Invoking all these other people is specious. It's still not clear what your point is.... "the real dominance of women"?
Sent from my iPhone > On May 25, 2015, at 6:37 AM, Bernard Roddy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Chris, I didn't intend a connection between the objection to recognition for > the film and the observation about the presence of women at festivals. > > But do you remember Cari Machet? So often the exchanges on this list raise > interesting questions that are quite incidental to anything anyone might want > to stand by. I mean, the effect of the list is (this is an idea I remember > Laurie Anderson identifying in an interview years ago, one I happened to have > on an old VHS tape), the effect of writing like this is to give the > impression of being committed to something (compare the experience we might > have live, where it would not have such an effect). Anyway, Gene Youngblood > gets called out on a remark that invites a feminist protest, and Cari, who > had long been on this list and who means so much to it, seemed to get caught > up in . . in what . . a flaming pattern (but Chris, didn't we love that, I > mean isn't there a need for flaming, even if we really don't want the time > for it?). > > So in passing I had to comment on the real dominance of women . . But I > don't want to commit to more than what I might be held to if I were to say > that in passing over a beer, I don't want to be taken back to it and have to > find a defence for some generalization. I couldn't defend anything other > than an impression, an impression that was perhaps partly a result of my > selection of programs to attend, partly a result of the names that surface on > the juries or for awards. I could, of course, look for reasons to rebut > myself. But if you were there . . if you were at the night of Jennifer > Reeder's film, as I said to Naz ouside (she who won an award at Chicago), I'm > lost. I'm lost with respect to whether it makes any sense to be thinking > about advocating for anything. And I am reminded of women artists who find > it annoying that such a thing as gender would be introduced so easily, > perhaps so thoughtlessly, when discussing their work, for example. (But then > we have the kind of thing that Youngblood raised, something that is really > very strange, and really fires us up, even if he may be a sweetheart or > something, I wouldn't know). > > But the remarks on the film, Things, came to me all of a sudden when I > happened to pass the page for Ann Arbor, which I only looked at yesterday > briefly (I had just sent a link of a Raczynska page to a new friend). > > > > > > Bernie > > _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
