Hi, Here is a link to a trailer of my film dedicated to the Whitney Brothers: https://vimeo.com/72089241. Give me your private e-mail and I will send you a link to the full version.
Marcin Gizycki mgizy...@hotmail.com From: Kasper Lauritzen Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2015 12:26 PM To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Subject: [Frameworks] Contemporary films in James Whitney or Syncretismtradition? Dear Frameworks readers, I'm a university student in Denmark who's currently researching on experimental film for a project application, and I was hoping some of you might have some recommendations for contemporary works. Right now I'm trying to trace some classic "genres" or "forms" to contemporary times to see how their technique and technology have expanded and how the forms have developed. So far I have been looking at the hand-painted film and how it has been expanded by optical printing (for example in the late Stan Brakhage's collaborations with Sam Bush) and other kinds of re-photographing (for example Stephanie Maxwell's working process). Another interest has been Jodie Mack whose work with animating textiles I link to the "hyper-animation" principle behind Robert Breer's "Eye Wash", but which also draws on graphic design, theory of ornament and more. Anyway, there are two more "forms" where I was hoping some of you could recommend some contemporary films that work in and explore these traditions. The first is the sort of "atomized animation" form that is known from James Whitney's "Yantra" and "Lapis" (and to some extent Jordan Belson's "Allures"). What I mean by that is works where the image is atomized into some sort of "particles" that move through regular mathetical paths and result in shape-shifting patterns. The important thing is that the particles shift between order and disorder within seconds, while maintaining a sense of mathematical system "below" them. I know that Wiley Wiggins has made some Whitney-inspired animations (for example one called "Catalog" - https://vimeo.com/13882251 ) but I was wondering who else is out there. The other "form" is the classical Brakhage style where the screen provides a continuous synthesis of images where different 'realms' are juxtaposed and transcended - for example the micro- and macro-scopic, the inside and outside of an object, different material status (photographed, hand-painted, computer-generated, or others, and these in combination), and so on. This form is related to what Youngblood calls "syncretism" in "Expanded Cinema". The latest example I could find of this was Brakhage's "Yggdrasil" (1997) but I was hoping to find some later works, perhaps even by younger generations of filmmakers. Just to specify, by "comtemporary" I mean works produced in this century, and I'm hoping to find films that have their own artistic vision with the form rather than just making tributes. All help will be appreciated :) Best regards, Kasper -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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