[Frameworks] Laser printing tutorial

2020-04-13 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
All, I made this very quick (& very dense) tutorial about laser printing on 16mm leader to take the place of a class visit at the University of South Carolina that was canceled when the world shut down. I originally thought I’d just share it with the students in the class, but then I posted

[Frameworks] FW: New Museum Home Delivery

2020-03-18 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
All, Just got this from the New Museum offering invites to an online-only screening & conversation tomorrow (Thurs, 7 pm [Eastern, I assume]) about Gene Youngblood’s Expanded Cinema. See below for instructions on how to get connected to the event. FYI, Roger From: New Museum Reply-To: New

Re: [Frameworks] Cameraless film in the university

2020-02-12 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Albert, I’ve taught a cameraless filmmaking class every few years for the last decade or so at two large public universities in the US (the University of Florida and Ohio State University). That class is definitely not industry-oriented—it’s an end in itself (i.e., fully in the experimental

Re: [Frameworks] Simple software that allows exploratory movements "across" a digital still image, as achieved by a conventional / antique rostrum Camera - like a Ken Burns shot

2019-12-16 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
David, Pretty much any editing system in 2019 will allow you to animate movement across a still frame. In Premiere, you just set start and end keyframes in the Motion settings & can zoom in, track across, etc. You can make the movement linear or even accelerate in & out. Pretty basic stuff

Re: [Frameworks] Filmmakers who use(d) visual scores or other forms of notation

2019-10-03 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Not exactly what you’ve asked for, but there was a pretty interesting exhibition of visual scores (for music) at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon a few years ago: http://millergallery.cfa.cmu.edu/exhibitions/aftersound/ FYI, Roger From: FrameWorks on behalf of Alix Blevins Reply-To:

Re: [Frameworks] Hole punchers for film

2019-07-08 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Morgan, It's pretty easy to find hole punches in lots of different sizes. Here's an odd one that might be an interesting tool to have around (if it punches film cleanly): https://www.amazon.com/Sized-Heavy-Leather-Pliers-Punches/dp/B07D28DBC6/ It's made for leather, so who knows how it'll

Re: [Frameworks] Lens repairs?

2019-06-27 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
I just had a projector lens repaired by the folks at Visual Products in Wellington, OH & have no complaints: http://visualproducts.com FYI, Roger On 6/27/19, 4:58 PM, "FrameWorks on behalf of Morgan Hoyle-Combs" wrote: Hello all. Sorecently I was testing a telephoto lens

Re: [Frameworks] Super 8 Processing and Scanning

2019-06-22 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
I can confirm Metro Post scans super 8 as well—I had them do some for me last summer. FYI, Roger From: FrameWorks on behalf of Martin Awano Reply-To: Experimental Film Discussion List Date: Saturday, June 22, 2019 at 12:17 PM To: Experimental Film Discussion List Subject: Re: [Frameworks]

[Frameworks] upcoming tour dates

2019-05-19 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
All, Just a quick heads up that starting tonight at the Echo Park Film Center, I’ll be doing a string of shows as I head home from California to Ohio. The shows will be mostly brand-new work, completed over the last 10 weeks during my residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts, including

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

2019-05-18 Thread 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,

Re: [Frameworks] artist run labs and film preservation

2019-05-14 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Ed Halter and Andrea Grover put together a collection called A Microcinema Primer a while ago that was published in a very limited run. Not sure if there are plans for that to get an electronic afterlife, but it’s got lots of interesting stuff in it. There’s a fair amount of focus on

Re: [Frameworks] 16mm black film for scratching

2019-02-14 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Print stocks are way cheaper than camera stocks, so just buy some 3378 (for ex.) and drop that in some developer (like a cheap Dektol kit that you can get at your local photo store) and then you’re in business for not a lot of $$$ > On Feb 14, 2019, at 11:04 PM, Huckleberry Lain > wrote: > >

Re: [Frameworks] Films about the clock

2018-10-29 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
It’d be great if everyone read the original post and what others post in the thread, wouldn’t it? If one more person suggests Bleu Shut...! But to try to inject a little substance here, I think it’s telling that most of the examples that we’ve collectively come up with are from an earlier era

