[Frameworks] Re-authored Imagery Culled from Commercial DVDs
I would like to make a collage documentary consisting of very short, 3 to 5 second clips (possibly longer) relative to my theme, culled from pre-1960 Hollywood films. My question is two-fold: First, are there any intellectual property issues regarding image and sound, given the length of the clips? The project won't have a theatrical release, only film festivals and self-distribution. Secondly, what would be the best method for ripping these clips from a dvd of the original source film?Thanks, Kenwww.crookedbeautythefilm.com (Academic)www.crookedbeauty.com (Public)www.kenpaulrosenthal.com ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] Sat. in DC: Fischinger double Retrospective at NGA
this didn't make the this week list: This Saturday, January 7, at National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Center for Visual Music presents a special two part Optical Poetry: Oskar Fischinger Retrospective. The program is free, begins at 3pm and features 35mm preserved prints. http://www.nga.gov/programs/film/index.shtm#fischingervm One small error in the online listing, the 1993 recreation film R-1 ein Formspiel is in program 2, not program 1 as listed here. Program 1 includes Spirals, Walking from Munich to Berlin, Spiritual Constructions, Kreise (two versions), Studies 5,6,7,8, Allegretto (two versions), American March, Radio Dynamics, Motion Painting no. 1, and more. Program 2 includes R-1 ein Formspiel, Studies 1, 3, 9, Pierrette I, Wax Experiments, Ornament Sound, Swiss Trip, Color Rhythm, Oklahoma Gas, 1920s Tests and Early Experiments, Berlin Home Movies, Muntz TV and more. Both programs introduced by Cindy Keefer of CVM. East Building, National Gallery. Please note, the National Gallery's main doors close at 5pm, you must be inside the building before then, though the show runs later. 35mm prints were preserved by Center for Visual Music, Academy Film Archive, EYE Film Institute, and the Fischinger Archive, with support from The Film Foundation, Sony, National Film Preservation Foundation, Cinematheque quebecoise, and Deutsches Filmmuseum. For information on Oskar Fischinger including bio, filmography, bibliography, etc please visit www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Fischinger or contact cvmaccess at gmail dot com posted by Cindy Keefer Center for Visual Music www.centerforvisualmusic.org ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] FrameWorks Digest, Vol 20, Issue 2
Please accept my submission request to join the mailing list. Best regards. Michele Galardini 2012/1/2 frameworks-requ...@jonasmekasfilms.com Send FrameWorks mailing list submissions to frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to frameworks-requ...@jonasmekasfilms.com You can reach the person managing the list at frameworks-ow...@jonasmekasfilms.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of FrameWorks digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: Super 8 Digital Transfers - Amended -- correction (John Woods) 2. Call for Submissions! (Brenda Contreras) 3. Re-authored Imagery Culled from Commercial DVDs (Ken Paul Rosenthal) 4. Re: Re-authored Imagery Culled from Commercial DVDs (Adam Hyman) 5. Sat. in DC: Fischinger double Retrospective at NGA (C Keefer) -- Messaggio inoltrato -- From: John Woods jawood...@yahoo.ca To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Cc: Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 12:43:21 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Super 8 Digital Transfers - Amended -- correction Jeff, very interesting document that you put together, thank you! What are your thoughts on the quality of using optical printers modified to work with DSLRs for transfering 8/16mm? John -- Messaggio inoltrato -- From: Brenda Contreras bren_contre...@yahoo.com To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Cc: Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 21:46:06 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Frameworks] Call for Submissions! The Arts at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, a visual arts exhibition program, is planning a Spring 2012 program of experimental film and new media from the Middle East, North Africa, and their diasporas. Inspired by the Arab Spring and its potential for a radical redress of oppressive structures of power, the program explores ways in which power determines frames of social and cultural visibility. Drawn from work both invited and solicited through this call, the program examines marginalized subjectivities. Submitted work should address gender and sexuality, (cross) border identities, counter-cultural practices, or other experiences not commonly reflected in mainstream narrative films. This program is co-sponsored by Artist Television Access and the San Francisco Arab Film Festival. There are no limitations on length and no fees for submitting your film. For submission form and guidelines please send an email to menaexperimen...