Scott, FANTASTIC! We wish we could be there for the reading. Your scholarship & writing on Exp film over the years has been so prolific, insightful, necessary and on-point - it gives us all hope in dark times! As Brakhage would say, BRAVO! Best, David Sherman & Rebecca Barten
On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 6:07 AM Scott MacDonald <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Frameworkers: > > I want you to know about my two new books. > > *Book 1:* > *Comprehending Cinema* is now available from Oxford University Press. It > includes 15 filmmaker interviews (with Su Friedrich; Guy Maddin/Evan and > Galen Johnson; John Asbery; Tadhg O'Sullivan, Jennifer West, Penny Lane, > Dean Fleischer Camp, Daniel LIndsay/TJ Martin; Jennifer Anderson/Vernon > Lott; Paul Cronin; Bill Morrison; Véréna Paravel/Lucien Castaing-Taylor; > Erin Espelie; Chloé Galibert-Laîné; and the Alloy Orchestra (Terry > Donahue/Roger Miller/Ken Winokur). > The interviews are interrupted by three entr'actes: "Night Light: the > Modern Cine-Nocturne" (on films by Rebecca Meyers, Mary Beth Reed, Abbas > Kiarostami, Chick Strand, Peter Hutton, Phil Solomon, and Laura > Waddington): "Sergei Loznitsa x 4" (a survey of the Ukrainian filmmaker's > work, with comments by Loznitsa); and "Recent Archival Engagements with > 'The War to End All Wars'" (on Bill Morrison's *Below Zero*, Gianikian > and Ricci Lucchi's war trilogy, and Peter Jackson's *They Shall Not Grow > Old*). > > *Book 2:* > *Publication as Autobiography: Occasional and Forsaken Texts--and > Endangered Cinematic Species *is available from Sticking Place Books. It > includes 27 (mostly short) essays on a wide range of topics, arranged > chronologically in terms of when they were written, from early essays on > Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" and on Erskine Caldwell's short > stories; on Emmett Williams' *THE VOY AGE*, and Amos Vogel's *Film As a > Subversive Art*; on films by Larry Gottheim, JJ Murphy, Peter Watkins, > Trinh T. Minh-ha, Robert Nelson, Kano Shiho, James Benning, Peter Hutton, > Gustav Deutsch; on films and paintings by Bob Huot, on the TV series *My > So-Called Life*, on mixed-media works by Patrick Clancy and Hollis > Frampton, and on the films and recent films and video-essay works of Max > Tohline. > > * * * * * > > *AN AFTERNOON WITH SCOTT MacDONALD* > > *WHEN*: Saturday 23 November 2024, 2:30pm > *WHERE*: Immersion Room, 7th Floor, NY Bobst Library, 70 Washington > Square South > Free, open to public. Non-NYU guests must RSVP here <[email protected]>. > > This month sees two new books: *Comprehending Cinema*, the concluding > volume of his 'avant-doc trilogy' for Oxford University Press; and > *Publication > as Autobiography: Occasional and Forsaken Texts - and Endangered Cinema > Species* (Sticking Place Books <https://www.thestickingplace.com/spb/>). > Both, in their different ways, exemplify his lifetime commitment to > "creating awareness of cultural achievements that have remained underserved > or are in danger of fading from cultural memory." > > --- > > The afternoon's programme will include short films by Max Tohline and Chloé > Galibert-Laíné. MacDonald will also be in conversation with *DAVID > LaROCCA, *author or contributing editor of seventeen books. He edited > Stanley Cavell's Emerson's *Transcendental Etudes* (2003) and *Metacinema* > (2021). > > --- > > Discounted copies of *Comprehending Cinema* and *Publication as > Autobiography* will be available for sale/ signing. > > --- > > *THE COLLOQUIUM FOR UNPOPULAR CULTURE > <https://www.instagram.com/colloquium_unpopular_culture/?hl=en>* (est. > 2007): falling and laughing... > > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org > -- David Sherman 520-366-1573
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