[Frameworks] more on the Academy
I started this yesterday but shelved it; now that others have posted I am a bit more confident and will send --- This is such an interesting statement. I know what you mean, but still... There are avant-garde sympathetic folks at the Academy... Could we possibly hope for supportive or even aim for enthusiastic? OK, how about substantial funding for Canyon Cinema and the other 20 or so (100?) small avant-garde film organizations that need it right now? Take a tiny fraction of what you spend on regular old Lavish Hollywood Lifestyle and show some respect for experimental film. It is very nice, it really is, that both Brakhage and Kuchar got their memorial moments at the Oscars, but why not something for them while they were still alive? I know the Academy is doing very important work in film preservation and that's really all I know about their connection to experimental film. But taken as an industry, taken as American Culture #1, taken as a commercial art form that has learned and benefitted from the work created by experimental film pioneers for decades, why not show some respect and take 0.5% of the Movie Star Champagne Budget and fund art in this country? Painting had an Academy once, but some painters broke away from it. Tom ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Kuchar on the Oscars
Sorry, Fred, here I disagree with you.I'm sure the Hollywood folks could have added many other people (many of them worthy) to the list of those recognized in that memorial moment, too. But that three of those recognized--George Kuchar, Tim Hetherington, and Ricky Leacock--are makers who worked outside Hollywood, as independents, is certainly cause for celebration. It means that, in a however limited way, independent filmmakers are being recognized more broadly, as they so rightly deserve. That Saint Mark Toscano, working at the Academy, has seen to the preservation not only of Brakhage's films but Robert Nelson's, and the work of so many other independents is part of that same recognition.Like it or not, the Academy is one of few organizations devoted to cinema that has the clout to provide broad recognition, and I was thrilled to see their images on my TV screen on primetime Sunday night. Kudos to the Academy for recognizing Kuchar, Hetherington, and Leacock.Scott Original Message Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Kuchar on the Oscars From: "Fred Camper" f...@fredcamper.com Date: Tue, February 28, 2012 7:44 pm To: "Experimental Film Discussion List" frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Yes Owen Land, Ricky Leacock, and Jordan Belson as well. Oh, why not Hollis Frampton, and Stan Brakhage, and Gregory J. Markopoulos? Or Oscars to Ernie Gehr and Bruce Baillie, who are among the living? Or, one might ask, how likely is any of that? In all seriousness, am I the only one who finds the many posts in this thread a little bizarre? I thought it was nice when Brakhage was briefly acknowlwedged in the Oscar montage, and it's nice when other experimental filmmakers are acknowledged too. But when we start talking about awards, have we forgotten what the Oscars are, and what values they represent, and how different the values of avant-garde film are? Why should we expect, or even want, more than a passing nod from the Academy as it is currently constituted? It's really great that the money from the Oscar-cast goes to film preservation, including of avant-garde work. Is there any reason to expect more? Fred Camper Chicago ___ 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] more on the Academy
George Lucas was a big admirer of Arthur Lipsett since his days at USC citing him as an influence yet when he made millions in 1977 he did not offer one penny to him. Lipsett died destitute some ten years larter. That is Hollywood to you. ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] more on the Academy
For the record, the Academy Foundation actually does have an Institutional Grants program which provides financial support to small avant-garde film organizations (among other orgs) and another grant which supports film festivals. Info here: http://www.oscars.org/education-outreach/grants/index.html list of institutional recipients here: http://www.oscars.org/education-outreach/grants/institutional/recipients.html There are dozens of recipients on that list, including Millennium Film Workshop, San Francisco Cinematheque and, notably, San Francisco's Ninth Street Center for Independent Film, which received $5000 [the average grant award] in support of its Canyon Cinema screening program. (This is all public information, via the link above.) Whether a $5,000 grant from this organization is considered significant is I guess debatable but as Director of San Francisco Cinematheque (a recipient)—and I certainly wouldn't say no to more—I sure ain't complaining... Steve Polta --- On Wed, 2/29/12, Tom Whiteside tom.whites...@duke.edu wrote: From: Tom Whiteside tom.whites...