Re: [Frameworks] Landscape films with Sonic Circuits this Saturday! 12/15/12
Hello everyone,sorry forgot to post this in the updates-I am screening a few films with Sonic Circuits this Saturday night at Pyramid Atlantic in Silver Spring, Md--The link is below-http://dc-soniccircuits.org/calendar/show/141/2012-12-15-tom-boram-keep-anthony-pirog-praxiscattimmy-sells-his-soul-human-food-pyramid-atlantic/Check it out if you can-Looks like there will be more planned in the new year.Best,ChrisHudson River Landscapes-DIR: Patrick Tarrant Recorded from a 24th floor window on Broadway, Hudson River Landscapes maps the elevated terrain of Manhattan's Upper West Side where laborers and layabouts, while displaced from the city beneath them, and framed by the river behind them , function like secret agents in an unscripted spy drama.Windows and Clouds- Dir: Chris H Lynn Window cleaners dangle on a skyscraper in Shanghai. Their movements are accompanied by sailing clouds reflected in the windows.Those Inescapable Slivers of Celluloid - DIR: Jeremy Moss Part lyrical exploration, part structural landscape study – an abstract/personal Super 8mm collage documentary. Music-Olivia BlockDe Luce 1: Vegetare - DIR: Janis Crystal Lipzin. The colors and light of a garden are transformed by Janis Crystal Lipzin’s alchemical experiments with the film material and photochemical processes.Hudson River Landscapes-DIR: Patrick Tarrant Recorded from a 24th floor window on Broadway, Hudson River Landscapes maps the elevated terrain of Manhattan's Upper West Side where laborers and layabouts, while displaced from the city beneath them, and framed by the river behind them , function like secret agents in an unscripted spy drama.Windows and Clouds- Dir: Chris H Lynn Window cleaners dangle on a skyscraper in Shanghai. Their movements are accompanied by sailing clouds reflected in the windows.Those Inescapable Slivers of Celluloid - DIR: Jeremy Moss Part lyrical exploration, part structural landscape study – an abstract/personal Super 8mm collage documentary. Music-Olivia BlockDe Luce 1: Vegetare - DIR: Janis Crystal Lipzin. The colors and light of a garden are transformed by Janis Crystal Lipzin’s alchemical experiments with the film material and photochemical processes.Hudson River Landscapes-DIR: Patrick Tarrant Recorded from a 24th floor window on Broadway, Hudson River Landscapes maps the elevated terrain of Manhattan's Upper West Side where laborers and layabouts, while displaced from the city beneath them, and framed by the river behind them , function like secret agents in an unscripted spy drama.Windows and Clouds- Dir: Chris H Lynn Window cleaners dangle on a skyscraper in Shanghai. Their movements are accompanied by sailing clouds reflected in the windows.Those Inescapable Slivers of Celluloid - DIR: Jeremy Moss Part lyrical exploration, part structural landscape study – an abstract/personal Super 8mm collage documentary. Music-Olivia BlockDe Luce 1: Vegetare - DIR: Janis Crystal Lipzin. The colors and light of a garden are transformed by Janis Crystal Lipzin’s alchemical experiments with the film material and photochemical processes.Hudson River Landscapes-DIR: Patrick Tarrant Recorded from a 24th floor window on Broadway, Hudson River Landscapes maps the elevated terrain of Manhattan's Upper West Side where laborers and layabouts, while displaced from the city beneath them, and framed by the river behind them , function like secret agents in an unscripted spy drama.Windows and Clouds- Dir: Chris H Lynn Window cleaners dangle on a skyscraper in Shanghai. Their movements are accompanied by sailing clouds reflected in the windows.Those Inescapable Slivers of Celluloid - DIR: Jeremy Moss Part lyrical exploration, part structural landscape study – an abstract/personal Super 8mm collage documentary. Music-Olivia BlockDe Luce 1: Vegetare - DIR: Janis Crystal Lipzin. The colors and light of a garden are transformed by Janis Crystal Lipzin’s alchemical experiments with the film material and photochemical processes. --- On Thu, 12/13/12, Buck Bito b...@vtc-sf.com wrote: From: Buck Bito b...@vtc-sf.com Subject: Re: [Frameworks] ektachrome 100d r.i.p. To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Date: Thursday, December 13, 2012, 10:09 PM Hi Zach, There were other processes for older Ektachromes: EM-24 / EM-25 EM-26 / EM-27 Last I checked, Martin Baumgarten at Plattsburgh Photographic Services is still offering processing for these older Ektachromes, but while he's the best value around for this kind of processing, I think its still around double what you'd pay for E-6. I don't recommend the older Ektachromes (even the E-6 stocks prior to 100D) unless you're doing it FOR that look - drab and cold by my eye when it was fresh and who knows if its 10-years+ expired. Grab some 100D while you still can for anything you want to look good. -Take care, ---Buck Bito - Movette On Thu, December 13, 2012 8:58 am, zach vonjoo wrote: Wondering, does all
[Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments of developing a critical studies course that looks at different ways the automobile has been imagined in cinema. To this end I'd love to hear from ya'll with titles of films that you think might be useful to explore/expand this idea and readings that might also dovetail themes that might be explored. Do know that my pal Antoni Pinent recently turned me on to a great text titled Car Fetish. OK, let's hear what ya got! best, -- Bryan Konefsky director, Experiments in Cinema el presidente, Basement Films lecturer, Dept of Cinematic Arts UNM visiting lecturer, UCSC board of advisors, Ann Arbor Film Festival ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
