Re: [Frameworks] Softening the Image
Put a thin layer of vaseline on a clear filter On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Tenzin Phuntsog mrten...@gmail.comwrote: Black mist filter (glass) T Sent from my iPhone On May 13, 2014, at 9:20 AM, Edward Choi edo.cho...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I will be shooting a couple 16mm rolls of Agfa Aviphot 200D using the Arri S this coming Saturday for a workshop here in NYC. I am wondering if anyone can suggest techniques/tricks/tools to soften the image. I'm looking to achieve a foggy, dream-like image consistency. The readiest analog for what I'd like to achieve is Dreyer's Vampyr, though given that the medium is color reversal and that I'm not looking to make a horror film the tone would ultimately be much different. Thanks in advance! Edo Choi ___ 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 -- Bryan McManus *|* Filmmaker, Artist call 828.508.1129 write bryanhaysmcma...@gmail.com see bryanmcmanus.com ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] New filmmaker
Hi Eleni, You've probably opened up a can of worms with your question! :) In my opinion, the simplest answer to your second question is to seek a balance between technical understanding and conceptual strength - if either are too lacking, a film suffers. Good luck! Bryan On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Eleni Philippou eleni_philip...@hotmail.com wrote: Dear all, I decided to start making my own films. Which camera shall I buy? Which principles do I have to bear in mind? Any advice welcome. Many many thanks, Eleni Filippou ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks -- Bryan McManus *|* Filmmaker, Artist call 828.508.1129 write bryanhaysmcma...@gmail.com see bryanmcmanus.com ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] A TEST
Maybe you were somehow banned from the banned film conversation? On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Jack j...@jacktext.net wrote: I see this! Sent from my iPhone On 29 Mar 2014, at 8:12 am, Gene Youngblood ato...@comcast.net wrote: I sent two replies to the banned films conversation and they didn't show up, so this is a test to see if anything is getting through. ___ 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 -- Bryan McManus *|* Filmmaker, Artist call 828.508.1129 write bryanhaysmcma...@gmail.com see bryanmcmanus.com ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Looking to build a list of 'Experimental Documentaries' on video
If you're interested in recent short form - my series The Observatory, I believe, meets your criteria. I'm not a well-represented somebody, not sure if that matters, but my work is adding to the discussion of non-fiction film without being too out there (or that's my motivation to say the least). http://bryanmcmanus.com/THE-OBSERVATORY Good luck! - Also - am interested in your final list if you care to post it! -Bryan On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 5:19 PM, David Tetzlaff djte...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking to help a friend do research on the history of documentary, and I'd like to introduce him to some of the more experimental side of the form. For his purposes, the work needs to available on video: he needs to see stuff, not just read about it, and he needs to be able to pull decent quality clips for presentation. So I'm not looking for more purely experimental films that have some actuality footage, but something more readily recognizable under a (very) broad rubric of 'documentary'. Something like Sonic Outlaws' or Odds of Recovery would be pretty central examples. About as far down the experimental scale I'd want to get would be such films as Window Water Baby Moving or Sink or Swim. (Thus, for example, Thigh Line Lyre Triangular is too 'far out' for this purpose.) I'd also welcome suggestions for essay-form docs beyond Marker (which I've already got). Another example of such might be Mulvey's 'Frida Kahlo / Tina Modotti With those loose guidelines, feel free to recommend away without worrying too much about the 'fit'. I can/will edit the recs I pass on... TIA! ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks -- Bryan McManus *|* Filmmaker, Artist call 828.508.1129 write bryanhaysmcma...@gmail.com see bryanmcmanus.com ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Why the fuck...
