Re: [Frameworks] "All the Dark Screens" (Albert Alcoz)

[Nicole Baker]

When I was in film school a professor told me that watching film engages
the mind in a very active way, that the darkness and persistence of vision
required to assemble the frames into a continuous, moving image was like
doing mental calisthenics.  On the other hand, watching video produces very
little brain activity, the mechanics do not engage our minds the same way,
and our watching becomes very passive and inactive.
I do not have any science to back this up, it was just what I was told.
There's a certain amount of sense to it, but I'd love to see hard evidence
or studies on the subject!

Nicole Elaine Baker
MFA in Visual Studies, 2019
Pacific Northwest College of Art
Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies
*www.magiklantern.com *




On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 11:17 AM Robert Withers 
wrote:

> Hello Albert,
> I enjoyed a few minutes of the film you posted, even with my non-existent
> Spanish.
>
> It raises a question I’ve puzzled over. We used to be bemused by the fact
> that, since film projection is intermittent and interrupted by a shutter,
> blocking light to the screen, we were perhaps sitting in darkness during
> half of a screening, watching the persistent images in our minds. It’s hard
> to research how video technology works comparatively, but I find some
> suggestions that there is no similar dark interval in video projection (if
> there is it’s fleeting — the blanking interval etc.) so I wonder how the
> video technology affects our physiology.
>
> Can anyone share info or a source for info or thoughts on info about this?
>
> Thanks,
> Robert
>
> Robert Withers
> withe...@earthlink.net
> 202 West 80 St #5W NYNY 10024
>
>
> *From: *Albert Alcoz 
> *Subject: **[Frameworks] "All the Dark Screens"*
> *Date: *March 30, 2019 at 4:15:03 AM EDT
> *To: *Experimental Film Discussion List 
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm writing this email to share a video essay titled "All the Dark
> Screens" created by the curator Alexandra Laudo and me under the project *Soy
> Cámara* by the CCCB:
> http://www.cccb.org/en/multimedia/videos/all-the-dark-screens/231229
>
> It is a 25 minute video –with an Spanish voice over– where some esthetic
> and ideological issues are exemplified through experimental films and
> artist's videos:
>
> *In a society dominated by the power of screens and images, audiovisual
> darkness can be a strategy of resistance. We tend to associate screens with
> light, but darkness has been consubstantial with audiovisual creation since
> the dawn of the cinema. “All the Dark Screens" presents a fragmentary
> genealogy of the use and presence of opacity and the absence of image in
> cinematographic and video creation, and reflects on the poetic and
> political power of these forms of audiovisual iconoclasm, and on their
> relation with our ways of seeing and not seeing.*
>
> The points of departure are the video/action by Scott Stark switching off
> public TV monitors ("A Better World (for Rick P)"
>  ) and the idea questioned here by Yoel
> Miranda on October of 2007 ("how much of what we see is black?"
> ).
>
> Since it is an informative and pedagogical video, with dozens of short
> clips by independent filmmakers credited at the end, would be great if you
> to share it through social networks.
>
> All the best,
> Albert Alcoz
> --
> http://visionaryfilm.net/ 
> http://albertalcoz.com/ 
>
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Re: [Frameworks] Ann Arbor

[Dominic Angerame]

In celluloid days the entries topped 500 at most and averaged less, I believe. 
At that time percentage wise many more films were shown far more than 5%. The 
problem with the festivals, not just Ann Arbor, is that as the entries have 
increased the time period for the festivals have not increased, ergo less films 
are shown. The festivals seem to be lagging far behind in screenings 
considering the increase in entries. 2700 entries times $20-$40 each entry is a 
lot of money.

It is seemingly pointless to enter these festivals for a long term serious 
filmmaker.

Dominic
> On Mar 30, 2019, at 11:54 AM, Jon Behrens  wrote:
> 
> I hear ya
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Mar 30, 2019, at 11:06 AM, Dominic Angerame  > wrote:
> 
>> I just finished reading the schedule for the Ann Arbor Film Festival. My 
>> work has been shown many times and I have also been a judge at the Festival 
>> many years ago. There were 
>>  2,766 film received, 143 films, or 5 percent were shown.The odds of being 
>> shown there are astronomical. For me this will be my last entry into the Ann 
>> Arbor film Festival. I have more luck
>> winning $100 in a scratch off lottery than being shown at
>>  the festival. 
>> 
>> 
>> It is a shame since I have always had high regards for this festival but now 
>> it is off my list.
>> 
>> 
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Re: [Frameworks] "All the Dark Screens" (Albert Alcoz)

[David Kidman]

Hello Robert,
The aspect of digital projection in theatres that is the most bothersome for me 
is the lack of black, all the blacks turn to brown (at least to my eye) after a 
very short period and remain so. I haven’t done a study. This is just what I 
see. 
All the best,
David

P. S. Even more troubling are pieces like Anthony MacCall’s vidéo/sculpture 
installations. The perception of an ambient light increases constantly. 

