Hi Esther,
Thank you for this. I have about a yard of films on a shelf at the Coop -
they're basically deadwood. I'm trying to get them to NYU - if they'll
take them (they were made in the 70s for the most part and they have
archives of my other work), and that seems stalled at the moment. They're
all originals - i.e. I never made prints (never had the money for that and
didn't receive grants for my filmwork, but for other things); the
originals were shown. They were originally handled in San Francisco, but
changed policy re: originals. Anyway, they'll probably disappear at this
point; I have no money for dupes or transfers. Someone might be able to
see them on a flatbed if they also had splicing tape. I'm not happy about
this, but it's the situation. I was teaching media etc. at UCLA for two
years and for the first, made a film (silent or sound, mostly 16mm) a
week, following on my interest in the silent film studios. Ranged from 3
min. to an hour. An interesting project, but the films might well be a
wreck now and I have no money to revive them. I'll follow through on the
urls you have below, really curious, and thank you!
Best, Alan
On Mon, 14 Nov 2022, Esther wrote:
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 20:18:34 +0000
From: Esther <[email protected]>
Reply-To: Experimental Film Discussion List <[email protected]>
To: Experimental Film Discussion List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Avant-Garde cinema and war
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
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Esther Johnson artist ? filmmaker
https://linktr.ee/BlanchePictures
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DUST & METAL ? C?T B?I & KIM LO?I
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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
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