Re: [Frameworks] Films about the clock

2018-10-27 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
There’s a sequence in Jon Jost’s Speaking Directly where we are just forced to watch a stopwatch for several minutes that you should check out. My memory is that it’s fairly late in the film (all of which is worth watching). Best, Roger On Oct 27, 2018, at 8:07 AM, Albert Alcoz

Re: [Frameworks] Conner/Marker and women of color suggestions

2018-08-30 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
I just saw An Ecstatic Experience by Ja’Tovia Gary for the second time last weekend at the Columbus Black International Film Festival & think it’s really doing interesting work with found footage: http://www.jatovia.com/an-ecstatic-experience-new/ Not a black woman, but equally worthy of

Re: [Frameworks] film/art for the deaf (Dan Anderson)

2018-08-24 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Not all of her films will fit this bill, but you should definitely try to track down Stephanie Gray (who may or may not be on this list?). Here’s the best I could find from a quick googling: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2015/06/artforum-on-the-films-of-stephanie-gray FYI, R. On

Re: [Frameworks] Cyanotype on film

2018-07-26 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Here’s an answer from Ben Wigley to the Labos list in response to a very similar question. (I’m only bouncing this—haven’t tried it myself.) _ In this book about Anthotypes - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anthotypes-Explore-darkroom-garden-photographs/dp/1466261005 they apply the emulsion

Re: [Frameworks] projection material

2018-06-26 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Andy, I’ve experimented a lot with different materials (often against my will!). There’s much that would work (depending on what you’re willing to live wth), but there’s no substitute for actual screen material. Do you need one continuous surface or can there be “seams” between? How tall of

[Frameworks] Fwd: [Labos] Newly Available: Eastman 7363 Single Perf Super 16

2018-05-28 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
All, I realized that I only saw this on the film labs mailing list & thought some (many?) of you might be interested. Get it while it lasts… FYI, Roger Begin forwarded message: From: Elena Rossi-Snook > Subject: [Labos] Newly

[Frameworks] Fwd: Roger Beebe: "Films for One to Eight Projectors", Saturday April 7th

2018-04-04 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
NYC (and Greater NY and TN/KY) Frameworkers, I’m starting the final stretch of my touring multi-projector show on Saturday with the screening at Microscope Gallery about which there’s much more info below. For those who don’t find themselves in Gotham, here are the remaining tour stops as I

[Frameworks] Boston multi-projector show time

2018-03-18 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Boston-area Frameworkers, Just a late heads up that my show tomorrow (Monday, 3/19) at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts has been pushed back an hour to 9 PM due to concerns about sound bleed in the adjacent theater. The program is a taut 70 minutes, so hopefully it won’t go past your

[Frameworks] New England/Montréal multi-projector shows

2018-03-14 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
All, Apologies (again) about the self-promotion, but I have a string of multi-projector shows in New England (& Canada) starting this Sunday, and I figured a quick heads up couldn’t hurt. If you find yourself in the orbit of these shows with a few free hours on your hands, I hope you’ll come

Re: [Frameworks] break the machine ~~

2017-12-05 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Andreas, I see you’re emailing from an academic address. The Ohio State library has it available as an electronic resource. Maybe your library has the same or has a relationship with a library system that does? It’s been a great resource for my students. I actually just got our library to

[Frameworks] Kodak reps? (and Ektachrome)

2017-11-29 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Does anyone have any info about changes to the Kodak reps for North America recently? I emailed both my new rep for Ohio and my old rep from Florida, and both emails bounced back. Not sure if my email is just being buggy or if there have been layoffs or departures. FYI, I was trying to

Re: [Frameworks] A desktop video

2017-10-29 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
I’m a big fan of this goofy little “dance film” that James Budd Dees made using only a cursor and some clicking & dragging: https://vimeo.com/50107963 Pretty sure this isn’t on most people’s radar, but it should be. (Does this count as a doc, per the initial call?) Roger On Oct 29, 2017, at

[Frameworks] video production job at the University of Florida

2017-10-25 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
All, My longtime employer, the University of Florida, is looking to hire a maker with a PhD for the program (Film & Media Studies in the English Dept.) that I taught in for 13 years. It’s a great place to be—lots of interesting students, very supportive colleagues, NO WINTER, etc. Not sure

