Ah!  Thanks for this tale.  I'll share it with students.

I like this film; not what I expect from Viola; nice to see this. 

On Mar 1, 2016, at 7:35 PM, Gene Youngblood <ato...@comcast.net> wrote:

> Right! I forgot about that one. He did it by suspending the camera from a 
> ceiling fan. The cable wrapped around the fan until it wouldn’t rotate any 
> more, then he reversed the direction of the fan and video’d until it wrapped 
> up again. He hung the camera so that the orbit wouldn’t be a perfect circle. 
> He put the microphone in a trash can so the voices sound distant.
> 
> 
>> On Mar 1, 2016, at 5:25 PM, John Muse <jm...@sonic.net> wrote:
>> 
>> One more, because I'm watching it now!  Bill Viola's Sweet Light: many 360's 
>> around a candle in the center of a table. 
>> 
>> On Feb 24, 2016, at 9:55 PM, Gene Youngblood <ato...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks again, all, for these suggestions. It seems the subject is of 
>>> interest to Frameworkers. We saw Peter Greenaway’s “Eisenstein in 
>>> Guanajuato” today. It’s a mess overall, but it does have some very 
>>> inventive circular camera moves, all the more interesting for the way 
>>> they’re edited. One scene alternates rapidly between 360-degree dollies and 
>>> pans in one space, something I hadn’t seen before.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Feb 24, 2016, at 10:04 AM, Salise Hughes <salise.hug...@gmail.com> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> It's been a while since I've seen Fassbender's Whity, but I remember an 
>>>> inverted 380 tracking shot focused on the exchange of cash, the moment 
>>>> love turned to commerce. 
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 10:13 PM, salise.hug...@gmail.com 
>>>> <salise.hug...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Fassbender's Whity (1971).
>>>> 
>>>> ----- Reply message -----
>>>> From: "Hardin, Ted" <thar...@colum.edu>
>>>> To: "Experimental Film Discussion List" <frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com>
>>>> Subject: [Frameworks] 360 degrees
>>>> Date: Tue, Feb 23, 2016 8:27 pm
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s fondness for this technique was on display at 
>>>> the Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin last year.  Here’s a list of films that 
>>>> were displayed:  “Another room in Fassbinder – JETZT is dedicated to one 
>>>> of Fassbinder’s favoured formal techniques: the 360 degree tracking shot. 
>>>> Scenes from Rio das Mortes (1970), World on a Wire(1973), Martha (1973), 
>>>> Chinese Roulette (1976), Berlin Alexanderplatz (1979/80), and Querelle 
>>>> (1982) play on a loop on a hanging screen.”
>>>> 
>>>> ‘Chinese Roulette’ has my favorite 720 degree tracking shot through glass 
>>>> shelves.
>>>> 
>>>> The write up:  
>>>> http://berlinfilmjournal.com/2015/08/petrified-fassbinder-jetzt-annotated/ 
>>>> 
>>>> ‘Martha’  clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z0tVsI-63g
>>>> 
>>>> Ted Hardin
>>>> Columbia College Chicago
>>>> 
>>>>> On Feb 23, 2016, at 8:10 PM, Fred Camper <f...@fredcamper.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> A handheld 360 movement around two young men kissing in an obvious homage 
>>>>> to the "Vertigo" kiss appears in Warren Sonbert's first film, 
>>>>> "Amphetamine."
>>>>> 
>>>>> Fred Camper
>>>>> Chicago
>>>>> 
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>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> Salise Hughes
>>>> Artist, Filmmaker, Armchair Anthropologist
>>>> 
>>>> http://salisehughes.blogspot.com
>>>> https://vimeo.com/user1421998
>>>> 
>>>> 
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