[Frameworks] Vegetable films?
Hi all, I'm putting together an experimental film screening "In Praise of Vegetables", (to happen in Scotland, on 27th November). I would really welcome some suggestions. Initially thinking of some works such as Suzan Pitt's Asparagus (1978), Barbara Hammer's Women I Love (1976), Hollis Frampton's Carrots & Peas (1969) - I could certainly use some more contemporary recommendations, and anything made by frameworkers here. Many thanks, Richard Richard Ashrowan Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival Next edition: 3-7 May 2018 Hawick, Scottish Borders Submissions: http://alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk/2017/submissions/ http://alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk/ <http://www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk/> http://scotlandandvenice.com/ http://www.ashrowan.com/ ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] 40 years of VHS - short video recommendations?
40 years of experimental VHS. We're working on a programme of shorts, aiming to celebrate the 40th anniversary of VHS. I would love to hear some recommendations for both early canonical and more recent works that deal in specific and contrasting ways with the experimental possibilities of the medium. I do appreciate that this question is too big, for a 90m screening, and a bit like asking if anyone knows any good experimental films... but if anyone feels like suggesting a few starting points, it would be most appreciated. Very best, Richard Ashrowan Alchemy: www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk www.ashrowan.com ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival: Call for Entries
ALCHEMY FILM & MOVING IMAGE FESTIVAL CALL FOR ENTRIES 2017 DEADLINE: 30 OCTOBER 2016 FESTIVAL DATES: MARCH 2-5, 2017, SCOTLAND www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk Submissions are now open for our seventh edition, to be held 2 - 5 March 2017. We welcome submissions of experimental film and artists’ moving image in any format - short or feature length film & video, live cinema, installations or curated film programmes. You can submit here, or through FilmFreeway: http://www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk/2016/2017-film-submissions/ https://filmfreeway.com/festival/AlchemyFilmFestival Please help us spread the word by sharing the link on your social networks! Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival is an international festival of experimental film and artists’ moving image. Submissions of artists’ and experimental film from any part of the world are welcome – we celebrate a diverse range of works: the visually experimental, quietly poetic, formally radical, psycho-geographical, politically activist, culturally subversive, psycho-spiritual, the alchemically volatile, the underground and bizarre. There is a £5 entry fee (approx $8 / €6), or $9 if using FilmFreeway. Fee waivers are possible for Frameworkers in need. Just email me. Richard Ashrowan Creative Director Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival http://www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk/ http://scotlandandvenice.com/ FB: http://www.facebook.com/alchemyfilmfestival Alchemy Film & Arts is a registered Scottish Charity: SC042142, Company No 452485. ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] Call for Entries: Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival / Scotland
Call for Entries: Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 2016 Deadline for submissions: midnight 30th November 2015 Hawick, Scotland - April 14-17th 2016 www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk SUBMISSIONS We accept submissions of short films, features, installation proposals, curated programmes and film-performance proposals. Works made in 2015 or 2014 will stand a greater chance of success. Scottish premieres are preferred but not essential. All submissions must be made through the online form on this page: http://www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk/2015/2016-submissions/ Or via Filmfreeway: https://filmfreeway.com/festival/AlchemyFilmFestival There is a £5 entry fee (approx $8 / €6), or $9 if using FilmFreeway. OUR 2016 THEME – ALTERED STATE We accept submissions of works related to any subject area, though this year we are especially interested in works that may relate to the idea of the “Altered State”, including notions of transcendence, political transition and subversion, shifts in personal or visual perspective, psychological and material change, mental or spiritual transformation, excavations of notions of contemporary counterculture. ABOUT ALCHEMY FILM AND MOVING IMAGE FESTIVAL Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival is Scotland's international festival of experimental film and artists’ moving image. Submissions of artists’ and experimental film from any part of the world are welcome - we celebrate a diverse range of works: the visually experimental, quietly poetic, formally radical, psycho-geographical, politically activist, culturally subversive, psycho-spiritual, the alchemically volatile, the underground and bizarre. Conventional or commercial-style narrative dramas, animations and documentaries are less likely likely to be successful – unless they are truly original in form and content. Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival is working toward its sixth edition. It is a not for profit venture, run as a partnership between Alchemy Film & Arts and our main venue partner, Heart of Hawick. Alchemy Film & Arts is a registered Scottish charity. Thank you everyone! Richard Ashrowan Creative Director Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival Next Edition: 14-17 April 2016 Hawick, Scottish Borders www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk www.ashrowan.com FB: www.facebook.com/alchemyfilmfestival Twitter: @alchemyfilmfest Alchemy Film & Arts is a registered Scottish Charity: SC042142, Company No 452485. ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] Call for Entries: Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 2015
