My apologies. I now saw in your original email that you asked for people to write you “off list”.
My apologies for replying to the full list. Perhaps everyone could start replying off list as A Film requested: [email protected] From: Frameworks <[email protected]> on behalf of Adam Hyman <[email protected]> Reply-To: Experimental Film Discussion List <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 10:38 AM To: Experimental Film Discussion List <[email protected]>, Quentin Darcq <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] City films Getting out of the Euro-North American axis, one program in Los Angeles Filmforum’s series Ism Ism Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America, featured several city films: https://www.ismismism.org/calendar/2020/10/2/la-filmforum-presents-urban-harmoniesdissonent-cities Notes & curation by Jesse Lerner & Luciano Piazza At the end of the silent era of cinema, there was an international cycle of films that depicted the nature of the modern city. These films, known as city symphonies or film symphonies, were edited as if following a musical score. The rhythm and succession of the images were immensely important for the filmmakers. In Latin America, some of the earliest experimental films participated in this cycle of city symphonies. For example, São Paulo: a Sinfonia da Metrópole (1929), by Rodolfo Rex Lustig and Adalberto Kemeny, and Humberto Mauro’s film-poem about his home town in Minas Gerais, Brazil, Sinfonia de Cataguases (1929). Ever since those early efforts many filmmakers have maintained a fascination with the city, as Latin American cities were transformed by unfettered growth, industrialization, and massive rural to urban migrations. This free program offers a range of urban visions—some more celebratory, others more critical—of the architecture, daily life, public spaces, and transportation of cities such as Buenos Aires, Havana, Lima, Bogota, Los Angeles, Santiago, and London. Habana Solo Juan Carlos Alom 2000, 15 min, b&w, 16mm transferred to digital, Cuba In Habana Solo some of the most important Cuban musicians from the most diverse musical tendencies of today, showing us the city in them and the city they inhabit with no other words than the music solos they improvise _ in solitary space and without restrictions, and we can see through the free lens of the camera, freedom based on undertaking the translation of the sounds of their music and the city’s, into an uninterrupted visual solo in which images concatenate each other, in the same way the musicians are composing in the real instant their improvised pieces, with the rhythmical and harmonical intensity of the music that happens, and with the same dose of abstraction _, making palpable the spirit of the city possessed by its musical sounds in the same proportion they sound, beat and visualize, with a texture that doesn’t betray its reality, possessed by her. -- Franklin J. Díaz Inùtil Paisagem Louise Botkay 2010, 6 min, b&w, 16mm transferred to digital, Brazil Inùtil Paisagem a black and white space, a view of Rio de Janeiro, during the hours defined by the clocktower of Central Station, as a woman encounters her city, a friend, and the early melancholy of the afternoon." Machinery No. 1 (Maquinaria No. 1) Luis Soldevilla 2011, 3 min, color, sound, video, Perú This video explores - in an abstract way - the motion generated by machines that "carry away" the citizens and how this machine at the same time transport the necessary energy to keep the city´s vital flow. By means of combining the inner motion of the devices (ladders, trains an elevators) with an external motion (camera movements) these ideas of motion, energy and transportation acquire a new meaning, generating a sort of vertigo and the idea of no point or direction. Constitución (Constitution) Melisa Aller 2013, 4 min, b&w, sound, Super 8 transferred to digital, Argentina No insides and outsides. The margins do not exist. Constitution is an intensive burst which does not seek individuals and forms, but seeks the different speeds and slownesses. Immanence. Distributing the affects, the intensities. There is no difference in the artificial from the natural. Because, the important is to know what a body is able to afford in a way of life. Despedida (Farewell) Alexandra Cuesta 2013, 10 min, color, sound, 16mm transferred to digital, Ecuador/USA Shot in Boyle Heights in East Los Angeles, this transitory neighborhood resonates with the poetry of local resident Mapkaulu Roger Nduku. Verses about endings, looking, and passing through, open up the space projected. A string of tableaux gather a portrait of place and compose a goodbye letter to an ephemeral home. La Poubelle Felipe Ehrenberg 1970, 16 min, color, sound, video transferred to digital, México La Poubelle a film by Felipe Ehrenberg about his garbage walks around London at the time of the strikes in 1970 Rapsodia en Bogotá José María Arzuaga 1963, 24 min, color, sound, 35mm transferred to digital, Colombia "Rhapsody in blue - Rhapsody in Bogotá is the original title of the documentary known as Rhapsody in Bogotá. It takes place over the cycle of a day, from dawn until the following dawn, showing the everyday lives of Bogotá and its inhabitants in the early 1960s. The music of George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris, with their syncopated chords, form a counterpoint to the images." Fundación Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano. José María Arzuaga died in 1987. From: Frameworks <[email protected]> on behalf of Fred Camper <[email protected]> Reply-To: Experimental Film Discussion List <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 10:07 AM To: Quentin Darcq <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] City films Many of the suggestions so far except mine are for pretty well-known films. There is a lesser known city film by a well-known filmmaker, Stan Brakhage, titled City Streaming, that is quite great. I don't believe it is available digitally, however. There is of course Frampton's (fairly long) Zorns Lemma. Fred Camper Chicago On 4/1/2025 11:12 AM, Quentin Darcq wrote: Hello, In 2010, the Centre Pompidou in Paris released a DVD called "La Ville Moderne : Films issus de la collection du Centre Pompidou" with a bilingual booklet French/English and 7 short movies. Here are these movies. Many are available on Youtube or elsewhere on the internet. Otherwise, here is the Worldcat link: https://search.worldcat.org/fr/title/812206786 Manhatta / Charles Sheeler et Paul Strand, 1921, 16 mm, black and white, silent, 9’48 ; Jeux des reflets et de la vitesse / Henri Chomette, 1923-1925, 35 mm, black and white, silent, 8’33 ; Nuits électriques / Eugène Deslaw, 1927, 35 mm, black and white, silent, 10’ ; Marseille vieux port / Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, 1929, 35 mm, black and white, silent, 10’42 ; Broadway by light /William Klein, 1958, couleur, sound, 10’35 ; New York Portrait : Part 1 / Peter Hutton, 1978-1979, 16 mm, black and white, silent, 15’23 ; 16 X / Igor et Svetlana Kopystiansky, 1987, 16 mm, black and white, silent, 6’. Quentin Darcq On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM Scott Dorsey <[email protected]> wrote: I can't help but think of Man With a Movie Camera and of course Daybreak Express, though. --scott -- 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 -- Frameworks mailing list [email protected] https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org
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