@gmail.com. Deadline for submissions is Feb 1, 2012. -- Messaggio inoltrato -- From: Ken Paul Rosenthal kenpaulrosent...@hotmail.com To: Frameworks Postings frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Cc: Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 07:39:49 -0800 Subject: [Frameworks] Re-authored Imagery Culled from Commercial DVDs I would like to make a collage documentary consisting of very short, 3 to 5 second clips (possibly longer) relative to my theme, culled from pre-1960 Hollywood films. My question is two-fold: First, are there any intellectual property issues regarding image and sound, given the length of the clips? The project won't have a theatrical release, only film festivals and self-distribution. Secondly, what would be the best method for ripping these clips from a dvd of the original source film? Thanks, Ken www.crookedbeautythefilm.com (Academic) www.crookedbeauty.com (Public) www.kenpaulrosenthal.com -- Messaggio inoltrato -- From: Adam Hyman a...@lafilmforum.org To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Cc: Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:26:38 -0800 Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Re-authored Imagery Culled from Commercial DVDs Hi Ken, I just replied to your email with the same query on the Doculink list... Are you and I the only ones on both of these lists? Happy New Year! Adam On 1/2/12 7:39 AM, Ken Paul Rosenthal kenpaulrosent...@hotmail.com wrote: I would like to make a collage documentary consisting of very short, 3 to 5 second clips (possibly longer) relative to my theme, culled from pre-1960 Hollywood films. My question is two-fold: First, are there any intellectual property issues regarding image and sound, given the length of the clips? The project won't have a theatrical release, only film festivals and self-distribution. Secondly, what would be the best method for ripping these clips from a dvd of the original source film? Thanks, Ken www.crookedbeautythefilm.com (Academic) www.crookedbeauty.com (Public) www.kenpaulrosenthal.com -- ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com
[Frameworks] Experimental Film Fest Portland
Month and a half left to submit to the first Experimental Film Festival Portland!! www.effportland.com Ben Popp Co-Director EFF Portland ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] JEFF KEEN NYC
For everybody in New York, the underground filmmaker Jeff Keen is having a major retrospective of paintings and films. Check it out. Jack JEFF KEEN Works from the 1960s + 1970s January 12 – February 11, 2012 Opening Thursday, January 12, 6-8PM Elizabeth Dee Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition at the gallery and United States debut of paintings and films by Jeff Keen [b. 1923, UK]. This important first exhibition in New York will explore in depth Keen's most influential and fundamental period of work, the 1960s and 1970s, during which he established a prolific visual practice extending to five decades of drawing, painting, experimental film, concrete poetry and performance. Keen is primarily known as a legendary underground filmmaker whose work and activities coincided with the emergence of expanded cinema. He was one of the original participants in the 60s at the London Filmmakers Co-op. The BFI and later the British Arts Council supported and enabled Keen to make films and devise a multitude of drawings and paintings. During this period, Keen maintained jobs as a landscaper in the Parks and Recreation department of his hometown, Brighton, and sometimes as a postal worker delivering mail. The artist made movies primarily on weekends with his family and friends in an ensemble cast and his painting and drawing studio was for 40 years a repository of props and art that accumulated to extraordinary effect that has been fully documented. Embracing the increasingly available technology of 8mm, 16mm and prevelance of American Pop imagery and Comics [and later Punk], Keen employed modes of popular media, technology and music in painting, drawing and collage using a stop frame animation process and in camera editing, resulting in active and evocative films. Utilizing a frequency of speed not found in work of the period, Keen, through the possibilities of the medium, brought new life to the significance of radical visual media. Keen was able to merge Surrealist and Dadaist ideology with a social-political critique of American consumerism with the spontaneity of the Beat and 60s era. These works are avid responses to an