Harrod Blank's films about car art. Su Friedrich's Rules of the Road. Some of the Jam Handy industrial films made for Chevrolet in the 1950's have been called Corporate Surrealism, the ones I know that best fit this description are Hall of Wonders and You're Ahead, Mr. X. Also the Jam Handy Chevrolet endurance test films - a pickup truck climbs Pikes Peak off-road in Meeting the Challenge (1949), and in Daring the Darien three red Corvairs cross the dense rain forest of the Darien Gap, again off road simply because there is no road. They cut their way through the jungle with machetes to prove the durability of the Corvair, absolutely ridiculous. There was a rather fascinating doc from the Middle East a few years back, The Beetle. And the O. Winston Link photograph from the back of the drive-in with plane on the screen and train passing by. The plane on screen was a trick, but as usual the train was the real deal, that was his specialty. The guy used to set up something like a quarter mile of flashes to get a shot. - Tom Durham Cinematheque From: frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com [mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of Bryan Konefsky Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 2:57 PM To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Subject: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments of developing a critical studies course that looks at different ways the automobile has been imagined in cinema. To this end I'd love to hear from ya'll with titles of films that you think might be useful to explore/expand this idea and readings that might also dovetail themes that might be explored. Do know that my pal Antoni Pinent recently turned me on to a great text titled Car Fetish. OK, let's hear what ya got! best, -- Bryan Konefsky director, Experiments in Cinema el presidente, Basement Films lecturer, Dept of Cinematic Arts UNM visiting lecturer, UCSC board of advisors, Ann Arbor Film Festival ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
The about to open, On The Road, and an almost endless stream of road movies in Hollywood. There's a famous Laurel and Hardy film (whose name I forget at the moment) which includes tearing a car apart in a dispute. Not about film, per se, but in the 1920s the expansion of relatively inexpensive autos created a certain moral panic around cars as mobile bedrooms for young people who could escape being chaperoned. Chuck Kleinhans On Dec 14, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Bryan Konefsky wrote: Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments of developing a critical studies course that looks at different ways the automobile has been imagined in cinema. To this end I'd love to hear from ya'll with titles of films that you think might be useful to explore/expand this idea and readings that might also dovetail themes that might be explored. Do know that my pal Antoni Pinent recently turned me on to a great text titled Car Fetish. OK, let's hear what ya got! best, ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
The LH in question is Big Business. Deconstruction indeed. -Original Message- From: frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com [mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Kleinhans Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 4:47 PM To: Experimental Film Discussion List Subject: Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture The about to open, On The Road, and an almost endless stream of road movies in Hollywood. There's a famous Laurel and Hardy film (whose name I forget at the moment) which includes tearing a car apart in a dispute. Not about film, per se, but in the 1920s the expansion of relatively inexpensive autos created a certain moral panic around cars as mobile bedrooms for young people who could escape being chaperoned. Chuck Kleinhans On Dec 14, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Bryan Konefsky wrote: Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments of developing a critical studies course that looks at different ways the automobile has been imagined in cinema. To this end I'd love to hear from ya'll with titles of films that you think might be useful to explore/expand this idea and readings that might also dovetail themes that might be explored. Do know that my pal Antoni Pinent recently turned me on to a great text titled Car Fetish. OK, let's hear what ya got! best, ___ 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] new critical studies film course in car culture
Laurel and Hardy is Two Tars On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.eduwrote: The about to open, On The Road, and an almost endless stream of road movies in Hollywood. There's a famous Laurel and Hardy film (whose name I forget at the moment) which includes tearing a car apart in a dispute. Not about film, per se, but in the 1920s the expansion of relatively inexpensive autos created a certain moral panic around cars as mobile bedrooms for young people who could escape being chaperoned. Chuck Kleinhans On Dec 14, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Bryan Konefsky wrote: Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments of developing a critical studies course that looks at different ways the automobile has been imagined in cinema. To this end I'd love to hear from ya'll with titles of films that you think might be useful to explore/expand this idea and readings that might also dovetail themes that might be explored. Do know that my pal Antoni Pinent recently turned me on to a great text titled Car Fetish. OK, let's hear what ya got! best, ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks -- Dave Dvorchak AS220 Communications Director da...@as220.org (401) 831-9327 x121 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
