Re: [Frameworks] Kodak Film Stocks to be Discontinued, Announced in December

2014-08-30 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Alex Balkam wrote: > It may be time for Frameworks to consider contacting the higher ups at Kodak > to express the importance that the less industrial, less Hollywood products > really need to be maintained during this challenging time in order that we > can continue to expose young filmmakers

[Frameworks] Daylight Spools, and 16mm activism: Anyone? (Buehler?)

2014-08-31 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> The daylight spool issue is important. I always try to remember to ask the > lab to return them otherwise they keep them and sell them. > I don't know how things are in the UK or US at present, but back in the last decade when I was spooling off 400' cores onto 100' daylight loads for my stu

Re: [Frameworks] CAPTURING DVD

2014-09-13 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
MPEG Streamclip will not do the job alone for commercial DVDs. They're copy protected. Capturing clips from them for educational/scholarly purposes is Fair Use, but the technology to defeat the copy protection is illegal. AFAIK, there are only two current Mac apps that rip copy-protected discs:

Re: [Frameworks] CAPTURING DVD

2014-09-13 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> Most of the DVDs I've come across aren't copy protected, but it's still a two > step process. Handbrake, which is freeware will rip the NTSC DVD to a mpeg 4 > format, then I use mpeg streamclip to make a mov file. With PAL DVD you can > rip it with just mpeg streamclip. That's a poor workflow

Re: [Frameworks] DVR compression

2014-09-15 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> I assume that video recorded on a satellite DVR receiver is compressed much > more than on a DVD, right? Not necessarily. Some DVDs are much more compressed than others. Satellite receivers are getting MPEG2 streams, the same basic data format as DVD. I'm not sure exactly how much bandwidth i

Re: [Frameworks] Bolex EL Power question

2014-09-18 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
If it shows as charged, and then runs the camera at all just not well, does it still show as charged after that? A bad cable would likely produce intermittent power, not weak power. . The thing to do is isolate the source of the problem. Don't go out an get your battery recelled until you

Re: [Frameworks] Bolex EL Power question

2014-09-18 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> Ooof. Sorry, I was imagining a battery belt. Sorry, I think my info is bad. Any NiCAD/NiMH battery is made up of a number of individual cells, whether it be configured as belt or brick. !2V almost always = 10 cells at 1.2V ea. The only kind of battery that comes as one big singular thing is S

Re: [Frameworks] Constructing A Foley / Sound Studio

2014-11-07 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Matt: I doubt you'll find good models at other schools. In my travels, college sound facilities have either been created from the ground up as part of an expensive building project, or jury rigged into some existing space so cheaply and poorly they're barely worth having. If you can find any sc

Re: [Frameworks] experimental/handcrafted animation

2014-11-11 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Kelly: I highly recommend the work of Jeanne Stern: http://jeannestern.com/films.html > I'm finalizing a syllabus for an upcoming handcrafted animation course... I'm > especially looking for work made by women... ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@

Re: [Frameworks] 16mm/Super8 Screening & Panel Discussion @ NYPL Jefferson Market Library

2014-11-11 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Cherry-picking a definition from Google will not do for prescriptive lexicopraphy: > of, relating to, or being a mechanism in which data is represented by > continuously variable physical quantities http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/analog A photochemical film frame is an analog reprod

Re: [Frameworks] pan across cut

2014-11-24 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
AFAIK there's no specific term for that. It would fall under the general category of "Graphic Match" rather than 'Match On Action'. An MOA smooths out an edit from one shot scale to another that takes place within continuous screen-space and screen-time. Like all film technique terms, the appli

Re: [Frameworks] Experimental shorts with science-fiction themes?

2015-01-12 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
The obvious but not yet mentioned: Sins of the Fleshapoids - Mike Kuchar Science Friction (and other works) - Stan Van Der Beek America is Waiting, Mongoloid, Cosmic Ray, Mea Culpa - Bruce Conner ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com

Re: [Frameworks] HIGH SCHOOL workflow

2015-01-14 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Jeff: > B&W neg, quite clearly, probably Kodak Double-X Would they have pushed the stock? My impression has always been that Direct Cinema first generation looked pretty crappy to begin with because they were getting a lot of grain and getting grayer blacks etc, to shoot with available light.

