer by Peter Kubelka (Nostalgia) by Hollis Frampton includes: James Rosenquist, Carl Andre, Frank Stella, Larry Poons, Michael Snow etc. Rob On 05/02/2014 01:16, "kate lain" wrote: > Hi, frameworkers. I'm looking for examples of portraits of artists and/or > their processes or thei

Re: [Frameworks] Weapons and the military in avant-garde cinema?

2014-01-29 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
Peace & Plenty: Ivor Montague Hell Unlimited: Norman Mclaren & Helen Biggar Rob On 28/01/2014 20:49, "John McAndrew" wrote: > 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

Re: [Frameworks] Films/Videos looking at concepts of work

2014-01-10 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
Tony Sinden: Time & Motion Ken Jacobs: Capitalism: Slavery Rob On 07/01/2014 10:33, "Insa Langhorst" wrote: > Dear Frameworkers, > > I would like to build a list of video art and films which look at > aspects, concepts and realities of work. One piece I came across > recently is Johan van der

Re: [Frameworks] exposed but not fully

2014-01-10 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
Jeff Keen used to leave film shot but unprocessed for years and then shoot a few more layers on top. On some of his diary films you can see his daughter Stella at various ages in the same sequence. Rob On 04/01/2014 08:37, "nicky.ham...@talktalk.net" wrote: > I have often left exposed film un

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

2013-11-07 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
If Avant-garde is considered as any politically advanced or progressive cultural practice then there is still a desperate need for it (though the concept of 'progressive' may have ceased). The contexts of globalisation, reification and commodification need resisting and not conforming to. Post-

Re: [Frameworks] films of Ian Hugo

2013-10-10 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
Hi Michael The BFI has "Ai-Ye" (1950, 22 min) "Bells of Atlantis" (1952, 9 min) "Jazz of Lights" (1954, 16 min) Best Wishes Rob On 10/10/2013 14:00, "Michael Kemp" wrote: > Dear FrameWorkers, > > does anybody know who owns/distributes the films of Ian Hugo, in the UK, and > whether there are

Re: [Frameworks] Literature and experimental film

2013-09-29 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
Film, Samuel Beckett, Marvo Movie, Jeff Keen (sound with Bob Cobbing & Andrea Lockwood) Syntax - Martha Haslanger 1974 (USA) Writing on Pink Paper. Liz Rhodes 1982 (GB) Fatima's Letter. Alia Syed 1992 (GB) Chant D' amour . Jean Genet 1950 (Fr) Towers Open Fire. William Burroughs & Anthony Balch 1

Re: [Frameworks] 16mm film dev + print London

2013-08-18 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
Film & Photo are still working I think, a bit expensive though. http://www.film-photo.com Rob On 18/08/2013 18:48, "Sophie Lascelles" wrote: > Hi all, I need to develop and print colour 16mm film in London. Where's the > best place to do it now that Soho Images has stopped? Thanks Sophie Sen

Re: [Frameworks] Sound - Structural Film / New Formal Film

2013-07-08 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
Hi Albert This relates to my area of interest and I'd be happy to answer more specific questions. Can you say a bit more about your study? I have a chapter 'THUNDER & LIGHTNING Noise: Aesthetics and Audio-visual Avant-garde Practice' in (eds.) Goddard. M, Halligan, B. Hegarty, P. 'Reverberation

[Frameworks] Contested Bodies

2013-06-10 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
Contested Bodies Murdoch House Redruth Cornwall UK 19th June 6.30pm Programmed by Jo Millett and Rob Gawthrop for Gaslighting, an exhibition and programme of events at CMR Gallery in conjunction with the West Cornwall Freedom from Torture supporters group. Contested Bodies is a programme of s

Re: [Frameworks] Rhinegold

2013-03-23 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
I knew ³The Bridegroom, The Comedienne and the Pimp,² was by Staub/Huillett, did Fassbinder make a version as well? Rob On 22/03/2013 23:36, "Gene Youngblood" wrote: > Does anyone have (or know where I might find) a DVD of a German feature film > called ³Rhinegold,² made in 1978 by Niklaus S

Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture

2012-12-19 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
"An Interesting Story" 1905 George Albert Smith On 19/12/2012 18:19, "Adam Hyman" wrote: > Those are the films I was thinking of: "Explosion of a Motor Car" also > 1900 "How It Feels To Be Run Over" (1900) On 12/19/12 10:10 AM, "Gawthrop, &g

Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture

2012-12-19 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
And his "Explosion of a Motor Car" also 1900 Rob On 15/12/2012 05:18, "Ryder White" wrote: > How about "How It Feels To Be Run Over" (1900) by the Hepworth > Manufacturing Co? Potentially the earliest film to feature an automobile > (but I'm not putting that on the record). > > RW > > On Fri

Re: [Frameworks] Crystal Palace Experimental Film and Video Festival - launched in New Haven CT!

