Norman McLaren's anti war film 'Neighbours': http://www.nfb.ca/film/neighbours_voisins/
Sent from my iPhone > On 29 Jan 2014, at 7:49 am, 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
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