''...which was in color and followed a squirrels exploits.'' Maybe it was - "screwy squirrel day"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMRMd46XmJA 2015-05-24 0:45 GMT-04:00 Chuck Kleinhans <[email protected]>: > thanks for sharing > > > > On May 23, 2015, at 2:05 PM, Bernard Roddy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I was at the Chicago Underground Film Festival, where I saw, among other > work,Things, by Ben Rivers. It truck me as several films that should have > been cut and submitted individually. > > I just noticed that Ann Arbor gave it an award. This is not a comment > on the jurors, of course (although we probably need to at least remark on > the prominence of women's voices in these matters, both as jurors in the > case of Ann Arbor and as represented artists, not to mention award > recipients). > > The Rivers work had three parts, I believe. The first, in black and > white and taking interest in grain and abstraction, had nothing to do with > the last, which was in color and followed a squirrels exploits. Am I out > of line if I say, hello . . ? I mean, that last color film (it was a film, > it was a separate film, even if there was the attempt to name each segment > after a season and string the squirrel together with the rest as "summer" > or what) served as the kind of "experiment" that we see in video (a > behavioral experiment, let's be clear here). The first film spliced into > Things was much more about a particular graphic look. It seemed to me that > we were seeing a short loop that contained the kind of scattered crud we > see from in lab work with black and white reversal nowadays. Do you know > what I'm mean? It could not figure out why this stuff was appearing on > work so often now, but Rivers seems to have taken interest in it, or else > just didn't notice the blemish. At any rate, the seasons didn't seem > enough to justify all that time, and now he's got award for it. > > Bernie > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > > > Chuck Kleinhans > [email protected] > > > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > >
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