Re: [Frameworks] Books on the History of Avant-Garde film in US

2015-01-30 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Juan Suarez, Bike Boys, Drag Queens and Superstars, Indiana U Press, 1996 [essential, imho] ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks

Re: [Frameworks] Films on nuclear energy, The Cold War, utopia

2015-02-27 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> -utopia Sins of the Fleshapoids, and of course, Zardoz. > -nuclear energy/war > -The Cold War Cristopher Maclaine: The End (essential) Lots of Conner besides Crossroads: A Movie; Cosmic Ray; America is Waiting; Report Craig Baldwin: Wild Gunman, RocketKitKongoKit, Tribulation 99, ¡O No Coron

Re: [Frameworks] Response to Gene Youngblood

2015-03-31 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Chill out, people! This is a Listserv. People write short posts quickly, and hit 'Send'. "Rhetorical excess" comes with the territory as we dash off our thoughts w/o reflecting deeply about whether our wording will read to others with the meanings they had for us when they popped into our head

Re: [Frameworks] Is there any editing pattern on "Critical Mass" by Hollis Frampton?

2015-04-22 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> Watching the film one could assumed Frampton followed a random process but > i'm not sure about it. It's not random at all. IIRC, both the length of all the cuts and the advance between cuts are numbers of frames with some 'significance', e.g. I think the shots may all be ~ 40 frames / 1 foot

Re: [Frameworks] Battery for super-8 Beaulieu 4008ZM4

2015-04-22 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
When looking to re-power any Beaulieu, remember the original batterie were made from no-obsolete NiCad cells. If you're going to the expense and effort of re-celling a battery, you sure don't want to wind up with NiCads -- low capacity and the dreaded memory effect. At a minimum, you'd want NiMH

Re: [Frameworks] Compression Codecs

2015-05-28 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
If you're doing a screen capture to create footage from Google Maps, the resolution of the image, the frame-rate, and the compression codec will all be determined by the capture program. If you tell us what software you're using to create the original files, and with what settings, we can help y

Re: [Frameworks] sound examples in film + video

2015-06-15 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
For Hollywood film, 'Die Hard' ia masterpiece of sound production. The SFX carry a huge amount of information, tone and style, and (naturally) they're all post-production, including lots of Foley. I heard the lead Foley artist give a talk on it as part of an audio-art series many moons ago, and

Re: [Frameworks] countryside film

2015-07-13 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
An experimentalish narrative feature: The Draughtsman's Contract > Maybe those early 70s S8 films of the British countryside by Derek Jarman, I > always feel they contain menace in the pastoral views. ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfil

Re: [Frameworks] countryside film

2015-07-13 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Experimental filmmakers don't seem to get out of the city that much, and when they do they're more likely to wax rhapsodic on 'nature'. I'm not sure "the violence and ignorance that reign in the little villages" is something most experimental makers would have cred handling, w/o condescendingly

Re: [Frameworks] Kid-friendly films?

2015-07-13 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> So far my go-to is usually "Neighbours" by McLaren, and "Dr. Strangelove" for > a good narrative that won't get me in trouble.. If all the references to sex in 'Strangelove' -- and, you know, the apocalypse -- are no trouble, you could show just about anything... I'm not sure '12 and up' is w

Re: [Frameworks] 16fps 16mm projectors?

2015-08-03 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
I don't know of any specific models, but since 16fps was once the standard, there must be really old 'silent only' projectors that run at that speed, yes? I vaguely recall that some sound projectors can be made to run at 16fps by changing a pulley. I'm guessing they wouldn't be Elmos or Eikis th

Re: [Frameworks] 16fps 16mm projectors?

2015-08-07 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> It is in fact 'Sleep' that we'll be showing in Austin, TX in October; I'm not > hopeful that I'll be able to find two functioning 16fps projectors locally... > I got an email from someone encouraging me to instead use four projectors, as > it would cut the screening time in half. So...Why two

Re: [Frameworks] 16fps 16mm projectors?

