James Broughton might be worth looking into with respect to yoga and meditation. He makes references to both in Seeing the Light, later re-printed as Making Light of It (easy to find online). The Golden Positions (1970) references yoga positions, and if I’m not mistaken he practiced yoga. But a steak of meditative, Zen philosophy runs through the book, which is also just a delight to read.
JW Dr. Jonathan Walley Associate Professor and Chair Department of Cinema Denison University https://denison.edu/people/jonathan-walley > On Oct 26, 2025, at 10:09 AM, Heath Iverson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for the thoughts all! > > I am indeed curating a program around this concept. The Sharits and Whitney > catalogs are already in the mix--especially Whitney's work as it relates to > sacred number and geometry. There's also Jordan Belson's SAMHADI. I've got > the formal, abstract/metaphoric angle covered; now I am looking for films > with literal ("pro-filmic" like they say in the biz) instances of these > practices and their material culture and expression. Im interested not just > in the formal representation of subjective yogic/meditation states, but how > these practices are metabolized by a largely western avant-garde form. Given > the strong counter-cultural overlap of the mid century > underground/experimental/artist film world and the adjacent new age/new > spiritualist movements I expect there'd be some good examples but, not much > comes to mind... there are some hare krishnas accidentally in Mekas' films... > > On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 3:49 AM Gabriele Jutz <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> I suggest Transit(ive) by Canadian filmmaker Sarah Bliss (HD video created >> from 16mm projection performance with digital sound, recorded on digital >> video. 06:36. 2017). >> >> >> >> In her artist statement, Sarah Bliss describes herself as “a filmmaker, >> artist, educator, and Buddhist practitioner who facilitates presence and >> attunement with the sensate, desiring body.” >> >> Transit(ive) is the result of the artist’s manual interaction with the >> projector lens, while the soundtrack presents a cell-phone recording of her >> father’s dying breath. The act of expiration, literally “breathing out,” is >> associated with death. Transit(ive) is a video document of death and loss, >> as well as a techno-spiritual reunion with the artist’s father following his >> death. >> >> >> >> Here you can find more about Transit(ive): >> https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3775230/3775231 >> >> (chapter “Lungs to Ears”) >> >> >> >> ----------------------------------------- >> >> >> Hon. Prof. Mag. Dr. Gabriele Jutz >> Universität für angewandte Kunst >> Abteilung für Medientheorie >> >> T +43 699 12 10 81 44 >> >> dieangewandte.at <http://dieangewandte.at/> >> medientheorie.ac.at <http://medientheorie.ac.at/> >> Postsparkasse >> >> Georg-Coch-Platz 2 >> >> HP Raum 022 >> 1010 Wien / Austria >> >> >> >> https://dieangewandte.academia.edu/GabrieleJutz >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Von: Frameworks <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> im Auftrag von Dave Tetzlaff >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> Antworten an: Frameworks posts <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> Datum: Sonntag, 26. Oktober 2025 um 06:23 >> An: Frameworks posts <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> Betreff: Re: [Frameworks] Avant Garde Film and Yoga >> >> >> >> Well, there are a fair number of avant garde films that ARE >> yogic/meditative/spiritual practices in form somehow without PHOTOGRAPHING >> such practices as they exist in the real world [or as we say in the biz >> (sic) "the pro filmic event"] >> >> Paul Sharits: Mandala Films >> >> Ernie Gehr: Serene Velocity* >> >> John and James Whitney >> >> (and others germane to The Center for Visual Music) >> >> Scott Bartlet: Off/On >> >> Anthony McCall >> >> Several shorts in The FluxFilm anthology, though 'Zen for Film' might not >> qualify depending on how you take it. 😉 >> >> >> >> In some cases the artists expressed some meditative/spiritual intent. In >> others, it kinds works out that way regardless. The cited above are just >> what comes to my mind at the moment. There are more for sure... >> >> >> >> If you were curating a program on your stated theme, you might mix these >> formal examples with representational ones in interesting ways an audience >> might appreciate. >> >> -- Frameworks mailing list [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> 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 > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org
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