There are definitely parallels with the videos I think, I like the appearance of the body even when it's absented; even the drawings appear like bodies. I think your editing and sound brings them home. There's also something about gritty b&w - years ago I was teaching at UCLA and for a year I made a film a week in 16mm, mostly sound; these remind me of the feeling, the materiality. I used Auricon news cameras with sound-on-film and did all my editing in-camera, running the film at times several times through the camera, adding to the sound etc.
Best, Alan, thanks- On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 2:57 PM Simon Mclennan via NetBehaviour < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Alan! > Well I do tend to get lost on top of being lost etc.. ha ha and lose the > compass. > > I was interested in the visceral and obsessive nature of my drawing work > from 90 through to around 96, when I > was chalking the beetle motifs on pavements with Heath and then Ray > Baskerville a butoh performer, for a while, then it led to the little super > 8 film.. after moving > onto paper with charcoal. > After a while I felt a bit better. > mental health seemed a factor - albeit disguised as “art” ha ha > each motif was given a name for a made-up mental disorder, a bit like the > doctors do every year. They > have a junket and make new ones up - to sell the pharma products I think. > Names were like Sad Hat Dentia and Cornea Jettison Syndrome. > So each drawing was a new in-that-moment-of-being diagram or sigil or > signpost, with a new name, for the catalogue of human disorders. > It was real, but was presented as a parody or satire. > > I might get back to that animation thing again I guess… after your show of > interest Alan! > > Do we have some parrallels in our work do you think? Marc thought so for > Prometheus. Good on you Marc! > > Cheers, > > Simon > > > > > On 8 Sep 2020, at 19:22, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Really like all of this greatly! I'm surprised - are you still working in > this direction? They're wonderful, they transcend their medium! > > Thank you! - Alan > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 10:54 AM Simon Mclennan via NetBehaviour < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Mmm, yes often it is slow, however there are no real boundaries from what >> I’ve seen and those >> dancers I have worked with. >> >> Atsushi Takenouchi performed in Hove Park near my house a few years ago. >> We attended. He moved at many different speeds. >> >> Following are some films I made after my experience of seeing butoh and >> attending workshops in London and Brighton >> and being married at the time to a butoh dancer/teacher - Carolina Diaz. >> >> The workshops allowed me to feel my body in a rather immediate and >> powerful sense, while becoming aware of how >> I wanted to move my body. Like an unfolding of myself in time and space! >> In a small way I began to feel myself in >> the moment so to speak. It felt like a very powerful practice. >> >> I think it appeared in Japan around the same time as the Gutai >> expressionist movement (1950s), which I see as possibly related indirectly. >> >> Caveo Vestri Mens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTSG8cHANSA >> >> Glass Flesh Kiss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUwsKgLh1HE >> >> The drawings I made in Glass Flesh Kiss were a decade prior to this film. >> They are around 300 A4 charcoal drawings in negative, >> filmed on B&W reversal super8 film, scanned and reversed. >> The soundtrack I made using piano, guitar and reversed human voice >> recordings, written to accompany the completed >> visual material of that film. >> >> Thanks Alan for the interest! >> >> Simon >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On 8 Sep 2020, at 14:52, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> quite like this. the Butoh seems 'fast' in comparison to other I have >> seen. >> have you done more work like this? Best, Alan >> >> On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 5:02 AM Simon Mclennan via NetBehaviour < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> https://youtu.be/W3MyDDc1SVY >>> Thought this could be aired again - from 2015. >>> >>> Filmed performance of The Advocates of Dereliction. >>> Featuring >>> Carolina Diaz - butoh dance, choreography, costume. >>> Mark Anthony Whiteford -Saxophone, voice, tapes, percussion, texts. >>> Simon Mclennan - camera, editing. >>> >>> 2015 - Portslade, Sussex. >>> >>> From a single long improvisation. >>> The sub-section titles concept in the film are from Carolina Diaz. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Simon >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Sent from my spyphone >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> >> >> >> -- >> *=====================================================* >> >> *directory http://www.alansondheim.org <http://www.alansondheim.org/> tel >> 718-813-3285**email sondheim ut panix.com <http://panix.com/>, sondheim >> ut gmail.com <http://gmail.com/>* >> *=====================================================* >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > > > -- > *=====================================================* > > *directory http://www.alansondheim.org <http://www.alansondheim.org/> tel > 718-813-3285**email sondheim ut panix.com <http://panix.com/>, sondheim > ut gmail.com <http://gmail.com/>* > *=====================================================* > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- *=====================================================* *directory http://www.alansondheim.org <http://www.alansondheim.org> tel 718-813-3285**email sondheim ut panix.com <http://panix.com>, sondheim ut gmail.com <http://gmail.com>* *=====================================================*
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