Thank you M. MacDonald! Will surely contribute greatly to my research and others.
Best, Luiz Garcia 2014-11-07 17:05 GMT+01:00 Scott MacDonald <smacd...@hamilton.edu>: > > > *PS Oops, I meant to say Oxford University Press.Sorry!* > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Scott MacDonald <smacd...@hamilton.edu> > wrote: > >> >> >> *Dear Frameworkers,* >> *Here is the Press's description of my new book, AVANT-DOC: Intersections >> of Documentary and Avant-Garde Cinema. The book may be of interest for some >> of you:* >> >> *Avant-Doc*: 23 in-depth interviews exploring the intersections between >> documentary and avant-garde filmmaking. Scott MacDonald reviews early >> overlaps between what have seemed two distinct traditions, then talks with >> seminal figures in the evolution of ethnographic film (Robert Gardner and >> Lucien Castaing-Taylor, founder of Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab, >> avant-doc’s most productive studio) and personal documentary (Ed Pincus, >> Alfred Guzzetti, Ross McElwee, Nina Davenport, Jonathan Caouette) and with >> crucial contributors to the modern European “avant-doc”: Dutch-Indonesian >> Leonard Retel Helmrich, Austrian Michael Glawogger, and Portuguese Susana >> de Sousa Dias. Paweł Wojtasik discusses how a mystical experience freed him >> from depression so that he could realize a cinematic form of perceptual >> transcendence; and Todd Haynes discusses his early faux documentary, >> *Superstar: >> the Karen Carpenter Story* and how his early experiences with >> avant-garde filmmakers and experimental documentaries paved the way for the >> commercial anti-biopic *I’m Not There*. >> >> MacDonald’s interviews with filmmakers who have been working >> for decades create a context for a panorama of discussions about recent >> breakthroughs, including Jane Gillooly’s *Suitcase of Love and Shame*, >> Amie Siegel’s *DDR/DDR*, Alexander Olch’s *The Windmill Movie*, Betzy >> Bromberg’s *Voluptuous Sleep*, Godfrey Reggio’s *Visitors*, >> Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel’s *Leviathan*, Jennifer Proctor’s *A >> Movie by Jen Proctor*, and Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez’s *Manakamana*. >> The 22 filmmaker interviews are preceded by a conversation with Annette >> Michelson about what led to her early championing of documentary pioneer >> Dziga Vertov and avant-garde filmmakers Stan Brakhage, Yvonne Rainer, and >> Hollis Frampton in *Artforum*. An extended discussion of the thinking >> behind Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab concludes the volume. >> >> >> *Best,* >> >> *Scott* >> >> *Scott MacDonald* >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > >
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