Re: [Frameworks] Looking for Mani Kaul copies

2017-09-22 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
I’d bet Shambhavi Kaul might know something: shambhavik...@me.com On Sep 22, 2017, at 8:11 AM, Stoffel Debuysere > wrote: Dear Friends, We are currently trying to track down available 35mm copies of

Re: [Frameworks] optic printer in NYC

2017-08-19 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Pretty sure Mono No Aware has Bill Brand’s old printer. Easy enough to ask them: Mono NO Aware > Quickly, Roger On Aug 19, 2017, at 2:00 PM, ev petrol > wrote: Hey folks does anyone

Re: [Frameworks] ¿16mm projector direct into video projector?

2017-08-19 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Use an old Elmo film-chain transfer unit. It’ll look terrible (unless it’s modified to make an HD transfer—and even then…). The one I had had RCAs out, maybe a BNC. Seems like a weird thing to do—the film exists more as fetish than as material—but maybe there are ways to make that

Re: [Frameworks] Frederick Wiseman films. How can I see them?

2017-06-22 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
They’re all easy to get these days (after decades of being offered for sale only at educational prices): http://www.zipporah.com FYI, R. On Jun 22, 2017, at 8:01 AM, k. a.r. > wrote: Hello. I would buy a dvd if I could find one, or rent the

Re: [Frameworks] major exhibitions of moving image art

2017-05-23 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Ben, One more that I thought of belatedly and that I didn’t see listed in the other posts: the MindFrames show (focused on Buffalo in the 1970s) at ZKM back in 2006-7: http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/stories/storyReader$5419 A lot of the work was shown digitally, but they had some pretty impressive

Re: [Frameworks] major US and international exhibitions of experimental film, video, moving image art?

2017-05-19 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
To Chrissie’s impressive list I’d add Pompidou’s Le Mouvement des Images (2006-7) that found parallels in works from the Seventh Art with strategies and concerns in the other (modern/contemporary) arts. It included a fair number of (proper) experimental filmmakers (e.g., Brakhage, Rose Lowder)

Re: [Frameworks] optical sound film screening

2017-03-04 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Well, I was hoping someone would save me the embarrassment of mentioning my own film—Dave Tetzlaff, where are you when I need you???—but since no one has, TB TX DANCE is an optical sound experiment made using an office laser printer: https://vimeo.com/34376555 FYI, R. On Mar 2, 2017, at 8:27

[Frameworks] a timely video (from the time machine)

2017-01-17 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
All, I just rewatched a video that Warren Cockerham made almost exactly 8 years ago, just before Obama’s inauguration, and it seemed to me transformed by the times into a really poignant document of the promise of that former moment. And even while the video seems a little tragic as we brace

Re: [Frameworks] Fischinger and optical tracks

2016-12-26 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Jeff, Thanks for sharing—really interesting. I couldn’t make heads or tails of what the text accompanying the figures is describing, but it’s still intriguing… Best, Roger On Dec 25, 2016, at 3:26 PM, Jeff Kreines > wrote: This is pretty wonderful.

[Frameworks] digital-era distro

2016-12-24 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
All, As I’ve slowly been making HD transfers of my older work, I’m wondering about what people are doing in the current era for circulating HD versions of their films. Of course, I’m updating my Vimeo versions with the new scans, but since those files get massively recompressed, that’s not

Re: [Frameworks] 16mm sound recording

2016-12-13 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
And in a similar vein, some of the folks from L’Abominable demo’d a pretty nifty system this summer in Nantes that synced with a little light sensor hooked to the front of the lens that just used the strobing of the shutter to generate the sync pulse. (They were still working out kinks though,

Re: [Frameworks] Laser pointer optical printing

2016-09-24 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Morgan, I’ve experimented with this a little, and have had very mixed results. I bought some green lasers online (since red-blind stocks wouldn’t respond much to a red laser—or so was my thinking), and my first tests made it seem fairly straightforward. However, attempts to replicate the

Re: [Frameworks] Ektachrome Video News Film

2016-09-15 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Brigid, Give Nicolas Rey a try: Nicolas Rey . He’s done some deep experimentation with expired color stock, so he might have wisdom to share. Best, Roger On Sep 15, 2016, at 6:23 PM, Brigid McCaffrey wrote: > Dear frameworkers, > > I