@duke.edu Subject: [Frameworks] more on the Academy To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Date: Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 5:28 AM I started this yesterday but shelved it; now that others have posted I am a bit more confident and will send --- This is such an interesting statement. I know what you mean, but still… There are avant-garde sympathetic folks at the Academy... Could we possibly hope for “supportive” or even aim for “enthusiastic?” OK, how about substantial funding for Canyon Cinema and the other 20 or so (100?) small avant-garde film organizations that need it right now? Take a tiny fraction of what you spend on regular old Lavish Hollywood Lifestyle and show some respect for experimental film. It is very nice, it really is, that both Brakhage and Kuchar got their memorial moments at the Oscars, but why not something for them while they were still alive? I know the Academy is doing very important work in film preservation and that’s really all I know about their connection to experimental film. But taken as an industry, taken as American Culture #1, taken as a commercial art form that has learned and benefitted from the work created by experimental film pioneers for decades, why not show some respect and take 0.5% of the Movie Star Champagne Budget and fund art in this country? Painting had an Academy once, but some painters broke away from it. Tom -Inline Attachment Follows- ___ 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] more on the Academy
For the record, the Academy Foundation actually does have an Institutional Grants program which provides financial support to small avant-garde film organizations ... This is all great to hear, and much appreciated. I'm not sure Scott is really disagreeing with me. I think it's fine when avant-garde film is acknowledged. My point is that we should not expect the Academy or the Oscar telecast to recognize or award avant-garde filmmakers in the way, from a cinema art point of view, most on the list might feel is appropriate. Fred Camper Chicago ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] more on the Academy
Lucas, of course, is not a member of the Academy On 2/29/12 9:03 AM, Francisco Torres fjtorre...@gmail.com wrote: George Lucas was a big admirer of Arthur Lipsett since his days at USC citing him as an influence yet when he made millions in 1977 he did not offer one penny to him. Lipsett died destitute some ten years larter. That is Hollywood to you. ___ 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] more on the Academy
Oh, Filmforum received one of those last year as well. And all that money went to honoraria and film rentals to experimental filmmakers... On 2/29/12 9:11 AM, Steve Polta stevepo...@yahoo.com wrote: For the record, the Academy Foundation actually does have an Institutional Grants program which provides financial support to small avant-garde film organizations (among other orgs) and another grant which supports film festivals. Info here: http://www.oscars.org/education-outreach/grants/index.html list of institutional recipients here: http://www.oscars.org/education-outreach/grants/institutional/recipients.html There are dozens of recipients on that list, including Millennium Film Workshop, San Francisco Cinematheque and, notably, San Francisco's Ninth Street Center for Independent Film, which received $5000 [the average grant award] in support of its Canyon Cinema screening program. (This is all public information, via the link above.) Whether a $5,000 grant from this organization is considered significant is I guess debatable but as Director of San Francisco Cinematheque (a recipient)and I certainly wouldn't say no to moreI sure ain't complaining... Steve Polta --- On Wed, 2/29/12, Tom Whiteside tom.whites...@duke.edu wrote: From: Tom Whiteside tom.whites...@duke.edu Subject: [Frameworks] more on the Academy To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Date: Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 5:28 AM I started this yesterday but shelved it; now that others have posted I am a bit more confident and will send ---This is such an interesting statement. I know what you mean, but still There are avant-garde sympathetic folks at the Academy... Could we possibly hope for ³supportive² or even aim for ³enthusiastic?² OK, how about substantial funding for Canyon Cinema and the other 20 or so (100?) small avant-garde film organizations that need it right now? Take a tiny fraction of what you spend on regular old Lavish Hollywood Lifestyle and show some respect for experimental film.It is very nice, it really is, that both Brakhage and Kuchar got their memorial moments at the Oscars, but why not something for them while they were still alive? I know the Academy is doing very important work in film preservation and that¹s really all I know about their connection to experimental film. But taken as an industry, taken as American Culture #1, taken as a commercial art form that has learned and benefitted from the work created by experimental film pioneers for decades, why not show some respect and take 0.5% of the Movie Star Champagne Budget and fund art in this country? Painting had an Academy once, but some painters broke away from it. Tom ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] speaking of Maya Deren...
