Bernie, I used Peter Hutton's films in my university courses for forty years. I put them in context by showing students, Peter's films with paintings by Monet. Filmmaking in celluloid or in a digital format is about light and motion at its base. Artists such as Peter Hutton or Claude Monet or James Benning are artists who look carefully at the world. As Benning says "Going out and observing and reporting back." Peter's study of natural light and motion are unique in cinema. Good art makes places for us to go. Peter's films took you to a place the other night. It took the couple in front of you there too. You've never been there before. Come back again.
John Knecht On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 2:03 PM, Bernard Roddy <[email protected]> wrote: > Frameworkers! I don't know who you are, but . . . It's like the > letters my father writes that I never answer. They just keep coming, > even as I throw them directly in the trash. What, then, is it to > write someone, anyway? > > But Peter Hutton work screened at Nightingale. And I wonder, well: > > What does this have to do with higher education? That wasn't the > first thing, though. It was, is this still acceptable? It was funny, > after the show - all totally silent - I had to think of André Kertész > photographs. Is this even experimental? The girl in the seat in > front of me rested her head on her boyfriend's shoulder. It was an > experience resembling a service of some kind. The show was very well > attended. I'm not just saying that. And understandably so, because > the experience is hard to get! It's in film, for god's sake, and it > couldn't possibly be otherwise - it's pure, it's committed to this > extremely disciplined style. You could think, you could wait, and > there was never anything to distract you . . (I'm thinking of the > river film and the Polish city film) . . But then there's that what > does this have to do with higher education? Can this really be part > of a course of study? That's where I lose it. > > Bernie > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > -- John Knecht, Russell Colgate Distinguished University Professor of Art and Art History and Film and Media Studies. Emeritus.
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