2012-09-28 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
Hi Liena To add to your contextual intro: James Broughton's The Pleasure Garden (1954) was made in the ruins of Crystal Palace (London) where, coincidently, I was brought up (the district not the ruins that is). Rob On 28/09/2012 06:21, "Liena Vayzman" wrote: > > Hello all, a few months back

[Frameworks] Jeff Keen

2012-09-18 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
Jeff Keen The Tanks at Tate Modern: 18 – 23 September 2012 10.00 – 18.00 (10.00 – 22.00 on 21 and 22 September) Live performance Friday 21 September 2012 at 20.00 Jeff Keen (1923-2012) was a pioneer of experimental film whose rapid-fire animations, multiple screen projections and raucous performa

Re: [Frameworks] Exper film/ art MA in the UK?

2012-09-10 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
Check UCA its the former Maidstone course which has now moved to Canterbury. I'd like to recommend the MA at Falmouth but we only have digital video & sound. Rob _ Rob Gawthrop - Award Leader: MA Fine Art Contemporary Practice University College Fa

Re: [Frameworks] Please help

2012-07-26 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
its "the white leader" problem On 26/07/2012 06:17, "jaime cleeland" wrote: > Is Jack making the rules for the Avant-Garde ? > > > > In a message dated 7/25/2012 8:57:29 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > j...@jacktext.net writes: > An important lesson: there can be no fun or humour or pranks in

Re: [Frameworks] Please help

2012-07-25 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
You may be able to access things through cloudbusting: http://www.churchofpureart.tk/ Rob On 25/07/2012 14:38, "David Tetzlaff" wrote: > Dearest Brett: I can't sign anything right now, as my spirit is completely > disengaged from corporeal body. I would be happy to sign something on my > retu

Re: [Frameworks] Experimental Science Films

2012-06-14 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
This was theme was also discussed in 2010 - https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/pipermail/frameworks/2010-December/subj ect.html#2337 The 1998 Oberhausen Short Film festival's special programme "Useful Images" (curated by Fred Truniger) engaged with these issues in some depth. Full details are i

Re: [Frameworks] Destructive Film Practices pre-1962

2012-06-05 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
The other Lettristes Maurice Lemaitre Guy Debord etc. Obviously Jeff Keen. Margaret Tait did a few experiements in the 50s and 60s. Rob On 05/06/2012 17:39, "Madison Brookshire" wrote: > Fellow Frameworkers, Does anyone have suggestions for films 1945-1962 that > create film imagery in a dest

Re: [Frameworks] humorous experimental films

2012-05-23 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
Klipperty Klopp – Andrew Kotting Mad Love – Jeff Keen Edge – David Hall & Tony Sinden This Surface - David Hall & Tony Sinden Dresden Dynamo - Liz Rhodes (how can an abstract film be funny ?) Tribulation 99 – Craig Baldwin Towers Open Fire - Antony Balch, William S. Burroughs Entracte – Rene Clai

Re: [Frameworks] Elf 16mm projector

2012-05-18 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
Bought a set from them recently, I’m sure it’s what you want and they despatch promptly. Rob On 18/05/2012 13:52, "Kevin Timmins" wrote: Thanks! I'm located in the UK, ideally it would be great to find some from around here. I found this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ELF-16mm-Cine-Projector-4

Re: [Frameworks] more on projector speeds

2012-02-14 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
This also raises the issue of the objectification of temporality and process (experimental a/g film/cinema) in the guise of gallery installation where galleries have become high-end shops, purveyors of fetishised technology and associated merchandising. Rob. On 14/02/2012 07:23, "nicky.ham..

Re: [Frameworks] Value systems

2011-11-21 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
The point I was making in my question followed on from Fred’s posting that included: It seems to be entirely acceptable and unquestioned on this list to post that some or all forms of video projection look like crap ... As a format for presenting film, it is, of course, imperfect, as I myself a

[Frameworks] Value systems

2011-11-18 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
I wonder whether there are some issues that need teasing out regarding 'quality' or 'production values' and what these are really about? Is it particularities, peculiarities and specificities that need consideration rather than assumed notions around image resolution, depiction (mimesis)? Is it th

Re: [Frameworks] Travelogues

2011-11-13 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
Chris Garrett’s Romantic Italy is made from a travelogue. Rob On 12/11/2011 19:53, "Steve Polta" wrote: Maybe I've got my Larcher confused but I think the footage you (Nicky) refer to is actually a citation from one (both?) of the earlier films (MARE'S TALE; MONKEY'S BIRTHDAY). --- On Sat,

Re: [Frameworks] 16:9 vs 4:3

2011-10-21 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
What frame ratio do people think is best for a painting and should it be cropped later to fit the ready-made picture-frame? Rob On 21/10/2011 09:50, "Freya" wrote: It's because there were no cars back then so the people who were allergic to horses had to walk really fast to make up for all t

Re: [Frameworks] 16mm camera repair & parts

2011-10-19 Thread Gawthrop, Rob
but aren't 'media professionals' part of the problem? "those kids who want to become media professionals" need to engage with aesthetic/critical theory and ideology so they don't conform to the culture of domination. Rob On 19/10/2011 18:40, "Sandra Maliga" wrote: > I definitely think there i