2015-08-07 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
>> Related random Factory-al thought: How about a screening where two bowls of >> pills are placed on a table to one side of the screen, one containing >> Adderall tabs, the other Klonopin? Thus other audience members could see who >> goes for which pills and when... > Umthat would be a fed

Re: [Frameworks] NEW DIRECTOR NEEDED for Millennium Film Workshop

2015-09-26 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Francisco Torres wrote: >> I figured it couldn't be that bad, that I could surely draw inspiration from >> artists with a lifetime of experience, and that it could enrich my practice >> and inspire me. > > Do people really talk like THAT? Is this guy for real? Hmmm. Maybe not. Could be a troll

Re: [Frameworks] High-definition frame grabs

2015-10-03 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> My concern in the matter of film stills is not making money, but having the > films reasonably well represented. This is kind of a moot point for images used to illustration a point in an academic essay published in a journal or book. They will appear as a halftone with a max screen of mayb

Re: [Frameworks] Any DVD

2015-10-09 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> 1. Is there a Mac equivalent of Any DVD? Yes. It's called Fairmount. It was once available as a standalone, but is now incorporated into Mac DVD Ripper Pro: http://www.macdvdripperpro.com/ (not to be confused with MacX DVD Ripper Pro...) > which allows you, for example, to play PAL DVDs withou

Re: [Frameworks] K3 crank modifications?

2015-11-01 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Yup. K3s are REALLY hard to crank. > Has anyone developed a modification to get a better grip and/or leverage when > cranking the K3?? I don't think a better grip would help much. It's basically a leverage problem. The spring is stiff, and the little crank is close to the center axis: compare

Re: [Frameworks] Sound ? from an Eikie

2015-11-01 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Yes! That looks like EXACTLY what you need, and that's a good price for a readymade box. Connecting a 16mm projector with only a speaker jack to an audio system usually requires TWO things, and the Rolls box offers both: 1. An attenuator circuit to drop the output level from the speaker and mat

Re: [Frameworks] Tech help - extracting clips from DVDs

2015-11-03 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> I have a relatively new Mac laptop and I've uninstalled/reinstalled both > programs. Be aware that every new release of the Mac OS breaks old reliable tools for ripping clips from DVDs. MPEG Streamclip doesn't work past 10.6. There are a few dozen or more similar software packages sold by a

Re: [Frameworks] experimental cinema and the anthropocene

2015-12-07 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> Some of Brakhage's animal studies might fit -- such as "The Domain of the > Moment" or "The Presence" Actually my first thought was that a lot of Brakhage could be appropriate – c.f. the famous opening of 'Metaphors on Vision' Adventures in perception, the un-tutored eye seeing as before the

Re: [Frameworks] Shower scenes...

2016-01-06 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Don't know if they've already been mentioned: Showers: Eastern Promises, Starship Troopers, The Faculty Baths: Goldfinger, Fatal Attraction, Slither ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo

Re: [Frameworks] Experimental Films on Farming/ Agriculture

2016-01-15 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Chuck Statler - 'Ain't We Havin' Fun' definitely Werner Herzog = 'How Much Wood Could A Woodchuck Chuck' maybe > Any suggestions on avant-garde/experimental films that deal with any aspects > of farming/gardening/plant or animal agriculture? ___ Fra

Re: [Frameworks] SCOOPIC 16 battery recalling (Spain/Europe)

2016-01-19 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Making DIY Scoopic battery packs is pretty easy. I made a .pdf: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pdfzutv84jcj370/scooby.pdf?dl=0 Original Scoopic packs used NiCad cells, which less run time than the newer NiMH cells, and also have 'the memory effect' which NiMH doesn't. Even if you revel an original

Re: [Frameworks] Buying a VCR in 2016

2016-02-04 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Check thrift stores that let you return electronics (usually just for store credit) if it doesn't work: Salvation Army and Goodwill usually do. Thrift stores are where all VHS decks go to die – and the stores just want to move them, so they price the good ones the same as the crappy ones. For di

