The companies that make film are letting it die.
Matt
http://www.youtube.com/user/oscarthepug1234
http://www.youtube.com/user/matthelme007
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From: Tim Halloran <televis...@hotmail.com>
To: f...@fredcamper.com; frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Frameworks] canyon in the news (bad news dept)
I don't think it can be stated any better than this.
Tim
> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:15:12 -0600
> From: f...@fredcamper.com
> To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] canyon in the news (bad news dept)
>
> David,
>
> Your post come in just after I posted mine.
>
> I'm sorry about your troubles. As I suggested earlier, everyone's
> situation is different, and everyone is different. Maybe you had a
> particularly bad situation. Maybe there were other reasons for your
> troubles. There are people who try to show film on film and can't, and
> there are some who succeed. But even when you can't, you can talk about
> how the film shown on film actually looks, and recommend screenings if
> there are any in your locale, in the same way that a good art history
> teacher (of whom there are all too few) showing slides would talk about
> what some of the art works actually look like.
>
> I have posted many times that maintaining projectors will be a key choke
> point in the future. Labs and prints stocks will be another problem. Yet,
> at present, many do manage to keep their projectors going. And there are
> still a lot of prints around.
>
> You seem to be appealing to some form of "majority rules" -- not enough
> care about film on film, so it will die out. Maybe you're right. Or maybe
> a few of us will manage to keep it alive, for some decades into the
> future. Who appointed you to write its obituary?
>
> That you profess to care "very little" for the artist's intentions as to
> how a work should be shown leaves me speechless. In my experience, many do
> care, once the issue is explained. But I guess if one doesn't care much
> then one doesn't even address the issue.
>
> The specifics have been aired here many times: the differences between
> film flicker and most forms of video, between projected film light and
> other kinds of projection/display, between the physical look of projected
> celluloid and the very different look of video. I don't prefer one to the
> other. It is simply my claim that many of the best avant-garde (and other)
> films come through far better in their intended format. This is not a
> small question of "look" either. One might even say it's a question of
> "ideology": that what the projected image presents itself as in relation
> to seeing and to the world is something different from what most kinds of
> video images present themselves as.
>
> Fred Camper
> Chicago
>
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