Oliver Harrison

http://www.animateprojects.org/films/by_date/2012/apocalypse_rhyme



> On 15 Nov 2013, at 06:56, Warren Cockerham <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Run Wrake's Rabbit (2005)    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw3XyOyl47Q
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Steve Polta <[email protected]> wrote:
>> About a month ago, San Francisco Cinematheque (in association with Litquake 
>> [a "literary arts" festival] and the Canyon Cinema Foundation) presented a 
>> screening (curated by me) of works on this very topic—"Films on the 
>> Visualization of Text." I paste the promo text below and also offer this 
>> link to our website: 
>> http://www.sfcinematheque.org/screenings/the-word-my-dear-is-piecemeal-films-on-the-visualization-of-text/
>> 
>> Notably, Stephanie Barber has done a lot a lot of film/video work using 
>> visualized text, including many of the works in her series Jhanna and the 
>> Rats of James Olds. Nearly the entire filmography of David Gatten deals with 
>> text as image and with the process of reading. Joyce Weiland is also a good 
>> call that has been made. Jesse Malmed's recent work is also (in a way) very 
>> much about visualized language and concrete poetry. See the link below; a 
>> lot of his work is online.
>> Best,
>> Steve Polta
>> San Francisco Cinematheque
>> 
>> Presented as part of Litquake 2013, San Francisco Cinematheque presents a 
>> screening of film/video works in which written text is visualized and 
>> plasticized, explored and displayed. Battering, caressing and seducing 
>> viewers/readers while exploring syntactical forms (including poetic lyric, 
>> introspective essay,, journal, harangue, laundry list, love letter and 
>> song), the seven film/video works on this program form a thumbnail catalog 
>> of the diverse expressive potentialities of language’s graphic notation 
>> displayed as light moving in time. Screening: Jeanne Liotta’s Dark Enough 
>> (2011), a celestial contemplation, “a virtual proscenium stage for the 
>> poetry to play itself upon,” a collaboration with poet Lisa Gill; Stan 
>> Brakhage’s I… Dreaming (1988), a sound film visualizing the lyrics of 
>> Stephen Foster; Word Movie (1966) by Paul Sharits, a radically flickering, 
>> optical/conceptual sound/text conflation, a three-and-a-half minute word; 
>> Stephanie Barber’s letters, notes (2000) a melancholy compendium of lost 
>> correspondence and found photography; David Gatten’s silent love letter How 
>> to Conduct a Love Affair (2007); Su Friedrich’s harrowing dream journal 
>> Gently Down the Stream, Jesse Malmed’s sound/image/data morass Supernym 
>> (2013) and a very rare screening of Michael Snow’s 1982 epic monolithic 
>> film/text essay So Is This, a direct confrontation/repudiation of the very 
>> notion of cinematic language itself.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Jacob <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> This might be of some interest: 
>>>> http://making-light-of-it.blogspot.com/2010/02/text-of-sight.html (made 
>>>> several years ago, needs a major update)...
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Jacob
>>>  
>>> 
>>> 
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