Ah yes!  Thank you.  That's it.  Funny how "Paper Landscape" and "Man with
Mirror" were sort of conflated in my mind as one thing.

Mike

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:33 PM, peter snowdon <[email protected]> wrote:

>   Hi Michael,
>  What you describe sounds very like Guy Sherwin's Paper Landscape:
>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6RZi_Nzyho
>  It's not a French film, tho this documentation was taken in Paris...
>  Peter
>
>  On Mon, May 14, 2012, at 12:08 PM, Michael Lee wrote:
>
> Thanks, Gene.  Just watched "Around Perception".  Wow!
>
>  On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Gene Youngblood <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>   Pierre Hebert combined live action and painting in some of his films,
> and he was kind of a trickster, but this sounds more sophisticated than
> what I remember of his work. You might check him out in any case.
>
>  From: Michael Lee <[email protected]>
>  Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 11:36 AM
>  To: [email protected]
>  Subject: [Frameworks] 1970s French short film
>
>   Hi All,
>
> I saw a clip on YouTube a year ago or more of a performance piece
> involving film and "painting".  I believe the artist was French--I'm almost
> positive it was from the mid 1970s.  I could not find it.  Does the
> following scenario ring a bell?
>
> On the screen a man is strolling in a rural landscape.  From what I
> recall, the action on screen is actually a film of that film.  The
> filmmaker is painting himself "in" or "out" using black or white paint
> against the screen (?).  It somehow ends with the living, breathing
> filmmaker busting through the paper screen on which his image is seen
> walking towards the original filmed image of himself.  A parlor trick, for
> sure, but pretty amazing!
>
> Any leads would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
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