Call for Entries: Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 2015 Deadline for submissions: midnight 30th November 2014 Hawick, Scotland www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival is an international festival of experimental film and artists’ moving image. Submissions of artists’ and experimental film from any part of the world are welcome - we celebrate a diverse range of works: the visually experimental, quietly poetic, formally radical, psycho-geographical, politically activist, culturally subversive, psycho-spiritual, the alchemically volatile, the underground and bizarre. The next festival will take place over four days, April 16th-19th 2015, in Hawick, in the Scottish Borders region of Scotland. Theme Our 2015 theme is the ‘Spiritus Mundi’. We accept submissions of works related to any subject area, though this year we are especially interested in works that may relate to the ‘Spiritus Mundi’, a historical term for the ‘World Soul’ or ‘Spirit of the World’. This is perhaps something we all unwittingly search for, denoting a spirit of inquiry into the deep nature of substance, of film, of luminosity and shadow, of meaning and life. It relates to a spirit of universality and internationalism – that which underlies both our common humanity and the structures of all natural phenomena. It means our cultural-political Zietgeist too, the ‘spirit of the age’, and every bit as ghostly, mutable and ephemeral. Submissions Deadline for submissions: midnight 30th November 2014. You will be notified by 30th January 2015. We accept submissions direct through our Website or through FilmFreeway. http://www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk/2013/2015-film-submissions/ https://filmfreeway.com/festival/AlchemyFilmFestival Please read the full Terms of Entry: http://www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk/2014/terms-of-entry/ There is a £5 entry fee (approx $8 / €6), or $9 if using FilmFreeway. Richard Ashrowan Creative Director Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival Next Edition: 16-19 April 2015 Hawick, Scottish Borders www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk www.ashrowan.com FB: www.facebook.com/alchemyfilmfestival Twitter: @alchemyfilmfest Touring Programme: http://www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk/2014/artists-film-touring-programme-2014/ Alchemy Film Arts is a registered Scottish Charity: SC042142, Company No 452485. ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] Film, Performance and Space?
Hello all, I am trying to put together some screenings for the Edinburgh venue Summerhall, whose autumn theme is broadly 'Performance and Space', at quite short notice. I'm looking for filmworks, moving image or expanded cinema projects that relate to that theme in some meaningful way. Of course, it's a very broad theme... I've been looking at various people associated with the London Filmaktion group (LFMC), plus works that have a strong component of performance art (those that go beyond 'documentation'). But I am also keen to find newer works in this territory, or some things from across the ocean. If anyone has any helpful suggestions, I would be glad to hear them, here or off-list. Many thanks, Richard Richard Ashrowan Creative Director Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 04.04.2014 - 06.04.2014 Hawick, Scottish Borders www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk www.ashrowan.com ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival - Residencies 2013
This funded residency opportunity (in Scotland) for experimental film and moving image makers may be of interest to some Frameworkers... Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival - Residencies 2013 (application deadline 20th July 2013) We are offering six funded artists’ moving image residencies, to be held in the Ettrick Valley, Scotland. Each residency is four weeks in duration and will be held from 1st to 29th October 2013. Participants will be chosen by an independent international jury of established filmmaker-artists and arts professionals. • £500 will be paid to each participant toward travel, time and materials. • An additional £400 is available for living expenses (£100 per week). • Free participation in six artists’ film and moving image master-classes. • Free accommodation (in two shared cottages) in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. • Opportunity to show work at the 2014 Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival (April 4-6th 2014). • There is no application fee. Travel to and from the residency location is the responsibility of the participant. We encourage applications from both established and early career moving image artists, located anywhere in the world. Application is through online submission - please read the full online guidelines before applying. The guidelines and application form are available here: http://www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk/2013/residencies/ These residencies are aimed at stimulating production and developing talent specifically in non-narrative or experimental artists’ film. They are supported by Creative Scotland’s Creative Futures programme. * Richard Ashrowan rich...@ashrowan.com Web: www.ashrowan.com Blog: http://richardashrowan.tumblr.com Alchemy: http://www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] Film labs in Finland?
