Hello there! Nice discussion, Dave. The paradox of time/length or duration/intensity emerge in your words.
But also the Festival limitations and the programmer intentions when arranging films, not always considering the potency of the works by themselves... I would anyways suggest José Rodriguez-Soltero, *Lupe(50'). *And and also yann beauvais' *Luchando (62') *rarely seen. All the best, Ж _________ kkinema.com.br | textodecinema.com Em qua., 3 de abr. de 2024 às 21:58, Dave Tetzlaff <[email protected]> escreveu: > Christina: > Please define mid-length in a range of minutes. > Long and short can be subjective and vary by norms of the form. E.g. a 45' > experimental films would probably feel 'long', but a 45' narrative (either > fiction or non-fiction, including 'cult/camp') would be considered only > 'mid-length', as the standard 'regular' length is presumed to be a feature. > > Those narrative presumptions govern most festivals, where programmers > consider length as a more or less defined range of minutes. They either > want to fill their slots with one feature length piece or a collection of > shorts, typically 15' or under. They don't like to program mid-length > pieces (~ 25' - 55') as putting two if those in a slot lacks the > identity/gravity of a feature, and by devoting the non-feature slots to 4-5 > gets more makers into the festival and more viewers into the session by > having one piece a range of different folks will want to see. > > The upshot of this is that good films in this mid-range are often bereft > of screenings, so you have a cool factor for featuring them as that's so > seldom done. > > Just in case these fit your concept of mid-length: I'd say the starting > point for mid-cult-camp is Mike Kuchar's Sins of the Fleshapoids (42'). For > mid-cult (not really camp) Christopher MacLaines brilliant The End (35'). > Two wonderful quirky Werner Herzog 'documentaries' La Soufrierre (30') and > The Great Ecstacy of the Sculptor Steiner (45')... > > > > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org >
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