and one of the favorites. The Edison Co.'s 1894 film. "Professor Welton's Boxing Cats"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qre61opE_g -Eric On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Steve Polta <[email protected]> wrote: > Burroughs' short book, "The Cat Inside" is a wondrous and touching > elaboration of his relationships with and to cats... > > Steve Polta > > On Aug 16, 2014 1:23 PM, "Andy Ditzler" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> George Kuchar's cat Blackie plays the crucial role of confessor in the >> video diary Rainy Season (1987). George's grief at losing his beloved cat is >> the subject of Season of Sorrow (1996). >> >> William Burroughs was quite fond of cats, and I believe he lived with many >> at his final home in Lawrence, Kansas. Perhaps there is a documentary with >> footage of this? >> >> Brakhage's film Pasht is quite striking. >> >> Andy Ditzler >> >> >> On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Gene Youngblood <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Cats are featured prominently in 27 of George Kuchar’s diaries, some of >>> them pretty surreal. My favorite is “Kitty Porn” (1996). >>> >>> From: Ronald Gregg >>> Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2014 11:44 AM >>> To: Experimental Film Discussion List >>> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] cat films >>> >>> And Felix the Cat as well: >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxailD4Ofq4 >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 1:22 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Nice titles for 'Jonesy', like the ones for Pierrot le Fou. >>>> >>>> There are also hundreds of episodes of Top Cat to consider! >>>> >>>> Nicky. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Francisco Torres <[email protected]> >>>> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <[email protected]> >>>> Sent: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 16:53 >>>> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] cat films >>>> >>>> here kitty... >>>> >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo0c8FnjW0k >>>> >>>> >>>> 2014-08-16 5:19 GMT-04:00 <[email protected]>: >>>>> >>>>> Bell Book and Candle, >>>>> >>>>> The Incredible Journey (Disney film abut three pets on a 200 mile >>>>> journey. Includes a swimming siamese cat). >>>>> >>>>> Nicky. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: Benjamin Leon <[email protected]> >>>>> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <[email protected]> >>>>> Sent: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 9:19 >>>>> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] cat films >>>>> >>>>> Fuses of course ! And Plumb Line (1968-1972) by Carolee Schneemann too. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> 2014-08-16 9:49 GMT+02:00 <[email protected]>: >>>>>> >>>>>> Gummo and Withnail and I have cats in them, albeit briefly. >>>>>> >>>>>> Nicky >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>> From: Peter Mudie <[email protected]> >>>>>> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <[email protected]> >>>>>> Sent: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 5:48 >>>>>> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] cat films >>>>>> >>>>>> It's an odd question, really - looking for films with/about cats. If >>>>>> you >>>>>> get onto YouTube and type in a search for 'cats', 'wacky cats' and/or >>>>>> 'awesome cats' you will find something around 2 billion choices to >>>>>> build >>>>>> your exhibition around - none of them worthwhile. Do a search (with >>>>>> the >>>>>> same criteria) for 'chipmunks' or 'hamsters' and you'll find less, but >>>>>> about as discerning as the 'wacky cats' list. Any exhibition that >>>>>> results >>>>>> from a deep curatorial insight about cats will probably leave you in >>>>>> the >>>>>> same zone as all the YouTube ones. >>>>>> >>>>>> If someone asked me what my favourite film was that had a cat within >>>>>> it - >>>>>> that is, different from 'a hard-boiled cheap detective getting away >>>>>> from >>>>>> the grips of a femme fatale' or 'a Joe-Bob Mr America saves the world >>>>>> from >>>>>> certain destruction' scope of subjects (which I guess isn't all that >>>>>> dissimilar to 'wacky chipmunk' or 'look what a hamster can fit in his >>>>>> mouth' videos) - I