Re: [Frameworks] the PhD referral for programs friendly to experimental film

2016-08-01 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
While there may not be many Ph.D. programs specialized in experimental film, I’d suggest that you look for a school with a faculty member or two who you’d like to work with. Almost no one in any area of specialization gets to assemble a committee entirely of people who work narrowly in their

[Frameworks] TB TX DANCE 16mm prints

2016-07-28 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
All, Many of you have seen my 2006 laser-printed film TB TX DANCE. If not (somehow), it’s online here: https://vimeo.com/34376555 I’m about to make some new prints for myself, and I had the (slightly crazy?) idea that maybe others out there would be interested in owning a print. I’m

Re: [Frameworks] Film/video programers/curators and campus film screenings

2016-03-19 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Many of my students who were involved centrally or peripherally with FLEXfest in Florida have gone on to do a wide range of post-graduation programming. Brendan and Jeremy Smyth, for example, currently run both the Haverhill Experimental Film Festival (HEFF) and Unexposed Microcinema in

Re: [Frameworks] Fwd: New Kodak Super 8 movie camera

2016-01-08 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Now if they’d just reintroduce a color reversal stock… (Shot a little Wittnerchrome this summer, and it’s not a bad tool, but it’s not Kodachrome or even the final Ekta 64T…) R. On Jan 8, 2016, at 2:18 PM, Nicholas Kovats wrote: > Yup. > > There is a brand new Super 8

Re: [Frameworks] Friday, Sept. 4--NO NEW YORK show at Microscope Gallery

2015-09-04 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
it, but did the announcement actually go out this week? On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Beebe, Roger W. <beebe...@osu.edu<mailto:beebe...@osu.edu>> wrote: All, As always, I’ve missed the This Week deadline, but I wanted to let those if you in the New York area know that on Friday at

[Frameworks] Friday, Sept. 4--NO NEW YORK show at Microscope Gallery

2015-09-02 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
All, As always, I’ve missed the This Week deadline, but I wanted to let those if you in the New York area know that on Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Microscope Gallery (1329 Willoughby Ave., Brooklyn, NY) I’ll be presenting a program that I’m calling (perversely?) NO NEW YORK. The show is focused on

Re: [Frameworks] Titles of scratch films

2015-08-25 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Sharits' S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED. And 8 billion other films. (This is going to end up being a LONG list.) On Aug 25, 2015, at 3:14 PM, Scott MacDonald smacd...@hamilton.edu wrote: Su Friedrich's GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM and THE TIES THAT BIND. Robert Huot's SCRATCH

Re: [Frameworks] Titles of scratch films

2015-08-25 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
But her Hand Eye Coordination certainly counts, even if Removed doesn’t… On Aug 25, 2015, at 5:21 PM, Warren Cockerham warrencocker...@gmail.commailto:warrencocker...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Patrick (and Tess).. I thought that Naomi Uman's REMOVED was a scratched film for many years too. But,

[Frameworks] NYC screening tomorrow night.

2015-08-06 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Frameworkers, I’ll be doing a screening tomorrow night (Friday) at 7:30 p.m. at Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn (1329 Willoughby Ave.), and I thought it might be of interest to those of you in Greater Gotham. I should warn you that while my work is still predominantly in 16mm, tomorrow’s

Re: [Frameworks] reversed River Rites

2015-07-20 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
:00 GMT-04:00 Beebe, Roger W. beebe...@osu.edumailto:beebe...@osu.edu: All, I assume most of you have, at this point, seen Ben Russell’s River Rites. I just watched it an additional three times over the past few weeks as part of a show that I presented in Warsaw, Istanbul, and Paris. As many

Re: [Frameworks] The Last Reel

2015-04-15 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Ironically shot on HD video with that super-shallow-focus DSLR look… On Apr 15, 2015, at 1:59 PM, Ken Paul Rosenthal kenpaulrosent...@hotmail.commailto:kenpaulrosent...@hotmail.com wrote: As cinemas across the United States transition to digital projectors, this short documentary celebrates

[Frameworks] final tour dates.