Does anyone know of any artist-run film labs or open facilities in Finland? Is Finn-Lab in Helsinki the main (commercial) one? I shall be in Finland for the month of May (in Helsinki, then near Joensuu), planning to work with 16mm only. I would also be delighted to connect with any Finland-based Frameworkers. Thanks, Richard Ashrowan rich...@ashrowan.com Web: www.ashrowan.com Blog: http://richardashrowan.tumblr.com Alchemy: www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] Stan Brakhage and the 'philosophers of light'?
Does anyone know whether Stan Brakhage actually read or owned copies of written works by Robert Grosseteste, Johannes Scotus Eriugena, Duns Scotus or Francis Bacon? He refers to them, some of them often, but as far as I can tell most of the references he makes to them have been traced back to Ezra Pound's Cantos, wherein they are quoted (and sometimes misattributed) heavily. It would seem probable that most of Brakhage's knowledge of these philosophers was in fact indirect through the lens of Pound, though I wouldn't want to assume that if anyone has any evidence to the contrary. I wonder if anyone knows if Brakhage had any of these medieval works, or other non-Pound references to them, in his library? Availability of these works in source translation in the 1970s would most certainly have been far more difficult than today, though it certainly remains problematic. I assume Brakhage did not read Latin? I know Frampton did - translating his own passages of Grosseteste's De Luce, a hint I assume he might have ultimately got from Brakhage, though he also read Pound. There are also many other light philosophers in this domain which I do not believe Brakhage ever mentions anywhere - Al-Hazen, Al-Kindi, St Augustine, St Basil, Roger Bacon, John Dee, Robert Fludd, Giambattista Della Porta, and latterly of course, Newton. Any thoughts on this most welcome. Richard Richard Ashrowan rich...@ashrowan.com Web: www.ashrowan.com Blog: http://richardashrowan.tumblr.com Alchemy: www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] Call for Entries | Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 2012
CALL FOR ENTRIES Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 26th to 28th October 2012 Hawick, Scottish Borders We are now inviting entries for short artists’ films, moving image works and feature films. This year’s festival will be ‘traversing the wild’ exploring our relationship with the natural world, how we move through the landscape, how landscape might move within us. Our open submissions strand has a focus on experimental short film and moving image work, though narrative films that show strong relevance to our theme are also most welcome. Submit online at http://www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk/2012_submissions/ Submissions are free and we welcome all film and digital video formats. Submission deadline: 10 June 2012 Please help us by spreading the word among your networks. http://www.facebook.com/alchemyfilmfestival http://www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk All the best, Richard Ashrowan rich...@ashrowan.com Web: www.ashrowan.com Blog: http://richardashrowan.tumblr.com Alchemy: www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Alchemy / James Whitney's Dwija (1973)
Many thanks to the list - I have had some very helpful and interesting suggestions, both on and off list, in terms of filmmakers who reference alchemical ideas, or who might be said to work in a consciously alchemical way with film - Christian Farrell / Silt, Sociedade Abissologica, Daniel Higgs 'Alchemist', Werner Nekes, Jim Davis, Ken Paul Rosenthal. I want to say also that May at the Academy has been very helpful in terms of organising a way of viewing James Whitney's Dwija. I am aware of William Moritz's writing on Dwija (thanks to CVM), also the discussion of Dwija in William Wees. If anyone knows of any other sources or commentaries I should know about in relation to this (or indeed his other 'elemental' film - Wu Ming) , please do let me know. Thanks again to everyone for such helpfulness. Richard Richard Ashrowan rich...@ashrowan.com Web: www.ashrowan.com Blog: http://richardashrowan.tumblr.com Alchemy: www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] Alchemy / James Whitney's Dwija (1973)
Hello all, Is anyone aware of any available 16mm prints / DVD / VHS or online versions of James Whitney's 1973 'Dwija'? I would like to review it for my PhD research (related to alchemy in the moving image), and I may then see if I might be able to screen it. I have sent inquiry emails to CVM, the LA Film Forum, the Academy Film Archive and Iota, but have yet to hear anything back. I cannot seem to find who actually has this film. I would also be interested to hear any thoughts Frameworkers might have on films / filmmakers that deal consciously with ideas of alchemical transformation, from any era. Many thanks for your help Richard Ashrowan rich...@ashrowan.com Web: www.ashrowan.com Blog: http://richardashrowan.tumblr.com Alchemy: www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