Re: [Frameworks] Ganon GL-2 minidv camcorder repair

2016-02-22 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
I have no experience with either of those shops, but I'll offer some general comment on video gear service. Over the years, I had nothing but problems with local, independent shops that were listed as service facilities for my geographic area by the manufacturer. I resolved to only send repair w

Re: [Frameworks] Annette Michelson and Peter Gidal

2016-02-23 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
I've been thinking, about the original query from John Muse in light of the follow-up query about Michelson, doing some wild-ass speculating. Mark's post (he certainly knows WAY more about this than I do) suggests my imaginings are at least not grossly inconsistent with known facts. And my concl

Re: [Frameworks] Annette Michelson and Peter Gidal

2016-02-23 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> My notion of "including Ono and Ackerman [sic]" is, you're right, wrongheaded. Sorry if the double-negative was unclear, but I was saying including those makers is NOT wrongheaded at all. The gag (I was going for a bot o' irony) was that your thinking that doing so 'went against the grain' was

Re: [Frameworks] 360 degrees

2016-02-23 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Folks, Gene asked for 360° _tracking_ shots, not pans. Is there an old DePalma film that DOESN'T have one? I can't recall if any of the 'bullet time' slo-mo shots in the Matrix films, or subsequent action films that aped that technique, went all the way around But I'm guessing there are example

Re: [Frameworks] seamless media player recommendations?

2016-02-27 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> if you are coming from a Mac, the media players are all Windows-formatted Not true. I have an old Seagate FreeAgent Theater+ HD media player that reads HFS+ (Mac) hard drives and thumb drives. It also goes directly from the end of one file to the next alphabetically w/o putting any display on

Re: [Frameworks] (nostalgia) versions...

2016-03-05 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> each segment has a slightly different length. About ten years ago, I was showing (nostalgia) in class, pondering the duration of the shots, looking at a watch occasionally as the edits went by, and I had a kind of revelation: Each shot is a 100' load. I don't know if any one's written about

Re: [Frameworks] recording audio from a Pageant

2016-03-10 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
I don't have the OP, only Scott's reply, so I'm not sure what setup is desired, But, in general, getting audio from a Pageant into a line-level input on recording gear is more than just connecting cables: you'll want an in-line isolation transformer to avoid ground loop hum, and a simple attenua

Re: [Frameworks] two more

2016-03-10 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> Empty city streets. Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky) 'I am Legend' and various similar post-apocalyptic films, e.g. '28 days later'. Also maybe the current TV shows 'The Walking Dead' and 'Last Man on Earth' (which i haven't seen…) ___ FrameWorks m

Re: [Frameworks] recording audio from a Pageant

2016-03-10 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> Those things have transformers inside them... not very good transformers, but > transformers nonetheless. Yeah, the quality varies. I've used some that worked fine. The thing is they're not THAT cheap, you still might need an attenuator, and the Rolls direct box is priced right at $25. I have

Re: [Frameworks] subtitle question

2016-05-12 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> I'm currently laying it out in 42 point Verdanna, keeping it under 40 > characters per line… Standard printing and screen fonts, like Verdana, are not good for subs. The strokes are too thin and the detail too fine to render well in video and provide maximum readability. There are a number of

Re: [Frameworks] Athena Projector

2016-06-16 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> If you are interested to see more, follow this link where I demonstrate the > problem (password is 'loop'). There are probably folks here who know projectors better than I do, but I'll offer my best guess fwiw in case you don't get a more expert response… I suspect your Athena needs some fair

Re: [Frameworks] Sally Berger, film curator, fired at MoMA;

2016-06-19 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> But, isn't censorship also a serious issue? Haven't we been fighting for > institutions, especially cultural institutions to commit themselves to stand > up for and support artists who are being attacked? Remember the dust up over > the anti-vax movie that tried to screen at Tribeca? The argum

Re: [Frameworks] Sally Berger, film curator, fired at MoMA;