> On 30 Mar 2019, at 19:16, Robert Withers  wrote:
> 
> Hello Albert,
> I enjoyed a few minutes of the film you posted, even with my non-existent 
> Spanish.
> 
> It raises a question I’ve puzzled over. We used to be bemused by the fact 
> that, since film projection is intermittent and interrupted by a shutter, 
> blocking light to the screen, we were perhaps sitting in darkness during half 
> of a screening, watching the persistent images in our minds. It’s hard to 
> research how video technology works comparatively, but I find some 
> suggestions that there is no similar dark interval in video projection (if 
> there is it’s fleeting — the blanking interval etc.) so I wonder how the 
> video technology affects our physiology.
> 
> Can anyone share info or a source for info or thoughts on info about this? 
> 
> Thanks,
> Robert
> 
> Robert Withers
> withe...@earthlink.net
> 202 West 80 St #5W NYNY 10024
> 
> 
> From: Albert Alcoz 
> Subject: [Frameworks] "All the Dark Screens"
> Date: March 30, 2019 at 4:15:03 AM EDT
> To: Experimental Film Discussion List 
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm writing this email to share a video essay titled "All the Dark Screens" 
> created by the curator Alexandra Laudo and me under the project Soy Cámara by 
> the CCCB:
> http://www.cccb.org/en/multimedia/videos/all-the-dark-screens/231229
> 
> It is a 25 minute video –with an Spanish voice over– where some esthetic and 
> ideological issues are exemplified through experimental films and artist's 
> videos:
> 
> In a society dominated by the power of screens and images, audiovisual 
> darkness can be a strategy of resistance. We tend to associate screens with 
> light, but darkness has been consubstantial with audiovisual creation since 
> the dawn of the cinema. “All the Dark Screens" presents a fragmentary 
> genealogy of the use and presence of opacity and the absence of image in 
> cinematographic and video creation, and reflects on the poetic and political 
> power of these forms of audiovisual iconoclasm, and on their relation with 
> our ways of seeing and not seeing.
> 
> The points of departure are the video/action by Scott Stark switching off 
> public TV monitors ("A Better World (for Rick P)" ) and the idea questioned 
> here by Yoel Miranda on October of 2007 ("how much of what we see is black?").
> 
> Since it is an informative and pedagogical video, with dozens of short clips 
> by independent filmmakers credited at the end, would be great if you to share 
> it through social networks.
> 
> All the best,
> Albert Alcoz
> -- 
> http://visionaryfilm.net/
> http://albertalcoz.com/
> 
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Re: [Frameworks] Ann Arbor

[Jon Behrens]

I hear ya

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 30, 2019, at 11:06 AM, Dominic Angerame 
mailto:dominic.anger...@gmail.com>> wrote:

I just finished reading the schedule for the Ann Arbor Film Festival. My work 
has been shown many times and I have also been a judge at the Festival many 
years ago. There were  2,766 film received, 143 films, or 5 percent were 
shown.The odds of being shown there are astronomical. For me this will be my 
last entry into the Ann Arbor film Festival. I have more luck winning $100 in a 
scratch off lottery than being shown at the festival.

It is a shame since I have always had high regards for this festival but now it 
is off my list.

Dominic
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[Frameworks] "All the Dark Screens" (Albert Alcoz)

[Robert Withers]

Hello Albert,
I enjoyed a few minutes of the film you posted, even with my non-existent 
Spanish.

It raises a question I’ve puzzled over. We used to be bemused by the fact that, 
since film projection is intermittent and interrupted by a shutter, blocking 
light to the screen, we were perhaps sitting in darkness during half of a 
screening, watching the persistent images in our minds. It’s hard to research 
how video technology works comparatively, but I find some suggestions that 
there is no similar dark interval in video projection (if there is it’s 
fleeting — the blanking interval etc.) so I wonder how the video technology 
affects our physiology.

Can anyone share info or a source for info or thoughts on info about this? 

