Ben Rivers - We The People is a great *empty* streets film. On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 8:27 PM, Gene Youngblood <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Andy. A very imaginative piece. > > On Mar 15, 2016, at 3:19 PM, Andy Ditzler <[email protected]> wrote: > > A most astonishing empty-street film is James Nares' "Pendulum," filmed > near the corner of Staple and Jay Streets in NYC, 1976. The occasional > person or car is glimsped on the street as the titular pendulum swings to > and fro, but for the most part the surprising emptiness of the Manhattan > streets is crucial to the film's magical atmosphere. > > A pixleated excerpt, minus the section where the camera is attached to the > pendulum, is here: > http://www.nytimes.com/video/t-magazine/100000001274396/pendulum.html > > Andy Ditzler > > > > Andy Ditzler > Founder and curator, Film Love: www.filmlove.org > Co-founder, John Q collective: www.johnq.org > > > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Gene Youngblood <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Friends, in the last couple of weeks you have generously assisted me in >> finding films with certain content, like shadows, swings, and 360-degree >> camera moves. They’re for two presentations I’m giving in San Francisco >> late April, which I’ll tell you more about as the time approaches. >> Meanwhile, I need two more: >> >> 1. Empty city streets. “The World, Flesh, and the Devil” is an example, >> New York without people. >> >> 2. In Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall” subtitles tell us what he and Diane >> Keaton are really thinking as they talk with one another. I’m drawing a >> blank on another, more recent, film with well known actors that has a >> similar scene. My recollection is that it’s not necessarily intended to be >> humorous, but I could be wrong about that. Any ideas about this or any film >> in which the technique is used? It has to be text on screen, not voice-over >> “inner monologue,” which text represents in these instances. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >> > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > > -- *// // // J E S S E M A L M E D * 505.690.7899 // [email protected] // live to tape <http://livetotapefestival.tumblr.com/> jessemalmed.net <http://www.jessemalmed.net> // deep leap <http://www.deepleap.net> // nightingale <http://nightingalecinema.org/> // trunk show <http://trunk--show.com> // projective verse <http://urbanhonking.com/projectiveverse/> // bad at sports <http://badatsports.com/tags/jesse-malmed/> // acre_tv <http://acretv.org/> // western pole <http://westernpole.tumblr.com> * <http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/trunk-show-jesse-malmed-raven-falquez-munsell-bumper-stickers-eric-fleischauer/Content?oid=15719804>Trunk Show in Newcity <http://art.newcity.com/2015/05/30/portrait-of-a-gallery-trunk-show/>** / **JM on WDCB <https://soundcloud.com/wdcbnews/the-arts-section-chicago-fest>** /** Live to Tape in the Reader <http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2015/05/14/live-to-tape-fest-is-like-if-weird-al-yankovics-uhf-were-a-gallery-installation> / **Trunk Show in the Chicago Reader <http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/trunk-show-jesse-malmed-raven-falquez-munsell-bumper-stickers-eric-fleischauer/Content?oid=15719804> / JM in the Reader <http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2015/01/20/the-next-month-is-the-time-to-catch-the-thriving-local-experimental-video-art-scene> / Gapers Block <http://gapersblock.com/ac/2015/01/25/jesse-malmed-the-film-studies-center/> / South Side Weekly <http://southsideweekly.com/yes-to-humor-no-to-laughs/> / Chicago Tribune Best of 2015 <http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-best-art-2015-ent-1213-20151209-story.html>* *3/4 — SELF-TITLED at ONION CITY <http://www.onioncity.org/>3/5 — Clay Hickson for Trunk Show (Empty Bottle) <https://www.facebook.com/events/1080627485312417/>3/5 — Chicago and Vicinity at Shane Campbell Gallery <http://www.shanecampbellgallery.com/chicago-and-vicinity-2016>3/10 — THAW CHOIR, Links Hall Benefit <http://linkshall.org/THAWX/tabid/299/Default.aspx>3/12 — UNTITLED (JUST KIDDING) at the Madison Public Library <http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/events/jesse-malmed-presents-untitled-just-kidding-52377>3/13 — THE FIERY PART OF FIRE (Cameron Gibson at the Nightingale <https://www.facebook.com/events/900629636718483>)*
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