thanks for the shout-out Bernard; was a pleasure meeting you and attending this stalwart festival!
for those interested in the Küçük Sinemalar program, you can find more info and watch a majority of the films here: http://ekremserdar.info/curating/kuecuek-sinemalar/ On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:28 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Bernard, > > I agree! And what you say about these screenings, down to the ability to > experience annoyance and frustration in the very midst delight and > inspiration (in a world that insists on not allowing us to risk even a > second of our time), goes, I think, to the heart of what happened this week. > > So congratulations, and SO many thanks to Bryan Konefsky, Michelle > Mellor, and all my colleagues and students, who worked so hard to bring > this experience to our lives. > > Nina Fonoroff > Albuquerque, New Mexico > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bernard Roddy <[email protected]> > To: frameworks <[email protected]> > Sent: Mon, Apr 22, 2013 7:12 pm > Subject: [Frameworks] experiments in cinema > > Bryan, that was amazing. If it appeared at one time that the meaning of > a film screening were being lost, Experiments in Cinema is correcting the > impression. I don't understand how there could be so many people in a > cinema theater, night after night, in the middle of the week as well as on > Saturday, and for experimental work - new work! No classics of the > avant-garde here. On Sunday at noon? For work devoted to "collaborations > with the earth"? In Albuquerque? What is going on! It has been a very > long time since I waited in anticipation for a screening like I did last > week - again and again. It's not the academic careers sustained by such a > program, or the educational value of such an experience to people in town: > I keep thinking about what it must've been like early on, sitting up there > in the front row during the screenings of particularly demanding works, at > a time when film . . even video . . the whole theatrical experience, > really, has seemed an anachronism. Sitting up there, then, after listing > the sponsors. And how could such an event draw such sponsorship? I don't > understand. I don't need to understand. The work in video from Turkey > that Ekrem Serder showed renewed my interest in abstraction. Again and > again a film was shown with an optical sound track, an experiment, really. > I didn't even see it all. I could afford to be annoyed. I could afford to > walk out of a show early. I could afford to be an asshole. > > Bernie > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing > [email protected]https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > > -- ekremserdar.info austin, tx
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