2015-04-01 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
All, As I think I’ve announced here before, I’ve been on the road since Jan. 15 showing a program of my multiple-projector films along with my most recent HD video essay. I’m entering the last leg of that tour, so I just wanted to give a heads up to any of you in Western Canada or the (U.S.)

Re: [Frameworks] What are the 3 Essential Films that you would show Artists on their first foray into the Moving Image Realm ?

2015-03-28 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
In a talk I heard P. Adams Sitney give in Berlin a few years ago, it sounded like he was doing some revisionist history to credit Marie Menken’s “Arabesque for Kenneth Anger” with being the film that broke from the psychodrama tradition. If that’s the case—and why not?—then that seems a MAJOR

Re: [Frameworks] Women working in Expanded Cinema

2015-03-20 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
To supplement Steve’s excellent list, I’d try contacting Kathleen Quillian at Shapeshifters in Oakland, because she put out a similar call last year might have more names to contribute. … Roger On Mar 20, 2015, at 10:04 AM, Alex Balkam blueswingingd...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Frameworks,

Re: [Frameworks] Formula for processing 7240 reversal as vhf or e6?

2015-03-13 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Robbie, Try contacting Nicolas Rey: nico...@l-abominable.org. I just sent him 18 400’ rolls of 7240 that had been lying around forever, and he seems to think he can make good use of it. FYI, Roger On Mar 14, 2015, at 10:20 AM, Scout Fenn scoutf...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have a

Re: [Frameworks] Petrol in Experimental Cinema (Anastasia Tsarkova)

2015-02-21 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Gary Hill’s installation at the Fondation Cartier in Paris in 2006/7 included a giant reflecting pool filled with motor oil, with a video screen at the end of the pool. That’s the closest I can think of to a direct (re)presentation of gasoline as art object. A review of the show (in French)

Re: [Frameworks] Francis Lee?

2015-02-19 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Following up on Nicky’s post, here’s a very good overview of best practices in fair use provided by the College Art Association: http://www.collegeart.org/fair-use/ Your use would certainly be covered. Best, Roger On Feb 19, 2015, at 8:42 AM,

[Frameworks] projector belts

2015-02-01 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
All, Out on the road in New Orleans I was given an Eiki NT-0 that’s missing its main drive belt. I’m now in Los Angeles, and I’m wondering if anyone knows somewhere locally where I could pick up a belt. I just measured it looks like it’s about 9 3/4”. I know people have posted here before

Re: [Frameworks] Film cameras latest models

2015-01-18 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
When was the Aaton A-Minima introduced? Early 2000s? Late 1990s? That’s the most recent big film camera launch I remember. But doesn’t it seem like there are kickstarters for new film cameras all the time still? Wasn’t there some Scandanavian s8 camera just a few years ago (that was going

[Frameworks] upcoming multi-projector shows

2015-01-18 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
All, If you live between New Orleans and Los Angeles (viz., New Orleans, Houston, Austin, Dallas, Albuquerque, Tucson), I’ll be visiting your town in the next dozen days or so. Not just visiting, of course, but hawking my multi-projector wares as part of a 3-month tour of which this is the

Re: [Frameworks] Film cameras latest models

2015-01-18 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
of the better stabs at it, but sorting it out sank the company. Alas. “ He noted in a short additional message that camera was super 16mm. FYI, R. On Jan 18, 2015, at 10:25 AM, Beebe, Roger W. beebe...@osu.edumailto:beebe...@osu.edu wrote: When was the Aaton A-Minima introduced? Early 2000s

Re: [Frameworks] new book, AVANT-DOC

2014-11-10 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
It’s out, despite what the release date said when I ordered it. I was actually reading my copy last night. It plugs perfectly into my current grad seminar (Strategies of the Real), so I’m trying to find a slot to plug it in before the semester’s end! FYI, R. On Nov 10, 2014, at 7:49 AM,

Re: [Frameworks] Pac Lab

2014-09-23 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
I wonder if this might’ve been A1. I used them for several years until they shut down. My TB TX DANCE contact prints were done there and done well. … R. On Sep 23, 2014, at 4:07 PM, Jay Hudson jkh30...@gmail.commailto:jkh30...@gmail.com wrote: No, it was done there according to the student.