Thanks,
Robert

Robert Withers
withe...@earthlink.net
202 West 80 St #5W NYNY 10024


From: Albert Alcoz mailto:albertal...@gmail.com>>
Subject: [Frameworks] "All the Dark Screens"
Date: March 30, 2019 at 4:15:03 AM EDT
To: Experimental Film Discussion List mailto:frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com>>


Hello,

I'm writing this email to share a video essay titled "All the Dark Screens" 
created by the curator Alexandra Laudo and me under the project Soy Cámara by 
the CCCB:
http://www.cccb.org/en/multimedia/videos/all-the-dark-screens/231229 


It is a 25 minute video –with an Spanish voice over– where some esthetic and 
ideological issues are exemplified through experimental films and artist's 
videos:

In a society dominated by the power of screens and images, audiovisual darkness 
can be a strategy of resistance. We tend to associate screens with light, but 
darkness has been consubstantial with audiovisual creation since the dawn of 
the cinema. “All the Dark Screens" presents a fragmentary genealogy of the use 
and presence of opacity and the absence of image in cinematographic and video 
creation, and reflects on the poetic and political power of these forms of 
audiovisual iconoclasm, and on their relation with our ways of seeing and not 
seeing.

The points of departure are the video/action by Scott Stark switching off 
public TV monitors ("A Better World (for Rick P)"  
) and the idea questioned here by Yoel Miranda on October of 2007 ("how much of 
what we see is black?" ).

Since it is an informative and pedagogical video, with dozens of short clips by 
independent filmmakers credited at the end, would be great if you to share it 
through social networks.

All the best,
Albert Alcoz
-- 
http://visionaryfilm.net/ 
http://albertalcoz.com/ 
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[Frameworks] Ann Arbor

[Dominic Angerame]

I just finished reading the schedule for the Ann Arbor Film Festival. My work 
has been shown many times and I have also been a judge at the Festival many 
years ago. There were  2,766 film received, 143 films, or 5 percent were 
shown.The odds of being shown there are astronomical.  For me this will be my 
last entry into the Ann Arbor film Festival. I have more luck winning $100 in a 
scratch off lottery than being shown at the festival. 

It is a shame since I have always had high regards for this festival but now it 
is off my list.

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[Frameworks] This week [March 30 - April 7, 2019] in avant garde cinema

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Sandra Davis/George Kuchar + Greta Snider <>  [March 30, San Francisco] 

  

 
Honoring Peter Mays, Los Angeles Treasure, Part 2 <>  [March 31, Los Angeles, 
California] 

  

 
Sfai Film Department X Canyon: Kerry Laitala <>  [April 3, San Francisco, CA 
United States] 

NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES: 
Paris Festival for Different and Experimental Cinemas (Paris, France; Deadline: 
May 20, 2019)
 http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls 

 =2025.ann 
Gimli Film Festival 2019 (Gimli, Manitoba, Canada; Deadline: April 15, 2019)
 http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls 

 =2026.ann 
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival (Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK; Deadline: April 05, 
2019)
 http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls 

 =2027.ann 

DEADLINES APPROACHING: 
Magmart Festival XI edition (Naples, Italy; Deadline: April 07, 2019)
 http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls 

 =2003.ann 
Laterale Film Festival (Cosenza, Southern Italy; Deadline: March 31, 2019)
 http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls 

 =2006.ann 
Far Out Film Festival (Nashvlle, TN; Deadline: April 20, 2019)
 http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls 

 =2017.ann 
Microscope Gallery (Brooklyn, NY; Deadline: March 31, 2019)
 http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls 

 =2021.ann 
6th Annual Flamingo Film Festival (Fort Lauderdale, FL USA; Deadline: April 01, 
2019)
 http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls 

 =2022.ann 
Braziers Mini Indi Film Festival (Oxfordshire, UK; Deadline: March 31, 2019)
 http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls 

 =2023.ann 
Gimli Film Festival 2019 (Gimli, Manitoba, Canada; Deadline: April 15, 2019)
 http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls 

 =2026.ann 
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival (Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK; Deadline: April 05, 
2019)
 http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls 

 =2027.ann 

Events are sorted alphabetically BY CITY within each DATE.

This week's programs (summary): 

*<3 and Landscape of Absence [March 30, Ann Arbor, Michigan] 

*Films In Competition 11  <> [March 30, Ann Arbor, Michigan] 

*Films In Competition 10: Almost All Ages (Ages 6+)  <> [March 30, Ann 
Arbor, Michigan] 

*Remnants of A Dream (Special Program) <>  [March 30, Ann Arbor, 
Michigan] 

*Films In Competition 12 <>  [March 30, Ann Arbor, Michigan] 

*Nothing Or Everything (Feature In Competition) <>  [March 30, Ann 
Arbor, Michigan] 

*My Friend the Polish Girl With Object Dream and Cut Copy Sphinx 
(Feature In Competition) <>  [March 30, Ann Arbor, Michigan] 

*Looking In the Mirror, I See Me – Early Women's video Art From the 
video Data Bank Collection (Special Program) <>  [March 30, Ann Arbor, 
Michigan] 

*Films In Competition 13 <>  [March 30, Ann Arbor, Michigan] 

*Wada's World: Wrestling With Existence (Special