Sky David, has a series of animated films called a Filed of Green (A Soldier’s Animated Sketchbook). He had seen combat in Viet Nam 1967-1969 and the films are made from his drawings of this time period.
Very intense indeed. I believe he was a sniper during that conflict. Dominic > On Nov 14, 2022, at 12:18 PM, Esther <[email protected]> wrote: > > Alan, I’d be fascinated to see the films you made in relation to the war in > Vietnam. > I premiered my new feature ‘Dust & Metal’ www.dustandmetal.com earlier this > year at Sheffield DocFest which is a poetic/experimental doc incorporating > much rare material from the Vietnam Film Institute. Although not directly > about the war in Vietnam, the film touches on the fundamental importance of > particularly bicycles to the Vietnamese during war. We’re hoping to tour the > film in Vietnam and the UK next year, in addition to film fests. > I also collaborated on this short work focusing on US Military deserters from > the war in Vietnam: https://blanchepictures.com/liberation-radio/ > An earlier work of mine ‘Asunder’ focuses on WW1: http://asunder1916.uk > > Warmest, > Esther > > · > Esther Johnson artist · filmmaker > https://linktr.ee/BlanchePictures <https://linktr.ee/BlanchePictures.com> > · > <http://www.dustandmetal.com/>DUST & META <http://www.dustandmetal.com/>L · > <http://www.dustandmetal.com/>CÁT BỤI & KIM LOẠI > <http://www.dustandmetal.com/> > · > >> On 14 Nov 2022, at 20:06, Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Fwiw, Back around the time of the Vietnam War, I made a series of in-camera >> 16mm sound films w/ Jerry Lewis' old auricons, about North Korean, Kim Il >> Sung, etc. I was teaching at UCLA. The films are probably sitting at the >> Coop. Later though I found a 16mm double-sprocketed reel, about 20 minutes, >> which was a reprint of a North Vietnamese film about the effects of Agent >> Orange. It was horrifying. The sprocket holes ran through the soundtrack. I >> had the film copies to single-sprocket mag stripe and added a new soundtrack >> (the old was destroyed) about the war, Nixon etc. That was also shown, I'm >> sure at Millennium (as were the others re: above) and is either sitting at >> the Coop or in my archives at NYU. >> >> - Alan >> >> -- >> Frameworks mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org
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