Re: [Frameworks] Film EQ Garage Sale – 16mm, Super 8mm, and more...

2014-09-13 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Ken, What kind of splicer is the 16mm? I’m always in the market for more guillotine splicers for my students, although I’ve had some (the Amatoris, for ex.) that were so bad that I couldn’t possibly put them in service. Crazy/sad that you’re unloading all this. Hope you’re keeping plenty of

Re: [Frameworks] Kodak Film Stocks to be Discontinued, Announced in December

2014-08-31 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
I’ve been lamenting the loss of these stocks along with the rest of you. But I also was thinking of the bigger historical context of this current crisis, and that gave me some peace of mind. I know that when I arrived at the University of Florida in 2000, a colleague explained that the reason

Re: [Frameworks] films using the optical printer

2014-08-06 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
In the same spirit as Mark's post, I wanted to note that Peter Tscherkassky's Cinemascope trilogy is actually contact printed in short stretches (much of it using a laser pointer) rather than optically printed. He must surely have used an optical printer in some of his films (maybe Happy End,

Re: [Frameworks] Fibonacci Sequence

2014-08-05 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Abigail Child mentioned that the structure of “Surface Noise” is based on the Fibonacci sequence when she screened it at the Harn Museum a decade ago. I’m not sure I understood exactly what she meant—I hadn’t sensed it in watching the film—but I’d be curious to look again with that in mind.

Re: [Frameworks] times for dektol and 7363

2014-08-04 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
I’ve used Dektol with hi-con plenty, but my experience is that exposure times are VERY short, definitely less than 1 min with the chemistry at room temperature, even when I dilute the developer. (It slows considerably as the chemistry gets exhausted, of course.) I rate hi-con at ASA 12 when I

[Frameworks] FLEXfest 2015 call for entries

2014-07-30 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
All, While I’m no longer at the helm of FLEXfest (the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival), I still did want to spread the word that their 2015 call for entries has just gone online. No entry fees for alums and international entrants. (Still a modest $10 for domestic first-timers.)

[Frameworks] Bolex 16/super 16 conversion

2014-07-29 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Back to celluloid now after my brief foray into the digital world. Does anyone have recommendations for where to get a Bolex converted to super 16? Also, I’ve got both an SBM and a REX 4—is there any reason to convert one rather than the other? Also (finally) how do I know (in advance) if my

Re: [Frameworks] Films made on 15/70mm

2014-07-28 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
laying around that you were thinking of doing something with and so on, be in touch. On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Beebe, Roger W. beebe...@osu.edumailto:beebe...@osu.edu wrote: Ekrem, Here’s the only one I know of: http://www.ninapaley.com/pandoramahome.html Always thought it’d be great

[Frameworks] HD/SD/DVD

2014-07-27 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
All, Since in recent days we’ve been discussing codecs other topics that’re, stricto sensu, not film-related, I hoped I might start a similar thread that’s probably relevant to most of us still making work on celluloid. I’ve been submitting work to festivals after a long break, and while

Re: [Frameworks] Films made on 15/70mm

2014-07-26 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Ekrem, Here’s the only one I know of: http://www.ninapaley.com/pandoramahome.html Always thought it’d be great to give orphaned prints of Imax film to a bunch of direct animators to do as they will. Maybe you need to commission a program rather than just curate it? Good luck, R. On Jul 25,

Re: [Frameworks] Experimental Cinema Flip Book

2014-07-16 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
I know Jodie Mack had some all-star(r) flip-books that she got from Cecile Starr. Jodie, you out there? Tell the world! (If I remembered more, I’d offer more, but I have only the vaguest of memories of who/what.) On Jul 15, 2014, at 4:58 PM, Ken Eisenstein

Re: [Frameworks] educational film question

2014-05-30 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Not sure about Blu-Ray, but contact Skip Elsheimer at A/V Geeks. He’s released some DVDs of his greatest finds, and he just got a Kinetta to do scans, so he may soon have 2K files or something to make available. Skip Elsheimer s...@avgeeks.com … R. On May 30, 2014, at 10:14 AM, Charles

