Re: [Frameworks] experimental essay films and one other question

[Beebe, Roger W.]

Peter,

I agree with Albert’s response that you probably don’t need the qualifier 
“experimental” in front of “essay film,” since the essay film as a form is 
already experimental (to greater or lesser degrees, and depending on what one 
means by experimental).

For a reading and list of makers, I’d take a look at the recent collection of 
essays by Nora Alter and Tim Corrigan, Essays on the Essay Film.  I just 
finished teaching a class on the essay film and this book was an invaluable 
resource for us:

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/essays-on-the-essay-film/9780231172677

Best,
Roger

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Subject: [Frameworks] experimental essay films and one other question


Dear All,

We have 2 quick questions for a longer essay on experimental cinema:

1. Bori's question: Can you recommend films or artists in the field of 
experimental essay film, after 2000 until today?

2. Péter's question: can you recommend books or articles on the institutional 
system of the contemporary experimental cinema? I know the books of Scott 
Macdonald and Malte Hagener on the institutions of classical/post-war 
avant-garde film, but I do not know anything about the contemporary situation.

Thanks!
Bori and Péter
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Re: [Frameworks] experimental essay films and one other question

[Albert Alcoz]

Dear Péter,

We could say "experimental essay film" is a controversial label. It looks
like you want to avoid the documentary side of the film construction.
I'm not exposing it in the proper manner but maybe "essay film" could be
read from different points of views: orthodox and heterodox or conventional
and unusual.
The question would be: what differentiates an "experimental essay film" and
a "non experimental film essay"?
Interviews with talking heads, voice over, archive footage, chronological
segmentation, modes of production or distribution, budget?

Anyway, here are some names that could be related to that concept after
2000 until today:

Gustav Deutsch: *Film Ist 7-12 *(2002), *Film Ist a Girl & a Gun* (2009)
Thom Andersen: *Los Angeles Plays Itself* (2003), *The Thoughts That Once
We Had* (2015)
Jean-Luc Godard: *The Image Book* (2016)
Chris Marker: *Chats Perchés* (2004)
Harun Farocki: dozens of works.
Hito Steyerl: *How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File*
(2013)
Pip Chodorov: *Free Radicals* (2011)
(...)

Some other good references:
https://monoskop.org/Experimental_film
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/254037
http://www.othercinema.com/otherzine/2940-2/

Best,
Albert

On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 10:18 AM Péter Lichter  wrote:

>
> Dear All,
>
> We have 2 quick questions for a longer essay on experimental cinema:
>
> 1. Bori's question: Can you recommend films or artists in the field of
> experimental essay film, after 2000 until today?
>
> 2. Péter's question: can you recommend books or articles on the
> institutional system of the contemporary experimental cinema? I know the
> books of Scott Macdonald and Malte Hagener on the institutions of
> classical/post-war avant-garde film, but I do not know anything about the
> contemporary situation.
>
> Thanks!
> Bori and Péter
> --
> https://peterlichter.com
> ___
> FrameWorks mailing list
> FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com
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[Frameworks] experimental essay films and one other question

[Péter Lichter]

Dear All,

We have 2 quick questions for a longer essay on experimental cinema:

1. Bori's question: Can you recommend films or artists in the field of
experimental essay film, after 2000 until today?

2. Péter's question: can you recommend books or articles on the
institutional system of the contemporary experimental cinema? I know the
books of Scott Macdonald and Malte Hagener on the institutions of
classical/post-war avant-garde film, but I do not know anything about the
contemporary situation.

Thanks!
Bori and Péter
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https://peterlichter.com
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