2016-06-20 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Chris: Thanks for the clarification on Vaxxed/Tribeca. But it wasn't 'Tribeca recognizing that it needed to firm up its institutional character and to counter a reactionary push from powerful autocrats (De Niro)'. RDN bypassed the programmers to put Vaxxed on the schedule, and he alone pulled it

Re: [Frameworks] 2 Video Installation Questions

2016-06-20 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> So do we use a very small dvd player or is there a way to play a looping > digital file through a projector? Your best bet is probably a mini 'digital media player', e.g.: http://tinyurl.com/hf6a62b http://tinyurl.com/zh7r7nw There are various similar models on Amazon and eBay, between $25 and

Re: [Frameworks] Artists & Filmmakers who have used Super 8 Film

2014-06-04 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
IIRC, Scott and Beth B.'s punk films were shot on Super-8. Reynolds and Jolley's Seven Days Til Sunday, The Drowning Room and also (I think) burn were shot on Super-8 IIRC, Jem Cohen has done a lot with Super-8. (Lost Book Found ??) Frameworker Ken Paul Rosenthal's Crooked Beauty is a fine exam

Re: [Frameworks] removing dust marks on transfer

2014-06-26 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> I was thinking it would be an expensive process to remove digitally. It's not necessarily _monetarily_ expensive. You can do it manually if you can afford the time. Of course, you want as clean a transfer as possible, but there are still likely to be some big nasty dust spot every X number of

Re: [Frameworks] mov files from avid (pc) for quicktime projection (mac)

2014-07-15 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
I'm not an Avid expert, but I know they typically use proprietary codecs. What container were they in? AVI? If QT can't play the files, that could either be an issue with the codec per se, or your Mac not being equipped with the extra widgets needed to handle the headers of PC-based containers

Re: [Frameworks] another quicktime export question

2014-07-16 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
The issue is not 'what looks good', but what's the best looking thing you can send out to to an ad hoc venue like a festival — where they typically have limited tech resources and clueless people manning the projections — with the highest level of assurance that a) they can actually get the work

Re: [Frameworks] Modern 16mm features, distributed on film

2014-07-18 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Fotopoulus? ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks

Re: [Frameworks] DLP

2014-07-18 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> Just want to see if anyone has an overall hatred for DLPs and their dreaded > rainbow effect (which is probably more noticeable on some models than others. YES! My 2 cents: DO NOT BUY A 1-CHIP DLP! They ALL make the moire effect, even the ones that claim not to. Even the ones over $10,000. And

Re: [Frameworks] DLP

2014-07-19 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Scott: I have to guess we're talking apples and oranges here, with your rental guy comparing LCD to DLP in terms of big institutional quality units his firm rents out, not the portable stuff in the price range Ekram is investigating. And this comparison may be pitting older LCDs they've had in

[Frameworks] Film-Video Transfer: DIY Super 8 telecine, Costco, and the Pros

2014-07-23 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Since so many Frameworkers continue to use photochemical film 'acquisition' (sic), and distribution/exhibition opportunities are just getting ever more digital, it would seem that telecine/scan techniques and services are ever more important to our little community. I think it would valuable fo

Re: [Frameworks] Bolex 16/super 16 conversion

2014-07-29 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Does anyone have experience with, comments on "Ultra 16mm" which creates wide-screen 16 by widening the gate to expose between the top and bottom of the sprocket holes, thus: 1. The mount does not need to be recentered. 2. Pretty much any 16mm lens should cover. 3. The footage can be used as regu

Re: [Frameworks] Broken mini DV

2014-08-13 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
I've transplanted tape innards into a different shell, and also just replaced the door. I can't remember if I've done either with mini-DV though. I just looked at a tape, and it's not held together by screws, and it's not obvious how to take it apart. It looks like there are 4 holes on the botto

Re: [Frameworks] cat films

2014-08-15 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> What else could we shown in a Cat Film Fest? As Ekrem mentioned, there's Cat Cradle and Fuses. Dunno if the amount of kitteh-kontent is high enough for a feline fest, but the presence of the pussy... er, scratch that [Meow!] I mean the context of the cat, is the unraveling intertextual ball o