An honest question with the answer that has to be lived into, perhaps. Thanks for the reminder. On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 4:38 AM, christopher nigel christophernige...@gmail.com wrote: Because it keep's one a 'live ! in world were people walk around with there eye's wide shut ? On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 1:20 AM, Ashley Blewer ashleyb...@gmail.comwrote: B-) On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Jim Flannery j...@newgrangemedia.comwrote: Thursday, September 12, 2013, 9:46:18 AM, one wrote: Do you bother? Could you be more ... specific? -- Best regards, Jimmailto:j...@newgrangemedia.com ___ 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 -- Bryan McManus *|* Filmmaker, Artist call 828.508.1129 write bryanhaysmcma...@gmail.com see bryanmcmanus.com ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] recommendations for a reading on documentary technique
Rabiger's book, directing the documentary good luck! Bryan McManus On Saturday, March 16, 2013, David Han wrote: Just thought I'd pick the collective brain here and see what all your lovely minds would recommend in terms of a reading that discusses approaches to documentary filmmaking from a production standpoint. Thanks! David Han ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com javascript:; https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks -- Bryan McManus *|* Filmmaker, Artist call 828.508.1129 write bryanhaysmcma...@gmail.com see bryanmcmanus.com ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Silence
Silence is our first language, everything else is a poor translation. On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Peter Mudie peter.mu...@uwa.edu.au wrote: Start at the very heart of representational matter: Kazimir Malevich (Black Square, 1915) and (White on White, 1918) …then look at Malcolm Le Grice's 'Blind White Duration' (1968) and Peter Gidal's 'Room Film 1973' (1973). P http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/silence On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 3:20 AM, jaime cleeland ethnom...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: I am doing a philosophy paper and was thinking of how the question of silence is dealt within Art. Any pointers ? Jaime ___ 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 -- Bryan McManus *|* Filmmaker, Artist call 828.508.1129 write bryanhaysmcma...@gmail.com see bryanmcmanus.com ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Singularity and intentional incoherence
Hi Ittai, Yours is an interesting pursuit! Much luck to you in your study. Your thoughts reminded me of an interview I heard with David Lynch (forgive me, I cannot remember where) where he spoke about the eye of the duck as being an element of his films. Interestingly, I think he was referring to this moment as being both an incoherence and an axis - in that the event is distracting/surprising/etc - yet confirming of some internal or underlying structure. his thoughts may be a helpful place to continue your study. Best, Bryan Bryan McManus Aritist, Filmmaker bryanmcmanus.com On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Ittai Rosenbaum itta...@gmail.com wrote: Hi My name is Ittai Rosenbaum, I am a doctoral student at the music composition department at UCSC and in the process of defining my Qualification Exams topics. I wondered if anyone could perhaps have interesting knowledge or insights about a subject in film theory that might parallel one of my topics. I am interested in singular events in composition: events that occur only once, contrasted and incoherent to the main musical language of the work, yet deliberately conceived and intentionally inserted in the composition, contributing, by way of distraction and surprise, to the conception of the piece. Coherence seems to constitute a compulsory element in composition, and even incoherence (surprise, collage etc.) as it happens in the music of, say, Charles Ives, George Crumb or John Zorn, becomes coherent and even homogenous once it recurs. I suspect that *singular*, incoherent events may have a genuine effect, different than that. I am interested in parallel or similar phenomena in film, as my own compositions are more than often related to the visual, verbal, social and other elements usually inherent in film. Far from an expert in films, I do recall several instances where I felt I have viewed such singular events in film: the awakening in Chris Marker’s La jetée – a single moment of two seconds of movement in a film made entirely of stills, some moments that I can't recall now in Fellini's films (although usually there is a certain homogeneity of singularity in the ones I saw), and a comic one, in Mel Brooks’s *Silent Movie*, when the famous pantomime Marcel Marceau utters the only single word in the film: “no!” I would be very interested to know if this is something that has been written about and generally what your experience and opinion is. thank you -- Ittai Rosenbaum www.ittairosenbaum.com (650) 704-6566 PRÆSENTEM http://earbits.com/ ___ 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] Frameworks Hey
It's a scam On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Daina Krumins perko...@yahoo.com wrote: check this out http://msnbc.msn.com-local8.us/finance/ ___ 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] ARRI 750 Open face - bulb
Hi all, I recently bought a replacement bulb for my ARRI 750 open face, and it's definitely not 750 watts. Does anyone know what I did wrong? Can anyone tell me a cheap place to buy the right kind of bulb? Thanks, Bryan ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] projector sound