The two reeler where LH destroy Jim Finlayson's automobile (because he won't buy a Christmas tree) is Big Business. From: frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com [mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of David Dvorchak Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 4:49 PM To: Experimental Film Discussion List Subject: Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture Laurel and Hardy is Two Tars On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edumailto:chuck...@northwestern.edu wrote: The about to open, On The Road, and an almost endless stream of road movies in Hollywood. There's a famous Laurel and Hardy film (whose name I forget at the moment) which includes tearing a car apart in a dispute. Not about film, per se, but in the 1920s the expansion of relatively inexpensive autos created a certain moral panic around cars as mobile bedrooms for young people who could escape being chaperoned. Chuck Kleinhans On Dec 14, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Bryan Konefsky wrote: Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments of developing a critical studies course that looks at different ways the automobile has been imagined in cinema. To this end I'd love to hear from ya'll with titles of films that you think might be useful to explore/expand this idea and readings that might also dovetail themes that might be explored. Do know that my pal Antoni Pinent recently turned me on to a great text titled Car Fetish. OK, let's hear what ya got! best, ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.commailto:FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks -- Dave Dvorchak AS220 Communications Director da...@as220.orgmailto:da...@as220.org (401) 831-9327 x121 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
There¹s very early silent, totally blanking on it right now but one of you will know, which a man and car blowing up, and the man is in pieces and gets reassembled something like that. Pretty vague, but at the same time, I¹m sure someone will know of what I speak. On 12/14/12 1:49 PM, David Dvorchak da...@as220.org wrote: Laurel and Hardy is Two Tars On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu wrote: The about to open, On The Road, and an almost endless stream of road movies in Hollywood. There's a famous Laurel and Hardy film (whose name I forget at the moment) which includes tearing a car apart in a dispute. Not about film, per se, but in the 1920s the expansion of relatively inexpensive autos created a certain moral panic around cars as mobile bedrooms for young people who could escape being chaperoned. Chuck Kleinhans On Dec 14, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Bryan Konefsky wrote: Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments of developing a critical studies course that looks at different ways the automobile has been imagined in cinema. To this end I'd love to hear from ya'll with titles of films that you think might be useful to explore/expand this idea and readings that might also dovetail themes that might be explored. Do know that my pal Antoni Pinent recently turned me on to a great text titled Car Fetish. OK, let's hear what ya got! best, ___ 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
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Two Lane Blacktop is essential. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Adam Hyman a...@lafilmforum.org wrote: There’s very early silent, totally blanking on it right now but one of you will know, which a man and car blowing up, and the man is in pieces and gets reassembled – something like that. Pretty vague, but at the same time, I’m sure someone will know of what I speak. On 12/14/12 1:49 PM, David Dvorchak da...@as220.org wrote: Laurel and Hardy is Two Tars On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu wrote: The about to open, On The Road, and an almost endless stream of road movies in Hollywood. There's a famous Laurel and Hardy film (whose name I forget at the moment) which includes tearing a car apart in a dispute. Not about film, per se, but in the 1920s the expansion of relatively inexpensive autos created a certain moral panic around cars as mobile bedrooms for young people who could escape being chaperoned. Chuck Kleinhans On Dec 14, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Bryan Konefsky wrote: Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments of developing a critical studies course that looks at different ways the automobile has been imagined in cinema. To this end I'd love to hear from ya'll with titles of films that you think might be useful to explore/expand this idea and readings that might also dovetail themes that might be explored. Do know that my pal Antoni Pinent recently turned me on to a great text titled Car Fetish. OK, let's hear what ya got! best, ___ 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 -- www.ryanmarino.com www.imminentfrequencies.com ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