Re: [Frameworks] Muybridge and moving image art

2014-05-15 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Check out the Scott MacDonald’s Avant-Garde Film: Motion Studies for a discussion of a number of such films. R. On May 15, 2014, at 4:13 PM, Jesse Pires jessepire...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm looking for suggestions for films, videos and other moving image/time-based artworks (historical

Re: [Frameworks] Films about labor and leisure

2014-05-12 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
I think Kelly mentioned A Propos de Nice, but I’m thinking that most of the city symphonies of that era presented both work and leisure as part of their portraits. Berlin, Symphony of a Great City is the one I know best, since I teach it often, but you might want to look at Rien que les

Re: [Frameworks] Superposition as editing practice

2014-04-21 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
=CKBfsGkRc6WBvhw_bWz28f-qXl4hl=ensa=Xei=61JVU6CuFKazsASzhICwCgved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepageq=superimposition%20eisensteinf=false On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Beebe, Roger W. beebe...@osu.edumailto:beebe...@osu.edu wrote: Leighton Pierce has made a career of finding ways to “overcome the cut” as he once

Re: [Frameworks] Invitation to visit show at Exploded View in Tucson!

2014-04-18 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
David, I’d saved your message when you first announced the launch of Exploded View, and I now have occasion to get in touch to see if you’d want to play host to my multi-projector roadshow. Looks like I might be headed West on I-10 in late January 2015. Any chance that date could work for

Re: [Frameworks] Invitation to visit show at Exploded View in Tucson!

2014-04-18 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Er, oops. Sorry all. On Apr 18, 2014, at 11:25 PM, Beebe, Roger W. beebe...@osu.edu wrote: David, I’d saved your message when you first announced the launch of Exploded View, and I now have occasion to get in touch to see if you’d want to play host to my multi-projector roadshow. Looks

Re: [Frameworks] query for those who teach filmmaking

2014-04-17 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
On the original topic of editing software, I’d throw my weight behind switching to Premiere. At the University of Florida, I experimented for a semester with FCPX, and I found it buggy dumbed down in ways that made it hard to do things that I’ve come to expect from my editing systems. The

Re: [Frameworks] Films about remediation

2014-04-02 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
In a similar vein to the list that Andy offers here, Hollis Frampton’s Hapax Legomena 1 (nostalgia) makes cinema out of still photos (made cinematic by burning them on a hot plate). And closer to the titles in your original list, Josh (J.B.) Mabe’s “Pastoral” reshoots on 16mm a YouTube video

Re: [Frameworks] Films about remediation

2014-04-02 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
Just had another thought about remediation, although one that moves in a slightly different direction than the previous posts. I was thinking about the history of Kinescope recordings, where live TV would be shot on film off of a video monitor prior to the introduction of videotape (and, in

Re: [Frameworks] exp film orgs suggestions

2014-03-12 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
I haven’t been following this as closely as I might, so apologies if this is a repeat, but Chuck’s post about a-g publications made me realize that I haven’t noticed Incite getting mentioned in this thread yet. Not only is it one of the few journals focused on experimental media, but the most

Re: [Frameworks] Installation works that incorporate hand-painted film

2014-02-25 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
In addition to Sally Golding (mentioned before—and amazing), FLEXfest this weekend featured a projector performance by the Trinchera Ensemble, which numbers one woman (Elena Pardo) among their ranks. I guess I’ll mention my films too? (I score 4 out of 6 on the list below.) R. On Feb 25,

Re: [Frameworks] Films and videos about music fan culture

2014-02-08 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
There are some pretty great super 8 fan sequences in Instrument (by Jem Cohen). Overall that’s a pretty wonderful film in the way that it avoids having the band play all the jams just focuses instead on all the stuff around that. And it’s Trypps #3 with Lightning Bolt (then replaced by Joe

Re: [Frameworks] artist portraits

2014-02-04 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
You might want to check out pretty much every one of Marie Losier’s recent films. Also Jem Cohen’s recent “Anne Truitt, Working.” Not sure if any of these are online. ... R. On Feb 4, 2014, at 8:36 PM, Ara Osterweil aosterw...@hotmail.commailto:aosterw...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Kate and

