"In the world of shamanistic knowledge, truth is in the image of beings. Special are those of the xapiri spirits, luminescent beings that dance over mirrors, and that are only seen by initiates not through thinking, but through what since Marcel Mauss we know as bodily practices."
…I second the recommendation for the film The Falling Sky, at once wondrous and wrenching, as poetic as it is excruciating in its prescience. Here is a link to the shaman Davi Kopenawa’s text: https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/2023-12/010060995.pdf <https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/2023-12/010060995.pdf> "In the crowded peristyle among all these bodies that move with such homogeneity there may be one whose movements are exceedingly spectacular.This is a sign that a loa has arrived..." Divine Horsemen fragmentos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx6SDc6MfAQ <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx6SDc6MfAQ> (This fragment is notable for the reference to Grotowski in the prologue text.) Harry Smith - No.15: Untitled Animation of Seminole Patchwork (1965-66) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0XfJDVcNfY <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0XfJDVcNfY> (While not a film his The Kiowa Peyote Meeting, when I listen late at night seems like it might just as well be one.) The Quiltmakers of Gees Bend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQHTLn4mA7s <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQHTLn4mA7s> Othar Turner and the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band - Ida Reed (1978) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyqf-jf2B_4 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyqf-jf2B_4> (Alan Lomax) Les Blank - Always For Pleasure Alan Brain - The Rumba Kings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kQCWbFeuos <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kQCWbFeuos> John Cohen - Puno en Mountain Music (1984) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uli1wemxIc <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uli1wemxIc> Pableaux Johnson - It’s Your Glory: The Big Queens of Carnival https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gx2WDAPwX4 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gx2WDAPwX4> - Spirit Leads My Needle :The Big Chiefs of Carnival https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLY8LxgbOeY <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLY8LxgbOeY> (Pableaux Johnson, the Heart of New Orleans Hospitality, Dies at 59 - The New York Times <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/dining/pableaux-johnson-dead.html>) Edward Curtis - In The Land Of The War Canoes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiXvMDRuMEs&t=14s <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiXvMDRuMEs&t=14s> Werner Herzog - Herdsmen of the Sun etc. Hours watching youtube videos of the Cahuilla Indians bird singing especially at the Morongo Pow Wow West Greenland hero and mentor: Maligiaq Padilla - My Movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By0mBah9jCM <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By0mBah9jCM> QU 2011 Sisimiut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HDvGN8dGGc <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HDvGN8dGGc> IIuIissat 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExhJpJA2Gc4 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExhJpJA2Gc4> Missing all the glory of your glitter. Warmest regards, DB > On Apr 28, 2025, at 4:40 AM, konstantinos-antonios goutos > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ps. > A lot of film works made by my unofficial Mentor Juergen Boettcher / > Strawalde > (most important documentary filmmaker of the GDR, creator of its first > experimental films, creator of one and only forbidden fiction film -a unique > work between nouvelle vague, free cinema and prague spring- as also lots of > „video diaries“ since the last thirty years- > can be seen as „ethno-poetic“. works… > > https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/m/ver.cfm?event_id=21672031 > <https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/m/ver.cfm?event_id=21672031> > > https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/flm/arc/fdb.cfm#regie=J%C3%BCrgen%20B%C3%B6ttche > <https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/flm/arc/fdb.cfm#regie=J%C3%BCrgen%20B%C3%B6ttche> > > > > > Στις Σάβ 26 Απρ 2025 στις 21:49 ο χρήστης konstantinos-antonios goutos > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> έγραψε: > Hey Katherine, > > some Scenes from my [video]Flaneur strollings across Europe > are sometimes constructed in a form of ethno-poetic-city symphonies: > > berliner fuge > https://sites.google.com/site/videoflaneur2/berliner-fuge > <https://sites.google.com/site/videoflaneur2/berliner-fuge> > > leipzig, liberty > https://sites.google.com/site/videoflaneur2/leipzig-freiheit > <https://sites.google.com/site/videoflaneur2/leipzig-freiheit> > > [video]Flaneur stops! > https://sites.google.com/site/videoflaneur2/thevideofl%C3%A2neu-stops > <https://sites.google.com/site/videoflaneur2/thevideofl%C3%A2neu-stops> > > prague in spring (ouverture) > https://sites.google.com/site/videoflaneur2/prague-in-spring-ouverture > <https://sites.google.com/site/videoflaneur2/prague-in-spring-ouverture> > > krakow-er renaissance > https://sites.google.com/site/videoflaneur2/krakow-er-rennaisance > <https://sites.google.com/site/videoflaneur2/krakow-er-rennaisance> > > bdreing fun enschede > https://sites.google.com/site/videoflaneur2/bedreiging-fun-enschede > <https://sites.google.com/site/videoflaneur2/bedreiging-fun-enschede> > > les mysteres de paris I and II > https://sites.google.com/site/videoflaneur2/works-en-detail/les-myst%C3%A8res-de-paris-i > > <https://sites.google.com/site/videoflaneur2/works-en-detail/les-myst%C3%A8res-de-paris-i> > > https://sites.google.com/site/videoflaneur2/works-en-detail/les-mysteres-de-paris-ii-sacr%C3%A9-c%C5%93ur > > <https://sites.google.com/site/videoflaneur2/works-en-detail/les-mysteres-de-paris-ii-sacr%C3%A9-c%C5%93ur> > wishes and thanks, > > K > > https://konstantinosantoniosgoutos.art.blog/ > <https://konstantinosantoniosgoutos.art.blog/> > > > > Στις Σάβ 26 Απρ 2025 στις 14:18 ο χρήστης Zachary Powell > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> έγραψε: > Catherine Russel's Experimental Ethnography might be useful > > https://www.dukeupress.edu/experimental-ethnography > <https://www.dukeupress.edu/experimental-ethnography> > > Zachary > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM Hardin, Ted <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Hello Kitty, > > Just found this film: > Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Inuktitut > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuktitut_language>: ᐊᑕᓈᕐᔪᐊᑦ) is a 2001 > Canadian epic film <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_film> directed by Inuk > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit> filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Kunuk> > > And this film is making the rounds now, I saw it last year, pretty > extraordinary: > The Falling Sky: > https://variety.com/2024/film/reviews/the-falling-sky-review-a-queda-do-ceu-1236009301/ > > <https://variety.com/2024/film/reviews/the-falling-sky-review-a-queda-do-ceu-1236009301/> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc2lQdTXN-s > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc2lQdTXN-s> > > Renzo Martens is a good suggestion from below. > > John Akomfrah, ‘Four Nocturnes’, 3 channel installation, many other works. > > Best, > > Ted > > Ted Hardin > Associate Professor > School of Film and Television > Columbia College Chicago > Co-President Long Distance Productions > https://www.ldpfilms.com/ <https://www.ldpfilms.com/> > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > >> On Apr 23, 2025, at 1:34 AM, Kitty <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Caution: This is an external email and may be malicious. Please take care >> when clicking links or opening attachments. >> >> >> =EF=BB=BF >> Hi Frameworks, >> >> I am working with an anthropologist on a (possibly defined as) ethnographic >> f= >> ilm and he needs some experimental film context to help us get on the same p= >> age. In fact he has little to no film history besides from the rather mainst= >> ream cinema =E2=80=A6 so its time for a little experimental film history...!= >> =20 >> >> Of course I have a list things forming already but I thought I would pose th= >> is question here to really open up pandora's box to get a wide scope beyond >> e= >> ven what I might be thinking about.... >> >> So really any filmmakers or specific films, installations, performances, exp= >> anded cinema pieces, video art, etc, that could even be slightly related to >> t= >> he subjects of; self reflective poetic ethnographic films, documentaries tha= >> t question the idea of being documentaries, films where fiction and fact sli= >> p and slide and also if they happen to touch on the subjects (but not exclus= >> ively this) the global south, migratory workers, immigration, colonialism, i= >> ndigenous culture, racism, and farming.=20 >> I know this is all very broad, but I wanted to let it be like that and see w= >> hat varied answers I would get. =20 >> >> Thank you, >> Katherine Bauer >> >> >> -- >> Frameworks mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmail.film-gallery.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fframeworks_film-gallery.org&data=05%7C02%7Cthardin%40colum.edu%7Cd7f8f5f0e27f49e1892608dd81f67cb8%7C243ef28877994efcaff5fde4e3f1c98d%7C0%7C0%7C638809617872112658%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=iwwuaGVl1E49WtHxBh326S9ENUR4whXHINifxNT37XE%3D&reserved=0 >> >> <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmail.film-gallery.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fframeworks_film-gallery.org&data=05%7C02%7Cthardin%40colum.edu%7Cd7f8f5f0e27f49e1892608dd81f67cb8%7C243ef28877994efcaff5fde4e3f1c98d%7C0%7C0%7C638809617872112658%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=iwwuaGVl1E49WtHxBh326S9ENUR4whXHINifxNT37XE%3D&reserved=0> > > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org > <https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org> > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org > <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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