overwhelming sense of increasingly proliferating media and commodification during the decade. He often explored his experiences surviving World War II in this material, focusing on monuments of power and the ever-present war within the artist as individual. This took the form of invented characters or corporations [i.e. Rayday Films] with brands, personas or protagonists in a fractured narrative style. Performative and reminiscent of Surrealism's influence on his formative period in the 1950s, Keen additionally drew from English Romanticism and his love of language to devise a novel method of working in a newly evolving medium. Keen's work can be viewed today as prescient to modes of film and video that began to take cultural references into an exploration of our own larger social portraiture. His enthusiastic embrace of alternative modes of discourse in a pre-internet age is astoundingly fresh today, and the diversity of his practice calls to mind both painters, film and video artists who succeeded him, from such figures as Derek Jarman, Richard Hamilton and Linder, to American artists such as Jack Smith, Ryan Trecartin and Peter Saul. Jeff Keen very rarely exhibited his drawings and paintings. He first showed Rayday Film [1968 - 1970] in the First International Underground Film Festival at the National Film Theatre in 1970. Upcoming 2012 exhibitions include a retrospective at the Brighton and Hove Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, London and Tate Modern, London. In conjunction with the Jeff Keen exhibition, we are pleased to announce a special initiative for 2012, the first of an ongoing series of collaborations with galleries who share common philosophies and interests. Anke Kempkis of BROADWAY1602 will be our first collaborator to inaugurate the series with the related exhibition, Façade is Cracking: Jeff Keen Drawings from the 1950s. This exhibition will include film related assemblages and documentation along with rare works on paper at her gallery, located at 1181 Broadway [3rd Floor] in conjunction with the solo exhibition, Anna Molska Glasshouses. The exhibitions open on January 14 and extend to February 28, 2012 with an afternoon reception from 3 - 6 on Saturday, January 14. For more information, please contact BROADWAY1602 at www.broadway1602.com or +1.212.481.0362. To refer to documentation of Jeff Keen and screening times of the film program, please visit our new website at www.elizabethdee.com. Film Program Selections: Flick Flack [1964 - 1965, 3 min] Cineblatz [1967, 3 min] White Lite [1968, 3 min] Marvo Movie [1968, 5 min] Meatdaze [1967, 5 min] Rayday Film [1968 - 70 + 1976, 13 min] White Dust [1972, 33 min] Mad Love [1978, 42 min] The gallery would like to extend special thanks to
Re: [Frameworks] Re-authored Imagery Culled from Commercial DVDs
I'm on both. Matt http://www.youtube.com/user/oscarthepug1234 http://www.youtube.com/user/matthelme007 From: Adam Hyman a...@lafilmforum.org To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Monday, January 2, 2012 8:26 AM Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Re-authored Imagery Culled from Commercial DVDs Re: [Frameworks] Re-authored Imagery Culled from Commercial DVDs Hi Ken, I just replied to your email with the same query on the Doculink list... Are you and I the only ones on both of these lists? Happy New Year! Adam On 1/2/12 7:39 AM, Ken Paul Rosenthal kenpaulrosent...@hotmail.com wrote: I would like to make a collage documentary consisting of very short, 3 to 5 second clips (possibly longer) relative to my theme, culled from pre-1960 Hollywood films. My question is two-fold: First, are there any intellectual property issues regarding image and sound, given the length of the clips? The project won't have a theatrical release, only film festivals and self-distribution. Secondly, what would be the best method for ripping these clips from a dvd of the original source film? Thanks, Ken www.crookedbeautythefilm.com (Academic) www.crookedbeauty.com (Public) www.kenpaulrosenthal.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
Re: [Frameworks] Re-authored Imagery Culled from Commercial DVDs