Re: [Frameworks] Largest purchaser of Kodak 16mm film stock, NFL Films, has switched to digital production

2014-08-25 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Well, even though NFL Films has gone digital, and will probably close their lab after their current supply of stock runs out, they know the value of their massive archive of 16mm footage, and the archival value of photochemical film. I can't see them committing that history to any conversion to

Re: [Frameworks] examples of "first encounters"

2019-05-14 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Agree with Fred about "this sort of request,” and that the sequence from The End is ideal for it anyway… ;-) ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks

Re: [Frameworks] Films on dreams / sleep?

2019-06-06 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Narrative: 'The Last Wave', Peter Weir Experimental: 'Remedial Reading Comprehension', George Landow aka Owen Land ‘The Doctor’s Dream’, Ken Jacobs 'Jack's Dream,’ Joseph Cornell 'Take the 5:10 to Dreamland’, Bruce Conner Among the many Brakhages that fit 'Anticipation of the Night’, 'The Way t

Re: [Frameworks] Documentaries-diaries-essays or video/film installations that play with truth or cinema theory

2019-06-07 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Fake docs like 'No Lies' and 'Daughter Rite' don’t really question the concept of truth in any profound way. They are also genre specific to Cinema Verite. If anything, the problem with Daubghter Rite is that the gimmick of the fakery subverts the theme more than it deepens it. So you can stag

Re: [Frameworks] The Participatory Camera

2019-10-29 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
It might help if you could be more specific about any difference between your concept of “participation” and the tradition of “first-person camera” or “subjective camera”. Such a technique implies some agent, represented by the camera that does in some sense "participate in the actions depicted,

Re: [Frameworks] Films about places with descriptive voice-over

2019-11-03 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> could you suggest voice-over films that are a response to specific places or > have a way of telling that describes a place or a situation in concrete terms. I don’t know about “concrete”, but the first thought that comes to mind re: "voice-over films that are a response to specific places” is

Re: [Frameworks] Camera question

2019-12-12 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
I’d take Jeff’s analysis as definitive, because Jeff... But fwiw I’ll add a wee bit of possible support… It’s almost certainly not Super-8. As Jeff notes, that’s a Canon video zoom lens in the manhole photos. That would have matched optically with the pickup tube diameters of early portable BW

Re: [Frameworks] meditative films?

2019-12-13 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Hello Kate: If the prescription is: moving image work, short, meditative, poetic/experimental, viewable online, aesthetically accessible to high school kids, you’ve filtered the results down to little-or-nothing before you get to queer and/or POC. Most of the ‘meditative' works I can think of

Re: [Frameworks] Affect

2020-02-17 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Gene: The common words closest to the typical academic use of “affect” would be “feeling” or “emotion”. It’s a common term in psychology. The APA defines it: > n. any experience of feeling or emotion, ranging from suffering to elation, > from the simplest to the most complex sensations of fee

Re: [Frameworks] copyright question

2020-03-13 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Hey Myron: Did they (whoever they are) tell you which five seconds they want to license? If so, can you describe that content for us? (I’m quite curious..) I shall attempt to address the copyright questions fwiw: (Necessary disclaimer: while I have studied copyright issues, I am not a lawyer) I

Re: [Frameworks] Trump Virus

2020-03-29 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> I think we should all start calling it the Trump Virus. It already has a name. I believe it’s covfefe-19. ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks

Re: [Frameworks] Looking to buy Bolex or similar

2020-04-13 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Hi George: I have a fairly rare bird I’m willing to sell: a spring drive Beaulieu R16. I’m posting this to the list to give Jeff a chance to crap on it’s French idiosyncracies. ;-) Perhaps he will go easy on me/it as we are brothers in the Church of the 10mm Switar?? Cheers to Scott for joinin

Re: [Frameworks] Looking to buy Bolex or similar

2020-04-13 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> The problem is that there aren't many people who can service the things any > longer… This has been a huge issue in the 16mm world for decades now. Since there does seem to be continuing interest in the medium among ongoing generations of artists, I wonder what we can do to keep the technolog