would have to say Nightcats (by Brakhage). >>>>>> >>>>>> Peter >>>>>> (Perth) >>>>>> >>>>>> >> What else could we shown in a Cat Film Fest? >>>>>> > >>>>>> >As Ekrem mentioned, there's Cat Cradle and Fuses. Dunno if the amount >>>>>> > of >>>>>> >kitteh-kontent is high enough for a feline fest, but the presence of >>>>>> > the >>>>>> >pussy... er, scratch that [Meow!] I mean the context of the cat, is >>>>>> > the >>>>>> >unraveling intertextual ball of string tying the two works together, >>>>>> > or >>>>>> >maybe being batted away from StanCat by CaroleeCat, or maybe the >>>>>> > mirrored >>>>>> >meowser is Schneeman's way of saying, 'my little furry pet is purring >>>>>> >because she just pounced on some wee bit of pickle, and by the way, >>>>>> > did >>>>>> >you know that cats are independent creatures who do their own thing >>>>>> >instead of licking their masters fantasy boots, and cats have really >>>>>> >sharp claws they can dig into your untutored eye if you piss them off >>>>>> > by >>>>>> >mixing up which human is owned by which cat, and somehow indicate you >>>>>> >think you own even one cat much less two, so go pine in the pines >>>>>> > with >>>>>> >your poor putrefying pooch and leave my kitty alone!" >>>>>> > >>>>>> >.... >>>>>> > >>>>>> >You could show Marker's 'Case of the Grinning Cat' which also might >>>>>> > be a >>>>>> >little light on actual kitty-kontent, but again the cat-concept is >>>>>> > pretty >>>>>> >important, and any excuse to show Marker is always a good excuse. >>>>>> > >>>>>> >.... >>>>>> > >>>>>> >Or you could go conceptual rather than representational: >>>>>> > >>>>>> >I read somewhere that felines large and small are "creatures who >>>>>> > spend >>>>>> >most of the time sleeping between brief bursts of activity." >>>>>> > >>>>>> >So I'm thinking you could show all 5 hours and 21 minutes of "Sleep", >>>>>> > in >>>>>> >a room filled with sofa and actual cats, so after puzzling over what >>>>>> > do >>>>>> >do with themselves for awhile, instead of getting annoyed and heading >>>>>> > to >>>>>> >the box office in angry mass protest to The Management, the viewers >>>>>> > would >>>>>> >figure they can emulate the cats and sooner or later pretty much the >>>>>> >whole audience would be sleeping along with John Giorno, curled up on >>>>>> > a >>>>>> >couch like Giorno, but with cuddling kitties, sometimes coming and >>>>>> > going >>>>>> >but mostly sleeping as cats mostly do. Taking the cat cues, they >>>>>> > might >>>>>> >conclude that 'Sleep' is not the title of a 'movie' you 'watch' but >>>>>> > might >>>>>> >be a gentle imperative, like a Yoko Ono instruction, to stage the >>>>>> > most >>>>>> >simple and mundane action as a form of Art. Or not. Either way, >>>>>> > they're >>>>>> >in cat-mode, so it's basically nappy time whenever they feel like it >>>>>> > no >>>>>> >matter what else is going on in the room, and from time to time >>>>>> > they'll >>>>>> >wake up, yawn, stretch, look around a little bit ‹ maybe watch the >>>>>> > screen >>>>>> >for awhile, maybe watch the other people sleeping, maybe think about >>>>>> > how >>>>>> >many hours John Giorno has spent sleeping since 1963, maybe wonder >>>>>> > how >>>>>> >many hours of sleep they'll have before they join Warhol in eternal >>>>>> >slumber, maybe think about what a room of people sleeping because a >>>>>> >silent black and white film of a man dozing on a couch can't keep >>>>>> > them >>>>>> >awake means in light of Warhol's claimed intent of documenting sleep >>>>>> > for >>>>>> >historical purposes since no one slept anymore due to the miracles of >>>>>> >modern chemistry. But, being cat-people for the evening, they >>>>>> > wouldn't >>>>>> >think about those things too long or too hard before slipping back >>>>>> > into a >>>>>> >REM state with a dreamy revelation that the proper nouns 'Walter' >>>>>> > "White' >>>>>> >and 'Warhol' all begin with a 'W'. Then, maybe 90 minutes later, they >>>>>> >wake up since the man-cat on the next couch is shattering the silence >>>>>> >with loud irregular apneas and hypopneas because he didn't think to >>>>>> > bring >>>>>> >his C-PAP to a film screening, only, on awakening, they don't dig out >>>>>> >their cell phones to check how much longer the film is going to run, >>>>>> > they >>>>>> >just realize they're hungry, and the smell of chicken and fish is >>>>>> > coming >>>>>> >from the lobby. So they amble out of the screening room and over to >>>>>> > the >>>>>> >concessions area set up especially for the screening, where they get >>>>>> >served sashimi and/or poulet kabobs, (or Tuna hot dish if it's at The >>>>>> >Walker), and at this spot there are benches set up by big picture >>>>>> > windows >>>>>> >where they can sit awhile and watch birds fly back and forth from the >>>>>> >feeders outside, but the benches aren't that comfy so they head back >>>>>> > to >>>>>> >the couches in the screening room soon enough, tummies full and fall >>>>>> > back >>>>>> >into the rhythm of "Sleep"s sleep. When they wake up again after a >>>>>> > big >>>>>> >orange Maine Coon cat licks some hot-dish off their cheek, they sit >>>>>> > up, >>>>>> >the cat hops onto their lap and starts to purr, they reach down to >>>>>> > pet it >>>>>> >without thinking about it. Then it dawns on them that since they're >>>>>> > doing >>>>>> >the stroking and not getting stroked, their personal cat analogy is >>>>>> >breaking down, and they start thinking like a human again, but still >>>>>> >retaining a kind of felinious disposition. Some thoughts that might >>>>>> >follow: Andy Warhol was like some kind of mutant future-cat, since he >>>>>> >maintained a feline indifference and inscrutability while never >>>>>> > sleeping >>>>>> >and working constantly; "Sleep" is celluloid-projection-as-cat since >>>>>> > it >>>>>> >has 'bursts of activity' mixed in with the sleeping, and combining >>>>>> > the >>>>>> >two is pretty much the only way to make it from beginning to end >>>>>> > (though >>>>>> >'sleeping' might be more figurative than literal); why am i able to >>>>>> > look >>>>>> >at the screen now for awhile without getting annoyed?; "Sleep" is >>>>>> >celluloid-projection-as-cat since it's indifference to you is >>>>>> >nevertheless amiable enough; hmm, I notice most of the other people >>>>>> > are >>>>>> >watching now too, I wonder what they're thinking?; and so on. The >>>>>> > film >>>>>> >ends. The lights come up, and the audience makes its way out through >>>>>> > the >>>>>> >lobby, passing posters with cat adoption info from the local shelters >>>>>> > and >>>>>> >half a dozen monitors of different types and sizes playing the Turn >>>>>> > Down >>>>>> >For What Cat Video on an endless loop. >>>>>> >(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yfGA6pBFVI) Once the last patron >>>>>> > has >>>>>> >gone, and the program committee is emptying the litter boxes and >>>>>> > rounding >>>>>> >up the cats and putting them back in their carriers, someone will >>>>>> > say, >>>>>> >"Folks, I think we've just set the all-time record for the most >>>>>> > people >>>>>> >who began a screening of 'Sleep' being present at the end." And >>>>>> > someone >>>>>> >else might reply, "Yeah, but Andy might ask 'What fun is that?'" Then >>>>>> >they get distracted by a tuxedo fighting with a tortie screaming >>>>>> > bloody >>>>>> >murder while a midnight black long-hair rubs against their legs. And >>>>>> > when >>>>>> >they return to the question later, they hear the question Warhol >>>>>> > might >>>>>> >have asked in the deadpan tone with which he would have asked it, >>>>>> > which >>>>>> >wasn't a tone expecting an answer, or maybe suggesting that any >>>>>> > answer >>>>>> >would do. "Sleep" doesn't tell you how to watch it, because it >>>>>> > doesn't >>>>>> >care how you watch it, or how you watch it, or what you think about >>>>>> > it, >>>>>> >or anything else. It just presents you with an experience you >>>>>> > probably >>>>>> >can't process within the headspace you brought into the screening >>>>>> > room. >>>>>> >There must be SOME metaphysical significance to what happens after >>>>>> > that, >>>>>> >but I'm too tired to think about it, and this activity burst has come >>>>>> >t... zzzzzzzzz. >>>>>> > >>>>>> >_______________________________________________ >>>>>> >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 >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Benjamin >>>>> >>>>> Benjamin Léon >>>>> >>>>> Ph.D Candidate in Film Studies >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> (Fr) + 33 (0)6 28 07 18 00 >>>>> (US) + 1 (646) - 812 - 0692 >>>>> Skype : benjil75 >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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
