Re: [Frameworks] books on animation theory?

Hollywood Flatlands, by Esther Leslie > On Aug 9, 2020, at 1:15 PM, Christopher Ball wrote: > > Walt disney and Europe. European Influences on Disney by Robin Allan. > > Sent from my BlackBerry — the most secure mobile device — via the Rogers > Network > From: mgizy...@hotmail.com

[Frameworks] Bruce Baillie

If you’d like to spend an hour remembering Bruce Baillie, you might appreciate this on Vimeo. Posted by Sami van Ingen. I hope they don’t mind my sharing. https://vimeo.com/173037454 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://m

Re: [Frameworks] Bruce Baillie

I believe Bruce already did brilliant work exploring the Bardo in Quick Billy. Now he knows BH > On Apr 10, 2020, at 4:09 PM, William Wees, Dr. wrote: > > Reading the sad news, I suddenly found myself thinking of the dancing woman > in "Tung" as Bruce's spirit-guide into darkness. > > --Bill

Re: [Frameworks] book club

Gene, I only have a first edition of the original publishing. Have segments been re-written? R.Harris > On Apr 3, 2020, at 1:06 PM, Gene Youngblood wrote: > > Frameworkers, > The Gray Area Foundation in San Francisco is hosting a seven-week online > "book club" reading of the 50th Anniversar

Re: [Frameworks] Independent research- looking for recommendations

“Undertow” Eiko & Kota filmed by James Byrne. > On Jan 24, 2020, at 8:13 PM, Robert Harris wrote: > >  > Many photo sequences by Eadweard Muybridge. > >>> On Jan 24, 2020, at 1:01 PM, Madison Bounds >>> wrote: >>> >>  >> Dear

Re: [Frameworks] Independent research- looking for recommendations

Many photo sequences by Eadweard Muybridge. > On Jan 24, 2020, at 1:01 PM, Madison Bounds wrote: > >  > Dear Frameworks, > > I am working on an independent research project for a thesis project and > think the great community here might help me out. > > My project involves films that docum

Re: [Frameworks] Camera question

Re: Warhol in manhole with camera and a young Edie (hence not 70’s) Could it be a Nizo held upside down? Perhaps handle is folded, hence less visibly obvious? The Silver box like shape, and the dark rectangular bar are consistent with Nizo bodies. Wide lens in proportion to body also make some

Re: [Frameworks] suggestions for experimental road movies and/or experimental films about automobility

Bryan, Suite of Summer Evenings Burning Memories Pt.1: Forbidden Songs both by Robert Harris, shown in past “Experiments” festivals. And also, yet unmentioned… Shift, Ernie Gehr The BLVD, Deborah Stratman Rules of the Road, Su Friedrich Hot Leatherette, Robert Nelson > On Jul

Re: [Frameworks] examples of "first encounters"

nema > Denison University > > > >> On May 14, 2019, at 11:06 AM, Robert Harris > <mailto:lagonab...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Mood for Love, Wong Kai Was >> >> >> >>> On May 14, 2019, at 10:38 AM, jimmyschaus1 >> <ma

Re: [Frameworks] examples of "first encounters"

Rabbit’s Moon, Kenneth Anger > On May 14, 2019, at 10:38 AM, jimmyschaus1 wrote: > > Trusted Frameworkers, > > I am seeking examples of great "first encounters" between characters. Two > people seemingly pushed together by the universe sort of thing, perhaps > generated by an accident, a coi

Re: [Frameworks] examples of "first encounters"

Mood for Love, Wong Kai Was > On May 14, 2019, at 10:38 AM, jimmyschaus1 wrote: > > Trusted Frameworkers, > > I am seeking examples of great "first encounters" between characters. Two > people seemingly pushed together by the universe sort of thing, perhaps > generated by an accident, a co

Re: [Frameworks] Rob Todd question - Fusion Film Workshop (Boston area)?

