George Kuchar's "Wild Night in El Reno" is a great one.
. . . And there are the four "Visions in Meditation" by Brakhage,
also; road trips through the States and eastern Canada.
Marilyn Brakhage
On 11-Nov-11, at 12:52 PM, Andy Ditzler wrote:
Hi Adam,
George Kuchar's Weather Diaries might fit this. George is often cast
as an outsider in these, though he did sustain his relationship to
this project for several decades. Many of his diary videos, like 500
Millibars to Ecstasy and The Celluloid Cavalcade, document cinema-
motivated travels to different cities.
Rosa von Praunheim's "Army of Lovers" is a late-1970s travelogue of
the U.S. from the perspective of queer activism.
Not experimental (and not very self-reflective), but perhaps
interesting alongside that formulation, would be the travel films
made in the teens and 1920s by such filmmakers as Burton Holmes.
Also the films of Martin and Osa Johnson (which Ken Jacobs later
used for Star Spangled to Death). In a similar vein is Merian Cooper
et al's "Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life."
Andy Ditzler
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Adam R. Levine <ada...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hello you,
I am trying to pull together a list of experimental films that
either fall directly under the category of "travelogue" or bear
witness to travel and distance from a point of origin on the part of
the filmmaker. These would not be so much ethnographic works which
are part of a sustained cultural exchange, but films made as a
result of the filmmaker "passing through" and acknowledging the
looming spectre/problem/pleasure of "the tourist film". Warren
Sonbert, perhaps John Smith's "The Hotel Diaries"? I'm sure there
are others...but can you name them?
Thanks/Grazie/Kiitos!
ARL
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