[Frameworks] call for papers reminder
Revelation Perth International Film Festival's Academic Conference is back in 2013. Australia's cutting edge film festival takes place July 4th - 14th 2013. www.revelationfilmfest.org After the success of 2012's RevCon Academic we're repeating the exercise in 2013. Last time we saw a wide range of papers on a multitude of subjects. For 2013 we're once again looking for papers on screen culture, independent cinema (narrative and documentary), experimental film, film practice, hybridity, and emergent and digital screen media. Abstracts for papers should be no more than 200 words long, please also include any academic and/or professional affiliations, we will also accept papers from independent researchers. Don't forget to include contact details, email address and so on. Papers accepted for the conference should be no longer than 20 minutes in length. A selection of articles from the 2012 event can be found in the latest issue of SCAN: http://scan.net.au/ Send abstracts to Jack via ad...@jacktext.net by May 1st Please can you forward and share with you networks. Many thanks Jack Sargeant___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] Robert Schaller Film Show, 3/20/13, Jamestown, CO
Dear Frameworkers, I'm showing a selection of my films at the Jamestown Town Hall at 7 pm on Wednesday, March 20, in Jamestown, Colorado (about ten miles northwest of Boulder, Colorado). It's a benefit for the local elementary school ($5 admission). If anyone can make it, you're invited! Thanks, Robert Schaller___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] Food
Anyone know who holds 16mm copies of Matta-Clarks 'Food'? -- | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | http://www.bristol-channel.org/skomer http://www.cubecinema.com/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Food
You can find it at EAI here http://www.eai.org/title.htm?id=761. And the Robert Frank collection is at the Houston MFA. Best regards, Dennis Doros Milestone Film Video/Milliarium Zero PO Box 128 / Harrington Park, NJ 07640 Phone: 201-767-3117 / Fax: 201-767-3035 / Email: milefi...@gmail.com Visit our main website! www.milestonefilms.com Visit our new websites! www.shirleyclarkefilms.com, www.comebackafrica.com www.ontheboweryfilm.com http://www.killerofsheep.com/ Support Milestone Film on Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Milestone-Film/22348485426 and Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/MilestoneFilms! See the website: Association of Moving Image Archivistshttp://www.amianet.org/ and like them on Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Association-of-Moving-Image-Archivists/86854559717 AMIA 2013 Conference, Richmond, Virginia, November 5-9!http://www.amianet.org/ On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 5:20 PM, graeme hogg graemeh...@irational.orgwrote: Anyone know who holds 16mm copies of Matta-Clarks 'Food'? -- | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | http://www.bristol-channel.**org/skomerhttp://www.bristol-channel.org/skomer http://www.cubecinema.com/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | __**_ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.**webfaction.com/listinfo/**frameworkshttps://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks -- ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] ELEPHANTS AND FILM
This is tragic and infuriating. Why can't anyone tell the Chinese people that elephants are threatened? If elephants are extinct there will be NO MORE IVORY. Don't they have media in China? Get the word out. Why don't the Chinese import some elephants and start their own herd? They could manage them carefully and eventually harvest ivory when the herd needs thinning. No matter the cost; demand for ivory will drive the price ever higher. They could promote homegrown ivory as superior. Documentaries shown in the US and Europe make us feel bad but don't save animals. How about showing some documentaries in China? How about a message on every cell phone in China? I'd give money for that. - Sandy Maliga On Mar 18, 2013, at 11:02 AM, David Baker dbak...@hvc.rr.com wrote: Esteemed cohorts everyone, What I really love besides Experimental Film are Elephants. I LOVE all Elephants but especially those that live free in the wild. I love the complexity of elephant societies. Something amazing to read is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_cognition Something important to see is: National Geographic - Battle For The Elephants (2013) I hope everybody on this forum is aware of the horror that is happening to these animals right now, today. More Elephants are being killed than are being born. They are being wiped out, expunged from the earth. The numbers of those massacred are crazy. Last year 30,000 elephants were murdered. The killing rate is accelerating. The New York Times describes it as a frenzy. Horribly helicopters and machine guns do the job annihilating whole herds. China is the problem. The CHINESE demand the elephant's ivory tusks to make ludicrous carved luxury goods. If there is hope it might be through FILM. Apparently, ridiculously the burgeoning Chinese middle class thinks elephant tusks fall out naturally. They call them elephant teeth. Using film to educate in Africa and China may be the elephants last best hope. The Experimental Film community can contribute importantly and make a difference. Kickstarter it isn't, but If you want to help or know of a cognizant compassionate human being who does please go here: http://africanenvironmentalfilms.squarespace.com/donate or here http://www.savetheelephants.org/home.html If you are a teacher please share this with your students. Time is of the essence. The force of human compassion is the solution. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/opinion/death-of-the-elephants.html http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=organized-crime-elephant-slaughter http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/02/world/asia/an-illicit-trail-of-african-ivory-to-china.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/opinion/sunday/slaughter-of-the-african-elephants.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/science/surveys-quantify-loss-of-african-elephants-for-ivory-trade.html?ref=elephants http://ntdtv.org/en/news/china/2013-03-15/china-s-demand-for-ivory-fueling-elephant-poaching.html -David Baker ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks Sandy Maliga 4763 Toland Way Los Angeles, CA 90042-2255 323.898.6331 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] The Elephant held vigil in Tennessee
I expect most everybody has seen this. Still I want to share this story, of an elephant and her unlikely best friend. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdzassDm7eM this in the snow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2NTOWmJ0gw and a sad end: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57319021/tarra-and-bella-elephant-loses-mans-best-friend/ -DB ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] ELEPHANTS AND FILM
Sandy, Seriously, is this what you're advocating, with homegrown ivory harvesting? Because this is how they get it. They hack their faces off. Oftentimes, since they are matriarchal groups of elephants, they end up leave orphans, who blessedly have no ivory, to fend for them selveselves. Thus, why I provided the link for the orphaned elephants and rhinos. Here it is again: http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/ I would like to implore everyone to educate themselves, and then others, on the gross depradations of all poaching in the wild (including bushmeat from endangered Western lowland gorillas), not just elephants, but also my personal favorites, rhinos (African western black rhinos are now extinct, as of a couple of years ago, and white - as all - rhinos are perilously threatened). http://www.nbcnews.com/id/45236688/ns/world_news-world_environmen Just extrapolate how many hacked to death elephants and rhinos this pic represents. RIP, you poor creatures. Sorry, but this is a subject very close to my heart, as well. Elizabeth From: David Baker dbak...@hvc.rr.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 10:20 PM Subject: Re: [Frameworks] ELEPHANTS AND FILM Sandy, I agree with you. (I don't have all the answers. I just know my heart is breaking.) I want filmmakers on this list to understand that this is happening right now. I want people to take a look at the ways of these wondrous sentient animals in the wild. And I want people to learn and think more deeply about what these animals actually are. Conceptually we human beings often hold a very superficial idea about what something as interesting and complex and distant as an ELEPHANT is or more importantly what ELEPHANTS really are. Mostly we have a notion formed in our heads whether we realize it or not about something that lives in the zoo or at the circus and that just isn't it. If you could take a few minutes to read the information on ELEPHANT COGNITION you might be amazed. ( I just had no idea...) Or watch this whole film here: Echo: An Elephant to Remember http://video.pbs.org/video/1616077152/ Once people here do educate themselves, they can decide to do nothing or do something. I will tell you that the more you learn the harder it is to do nothing. I want us to figure out a way fast , to tell the Chinese to stop! At very least please sign the petition Elizabeth McMahon brilliantly brought to us, Sign here to voice your opposition to the ivory trade: https://secure3.convio.net/wcs/site/Advocacy?cmd=displaypage=UserActionid=539autologin=trueJServSessionIdr004=5o6l2lo511.app333a The African Environmental Film Foundation screened their film White Gold in Bangkok on March 3. https://www.facebook.com/AEFFonline?ref=stream My understanding is that they will be trying to do just what you suggest. Arne Glimcher of the Pace Gallery is the chairman of the foundation, he says they plan to show the film in Beijing, with a Mandarin narration, in Hong Kong,Singapore,Thailand, Indonesia and Japan. No question, here FILM and the fate of this animal are inextricably linked. -DB On Mar 18, 2013, at 5:36 PM, Sandra Maliga wrote: This is tragic and infuriating. Why can't anyone tell the Chinese people that elephants are threatened? If elephants are extinct there will be NO MORE IVORY. Don't they have media in China? Get the word out. Why don't the Chinese import some elephants and start their own herd? They could manage them carefully and eventually harvest ivory when the herd needs thinning. No matter the cost; demand for ivory will drive the price ever higher. They could promote homegrown ivory as superior. Documentaries shown in the US and Europe make us feel bad but don't save animals. How about showing some documentaries in China? How about a message on every cell phone in China? I'd give money for that. - Sandy Maliga On Mar 18, 2013, at 11:02 AM, David Baker dbak...@hvc.rr.com wrote: Esteemed cohorts everyone, What I really love besides Experimental Film are Elephants. I LOVE all Elephants but especially those that live free in the wild. I love the complexity of elephant societies. Something amazing to read is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_cognition Something important to see is: National Geographic - Battle For The Elephants (2013) I hope everybody on this forum is aware of the horror that is happening to these animals right now, today. More Elephants are being killed than are being born. They are being wiped out, expunged from the earth. The numbers of those massacred are crazy. Last year 30,000 elephants were murdered. The killing rate is accelerating. The New York Times describes it as a frenzy. Horribly helicopters and machine guns do the job annihilating whole herds. China is the problem. The CHINESE demand the elephant's ivory tusks to make ludicrous carved