Quoting Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com: Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments of developing a critical studies course that looks at different ways the automobile has been imagined in cinema. To this end I'd love to hear from ya'll with titles of films that you think might be useful to explore/expand this idea and readings that might also dovetail themes that might be explored. Transparency (Ernie Gehr) Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger) Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray) Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich) Two Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman) Fred Camper Chicago ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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And Death Race 2000. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Fred Camper f...@fredcamper.com wrote: Quoting Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com: Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments of developing a critical studies course that looks at different ways the automobile has been imagined in cinema. To this end I'd love to hear from ya'll with titles of films that you think might be useful to explore/expand this idea and readings that might also dovetail themes that might be explored. Transparency (Ernie Gehr) Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger) Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray) Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich) Two Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman) 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] new critical studies film course in car culture
David Cronenberg's CRASH. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Ronald Gregg ronald.gr...@yale.edu wrote: And Death Race 2000. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Fred Camper f...@fredcamper.com wrote: Quoting Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com: Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments of developing a critical studies course that looks at different ways the automobile has been imagined in cinema. To this end I'd love to hear from ya'll with titles of films that you think might be useful to explore/expand this idea and readings that might also dovetail themes that might be explored. Transparency (Ernie Gehr) Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger) Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray) Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich) Two Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman) 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 -- Jennifer Proctor Assistant Professor, Journalism and Screen Studies Department of Language, Culture, and Communication University of Michigan-Dearborn http://www.casl.umd.umich.edu/index.php?id=685157 http://jenniferproctor.com http://lostinlight.org ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
Gone in 60 Seconds (1974) and Vanishing Point cannot be overlooked here. Also, The Car of Your Dreams is a wonderfully crazy compilation of car commercials, it's probably on Youtube and was fairly common to find 16mm prints of also - had a few pass through my hands. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Jen Proctor proctor.jenni...@gmail.comwrote: David Cronenberg's CRASH. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Ronald Gregg ronald.gr...@yale.eduwrote: And Death Race 2000. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Fred Camper f...@fredcamper.com wrote: Quoting Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com: Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments of developing a critical studies course that looks at different ways the automobile has been imagined in cinema. To this end I'd love to hear from ya'll with titles of films that you think might be useful to explore/expand this idea and readings that might also dovetail themes that might be explored. Transparency (Ernie Gehr) Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger) Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray) Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich) Two Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman) 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 -- Jennifer Proctor Assistant Professor, Journalism and Screen Studies Department of Language, Culture, and Communication University of Michigan-Dearborn http://www.casl.umd.umich.edu/index.php?id=685157 http://jenniferproctor.com http://lostinlight.org ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks -- Dave Dvorchak AS220 Communications Director da...@as220.org (401) 831-9327 x121 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
Fergus Walking (part 2 in the 3 part Autumn Scenes) – William Raban, UK (not US), 1978. P And Death Race 2000. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Fred Camper f...@fredcamper.commailto:f...@fredcamper.com wrote: Quoting Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.commailto:bkonef...@gmail.com: Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments of developing a critical studies course that looks at different ways the automobile has been imagined in cinema. To this end I'd love to hear from ya'll with titles of films that you think might be useful to explore/expand this idea and readings that might also dovetail themes that might be explored. Transparency (Ernie Gehr) Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger) Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray) Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich) Two Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman) Fred Camper Chicago ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.commailto: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] new critical studies film course in car culture
