Re: [Frameworks] FILM CULTURE INDEX
The same info, with a presentation. Yours.Just released (the complete Film Culture Index)FILM CULTURE INDEX, by Adeline Coffinier Victor Gresard ISBN : 978-2-912539-43-4 bilingual (français-english) 180 p., 85 Euros Distribution: les Belles Lettres : www.bldd.fr ask your bookseller or order it on our website also available on: www.amazon.fr Film Culture magazine, founded in 1955 by Jonas and Adolfas Mekas is an essential resource and document, measuring the pulse of the American avant-garde film from January 1955 to Winter 1996. The publication contains several indexes: an index of authors, a subject index, an index of film titles and an index of illustrations, as well as a complete table of contents. The research tool proposed here is preceded by two rare documents. The first is the transcription of a discussion at Columbia University in 2001 between Jonas Mekas, J. Hoberman, Andrew Sarris and P. Adams Sitney. The second is a reprint of the Editorialfrom # 14, November 1957, in which Jonas Mekas, editor of the journal, calls for the renewal of an experimental cinema in America. PARIS EXPERIMENTAL http://www.paris-experimental.asso.fr ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] JONAS MEKAS: catalogue raisonné (english edition)
The same info with a presentation. Yours. Just released (the complete Jonas Mekas' oeuvre)JONAS MEKAS : FILMS, VIDEOS INSTALLATIONS (1962-2012): catalogue raisonné, ed. Pip Chodorov ISBN : 978-2-912539-44-1-- bilingual (français-english) 280 p., 28.50 Euros Distribution: les Belles Lettres : www.bldd.fr ask your bookseller or order it on our website also available on : www.amazon.fr Born in Lithuania in 1922, Jonas Mekas has made over 90 films, videos and installations since his arrival in New York in 1949. Each piece inventoried is accompanied by a technical text, a list of public collections and distributors, and one or several notices summarizing the content of the work. Presented in chronological order, Jonas Mekas’oeuvre can be understood in its entirety. The editor as well as author of the foreword is Pip Chodorov, one of the best connoisseurs of Joans Mekas’ work. An accompanying text by Emeric de Lastens and Benjamin Léon reposition the artist’s work in its historical context and its stylistic evolution. This book is also an invitation to travel through Mekas’ life work, thanks to many rich and evocative illustrations. PARIS EXPERIMENTAL http://www.paris-experimental.asso.fr ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Rear Screen Projection Rotoscoping 16mm
Hi Ben and friends, I just posted a short video of my op printer/roto set up. Hope it helps... https://vimeo.com/57535369 Re: glass I have used frosted glass in the past but I have found that just a sheet of clear glass with a piece of vellum taped to it works best. Feel free to email with any questions. Good Luck! -Kenny On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:20 PM, John Woods jawood...@yahoo.ca wrote: There are articles in Cinemagic magazine about how to build your own optical printer and rotoscoping. Scans of this magazine are freely available online. I have not done it myself, but you can make your own contact prints on a Steenbeck, which would be easier to find than an actual contact printer. You might be able to find more information on rotoscoping in some vintage filmmaking books, maybe Lenny Lipton's book would have a section on that? -- *From:* ben.weinst...@mindspring.com ben.weinst...@mindspring.com *To:* Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com *Sent:* Tuesday, January 15, 2013 4:36:43 PM *Subject:* Re: [Frameworks] Rear Screen Projection Rotoscoping 16mm Dam the 21st century hella sux. Any idea of what kind of glass I would need to make my own? -Original Message- From: Scott Dorsey klu...@panix.com Sent: Jan 15, 2013 11:52 AM To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Rear Screen Projection Rotoscoping 16mm I know labs have them but I want to do it all myself. Labs really don't have stuff like that any more. Back in the 1960s, all the labs did, but today digital intermediates have replaced everything that folks did with opticals in ages past. What you need is a time machine to go back to about 1978 where you can give W.A.Palmer Films a call. You will find a few people with old optical printers here and there, but rear projection and rotoscope systems are going to be something you will have to homebrew today. --scott ___ 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 mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Articles/essays on the loop in film
Thanks to all of you who responded on- and off-list to my query. I look forward to following up on all these great leads! Much appreciated, Jen On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Damon damonc...@gmail.com wrote: Jen, It has been ages since I've seen a copy, but there was an exhibition catalog about the loop in artist's films in 2001-2002. It had many short essays, some focused upon the exhibited artists, and others on the loop as a concept, but none really longer than 5 pages (however the catalog was in a *Vogue-*like page layout so the 5 pages may be close to 10 pages if placed into a book). Each of the editors contributed a text. Here is the bibliography reference I have for it (and some of the details): Biesenbach, Klaus , Jennifer Allen, and Daniel Birnbaum, eds. *Loop : Alles Auf Anfang*. Munich: Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, 2001. chiefly coloured ill. ; 31 cm. Texts in German and English Catalogue of an exhibition held at Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, from Sept. 14 to Nov. 4, 2001 and at P.S.1/MoMA, New York, from Dec. 9, 2001 to Jan. 27, 2002./ Magazine 03/01, Special issue--Editorial./ Loop - back to the beginning [is] an exhibition featuring the diverse work of 20 international artists who explore a strategy of repeated gesture, the loop.--Foreword./ Features the works of Canadian artists Rodney Graham, Stan Douglas./ Includes bibliographical references. Loop, back to the beginning.; Magazine 03/01. Boris Groys has also examined the loop as a formal structure, he curated an exhibition at Apex Art in New York during the winter of 2008, there is still a web page up with a link to the exhibition brochure: http://www.apexart.org/exhibitions/groys.php I think the found-footage videos he produced in conjunction with the exhibition were released by Hatje Cantz after the show moved to ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany : http://www.hatjecantz.de/controller.php?cmd=detailtitzif=2337lang=en Sincerely, Damon Stanek On Jan 12, 2013, at 5:01 PM, Jen Proctor wrote: Hi everyone, Can anyone point me to any good writing on the notion of the loop in cinema (that is, the repetition of a strip of film over and over)? Of course, one of the ways cinema got its start was in showcasing simple looped images, but I'm particularly interested in its role in avant-garde film, expanded cinema, video art, etc. Articles about repetition as a technique would be of interest too, though those are a bit easier to come by. Thanks! Jen ___ 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] contemporary animation texts
