John, Dan Reeves "Smothering Dreams" video and my 16mm film "Aspects of a Certain History" both deal with the war in Vietnam as experimental media works. Also Brakhage's "23 Psalm". If you would like a dvd copy of my film, I would be glad to send you one.
John Knecht On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:49 PM, 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 > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > > -- John Knecht, Russell Colgate Distinguished University Professor of Art and Art History and Film and Media Studies
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