Seated Figures – Michael Snow, Cdn., 1988. P Fergus Walking (part 2 in the 3 part Autumn Scenes) – William Raban, UK (not US), 1978. P And Death Race 2000. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Fred Camper f...@fredcamper.commailto:f...@fredcamper.com wrote: Quoting Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.commailto:bkonef...@gmail.com: Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments of developing a critical studies course that looks at different ways the automobile has been imagined in cinema. To this end I'd love to hear from ya'll with titles of films that you think might be useful to explore/expand this idea and readings that might also dovetail themes that might be explored. Transparency (Ernie Gehr) Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger) Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray) Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich) Two Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman) Fred Camper Chicago ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.commailto: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] new critical studies film course in car culture
Another one on which I¹m forgetting the title. French, short, 1970s, about 10 minutes. Man gets in sports car, races at seemingly high speeds through Paris city streets, much POV through car window, ending at a meeting with a a woman ah, yes, ³Rendezvous² by Claude Lelouch, 1976 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%27%C3%A9tait_un_rendez-vous Watch it: http://www.boreme.com/posting.php?id=14353 On 12/14/12 2:44 PM, Daniela Bajar filmc...@pragda.com wrote: Traffic, by Jacques Tati from 1971 -- Daniela Bajar Pragda 302 Bedford Ave., # 136 Brooklyn, NY 11249 Pragda: www.pragda.com http://www.pragda.com Spanish Film Club: www.spanishfilmclub.com http://www.spanishfilmclub.com On Dec 14, 2012, at 4:38 PM, Jen Proctor proctor.jenni...@gmail.com wrote: David Cronenberg's CRASH. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Ronald Gregg ronald.gr...@yale.edu wrote: And Death Race 2000. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Fred Camper f...@fredcamper.com wrote: Quoting Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com: Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments of developing a critical studies course that looks at different ways the automobile has been imagined in cinema. To this end I'd love to hear from ya'll with titles of films that you think might be useful to explore/expand this idea and readings that might also dovetail themes that might be explored. Transparency (Ernie Gehr) Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger) Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray) Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich) Two Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman) 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 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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Maybe Weekend? Cars That Ate Paris, radio on, kustom kar komandos, crash.. Jack Sent from my iPhone On 15/12/2012, at 9:49 AM, Peter Mudie peter.mu...@uwa.edu.au wrote: Hollywood commercial stuff: Vanishing Point, 1971 (great car) Seated Figures – Michael Snow, Cdn., 1988. P Fergus Walking (part 2 in the 3 part Autumn Scenes) – William Raban, UK (not US), 1978. P And Death Race 2000. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Fred Camper f...@fredcamper.com wrote: Quoting Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com: Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments of developing a critical studies course that looks at different ways the automobile has been imagined in cinema. To this end I'd love to hear from ya'll with titles of films that you think might be useful to explore/expand this idea and readings that might also dovetail themes that might be explored. Transparency (Ernie Gehr) Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger) Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray) Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich) Two Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman) 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 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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And a thread with various cars accidents in silent films: http://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=3t=12134 One pair describes the film I mentioned earlier: ³One of the earliest British trick films (EXTRAORDINARY CAB ACCIDENT, 1903) concerns an auto. A car drives into the picture and stops, and after a moment suddenly explodes. Pieces of machinery and body parts fall from the top of the frame and a policeman walks over and begins in a laconic manner to make an inventory in his notebook.² ³I have a copy of that short, though I believe my copy is titled AN AUTOMOBILE EXPLOSION. It's nice to see a Pythonesque sight gag near the start of filmdom, as well as the patented British art of Understatement at it's best...well done.² No re-assembly in this though; that must be something else. On 12/14/12 2:44 PM, Daniela Bajar filmc...