While fair use should cover most of your concerns, if this makes you nervous there's a surprising amount of Hollywood films in public domain. And if you are using a Mac, HandBrake is a good free software for ripping the DVD then MPEG Streamclip is a good free software for converting that file into an editable format. On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Aaron F. Ross aa...@digitalartsguild.comwrote: Hi Ken, I'm not going to touch the legal questions, but I will recommend some Windows software... if you're on the Mac, then I think your options would be quite limited. Most DVD rippers simply remove the copy protection and clone the entire disc without changing the .VOB file structure. For that, I recommend DVD Decrypter, which is free. Clone the DVD to your hard drive first. Once the encryption has been cracked, then use VideoReDo to extract the short clips you need. This is an inexpensive program designed to let you edit commercials out of MPEG streams. Using VideoReDo, you can extract a clip of arbitrary length directly to an MPEG-2 file, which exactly fills the need you described. Of course, MPEG is a delivery format, not an editing format, so you may have mixed results trying to load MPEG clips into your video editing program of choice. It's possible that you may need to try several different editing applications to find one that works. Another option is to use yet another program to convert the MPEG to an editable container and codec, such as Quicktime Animation. You might be able to use Quicktime Pro Export for that. When I'm in a pinch I use a free video conversion program called Super. As you can see, it's not a straightforward process, and you have to do a fair amount of work to get around the restrictions, but it can be done. Happy culture jamming, Aaron At 1/2/2012, Ken Paul Rosenthal wrote: I would like to make a collage documentary consisting of very short, 3 to 5 second clips (possibly longer) relative to my theme, culled from pre-1960 Hollywood films. My question is two-fold: First, are there any intellectual property issues regarding image and sound, given the length of the clips? The project won't have a theatrical release, only film festivals and self-distribution. Secondly, what would be the best method for ripping these clips from a dvd of the original source film? Thanks, Ken www.crookedbeautythefilm.com (Academic) www.crookedbeauty.com (Public) www.kenpaulrosenthal.com ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks --- Aaron F. Ross Digital Arts Guild ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks -- Salise Hughes Artist, Filmmaker, Armchair Anthropologist http://salisehughes.blogspot.com ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] downloading videos from youtube
hey everyone, i'm working on a video and part of the concept is that it's constructed from footage sourced from youtube. the browser-based downloader i've been using doesn't seem to be available anymore, and i'm wondering if anyone on here has any recommendations. thanks -lj -- ljfre...@gmail.com / 904.762.8300 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] downloading videos from youtube
An up-to-date Real Player will download convert most YouTube videos. -Original Message- From: lj frezza ljfre...@gmail.com Sent: Jan 2, 2012 7:59 PM To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com, Experimental Film Discussion List framewo...@listserv.aol.com Subject: [Frameworks] downloading videos from youtube hey everyone, i'm working on a video and part of the concept is that it's constructed from footage sourced from youtube. the browser-based downloader i've been using doesn't seem to be available anymore, and i'm wondering if anyone on here has any recommendations. thanks -lj -- ljfre...@gmail.com / 904.762.8300 ___ 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
Re: [Frameworks] JEFF KEEN NYC
Hi, To refer to documentation of Jeff Keen and screening times of the film program, please visit our new website at www.elizabethdee.com I tried that w/o luck. The website's difficult to navigate and I couldn't find any mention of the screenings. Thanks, John. John Porter, Toronto, Canada http://www.super8porter.ca/ super8por...@yahoo.ca From: Jack Sargeant j...@jacktext.net Subject: [Frameworks] JEFF KEEN NYC To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Received: Monday, January 2, 2012, 3:53 PM For everybody in New York, the underground filmmaker Jeff Keen is having a major retrospective of paintings and films. Check it out. Jack JEFF KEEN Works from the 1960s + 1970s January 12 – February 11, 2012 Opening Thursday, January 12, 6-8PM Elizabeth Dee Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition at the gallery and United States debut of paintings and films by Jeff Keen [b. 1923, UK]. This important first exhibition in New York will explore in depth Keen's most influential and fundamental period of work, the 1960s and 1970s, during which he established a prolific visual practice extending to five decades of drawing, painting, experimental film, concrete poetry and performance. Keen is primarily known as a legendary underground filmmaker whose work and activities coincided with the emergence of expanded cinema. He was one of the original participants in the 60s at the London Filmmakers Co-op. The BFI and later the British Arts Council supported and enabled Keen to make films