Mark, I forwarded your question to Jeff Silva, as he was very active in the Boston film scene at that time (lately he’s living in Marseille). He wrote this: I know nothing of this Fusion film workshop. I was around and hanging out with Rob at that time but I don't recall that name. It might ha

Re: [Frameworks] Drone vision and violence in experimental film/video art

Re: aerial surveillance, etc… Much of Harun Farocki’s work, War at a Distance; Images of the World and the Inscription of War https://www.harunfarocki.de/films.html > On Feb 23, 2019, at 2:07 PM, Hugo Martin Alexander Ljungbaeck > wrote: > > Dea

Re: [Frameworks] Films about the clock

Bleu Shut by Robert Nelson > On Oct 27, 2018, at 8:07 AM, Albert Alcoz wrote: > > Hello frameworkers, > > > > I’m trying to write a short article in spanish about different notions of > time concerning contemporary experimental film and video. Since the concept > of “time related to cinema

Re: [Frameworks] Documentaries within/with a group subject and participatory filmmaker(s)

This work might meet your criteria. by Craig Saddlemire Viewable on Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/63068445 Household: Four Stories of Kinship and Curiosit I asked eight different families to allow me to videotape their daily lives. Four graciously accepted my proposal: an

Re: [Frameworks] Super 8 adaptors for 5/16 rewinds

Urbanski makes them. Sent from my iPad > On Jul 2, 2018, at 7:48 PM, Ian Sexton wrote: > > https://www.spectrafilmandvideo.com/Lab.html > > I think sells them. > >> On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 19:47 Scott Dorsey wrote: >> I don't have any but they seem like the perfect thing to have a student >

Re: [Frameworks] analog cinema machines

Bye Bye Brazil._Diegues Intervista_Fellini Remedia Reading Comprehension (may not show the projector) Owen Land > On Jun 8, 2018, at 3:09 AM, Monise Nicodemos > wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm looking for movies (experimental or not) that feature the analog cinema > machines (Man with a Mov

Re: [Frameworks] Voice over

Sink or Swim, Su Friedrich > On Apr 8, 2018, at 5:17 PM, Ignacio Tamarit wrote: > > REcreation by Bob Breer > Taller by Narcisa Hirsch > > El dom., 8 abr. 2018 4:31 p. m., Gene Youngblood > escribió: >> Hollis Frampton, Nostalgia >> >> Gene & Jane Youngblood >> (505) 395-6370 home >> >>>

Re: [Frameworks] FrameWorks Digest, Vol 94, Issue 20

oh, to name but a few: Mr. Hayashi, by Bruce Baillie Jonas Mekas has many portraits embedded within his longer works Shigeko Kubota has portraits (see EAI) of George Maciunas,George Maciunas With Two Eyes 1972, George Maciunas With One Eye 1976

Re: [Frameworks] Sad news

Should anyone wish to learn more about Chuck and his work, they might start the new year reading JUMPCUT. All issues of the journal are archived back to #1 in 1974 https://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/index.html <https://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/index.html> Robert Harris >

Re: [Frameworks] Eulogy Films

You can also consider: Patricio Guzmans’s "Nostalgia for the Light” and Peter Thompson’s “Universal Hotel” On Mar 18, 2017, at 11:43 AM, Margaret Rorison wrote: > Dear Film Friends, > > I am curious about film eulogies and would love to know more films that have > been made to hono

Re: [Frameworks] Eulogy Films

Margaret, You might consider Alexander Sokurov’s “Elegy” series, for example: Maria (Peasant Elegy) Elegy Shigeko Kubota’s “My Father” my own (Robert Harris) “Elegy” ELEGY2009 Colorsilent 2:45 Elegy for four friends, Shridhar Bapat, Charlotte Moorman, Nam June

Re: [Frameworks] Exemplary Sound Design in AG Film

Albert, Thanks for all the references. I’ll definitely look for Melissa Ragona’s book. I saw the Sharits film many many times, and would always have delirious acoustic hallucinations 2/3 of the way through. Probably why I kept going back, no? On May 16, 2016, at 4:10 PM, Albert Alcoz wrote:

Re: [Frameworks] Exemplary Sound Design in AG Film

Yes! The Accursed Mazurka. Thanks! On May 16, 2016, at 4:24 PM, peter snowdon wrote: > What I know of Nina Fonoroff's work has always struck me as a kind of model > for a complexity in the sound track in which formal experimentation and > meaningful polyphonies of language and discourse are i

Re: [Frameworks] Exemplary Sound Design in AG Film

lving Ernst Karel? (Leviathan, Sweetgrass….) > > https://sel.fas.harvard.edu/index.html > > > > Carl > > > > > > > > From: robert harris [mailto:lagonab...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016 1:43 PM > To: Experimental Film Discussion List

Re: [Frameworks] Exemplary Sound Design in AG Film

fascinating and heartening to know that there are disembodied consciousnesses out there that profess to care about something I believe I care about. But this is no fun to type about abstractly. So, I’m Robert Harris. I live in greater Boston. I teach filmmaking (actual 16mm bolex/arri filmmaking

