[Frameworks] Sources for digital "prints" of avant garde classics

2018-02-15 Thread Robert Withers
Hi all, This is provide one filmmaker's perspective on digital prints etc. in response to the discussions below. We should be so lucky to be making only classics. Typically, it has been the independent filmmaker who has subsidized the lab and labor costs of film prints. I remember Hollis

Re: [Frameworks] Fiction feature length films about Avant-Garde cinema

2018-02-15 Thread Andy Ditzler
Jim McBride's "David Holzman's Diary" -- Andy Ditzler Founder and curator, Film Love: www.filmlove.org Co-founder, John Q collective: www.johnq.org Spring 2018: Film Love presents The American Music Show retrospective On

Re: [Frameworks] Fiction feature length films about Avant-Garde cinema

2018-02-15 Thread Santiago Fernandez
- The Duke of Burgundy If you want to go back in time: - Disney’s Fantasia - 2001: Spacey Odyssey "My head is made of the same matter of the sun" > On Feb 14, 2018, at 6:01 AM, Albert Alcoz wrote: > > Hello, > > Do you recall any fiction feature length film that is a

Re: [Frameworks] Sources for digital "prints" of avant garde classics

2018-02-15 Thread Elena Duque
De nada, Esperanza! Hopefully this will bloom for 2019 spring in beautiful 16mm screenings in Oviedo, let's see! 2018-02-15 16:01 GMT+01:00 Esperanza Collado : > «there is no time and no money for this edition» :) > > Gracias, Elena. > > 2018-02-15 13:33 GMT+01:00

Re: [Frameworks] Sources for digital "prints" of avant garde classics

2018-02-15 Thread Esperanza Collado
«there is no time and no money for this edition» :) Gracias, Elena. 2018-02-15 13:33 GMT+01:00 Elena Duque : > Thanks! > > It is for Oviedo, Asturias. Of course, you have to pay for the films for a > public screening, no matter if they are digital or prints in 16mm, that

Re: [Frameworks] Fiction feature length films about avant-garde cinema

2018-02-15 Thread Scott MacDonald
*Chuck Workman's Visionaries (2010) is a feature-length documentary about American avant-garde film, using Jonas Mekas as nodal point.* *There is also Workman's What Is Cinema? (2013), which--as I remember--includes "avant-garde" filmmaking within a larger context.* *Workman

Re: [Frameworks] Fiction feature length films about avant-garde cinema

2018-02-15 Thread Warren Cockerham
There's also Knox Harrington - a video artist. On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 8:56 AM, James Hansen wrote: > Michael Almereyda's Hamlet turns the title character into an experimental > film/video artist. Worth a look. > > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 7:00 AM,

Re: [Frameworks] Fiction feature length films about avant-garde cinema

2018-02-15 Thread James Hansen
Michael Almereyda's Hamlet turns the title character into an experimental film/video artist. Worth a look. On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 7:00 AM, wrote: > Send FrameWorks mailing list submissions to > frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com > > To subscribe or

Re: [Frameworks] Sources for digital "prints" of avant garde classics

2018-02-15 Thread Elena Duque
Thanks! It is for Oviedo, Asturias. Of course, you have to pay for the films for a public screening, no matter if they are digital or prints in 16mm, that is out of question! 2018-02-15 13:23 GMT+01:00 Esperanza Collado : > Hi Elena, > > Once I rented Lemon by

Re: [Frameworks] Sources for digital "prints" of avant garde classics

2018-02-15 Thread Esperanza Collado
Hi Elena, Once I rented Lemon by Frampton from Anthology Film Archives, it was a digital file and was screened at Irish Film Institute. I think we couldn't get the actual print as it was already booked, so we rented that file but not for free of course. So, in the end it costs money too if you

Re: [Frameworks] Sources for digital "prints" of avant garde classics

2018-02-15 Thread Elena Duque
Thanks, Pip I totally understand that, and I work for a festival that is very aware of that ((S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico in A Coruña). Ideally, I would suggest them to project in 16mm, but this is a test screening in a small Spanish town, happening in a month and a half thanks to a venue

Re: [Frameworks] Sources for digital "prints" of avant garde classics

2018-02-15 Thread Pip Chodorov
Dear Elena, Many filmmakers don't want their films shown digitally. A good example is Stan Brakhage. It really denatures the intended image. Other filmmakers are more tolerant, such as Jonas Mekas. It is a big debate. At Re:Voir in Paris we have digital files for our VOD platform and

[Frameworks] Sources for digital "prints" of avant garde classics

2018-02-15 Thread Elena Duque
Dear Frameworkers I am trying to put together a couple of programs as a sort of introduction to experimental cinema for the audience of a small festival in a small town. They don't have the possibility to project in 16mm or 35mm (not this year at least), so I need to find digital files available

Re: [Frameworks] Fiction feature length films about Avant-Garde cinema

2018-02-15 Thread Cari Machet
american beauty On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 12:36 AM, David Kidman wrote: > Isn’t Mulholland Drive a remake of Meshes of the Afternoon? > D > > > On 14 Feb 2018, at 20:09, Esperanza Collado > wrote: > > Not sure if *We Can't Go Back Home Again*