and devise a multitude of drawings and paintings. During this period, Keen maintained jobs as a landscaper in the Parks and Recreation department of his hometown, Brighton, and sometimes as a postal worker delivering mail. The artist made movies primarily on weekends with his family and friends in an ensemble cast and his painting and drawing studio was for 40 years a repository of props and art that accumulated to extraordinary effect that has been fully documented. Embracing the increasingly available technology of 8mm, 16mm and prevelance of American Pop imagery and Comics [and later Punk], Keen employed modes of popular media, technology and music in painting, drawing and collage using a stop frame animation process and in camera editing, resulting in active and evocative films. Utilizing a frequency of speed not found in work of the period, Keen, through the possibilities of the medium, brought new life to the significance of radical visual media. Keen was able to merge Surrealist and Dadaist ideology with a social-political critique of American consumerism with the spontaneity of the Beat and 60s era. These works are avid responses to an overwhelming sense of increasingly proliferating media and commodification during the decade. He often explored his experiences surviving World War II in this material, focusing on monuments of power and the ever-present war within the artist as individual. This took the form of invented characters or corporations [i.e. Rayday Films] with brands, personas or protagonists in a fractured narrative style. Performative and reminiscent of Surrealism's influence on his formative period in the 1950s, Keen additionally drew from English Romanticism and his love of language to devise a novel method of working in a newly evolving medium. Keen's work can be viewed today as prescient to modes of film and video that began to take cultural references into an exploration of our own larger social portraiture. His enthusiastic embrace of alternative modes of discourse in a pre-internet age is astoundingly fresh today, and the diversity of his practice calls to mind both painters, film and video artists who succeeded him, from such figures as Derek Jarman, Richard Hamilton and Linder, to American artists such as Jack Smith, Ryan Trecartin and Peter Saul. Jeff Keen very rarely exhibited his drawings and paintings. He first showed Rayday Film [1968 - 1970] in the First International Underground Film Festival at the National Film Theatre in 1970. Upcoming 2012 exhibitions include a retrospective at the Brighton and Hove Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, London and Tate Modern, London. In conjunction with the Jeff Keen exhibition, we are pleased to announce a special initiative for 2012, the first of an ongoing series of collaborations with galleries who share common philosophies and interests. Anke Kempkis of BROADWAY1602 will be our first collaborator to inaugurate the series with the related exhibition, Façade is Cracking: Jeff Keen Drawings from the 1950s. This exhibition will include film related assemblages and documentation along with rare works on paper at her gallery, located at 1181 Broadway [3rd Floor] in conjunction with the solo exhibition, Anna Molska Glasshouses. The exhibitions open on January 14 and extend to February 28, 2012 with an afternoon
Re: [Frameworks] downloading videos from youtube
If you're on firefox, there is the download helper plug-in. Michael Betancourt Savannah, GA USA michaelbetancourt.com twitter.com/cinegraphic | vimeo.com/cinegraphic www.cinegraphic.net | the avant-garde film video blog On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Ed Inman edin...@earthlink.net wrote: An up-to-date Real Player will download convert most YouTube videos. -Original Message- From: lj frezza ljfre...@gmail.com Sent: Jan 2, 2012 7:59 PM To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com, Experimental Film Discussion List framewo...@listserv.aol.com Subject: [Frameworks] downloading videos from youtube hey everyone, i'm working on a video and part of the concept is that it's constructed from footage sourced from youtube. the browser-based downloader i've been using doesn't seem to be available anymore, and i'm wondering if anyone on here has any recommendations. thanks -lj -- ljfre...@gmail.com / 904.762.8300 ___ 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] ZERO (Heinz Mack and Otto Piene)
hello everyone this is a real foggy recollection of mine, but i seem to recall the german art group ZERO producing a number of public access television episodes - can anyone confirm this or point me in the direction of recordings of these broadcasts? -lj -- ljfre...@gmail.com / 904.762.8300 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