Hello all, I am teaching a Contemporary Animation Practices class this semester for the first time. I have lots of great texts but would love to consider others to supplement my own interests. Recommendations would be appreciated. I am currently reading the Fischinger article that someone posted about last week. Thank you! Best, Stephanie Stephanie Hutin Director of Production Intercollegiate Media Studies Mosbacher Gartrell Center for Media Experimentation and Activism Pitzer College 1050 North Mills Ave., West Hall Claremont, CA 91711 909.607.3889 stephanie_hu...@pitzer.edu ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] contemporary animation texts
I really love and highly recommend Hollywood Flatlands: http://books.google.com/books/about/Hollywood_Flatlands.html?id=dhrYWYZWETIC On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Stephanie Hutin stephanie_hu...@pitzer.edu wrote: Hello all, I am teaching a Contemporary Animation Practices class this semester for the first time. I have lots of great texts but would love to consider others to supplement my own interests. Recommendations would be appreciated. I am currently reading the Fischinger article that someone posted about last week. Thank you! Best, Stephanie Stephanie Hutin Director of Production Intercollegiate Media Studies Mosbacher Gartrell Center for Media Experimentation and Activism Pitzer College 1050 North Mills Ave., West Hall Claremont, CA 91711 909.607.3889 stephanie_hu...@pitzer.edu ___ 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] contemporary animation texts
Maureen Furniss was developing a book on animation, not sure if its available yet, but sounds good. Includes or is based, I believe on direct app. Animation. She also has several older animation books. Sent from my iPod On Jan 16, 2013, at 3:37 PM, Stephanie Hutin stephanie_hu...@pitzer.edu wrote: Hello all, I am teaching a Contemporary Animation Practices class this semester for the first time. I have lots of great texts but would love to consider others to supplement my own interests. Recommendations would be appreciated. I am currently reading the Fischinger article that someone posted about last week. Thank you! Best, Stephanie Stephanie Hutin Director of Production Intercollegiate Media Studies Mosbacher Gartrell Center for Media Experimentation and Activism Pitzer College 1050 North Mills Ave., West Hall Claremont, CA 91711 909.607.3889 stephanie_hu...@pitzer.edu ___ 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] Fw: contemporary animation texts
When Phil Solomon showed work in Oklahoma City he said to his audience that he preferred poetic to experimental, because the experimenting had all been done already. What we were seeing then was not so much an experiment as a poetic application of the results of that research. I would like to see such an attitude taken seriously with respect to what we must call animation despite the inclusion of work like Sharits and Conrad. This isn't really animation but we have no other term unless we begin to think in terms of language and poetry, of materiality and film ontology. Another advantage taking the reference to poetry seriously is that it invites consideration of the relationship between such meanings as we find in poetics, on one hand, and a sequence of frames or shots, on the other. BErnie - Forwarded Message - From: Bernard Roddy rodd...@yahoo.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 6:40 PM Subject: Re: [Frameworks] contemporary animation texts Robert Russett and Cecile Starr, Experimental Animation (Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1976). It's been a while since I saw a copy of this text but it had a big influence on me 15 years ago. It includes work like The Flicker by Tony Conrad, which extends the bounds of animation as we're usually expected to think about it. By thinking of animation as single-framing instead of as restricted to narrative, character, and gag, it allows us to ask more fundamental questions about film's potential than a Hollywood orientation does. While I have made and screened work that qualifies as animation, I generally don't like to see it classified as such, simply because it is more likely to end up next to a cartoon than next to an genuine experiment. Bernie From: Robbie rahb...@yahoo.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Cc: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 3:20 PM Subject: Re: [Frameworks] contemporary animation texts Maureen Furniss was developing a book on animation, not sure if its available yet, but sounds good. Includes or is based, I believe on direct app. Animation. She also has several older animation books. Sent from my iPod On Jan 16, 2013, at 3:37 PM, Stephanie Hutin stephanie_hu...@pitzer.edu wrote: Hello all, I am teaching a Contemporary Animation Practices class this semester for the first time. I have lots of great texts but would love to consider others to supplement my own interests. Recommendations would be appreciated. I am currently reading the Fischinger article that someone posted about last week. Thank you! Best, Stephanie Stephanie Hutin Director of Production Intercollegiate Media Studies Mosbacher Gartrell Center for Media Experimentation and Activism Pitzer College 1050 North Mills Ave., West Hall Claremont, CA 91711 909.607.3889 stephanie_hu...@pitzer.edu ___ 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 mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