@pragda.com wrote: Traffic, by Jacques Tati from 1971 -- Daniela Bajar Pragda 302 Bedford Ave., # 136 Brooklyn, NY 11249 Pragda: www.pragda.com http://www.pragda.com Spanish Film Club: www.spanishfilmclub.com http://www.spanishfilmclub.com On Dec 14, 2012, at 4:38 PM, Jen Proctor proctor.jenni...@gmail.com wrote: David Cronenberg's CRASH. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Ronald Gregg ronald.gr...@yale.edu wrote: And Death Race 2000. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Fred Camper f...@fredcamper.com wrote: Quoting Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com: Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments of developing a critical studies course that looks at different ways the automobile has been imagined in cinema. To this end I'd love to hear from ya'll with titles of films that you think might be useful to explore/expand this idea and readings that might also dovetail themes that might be explored. Transparency (Ernie Gehr) Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger) Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray) Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich) Two Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman) 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 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
I already mentioned this to Bryan but thought I’d share it with the list, regarding luxury and fantasy cars from the 1930s. Cocteau put several in Orpheus, and there’s a neat one in Topper. And in another world, the custom racer in Pandora and the Flying Dutchman. Then there’s the James Bond cars, and one could link the drag race in Rebel Without a Cause, with the re-enactment of James Dean’s fatal crash in “Crash.” In fact, Crash is just as iconic as Two Lane Blacktop as a Car Imaginary, and a thousand times more interesting. The opening sequence of “Written on the Wind” is another indelible auto wet dream. From: Bryan Konefsky Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 12:57 PM To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Subject: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments of developing a critical studies course that looks at different ways the automobile has been imagined in cinema. To this end I'd love to hear from ya'll with titles of films that you think might be useful to explore/expand this idea and readings that might also dovetail themes that might be explored. Do know that my pal Antoni Pinent recently turned me on to a great text titled Car Fetish. OK, let's hear what ya got! best, -- Bryan Konefsky director, Experiments in Cinema el presidente, Basement Films lecturer, Dept of Cinematic Arts UNM visiting lecturer, UCSC board of advisors, Ann Arbor Film Festival ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2634/5459 - Release Date: 12/14/12 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
Some others Cosmopolis (Cronenberg), also how about kids movies like Herbie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? Jack Sent from my iPhone On 15/12/2012, at 10:02 AM, Peter Mudie peter.mu...@uwa.edu.au wrote: Talking about great cars, very hard to forget the Citroën DS21: Le Samouraï, Jean-Pierre Melville, Fr., 1967. P Hollywood commercial stuff: Vanishing Point, 1971 (great car) Seated Figures – Michael Snow, Cdn., 1988. P Fergus Walking (part 2 in the 3 part Autumn Scenes) – William Raban, UK (not US), 1978. P And Death Race 2000. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Fred Camper f...@fredcamper.com wrote: Quoting Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com: Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments of developing a critical studies course that looks at different ways the automobile has been imagined in cinema. To this end I'd love to hear from ya'll with titles of films that you think might be useful to explore/expand this idea and readings that might also dovetail themes that might be explored. Transparency (Ernie Gehr) Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger) Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray) Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich) Two Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman) 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 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
Oops, forgot: Taxi Driver, Scorcese 1976. From an institutional point of view, I would imagine a course on cars in film would be very popular – almost every exchange based product out of Hollywood features a car in the obligatory chase sequence. But if it's a critical course I would imagine that you would be looking at the breadth of analogies/metaphors/faculties that a 'vehicle' represented (not imagined) can function as/perform in relation to a time formed construct. The other stuff is just a series of laughs and sips of nostalgic tea in a dark room – no one will learn much from that. Good luck with it. P Talking about great cars, very hard to forget the Citroën DS21: Le Samouraï, Jean-Pierre Melville, Fr., 1967. P Hollywood commercial stuff: Vanishing Point, 1971 (great car) Seated Figures – Michael Snow, Cdn., 1988. P Fergus Walking (part 2 in the 3 part Autumn Scenes) – William Raban, UK (not US), 1978. P And Death Race 2000. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Fred Camper f...@fredcamper.commailto:f...@fredcamper.com wrote: Quoting Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.commailto:bkonef...@gmail.com: Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments of developing a critical studies course that looks at different ways the automobile has been imagined in cinema. To this end I'd love to hear from ya'll with titles of films that you think might be useful to explore/expand this idea and readings that might also dovetail themes that might be explored. Transparency (Ernie Gehr) Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger) Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray) Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich) Two Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman) Fred Camper Chicago ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.commailto: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] new critical studies film course in car culture
