Will Hindle’s Saint Flournoy Lobos-Logos … (1970) begins and ends with a man in meditation.
-Carlos > On Oct 27, 2025, at 11:51 AM, Seth Mitter <[email protected]> wrote: > > Maybe tangentially related to this thread is Scott Bartlett's The Sound of > One (1976) <https://canyoncinema.com/catalog/film/?i=164>, which supposedly > came about through Scott's study of T'ai Chi applied to handheld camera > cinematography. Like a proto-steadicam achieved through disciplined body > movement and balance. > Only exists as one or two fading prints so far as I'm aware. It is sorely in > need of someone to champion preservation before it disappears forever. > > Robert Fulton was mentioned before, Path of Cessation (1974) > <https://canyoncinema.com/catalog/film/?i=952> might be a good place to start > with Tibetan monastery footage (and chanting, if I'm remembering correctly). > Robert also had a special handheld shooting style with some affinity to the > Scott Bartlett T'ai Chi film, especially notable in Starlight > <https://canyoncinema.com/catalog/film/?i=953> and Vineyard IV > <https://canyoncinema.com/catalog/film/?i=955> > On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM Heath Iverson <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> 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] >> <mailto:[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] >>>> <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. 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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] <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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