Peace & Plenty: Ivor Montague Hell Unlimited: Norman Mclaren & Helen Biggar
Rob On 28/01/2014 20:49, "John McAndrew" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > For a little under a year my main source of income has come through working > as a gallery warden in a historical museum specializing in arms and armour > (it's a questionable place to work in admittedly, but anyway...). Recently > the museum's cinema space has become freely available to staff members to > use on evenings whenever it's available and given both the digital and > potential film projection facilities available, and the cinema itself being > housed in quite a unique location, I've been pondering over the idea of > independently programming a selection of experimental/underground/artists' > films and videos that ties together the "avant-garde" as we commonly know > it with its original military terminology. Either way, it would make a > refreshing change to the current programming decisions of showing Hollywood > war and action films that everyone has seen a hundred times over... > > Can anyone on FrameWorks offer any suggestions for moving image works - > both new or old, landmark or obscure, abstract or representative - that may > explore such vanguard themes? Or know of any existing curated screenings or > written texts that have also explored this connection? I'm open to hearing > any and all suggestions for works involving the military and armed forces, > weapon technology (firearms, explosives, swords etc), armour, combat > and self-defence, historical battles or wars (maybe even fictional ones > too), appropriated war/training films, critiques of the armed forces, > militias, laws involving the right to keep and bear arms, etc etc etc... > > Many thanks for reading! > > Best, > John > Falmouth University _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing > list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listi > nfo/frameworks _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
