Check this guy out: http://www.sell.com/2527LQ
Bootleg of the complete series. Tim Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 11, 2014, at 6:02 PM, "Andy Ditzler" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Roger, > > I hadn't checked recently and didn't know about this DVD release - thanks for > the tip - but it looks like it's a condensed two-hour version of the original > 12-hour series. At least something's out there, but nothing can replace the > scope of the full series. Sad. > > Andy Ditzler > > > > > >> On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Beebe, Roger <[email protected]> wrote: >> RE: An American Family, it's true that it was long unavailable, but it was >> released on DVD in 2011, so now it needs not simply be the stuff of legend: >> >> http://www.shoppbs.org/product/index.jsp?productId=11645510 >> >> ... >> R. >> >>> On Jan 11, 2014, at 12:16 PM, Andy Ditzler wrote: >>> >>> Jean Rouch should definitely be mentioned, especially Les Maitres Fous, >>> Jaguar, and Chronicle of a Summer - as he influenced Godard and the French >>> New Wave. The unavailability of his films in the U.S. has eased in recent >>> months due to institutional DVD copies being made available through Icarus. >>> >>> Much ethnographic film from various eras would apply: The Ax Fight >>> (self-reflexivity) and To Live With Herds (observational cinema landmark) >>> come to mind, as does Mead and Bateson's groundbreaking work like Trance >>> and Dance in Bali. Also Robert Gardner's Forest of Bliss and Lucien >>> Taylor's and Verena Paravel's recent Leviathan (for ideas of "sensory >>> ethnography"). >>> >>> Shirley Clarke's Portrait of Jason, for ideas of changing representation of >>> black and LGBT cultures and figures in documentary. Of course, Black Audio >>> Film Collective's Handsworth Songs and everything by Marlon Riggs. >>> >>> Further away from experimental here, but an argument could be made for This >>> Is Spinal Tap as a pivotal work of "fake documentary," with influence far >>> beyond comedy/fiction. >>> >>> Definitively unavailable, and completely pivotal: An American Family. >>> >>> >>> Andy Ditzler >>> www.filmlove.org >>> www.johnq.org >>> Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University >>> >>> >>>> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 6:19 PM, David Tetzlaff <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I'm looking to help a friend do research on the history of documentary, >>>> and I'd like to introduce him to some of the more experimental side of the >>>> form. For his purposes, the work needs to available on video: he needs to >>>> see stuff, not just read about it, and he needs to be able to pull decent >>>> quality clips for presentation. So I'm not looking for more purely >>>> experimental films that have some actuality footage, but something more >>>> readily recognizable under a (very) broad rubric of 'documentary'. >>>> >>>> Something like "Sonic Outlaws' or "Odds of Recovery" would be pretty >>>> central examples. About as far down the experimental scale I'd want to get >>>> would be such films as "Window Water Baby Moving" or "Sink or Swim." >>>> (Thus, for example, "Thigh Line Lyre Triangular" is too 'far out' for this >>>> purpose.) I'd also welcome suggestions for essay-form docs beyond Marker >>>> (which I've already got). Another example of such might be Mulvey's 'Frida >>>> Kahlo / Tina Modotti" >>>> >>>> With those loose guidelines, feel free to recommend away without worrying >>>> too much about the 'fit'. I can/will edit the recs I pass on... >>>> >>>> TIA! >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 > > > > -- > > Andy Ditzler > www.filmlove.org > www.johnq.org > Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University > _______________________________________________ > 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