What a marvelous idea - thank you Tom. Perhaps I will dig around for an audio recording - or even run a 16mm projector in the back of the room with the digital projector. On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Tom Whiteside tom.whites...@duke.eduwrote: I was rather amazed last November when a guy came to the same film program two nights in a row, the second night he said he wasn’t going to watch the program again, he just wanted to make an audio recording of the 16mm projectors. ** ** Perhaps you could borrow his audio recording for your screening of Mothlight. Sorry, I didn’t get a name. ** ** Tom Durham Cinematheque ** ** ** ** Bryan McManus wrote: I've only seen Brakhage's mothlight digitally - and would love to see it on film because of the sound the projector makes. ** ** ___ 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] Film and Digital for beginners
Hi Jonathan, Great question, thanks for teaching cinema! There are, for sure, appreciable differences between the media - and I know that's what you were asking for - but I think it may be valuable to mention to your students the similarities of the media in terms of motivation. Each, in its time and way, is an attempt at capturing light/time and reproducing it. I just bought a manual ceramic burr coffee grinder because my electric one sparked and died. I partly went analog because it cannot 'spark and die' like my previous one. I partly went analog for nostalgic and meditative reasons. But, essentially, each coffee grinder is approaching the same problem - the whole roasted bean - and applying itself to reduce the bean to grounds so that one can make a damn cup of coffee. Instead of contrasting analog against electronic - I see them as tools, appropriate for different times, different moods. I realize this is very subjective and blurry - but so is life as I see it. Also possibly of note - there are very few films shot on film, that stay completely and firmly analog - which to me points even more to the increasingly subjective choice of either format. I've only seen Brakhage's mothlight digitally - and would love to see it on film because of the sound the projector makes. Best of luck to you, Bryan Bryan McManus, Digital Arts Studio Director cityartsdas.wordpress.com On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Jonathan Walley wall...@denison.eduwrote: Hello everyone, This question isn't about experimental cinema specifically, but it's certainly an important question for our world, and I think experimental filmmakers (and scholars, critics, etc.) are among those best equipped to answer it. So here goes. There is some preamble meant to set the stage, but you can skim it and skip down to the question if you want. Each semester I teach an introductory cinema studies course called Film Aesthetics and Analysis. The main goal of the course is to teach students how to analyze film aesthetics (in case the title of the class didn't make this obvious), and it is aimed at the general campus community, not just Cinema majors. Indeed, the majority of students in the class are non-majors who have never studied film before. Early in the course I talk about filmmaking on a very material level - call it the nuts and bolts of filmmaking, a subject I return to periodically across the semester (e.g. how cameras work, the process of editing, projection, etc.). I have always privileged film - that is, analogue, photochemical, mechanical, celluloid film - but to keep up with the times I have been trying to talk more about digital cinema technology, with a view to contrasting the two media. Though I'm a luddite when it comes to film, I'm not necessarily interested in converting my students to that mindset, nor to favoring one medium over another. I simply want my students to understand the ramifications of shooting, editing, projecting, and viewing films on different media. SO NOW, THE QUESTION: what would you say are some of the most important, and most fundamental, differences between making and/or seeing films in these two media, in terms that intro-level undergrads can understand and appreciate. For example: -true black is not possible in digital projection the same way it is in film projection (something I can actually demonstrate in class). -differences in resolution. -different lifespans of film and digital. And so on and so forth. Though I do talk about things outside the realm of film aesthetics specifically (such as the cost of digital conversion, preservation issues, etc.), my main interest is in showing my students the concrete, appreciable consequences that attend the decision to do something in film or in digital. And to be able to demonstrate them in class with specific examples - using the 16mm and digital projectors I have in the classroom - would be nice, so suggestions of such specific examples would be appreciated. Thanks in advance for any ideas. Best, Jonathan Jonathan Walley Dept. of Cinema Denison University ___ 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] Film about an artist
Although I haven't seen it yet- I've heard great things about Gerard Richter Painting as a look inside the artist's work. http://www.gerhardrichterpainting.com/ Mostly just playing now at smaller art-houses, but you can find out where on the website And, although it's fiction - Basquiat (1996) is really engaging and may be helpful. I've made a few short pieces about artists as well, and I think the important thing for me has been to find what motivates the artist in his/her work and then use that as motivation for the film itself. (Like if an artist is greatly inspired by nature - including that raw inspiration material into the film can give the audience a sense of seeing as the artist) Just some thoughts - good luck! I'd love to hear how it goes! Bryan On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Shumona Goel shumonag...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Frameworks, My friend and I are working on a short film about a modern Indian painter. We have been commissioned to make this film, so we are struggling with a number of issues. Although the painter is a great artist, and we have begun to admire his work, we would not necessarily make a film about him if it were not an opportunity to practice our form (film). I was wondering if you may be able to suggest films that have been made about artists for us to watch and learn how others have handled this tricky subject. Many thanks, Shumona ___ 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