Re: [Frameworks] Experimental Films on Farming/ Agriculture

Earth, Dovzhenko On Jan 14, 2016, at 12:50 PM, Heath Iverson wrote: > Any suggestions on avant-garde/experimental films that deal with any aspects > of farming/gardening/plant or animal agriculture? > > A few examples might be Marjorie Keller's Answering Furrow or Lucien > Castaing-Taylor's

Re: [Frameworks] Texts / Works Bridging Early Cinema, Early Video, Early ___

The “early cinema/early video” query is a good one, one that I’ve not seen explored with much rigor. Kleinhans’ question of “broadcast TV or portapak” is significant. Early TV might have more in common with radio than with early film. Early video (portapak) provoked, for some practitioners, se

Re: [Frameworks] Titles of scratch films

Much of Aldo Tambellini’s early film work: Black Is Blackout and others On Aug 25, 2015, at 3:14 PM, Scott MacDonald wrote: > Su Friedrich's GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM and THE TIES THAT BIND. > > Robert Huot's SCRATCH > > Diana Barrie's MAGIC EXPLAINED > > Taka Iimura's 1 TO 60 SECONDS > > I'

Re: [Frameworks] Howard Guttenplan (April 6th, 1934 - February 23rd, 2015)

I spent one year (1970-71) of undergraduate studies at Sara Lawrence College. Howard was then the “film tech/equipment guy” supporting the film production program. The teacher was theatre director Wilford Leach (who directed the 1983 film version of Pirate of Penzance), a basically good man wh

Re: [Frameworks] Crystal sync 16mm camera rental in Boston/New England

Like Jeff says: Rule/Boston Camera www.rule.com On Oct 17, 2014, at 7:04 PM, Jeff Kreines wrote: > Rule/Boston Camera. > > > On Oct 17, 2014, at 5:05 PM, Adam R. Levine wrote: > >> > > Jeff Kreines > Kinetta > j...@kinetta.com > kinetta.com > > > ___

Re: [Frameworks] Pac Lab and Cinelab in Mass

After using PacLab for 10 or 12 years for all of my students reversal processing, I switched to Cinelab, and have used Cinelab for 14 years. Cinelab has been better than PacLab. Sent 'em 600 feet today. Robert Harris On Sep 23, 2014, at 4:43 PM, Robert Houllahan wrote: > Pa

Re: [Frameworks] Glitch video artists

Evan Meaney is deeply involved with the digital glitch. Smart guy, good artist, fine human being. Has not worked, as far as I know, with hollywood western footage. Some of Meaney's work uses his own home (VHS) "movies", making it self-referential and medium-referential. He teaches in South Car

Re: [Frameworks] Super 8 transfer

Apologies. Fail to note that I was writing to Jeff on Frameworks. bh On Nov 1, 2013, at 2:15 PM, robert harris wrote: > Yr. welcome, Jeff. > Words are genuine. Your work is good. > I've actually only done SD transfers with Cinelab, which were reasonably > priced and fine

Re: [Frameworks] Super 8 transfer

; > Email me if you have any questions. > > Jeff Kreines > Kinetta > j...@kinetta.com > kinetta.com > > > > On Oct 31, 2013, at 5:48 PM, Robert Harris wrote: > >> Get a KINETTA transfer. Contact Jeff Kreines on this list. >> Best transfer I'

Re: [Frameworks] Super 8 transfer

Get a KINETTA transfer. Contact Jeff Kreines on this list. Best transfer I've gotten anywhere. There are perhaps some other competing options, but they're require significantly bigger budgets. For a lab style, SD or HD transfer, I've also gotten very good results from CineLab in MA. On Oct 3

Re: [Frameworks] Cinema Siblings

experimental. On Oct 9, 2013, at 9:49 PM, Robert Harris wrote: > If you deign to let tube camera, analog video into the discussion > there were also the Bowes brothers, Tom and Ed > and the TwinArt sisters. Twins, they were. > > > > > On Oct 9, 2013, at 9:36 PM, Jon Di

Re: [Frameworks] Cinema Siblings

If you deign to let tube camera, analog video into the discussion there were also the Bowes brothers, Tom and Ed and the TwinArt sisters. Twins, they were. On Oct 9, 2013, at 9:36 PM, Jon Dieringer wrote: > In video rather than film, but: > > Soda_Jerk are sisters working with re-appropria

[Frameworks] Aldo Tambellini

> To all within the New York City area, I would like to enthusiastically > recommend a visit to the James Cohan Gallery to view Aldo Tambellini's > instillation, We are the Primitives of a New Era. James Cohan Gallery is pleased to present Italian-American artist Aldo Tambellini, We Are the Pri

Re: [Frameworks] Question for frameworks community

Dwight Cody at Boston Connection, aka. cutfilmhttp://www.cutfilm.com/ sells them. On Aug 8, 2013, at 9:38 AM, Sasha Waters Freyer wrote: > > >> Dear Fellow Frameworkers, >> >> I am looking to purchase 16mm guillotine splicers on behalf of Virginia >> Commonwealth University Dept. of Photo

Re: [Frameworks] Video works unviewable due to lost apparatus?

