Thanks for the suggestion Fred. I actually have a note on Brakhage talking a bit like a Yoga teacher in a workshop flagged from Film at Wit's End "Sit wherever your eyes feel most awake — floor, chair, corner — it doesn’t matter. You see differently when your spine is your own tripod.” Thanks for that too.
On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM Fred Camper <[email protected]> wrote: > Brakhage would not normally be associated with any of this, but you might > consider his two minute silent film* Angels' — *no specific reference to > your topic, but almost empty of images, almost emptying of the viewer too. > On 10/26/2025 9:09 AM, Heath Iverson 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]> > 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 >> >> medientheorie.ac.at >> Postsparkasse >> >> Georg-Coch-Platz 2 >> >> HP Raum 022 >> 1010 Wien / Austria >> >> >> >> https://dieangewandte.academia.edu/GabrieleJutz >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *Von: *Frameworks <[email protected]> im Auftrag von >> Dave Tetzlaff <[email protected]> >> *Antworten an: *Frameworks posts <[email protected]> >> *Datum: *Sonntag, 26. Oktober 2025 um 06:23 >> *An: *Frameworks posts <[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] >> 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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