How Among the Frozen Words, Deborah Stratman 73 Suspect Words, Peggy Ahwesh Famous Irish Americans, Roger Beebe
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:56 PM, 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<http://www.sfcinematheque.org/screenings/the-word-my-dear-is-piecemeal-films-on-the-visualization-of-text/www.liquake.org>, >> 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<http://www.sfcinematheque.org/screenings/the-word-my-dear-is-piecemeal-films-on-the-visualization-of-text/www.jeanneliotta.net>’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<http://paulsharits.com/>, >> a radically flickering, optical/conceptual sound/text conflation, a >> three-and-a-half minute word; Stephanie >> Barber<http://www.stephaniebarber.com/>’s >> *letters, notes* (2000) a melancholy compendium of lost correspondence >> and found photography; David Gatten <http://davidgattenfilm.com/>’s >> silent love letter *How to Conduct a Love Affair *(2007); Su >> Friedrich<http://www.sufriedrich.com/>’s >> harrowing dream journal *Gently Down the Stream*, Jesse >> Malmed<http://www.jessemalmed.net/>’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 >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> --- >>> Jacob Waltman >>> SLC, UT >>> http://making-light-of-it.blogspot.com/ >>> --- >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> FrameWorks mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > >
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