Re: [Frameworks] spools, reels and rolls

2020-04-23 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
I would say that “roll” refers to the film itself, “spool” and “reel” refer to objects the film is wound onto, each of which have sides — as opposed to “cores” which do not — and are sized by their capacity, rather than diameter as is the case with audiotape reels. E.g. a standard small audio re

Re: [Frameworks] movie scenes

2020-05-22 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Gene: When you say “mythic shot of protagonist walking” my first thought is Woody Guthrie walking through the migrant camp in “Bound for Glory”. But this may not fit what you’re thinking of as it’s a long take rather than a montage, and the camera is following the protagonist so we don’t see hi

[Frameworks] Open reel audio tape give away [SF Bay Area}

2020-07-02 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Hey, does anyone here still have a use for open reel audio tape? If not some form of actual analog art recording, maybe some kind of sculptural thing, or a hipster method for tying up git packages… or something… I’m clearing out some storage and I’ve got 28 7” reels. 17 un-opened boxes of Scotc

Re: [Frameworks] backwind without key

2020-08-31 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
If you ask because you just don’t have a backwind key, they’re very easy to make. Just go to a hardware store and look for what iirc are called tension pins, cylindirical pins with a slot down the length. One size of these things, around ¼” iirc, fits perfectly into the drive socket on a Bolex.

Re: [Frameworks] Resources on history of 16mm technology

2016-07-13 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> I'm writing about the use of 16mm in experimental filmmaking of the 1970s and > am looking for texts that deal with the history of film technology, scholarly > sources that look, for example, at the emergence of 16mm as an > amateur/documentary/artists' medium. Hmm. If we distinguish 'amateu

Re: [Frameworks] Resources on history of 16mm technology

2016-07-13 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> the vast majority of artists working in 16mm from the '40s through the '60s > did in fact use Kodachrome and Ektachrome. Color negative didn't even exist > in 16mm until 1964, and very few "experimental filmmakers" used it much until > the later '70s or even early '80s. 'Amateur' making was a

Re: [Frameworks] iOS 10 update - think twice before doing it

2016-10-06 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> For those of you who might still be running OSX 10.6.8 on a Mac (for FCP > editing, for example). I’d heard that FCP 7 has ‘issues’ past 10.6.8, but also that it works fine on Yosemite (10.10.5). I don’t do mobile, so I don’t care about iOS, but I’m curious if Adam or others have info on how

Re: [Frameworks] using a hot splicer

2016-10-09 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Excellent advice from Scott. The heat is just a drying time aid. Less expensive glue splicers don’t have heaters. Glue splicing is all about scraping technique, good cement, and technique in applying the cement properly. It takes some practice to do it right, so newbies should experiment on outs

Re: [Frameworks] Auto-load projector problem

2016-11-13 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> I keep encountering auto-load projectors in 16mm and S8 mm that don't load > for me. You push down the thingie at the top of the threading pattern to > start auto-loading but when the film feeds in it goes straight up after the > first curve without entering the gate. Do these projectors have

Re: [Frameworks] Experimental Christmas films

2016-11-14 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> The first film I'm thinking of is: Xmas on earth by Barbara Rubin ( 1963) It’s a great piece, not really a ‘film’ but a two-projector performance… But it’s not really about Christmas, and it might not be the best choice for "an audience which will include people who have little to no experie

Re: [Frameworks] Films on Farming

2016-11-14 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> Mala Leche (2003) by Naomi Uman 'Mala Leche' is a racist/classist/xenophobic POS about a Mexican immigrant family living in a slum in California. The film about farming is just ‘Leche’ (1998) a totally romanticized vision of life on a rural Mexican dairy farm, then the home of the family lat

Re: [Frameworks] ISO a wide angle (38mm) lens for my 16mm Eiki projector

2016-11-15 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> You could adapt a barrel from a 16mm format to the 35mm format lens. If fits > perfectly in my Bell and Howell 16mm projector. B+H barrels are a lot wider than Eiki barrels, so that might not work for the Eiki. ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWork

Re: [Frameworks] Films on Gold and Gold Mining

2016-11-17 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
The Man Who Invented Gold; Christopher Maclaine ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks

Re: [Frameworks] 16mm projector sales in Germany/Europe? + wide angle 16mm projector lens questions

2016-11-25 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> I would get a projector first and get the lens for the projector I would, too. But Benj wants a projector that will accommodate his looper, and that may limit his choices. > How does putting a magnifying element in front of a 50mm lens this compare > optically to using a dedicated WA project

Re: [Frameworks] film scanner

2016-11-29 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> I wonder if there is any alternative to it at a decent price (under 10 K?) Did you really mean “under $10,000”? Well, there’s the MovieStuff Retro, $4.500: http://moviestuff.tv/moviestuff_home.html Mr. MovieStuff, Roger Evans, used to make film scanners based on projector mechanisms, probabl

Re: [Frameworks] film scanner

2016-12-02 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
I found the instructions for older models on the MovieStuff site. Roger Evans had produced three different lines based on Eiki projector mechanism before going exclusively to the “made totally from scratch” ‘Retro' units. The earliest and simplest of these ran at standard projector speed, with

Re: [Frameworks] Digital hd projection

2016-12-04 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Older (older than 2012, that is) LCD projectors often had problems with monochrome images… But with a 2012 Epson and the problem you describe, my guess is that it needs service. Does it look OK with a cool image? (If you look carefully can you see any color issues on the edges?) Does you host ha

Re: [Frameworks] Digital hd projection

2016-12-05 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> If you're seeing lines on the edges of the frame, I'd wonder also if the > blacks aren't really very black at all. Careful there, though, Scott. You’re not going to get black blacks out of any brand new ‘affordable’ video projector. I have an Epson VS335W, which I bought in 2014 (~$525 at th

Re: [Frameworks] digital-era distro

2016-12-24 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
A more general way of framing the issue is that moving pictures have moved toward ephemera, or, in a more historical vocabulary a spreading dominance of ’television'. How else could we explain the low adoption of Blu-Ray among both individuals and institutions? HD-DVD is long dead, Blu-Ray plate

Re: [Frameworks] Eiki EX-2000A power cords

2016-12-30 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Got a picture of the receptacle on the projector? > If anyone has any suggestions about where I could find some for a reasonable > price, they would be much appreciated. Or even advice about the part name or > number! ___ FrameWorks mailing list Fra

Re: [Frameworks] experimental films with philosophical text?

2017-01-26 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
i guess I’m the first to mention the obvious: Michael Snow, "Rameau's Nephew by Diderot" ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks

Re: [Frameworks] pageant arc projectors

2017-02-28 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
I’m more techy-geeky than most. I once tried to get an old pageant arc projector going in an effort to get a brighter image in our schoolo auditorium, but gave up. The technology is not really suitable for infrequent use sans tech support: there’s that massive old-school power supply driving a s

Re: [Frameworks] optical sound film screening

2017-03-06 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Sorry Roger. Yes, yes, yes. TBTX Dance is PERFECT (maybe essential?) for the theme of optical sound produced by non-traditional means, and unique afaik in the use of laser printing. It’s also just a cool film, and the prefect (short) length for a program that seeks to survey and explore a vasrie

Re: [Frameworks] mental problems

2017-03-22 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
I know the request is for features, [just about everything by David Lynch, but especially Eraserhead and Mulholland Drive] but there’s lots of recent TV that goes into “inner states of mind” with mentally ill protagonists: including ‘River' [UK] about a haunted, hallucinating detective, the near

Re: [Frameworks] Looking for Angenieux 12-120mm lens or another Auricon-compatible

2017-03-29 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
On the versions of the dogleg Berthiot I’ve used, you can change the orientation of the finder by unscrewing a ring at the rear of the barrel. Then the barrel detatches from the C-Mount, and can be re-positioned, either freely or to a different position fixed by tabs and slots, depending on the

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