Bjorn, I suppose it depends somewhat on how you determine "art" and who is "famous". Video technology has been constantly evolving since it's invention, and the oldest tools can be very very difficult to find, though if an old machine can be found, and the engineering skill, will, and funds a

Re: [Frameworks] Film Scanning in NYC

t scanned films in Boston for Jan Egleson (3 features from A&B rolls), > Robert Harris (including some early Nam June Paik performance footage), and > Kate Dollenmayer (hand-cranked 35mm B&W negative) among others. > > The 22 hours of Nixon White House Super-8 home movies shot

Re: [Frameworks] films featuring projectionists

Please don't overlook the father and son projectionists in PEEPING TOM. and then there's Marcello Mastroianni magical screening at Anita Ekberg's villa in INTERVISTA On Jan 8, 2013, at 5:09 PM, Dennis Doros wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Jennifer Miko - MFT > wrote: > Hello,

Re: [Frameworks] super 8 400' reels

URBANSKIhttp://www.urbanskifilm.com or BOSTON CONNECTION http://www.cutfilm.com On Dec 19, 2012, at 9:05 PM, ev petrol wrote: > any leads folks? looking to pick up a few > cheers moira > > moiratierney.net > vimeo.com/moiratierney > ___

Re: [Frameworks] just to clarify and new question about travel trailers...

Regarding books and cars, since there has been some rhapsodizing around Cronenberg's Crash, the novel by Ballard should be read. It's brilliant, horrifically beautiful, and, (like Naked Lunch) a book that resists containment within the fundamentally literal strictures of narrative feature cinema

Re: [Frameworks] just to clarify and new question about travel trailers...

re: Mobil Homes, * Freaks and, since it's hard call back the dogs once you've loosed 'em ….around cars * the backseat long takes in Gun Crazy * Repo Man * and my own Suite of Summer Evenings On Dec 15, 2012, at 11:22 AM, Bryan Konefsky wrote: > Hi all, just to clarify - I was kidding when I

Re: [Frameworks] US civil rights related films?

Passin' it On http://www.docurama.com/docurama/passin-it-on/ Framing the Panthers in Black and White http://www.vdb.org/node/1691 An important collective of political filmmakers. The group became Third World Newsreel. Newsreel Films http://www.newsreel.us/ Regarding MOVE: A 1978, portapak sho

Re: [Frameworks] Standard 8 camera suggestions

Re: Reg.8mm The Bolex P-1 is a wonderful 8mm camera. Biggest limitation is the fixed zoom lens. There are R8Bolex's in the P. series that have interchangeable lenses. Not having owned one, I don't know the quality of the lenses nor the current availability. The P1 is essentially a miniaturized

Re: [Frameworks] ZERO (Heinz Mack and Otto Piene)

MIT's List Visual Arts Center recently held an exhibition of Otto Piene's work. In conjunction there were numerous panels and screenings (though no Group Zero public access episodes to my knowledge) You might check the Nov. 17 listing on this calendar http://listart.mit.edu/past_programs J. Ketner

Re: [Frameworks] square corners

Had the Chinese invented cinema, might not the aspect ratio been something along the lines of 3x11? What if the Inuit had invented cinema, how would their sensibility have placed edges? bh On Oct 21, 2011, at 12:24 PM, Tom Whiteside wrote: > Rob’s brilliant question raises another point that

Re: [Frameworks] Dance films

Re: Dance films, still unmentioned... these are works on video Davidson Gigliotti did a great deal of tasteful documentation of dance and performance in the downtown NYC scene of the late 70's/early 80's. Chant a Capella is one such piece. He was married at that time to Elaine Summers, hersel

Re: [Frameworks] Film and video

Sirk's Tarnished Angels is a pretty good movie, but perhaps George Jones' song, Tarnished Angel is more to the point. Your halo is the neon, Your heart a jukebox song, Your heaven is a honkytonk, You love to live so wrong. ... Our world's are strangely different, But love, they say, is b