I've heard it claimed that Lost Highway was filmed in the same house. It seems unlikely to me as they look very different unless there has been extensive re-modelling. I suspect that Lost Highway is just very influenced by Meshes, but if anyone can confirm yay or nay that would be great. My perception is that it's just yet another one of those things someone somewhere made up and everyone believed... as they do... love Freya --- On Mon, 2/27/12, Adam Hyman a...@lafilmforum.org wrote: From: Adam Hyman a...@lafilmforum.org Subject: Re: [Frameworks] speaking of Maya Deren... To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Date: Monday, February 27, 2012, 11:05 PM Re: [Frameworks] speaking of Maya Deren... It’s on North Kings Road, to be precise. I have the number somewhere. 1500 or 1600 block, I think? Above the Sunset Strip. Barbara Hammer just made a new film about Meshes, and filmed in the home. She introduced me to the current owner of the home, whose name I can’t remember. On 2/27/12 2:44 PM, carli...@aol.com carli...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 2/27/2012 12:19:06 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, framewo...@re-voir.com writes: When I met Hammid in the late 1990s, he told me Meshes of the Afternoon was Maya's film. Of course he had more than a lot to do with it, but he attributed the whole creative concept to her. I'm sure he felt she was free to add music, and he did not claim any ownership or royalties in any way. -Pip Anyone know the address where it was shot in LA? You can tell from the first frames that it's around Woodrow Wilson Drive. The light's so obviously Hollywood Hills-- still looks the same up there, too. ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks -Inline Attachment Follows- ___ 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] speaking of Maya Deren...
I¹ve never heard that. I think it more likely (and I may have read) that Lost Highway was filmed in Lynch¹s own house (well, for those scenes, not the prison) he has two or three bungalows of that sort adjacent to each other, or as a compound. On 2/29/12 2:10 PM, Freya freya...@yahoo.com wrote: I've heard it claimed that Lost Highway was filmed in the same house. It seems unlikely to me as they look very different unless there has been extensive re-modelling. I suspect that Lost Highway is just very influenced by Meshes, but if anyone can confirm yay or nay that would be great. My perception is that it's just yet another one of those things someone somewhere made up and everyone believed... as they do... love Freya --- On Mon, 2/27/12, Adam Hyman a...@lafilmforum.org wrote: From: Adam Hyman a...@lafilmforum.org Subject: Re: [Frameworks] speaking of Maya Deren... To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Date: Monday, February 27, 2012, 11:05 PM Re: [Frameworks] speaking of Maya Deren... It¹s on North Kings Road, to be precise. I have the number somewhere. 1500 or 1600 block, I think? Above the Sunset Strip. Barbara Hammer just made a new film about Meshes, and filmed in the home. She introduced me to the current owner of the home, whose name I can¹t remember. ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] more on the Academy
On the other hand, he has given some support to Bruce Baillie, I believe. On 29-Feb-12, at 9:03 AM, Francisco Torres wrote: George Lucas was a big admirer of Arthur Lipsett since his days at USC citing him as an influence yet when he made millions in 1977 he did not offer one penny to him. Lipsett died destitute some ten years larter. That is Hollywood to you. ___ 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] more on the Academy
Quite a bit. And to Canyon Cinema in past years. Mark T From: marilyn brakhage v...@shaw.ca To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 2:19 PM Subject: Re: [Frameworks] more on the Academy On the other hand, he has given some support to Bruce Baillie, I believe. On 29-Feb-12, at 9:03 AM, Francisco Torres wrote: George Lucas was a big admirer of Arthur Lipsett since his days at USC citing him as an influence yet when he made millions in 1977 he did not offer one penny to him. Lipsett died destitute some ten years larter. That is Hollywood to you. ___ 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] more on the Academy
In a message dated 2/29/2012 10:24:05 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, a...@lafilmforum.org writes: George Lucas was a big admirer of Arthur Lipsett since his days at USC citing him as an influence yet when he made millions in 1977 he did not offer one penny to him. Lipsett died destitute some ten years larter. That is Hollywood to you. Coppola used to say that Lucas was always incredibly cheap. He'd never spend his own money on films, nor would he try to use his personal contacts to get deals for a production he was involved in, if they ever needed it. Schmuck. And his post-75 films look it, too. He's an artistic failure for sure. Space operas are his legacy? How sad. And btw, whatever happened to that desire of his (a la Vanity Fair) to grow again as an artist, to recover some of his old steam from the late 60s? Imagine having that much money and then doing nothing with it.___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] more on the Academy
In a message dated 2/29/2012 9:16:55 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, jihalp...@yahoo.com writes: But I'm guessing Lucas was also influenced by Frank Capra, John Huston, and Charles Dickens. Should he be faulted for not offering one penny to those folks? Yes. What else is money for? The problem with Lucas is that he WENT ON RECORD back in the early 70s as wanting to do all of these great things when he could. Yet he never did. Ever seen Gene Youngblood's old NET show with him? It's evidence.___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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Jane V Hsu and Chris Hosea, So Many Fortresses - New York, NY
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Aaron Oldenburg - Optic Echo - iPad app - Baltimore, MD
Sophia Brueckner - The Code That Sings Itself - sound installation -
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