Thanks Fred! And if there's a specific* listserv* for your new works, please add this email.
Best, Ж kkinema.com.br | textodecinema.com Em sáb., 30 de set. de 2023 às 00:11, Fred Camper <[email protected]> escreveu: > I have gradually been constructing a mailing list which I will use to send > out news of my own art and writing. It is taking a while; I have just now > sent out the first group of emails. So while I would prefer to give > preference to those on the list, I am posting the bulk of that email > announcement here and on Facebook now, and it is my intention to do so with > future emails, which I am going to try to limit to three or four a year. > > Please note that in addition to an announcement of an upcoming Chicago > screening of my earliest films, the sixth paragraph, which begins “Fourth,” > contains news of, and links to, the “films” I started making on video > earlier this year. Were it not for those, I probably would not be posting > this to FrameWorks. > > Fred Camper > Chicago > > __________________________________ > > This message offers five announcements. > > First, I have written a long jeremiad, titled “Our Flattening Culture,” > <https://logosjournal.com/2023/our-flattening-culture/> on the current > state of the world, how our descent into near-apocalyptic consumerism aided > by the Internet has been making us more superficial and more stupid, > seeking mindless pleasures. I attempt to contrast such shallowness with my > ideas of what the greatest art can offer. I probably care about this the > most of anything I have written. It has just been published in an excellent > online journal, *Logos*. > > Second, some works from my largest art project, *Weeks and Months*, > <https://www.fredcamper.com/A/WeeksandMonths/> which started with my > taking a group of photographs of a different subject each day for 22 > months, are now on my site. Much more will be posted, and some of these > prints are also hanging in my studio building > <https://www.bridgeportart.com/>. > > Third, on October 6 the Chicago Film Society > <https://www.chicagofilmsociety.org/> will present a program of my five > early 16mm films > <https://www.chicagofilmsociety.org/preservation/fred-camper/>, made > between 1967 and 1969, which they are wholly responsible for preserving. I > will introduce them and answer questions. > > Fourth, just as I was finishing photographing for *Weeks and Months* at > the end of 2022, I found myself thinking ever more urgently about something > that had obsessed me for decades, the possibility of making films again, > this time using video <http://www.fredcamper.com/A/Interactions/>. So far > that is all I have been making this year, and expect to continue and to add > many more as they are completed. I certainly believe in them. These are > rather different, and less flashy or evidently “innovative” than most > “experimental” filmmaking. I believe they can repay multiple viewings. > After some months of encouraging a few friends to see them, I am now making > them publicly available. Please respect my copyright and post only links to > the page on my site, rather than copying and posting them elsewhere. > > Finally, I will have a one person show at a small St. Louis gallery, > opening February 10, 2024. This may also be accompanied by a screening of > my films. More information on this will appear in my second mailing, some > months from now. > > Thank you for reading this! > > Yours, > Fred > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org >
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