And I only saw a single program. On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 3:22 PM My Gmail <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Bernie - thanks so much for your interest in Basement Films‘ > Experiments in Cinema! ...just a couple quick clarifications - our event > has always featured an international mix of media artists (this is not new) > and each year we screen works from about 35 countries. in our Zoom > conversations we were particularly happy to host artists from locals who > might not otherwise have had the resources to travel to EIC ( had this been > a “normal” year). Also know that our event has never been an academic > event, even though I taught at the University of New Mexico (I just > retired). EIC has always been a Basement Films activity. Thanks everyone > out there in TV Land for tuning in - our programming will be online FREE > till June 22. > Cheers, > Bryan konefsky > Founder/Director, Experiments in Cinema > > Sent from my smarty pants fone > > > On Jun 13, 2020, at 1:56 PM, Bernard Roddy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Paul Tarragó showed a film shot in Super 8. It was also black and white. > > And I would add that it seemed to me to maximize the look of large > > grain as well. Various dimensions of the film sought to identify it > > with this past now receding so quickly, the format and grain and all. > > > > All of this was interesting because I have seen his work and > > think of him as a very proficient digital artist. Tarragó said > > in the Zoom discussion that he made three films last year, which > > announces a prolific practice. I will remember him for how prepared > > he was to make whatever compromises seemed necessary to submit work, > > and to consider the different possible venues that might be most > > appropriate for a given work. I think of Tarragó as basically doing > little > > else but make films, and of never really facing any crisis about that. > > > > > > Discussion placed emphasison considerations that a young practitioner > > might want to be thinking about. Elena Duque said she also had a film > > shot in Super 8 that she was ready to digitize. This was on the prompt > > from Bryan to speak about any new projects they are up to. I was > imagining > > the artist who could not say what was next. But Wenhua Shi was able to > > answer by talking about teaching and about the progress his colleagues > are > > making in preparing to hold the RPM Film Festival in Boston. > > > > Soetkin Verstegen's film involved a focus on the action of moving > > a large chunk of ice. I found this very satisfying to watch. > > Wenhua Shi's film also gave prominence to the human form, > > only this time of a slim Asian woman who has a beautiful arm. > > There is a dwelling on the particulars of human locomotion in these > > films that one might recognize in early cinema. > > > > I also liked Magorzata Bosek-Serafinska's film. This was the > > piece in which a lot of wrappers and tickets were manipulated on a > > plane surface for their visual interest. It is, to an extent, a > > continuous process,but it was also a narrative about someone who > > smokes. A Marlboro pack provides a kind of design basis for one > > segment of the work, and a Winston pack for another. The work > > identified five or six months, arranging the film in segments that > > were so named, and the film included brief lines in text suggesting > > the progression of the smoker's life, health, or care. > > > > Nothing of Bergson could be remotely relevant for any of this. The work > > was for me a particularly dramatic shift away from any interest in > narrative. > > I was thinking today that narrative might have more to do with computing. > > > > But I also thought it was interesting to think about who was able or > > interested in taking part in the Zoom. There is a very palpable interest > > in internationalizing the festival, a mark of academic funding (though I > hope > > this doesn't appear to be a critique). The work selected might also begin > > to acquire certain internationalizable qualities (as we might expect, > for > > example, when very different cultures are exchanging a product a great > deal > > and there isn't necessarily the means to become particularly familiar > with > > the low-level activities of people who live and breathe there: a > McDonaldization, > > for lack of a better word). > > > > [I don't know what's going on with the formating of this message.] > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > FrameWorks mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >
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