[Frameworks] Books on the History of Avant-Garde film in US
As straight history: John Hanhardt's A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE CINEMA (NY: American Federation of Arts, 1976). (Like Anthology, proposes a canon.) Wheeler Dixon, THE EXPLODING EYE: A RE-VISONARY HISTORY OF THE 1960s AMERICAN EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA (Albany, SUNY Press, 1997. Not straight history, but of related interest: Jean Petrolle and Virginia Wexman, WOMEN AND EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKING (Urbana: U of Illinois Press, 2005 Dixon and Foster, eds. EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA: THE FILM READER (London/NY: Routledge, 2002) Bruce Elder, THE FILMS OF STAN BRAKHAGE IN THE AMERICAN TRADITION OF EZRA POUND, GERTRUDE STEIN, AND CHARLES OLSON (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfred Laurier UP, 1998). (Breathtaking erudition and gem-like scholarly passion...ditto re. Elder's other big cinema book, HARMONY AND DISSENT.) Annette Michelson, ed. NEW FORMS IN FILM: MONTREUX 1974 Dennis Wheeler, ed. FORM AND STRUCTURE IN RECENT FILM (Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery/Talonbooks, 1972. Kerry Brougher/Russell Ferguson, ART AND FILM SINCE 1945: HALL OF MIRRORS (Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1996) ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] FrameWorks Digest, Vol 63, Issue 17
Ron Green 356 W 7th Ave Columbus OH 43201 614.421.2131 J. Ronald Green Professor Emeritus of Film Studies Department of History of Art The Ohio State University 1. Re: (Un)relieable perceptual information I once drafted a running list of great shots, but I can't find it. It favored motion and included the shots Gene mentioned, plus certainly Straub/Huillet, especially the opening circular track around the Place de la Bastille. But what I wanted to ask is whether you could use things like Brakhage's calisthenical camera work, e.g. the pans of the moon and the circular track on the merry-go-round in Anticipation of the Night; or things like Gehr, e.g. Serene Velocity, Side/Walk/Shuttle, and Glider; also, Werner Nekes, and many more. Once started on this track there should be lots of radical examples, if they fit your question. ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] spoiled-countryside films
One experimental film not to be missed in this category is SILBERWALD, a 3-screen installation piece by Christoph Girardet. It's a sort of creepification of the heimat genre; up on YouTube at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOPXrGsR63ohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOPXrGsR63o Ron Green 356 W 7th Ave Columbus OH 43201 614.421.2131 J. Ronald Green Professor Emeritus of Film Studies Department of History of Art The Ohio State University ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] Kid-friendly films?
Maybe: Broughton's THIS IS IT Anything by Robert Breer Ann Severson's ANIMALS RUNNING Gunvor Nelson's MY NAME IS OONA Ken Jacobs's OPTIC ANTICS [featuring Laurel and Hardy] Kubelka or Conrad flicker films Gehr's SERENE VELOCITY Awesh's MARTINA'S PLAYHOUSE [watch it first, of course] Wegman's Man Ray and Fay Ray videos Fischli and Weiss's THE WAY THINGS GO and, to counter hyperactive TV, perhaps Benning's RR?? Ron Green 356 W 7th Ave Columbus OH 43201 614.421.2131 J. Ronald Green Professor Emeritus of Film Studies Department of History of Art The Ohio State University ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
