I second this! I saw Mark LaPore speak about his work at Anthology a few years back. It was both intimate and great.
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Steve Polta <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark LaPore was a stalwart advocate of the Canon Scoopic and sang its > praises to me one day long ago, describing it as basically a pumped up > Super-8 camera (specifically a pumped up Canon 814-XLS): basically the > thing is—unlike e.g. the Bolex and other 16mm cameras) a portable > self-contained unit—automatic in-the-camera light metering, permanently > attached zoom/macro lens and—best of all for LaPore (and for me) battery > powered and thereby capable of long takes, up to the length of the 16mm > roll (a little over three minutes). It's my understanding that most if not > all of Mark LaPore's 16mm films were shot using this camera including *A > Depression in the Bay of Bengal*, *The Five Bad Elements*, *The Glass > System*, *The Sleepers*, *Kolkata*. Many (well, three) of these are > available from Canyon Cinema: > http://canyoncinema.com/catalog/filmmaker/?i=188 > > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 6:13 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I'm trying to find examples of important films, or considered seminal >> works in the history of experimental cinema, made using a Canon Scoopic >> 16mm camera. >> Thanks for your help! >> Best, >> >> Adeena >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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