Powerful automobile related imaginings occurred in the early sixties beginning with Disney's flying car flubber apotheosis in The Absent Minded Professor (1961) followed by the anthropomorphic VW Herbie films beginning in 1963 including The Love Bug (1968). If you will allow television episodes, the 1965 single season sitcom My Mother The Car in which a man's mother is reincarnated as a 1928 Porter Touring Car might be considered. The seriality in Andy Warhol's Car Crash Paintings of 1963 might be thought of filmically. The first appearance of the Munster's Koach in the television sitcom The Munsters (1964-66) was a marvel merging hot rod hybridity and familial functionality, Grandpa Munster's vehicle called the Drag-u-la, from the episode called Hot Rod Herman was essentially a super charged coffin on wheels,it also appeared in the 1966 film Munster Go Home. A precursor to the Munster Koach might be found in an uproarious 1934 episode of The Little Rascals called Hi' Neighbor in which Spanky and his gang build a mad ad hoc fire truck to meet the challenge of an affluent newcomer's girlfriend wooing toy car. Not of the imagination but still interesting is a short film document on Youtube and elsewhere of the first Indy 500 race, May 30,1911 complete with a spectacular accident. The ecstatic (neon-lit?) cruising footage from Floyd Mutrux's Dusty and Sweets McGee (1971) photographed by William A. Fraker which is said to have influenced George Lucas's American Graffiti is a personal favorite. I can't fail to mention Kathryn Bigelow's The Loveless and the unforgettable RV roving vampires in her Near Dark. The car race in Rebel Without A Cause comes to mind. I recollect a video Fred Worden exhibited at Anthology several years ago bound entirely by travel in a moving automobile on a Thruway (the title escapes me). Ernie Gehr's Auto-collider series. (Additionally Ernie's digital interlaced masterpiece Crystal Palace (2002) was shot from the open window of a moving car.) Then there is Michael Bay's Transformers (2007) which I have not seen but understand involves four wheeled transformational entities. -DB On Dec 14, 2012, at 2:57 PM, Bryan Konefsky wrote: Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments of developing a critical studies course that looks at different ways the automobile has been imagined in cinema. To this end I'd love to hear from ya'll with titles of films that you think might be useful to explore/ expand this idea and readings that might also dovetail themes that might be explored. Do know that my pal Antoni Pinent recently turned me on to a great text titled Car Fetish. OK, let's hear what ya got! best, -- Bryan Konefsky director, Experiments in Cinema el presidente, Basement Films lecturer, Dept of Cinematic Arts UNM visiting lecturer, UCSC board of advisors, Ann Arbor Film Festival ___ 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] new critical studies film course in car culture
Obvious, but two films made right before their directors ruined Hollywood filmmaking: Sugarland Express American Graffiti Of course Kustom Kar Kommandos, too. Jeff Kreines Kinetta kinetta.com j...@kinetta.com ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
You've quite a list forming here: industrial, underground, experimental, commercial, etc. Here's 2 contemporary commercial films that probably should be in the mix for better or worse. Tarantino's DEATH PROOF (2007) and Nicolas Refn's DRIVE (2011). Art/experimental... Phil Solomon's LAST DAY IN A LONELY PLACE (2007) utilizes the auto-fetishistic Grand Theft Auto video game series. But, it may be a car-less piece if memory serves Warren On Dec 14, 2012, at 2:57 PM, Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments of developing a critical studies course that looks at different ways the automobile has been imagined in cinema. To this end I'd love to hear from ya'll with titles of films that you think might be useful to explore/expand this idea and readings that might also dovetail themes that might be explored. Do know that my pal Antoni Pinent recently turned me on to a great text titled Car Fetish. OK, let's hear what ya got! best, -- Bryan Konefsky director, Experiments in Cinema el presidente, Basement Films lecturer, Dept of Cinematic Arts UNM visiting lecturer, UCSC board of advisors, Ann Arbor Film Festival ___ 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
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_Repo Man_ is always intense. Also, _Signal 30_ / _Red Asphalt_ etc. Might be worth dipping into related media of the early 60s -- Beach Boys' car-oriented records, Pete Millar's CARtoons, Ed Big Daddy Roth. Tex Avery's _Car of Tomorrow_ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bBpDNRP5qQ -- Jim Flannery j...@newgrangemedia.com ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
