Just thinking of found footage: Ina Archer's *Hattie McDaniel: Or a Credit to the Motion Picture Industry* from 2002 . I put together a program last year for the Northwest Film Center that focused on artists of color re-purposing / re-enacting footage, both male and female (but fwiw, I am a white woman): https://miacooperferm.com/filmprogramming/reconstructingidentity/
>From Akosua Adoma Owusu, others have mentioned her, *Bus Nut* and *Intermittent Delight * Jennifer Chan also works a lot of with internet-sourced footage. Sincerely, Mia Ferm On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 11:37 AM, jimmyschaus1 <jimmysch...@gmail.com> wrote: > if i recall correctly cauleen smith's Chronicles of a Lying Spirit (by > Kelly Gabron), shown as part of the traveling canyon program that played > chicago recently, utilized a lot of still photographic ephemera (photos, > magazine clippings, notes etc.) > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 1:29 PM Chrissie Iles, Curatorial < > chrissie_i...@whitney.org> wrote: > >> Arthur Jafa said recently “If you point a camera at a Black person, on a >> psychoanalytical level it functions as a White gaze. It therefore triggers >> a whole set of survival modalities that Black Americans have. It doesn’t >> matter if a Black person is behind the camera or not, because the camera >> itself functions as an instrument of the White gaze. In other words, it’s >> recording evidence of people speaking; hence there are certain things you >> can say, certain things you can’t say.” There are profound implications for >> black filmmakers’ use of found footage and collage in A.J.’s observation. >> Here are some suggestions. 1,3,5, 6 and 9 are in the Whitney’s collection; >> the others are in the process of being acquired. >> >> >> >> Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley’s film, though two white women, is also >> important to mention, and is an important counterpoint to the sexist >> imagery of ‘A Movie’ and other similar collage films of the time. >> >> >> >> 1. Ja’Tovia Gary’s ‘An Ecstatic Experience’ (on show at the >> Whitney for the past nine months in ‘An Incomplete History of Protest’) >> >> >> >> 2. Crystal Z. Campbell, ‘Go-Rilla Means War’ (2017) (collaged from >> a discarded 35mm film found in a former black civil rights movie theater in >> Brooklyn) >> >> >> >> 3. Akusoa Adoma Owusu, ‘Split Ends (I Feel Wonderful)’ (2012) made >> from 1970s found footage of black women’s hair salons in New York, collaged >> images and soundtrack >> >> >> >> 4. Yulan Grant, ‘Dis/Place’ >> >> >> >> 5. Diamond Stingily, ‘How Did he Die?’ (2016) >> >> >> >> 6. Phillip Mallory Jones, ‘No Crystal Stair’ (1976) – viewable on >> Vimeo >> >> >> >> 7. Tony Cokes, ‘Black Celebration’, 1988 >> >> >> >> 8. Theaster Gates, Do you hear me calling? (Mama Mamama or What Is >> Black Power?) 2018 – an installation using historical collaged footage >> >> >> >> 9. Raphael Ortiz, ‘ “Cowboy” and “Indian” Film’ 1957-1958 – very >> early example of an indigenous voice critiquing the racist Hollywood >> portrayal of native Americans using collaged film clips. >> >> >> >> 10. Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley’s ‘Schmeergunz’, 1966 >> >> >> >> 11. John Akomfrah (several of his films are currently being shown in >> his New Museum surveyin New York) >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* FrameWorks <frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com> *On Behalf >> Of *Warren Cockerham >> *Sent:* Thursday, August 30, 2018 1:50 PM >> *To:* Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com> >> *Subject:* Re: [Frameworks] Conner/Marker and women of color suggestions >> >> >> >> Also Cauleen Smith (along with lots of other chicago-based folks) was >> commissioned a few years back to make a short piece from their collection.. >> this is it: >> >> >> >> Songs for Earh and Folk <https://vimeo.com/71024774> >> >> >> >> she has at least one other found footage short... I don't think it's >> readily available .. called T Minus Two >> >> >> >> >> >> also Buki Bodunrin's >> >> >> >> even when live is sad people still have a good time >> <http://www.adebukolabodunrin.com/even-when-life-is-sad/> uh... made >> in Roger Beebe's 16mm class circa 2005... >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 1:30 PM, Beebe, Roger W. <beebe...@osu.edu> >> wrote: >> >> I just saw An Ecstatic Experience by Ja’Tovia Gary for the second time >> last weekend at the Columbus Black International Film Festival & think it’s >> really doing interesting work with found footage: >> >> >> >> http://www.jatovia.com/an-ecstatic-experience-new/ >> >> >> >> Not a black woman, but equally worthy of attention is Christopher >> Harris’s “Reckless Eyeballing”: >> >> >> >> https://www.viennale.at/en/films/reckless-eyeballing [Chris, where’s >> your website??? Couldn’t find it with a quick google search…] >> >> >> >> As for composition & sequence, again not a black woman (just a woman), >> but I showed Katherin McInnis’s “Hat Trick” in my intro film production >> class to set up a flip book assignment this week, and I think the way she >> uses contact sheets of found images could be really interesting for both >> conversations: >> >> >> >> https://vimeo.com/98387497 >> >> >> >> And Jen Proctor’s remake of Bruce Conner’s “A Movie” is already becoming >> a classic of the genre (for the YouTube era): >> >> >> >> https://vimeo.com/11531028 >> >> >> >> Lots of non-white-dude options out there… >> >> Roger >> >> >> >> On Aug 30, 2018, at 11:30 AM, David Sherman <davidgatessher...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> In a university production course have shown both Conner's "A Movie" as >> a prompt for student found footage editing assignment and Marker's "La >> Jete" for photographic composition and sequencing. I would be grateful for >> suggestions of short works by specifically women of color that could be >> used as I mentioned above. >> >> Many thanks, >> >> David >> >> >> >> -- >> >> David Sherman >> >> 520-366-1573 >> >> www.explodedviewgallery.org >> >> www.davidshermanfilms.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >> > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > > -- *Cinema Project* www.cinemaproject.org 971-266-0085 PO Box 5991 Portland, OR 97228
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