Re: [Frameworks] ELEPHANTS AND FILM
Not advocating. I don't want to see any elephants killed. I have no interest in ivory. I can't understand how there could be people who do not understand that elephants should never be killed. BUt there are. There are people who lie for money and people who listen to them. Moreover people who like ivory have no respect for the law. And the laws are not enforced. So what can be done? As I understand the Chinese, they are pretty pragmatic, if I can generalize. Maybe taking action to propose a way to get legitimate ivory could deflect some of the interest in illegal ivory. Prohibition leads to crime, legalizing and controlling is better. When elephants could live and flourish in the wild there were natural deaths that left tusks. If a herd was provided with space to thrive tusks could occasionally be found. If the space was limited humans might be able to reverently cull the herd by painlessly killing extra males and gathering their tusks. A mother with young would never be killed by rational keepers. Poachers are not concerned with keeping elephants alive; they care only for short term profit. Poaching must be illegal. Murdering mother elephants must be illegal. Perhaps another possibility is to pressure the Chinese government to enforce the laws. I went to the Chinese news in English - CCTV site http://passport.cntv.cn/app_pass/verify/english/new/login.jsp?errtype=-5# and they have articles about the threats to elephants. So some Chinese are aware. How do THEY propose to get the word out to those who buy ivory? - Sandy On Mar 18, 2013, at 2:36 PM, Sandra Maliga neor...@e.com wrote: This is tragic and infuriating. Why can't anyone tell the Chinese people that elephants are threatened? If elephants are extinct there will be NO MORE IVORY. Don't they have media in China? Get the word out. Why don't the Chinese import some elephants and start their own herd? They could manage them carefully and eventually harvest ivory when the herd needs thinning. No matter the cost; demand for ivory will drive the price ever higher. They could promote homegrown ivory as superior. Documentaries shown in the US and Europe make us feel bad but don't save animals. How about showing some documentaries in China? How about a message on every cell phone in China? I'd give money for that. - Sandy Maliga On Mar 18, 2013, at 11:02 AM, David Baker dbak...@hvc.rr.com wrote: Esteemed cohorts everyone, What I really love besides Experimental Film are Elephants. I LOVE all Elephants but especially those that live free in the wild. I love the complexity of elephant societies. Something amazing to read is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_cognition Something important to see is: National Geographic - Battle For The Elephants (2013) I hope everybody on this forum is aware of the horror that is happening to these animals right now, today. More Elephants are being killed than are being born. They are being wiped out, expunged from the earth. The numbers of those massacred are crazy. Last year 30,000 elephants were murdered. The killing rate is accelerating. The New York Times describes it as a frenzy. Horribly helicopters and machine guns do the job annihilating whole herds. China is the problem. The CHINESE demand the elephant's ivory tusks to make ludicrous carved luxury goods. If there is hope it might be through FILM. Apparently, ridiculously the burgeoning Chinese middle class thinks elephant tusks fall out naturally. They call them elephant teeth. Using film to educate in Africa and China may be the elephants last best hope. The Experimental Film community can contribute importantly and make a difference. Kickstarter it isn't, but If you want to help or know of a cognizant compassionate human being who does please go here: http://africanenvironmentalfilms.squarespace.com/donate or here http://www.savetheelephants.org/home.html If you are a teacher please share this with your students. Time is of the essence. The force of human compassion is the solution. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/opinion/death-of-the-elephants.html http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=organized-crime-elephant-slaughter http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/02/world/asia/an-illicit-trail-of-african-ivory-to-china.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/opinion/sunday/slaughter-of-the-african-elephants.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/science/surveys-quantify-loss-of-african-elephants-for-ivory-trade.html?ref=elephants http://ntdtv.org/en/news/china/2013-03-15/china-s-demand-for-ivory-fueling-elephant-poaching.html -David Baker ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks Sandy Maliga 4763 Toland Way Los Angeles, CA 90042-2255