Re: [Frameworks] Daïchi Saïto mail

2014-02-02 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
He also has a gmail: Daïchi Saïto dsaitof...@gmail.commailto:dsaitof...@gmail.com On Feb 2, 2014, at 2:58 PM, William Wees, Dr. william.w...@mcgill.camailto:william.w...@mcgill.ca wrote: daichi_sa...@yahoo.commailto:daichi_sa...@yahoo.com --Bill Wwees From: FrameWorks

[Frameworks] Daïchi Saïto (cont.), or, FLEXfest 2014

2014-02-02 Thread Beebe, Roger W.
I should have also mentioned that Daïchi will be one of several international visitors to Gainesville, Florida in just under three weeks (Feb. 21-23) for the 10th annual FLEXfest (which will also be my last as Artistic Director). Other guests include Rei Hayama from [+] in Tokyo, Guillaume

Re: [Frameworks] women and crime

2014-01-23 Thread Beebe, Roger
I'd add to the growing list Abigail Child's Perils wherein there seems to be all kinds of mayhem (the title of another of her films in the same series, Is This What You Were Born For?), including some rough stuff small-time crime by the whole cast of women and men. ... R.

Re: [Frameworks] Middle Eastern film + video

2014-01-20 Thread Beebe, Roger
You might talk to Silke Schmickl, the curator for the lowave Resistance(s) DVDs, since she's been working in that area for a while: http://www.lowave.com/en/shop/140/1/dvd/collection-resistance-s-detail Her email address is silke * lowave si...@lowave.commailto:si...@lowave.com. Best, Roger

Re: [Frameworks] Looking to build a list of 'Experimental Documentaries' on video

2014-01-11 Thread Beebe, Roger
RE: An American Family, it's true that it was long unavailable, but it was released on DVD in 2011, so now it needs not simply be the stuff of legend: http://www.shoppbs.org/product/index.jsp?productId=11645510 ... R. On Jan 11, 2014, at 12:16 PM, Andy Ditzler wrote: Jean Rouch should

Re: [Frameworks] EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

2014-01-06 Thread Beebe, Roger
You people realize this is a listserv, right? You need to email Kim directly rather than just replying to messages sent to the listserv. That will be true on Frameworks forever. (If you're going to inadvertently send your message to 1000 people, please make sure it's something really

Re: [Frameworks] EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

2014-01-06 Thread Beebe, Roger
From the original email about this: Kim Knowles kim.know...@edfilmfest.org.ukmailto:kim.know...@edfilmfest.org.uk On Jan 6, 2014, at 12:34 PM, Robert Schaller wrote: Kim, Do you have an email address where we can reach you off-list? Thanks, Robert Schaller On Jan 6, 2014, at 9:11 AM, Ken

Re: [Frameworks] LA super 8 camera: borrow/rental

2013-12-27 Thread Beebe, Roger
You'd probably get one cheaper at the Echo Park Film Center: http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ They may or may not have regular store hours now. (The website says closed until February, but that may mean no screenings.) ... Roger On Dec 27, 2013, at 9:29 AM, Roger Wilson wrote: Pro 8mm is

Re: [Frameworks] super-8 to 16mm blow ups?

2013-12-07 Thread Beebe, Roger
Just wanted to say RE: 35mm vs. 16mm, that Scott's sentiments seem to echo the traditional wisdom about the omnipresence of 35mm, but with the rapid scrapping of 35mm projectors from almost every multiplex (and most of the art houses) in the U.S., it seems the scales may be tipping back in the

Re: [Frameworks] films/videos using/made up of text

2013-11-15 Thread Beebe, Roger
In the same vein as Gently Down the Stream, you might take a look at Lauren Cook's Altitude Zero. I do think Lauren's film (like Gently and many of the others listed) rely on IMAGES just as much as text. It seems the list narrows considerably if you're thinking about films that are only

Re: [Frameworks] Parts for Steenbeck Type: St928

2013-10-22 Thread Beebe, Roger
Try Dwight Cody at the Boston Connection: http://www.cutfilm.com/ From: FrameWorks [frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] on behalf of Roger Wilson [rogerdwil...@sympatico.ca] Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 12:28 PM To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com

Re: [Frameworks] abstraction and politics

2013-10-07 Thread Beebe, Roger
Kelly, This is an interesting question, and it demands a complicated answer. First, I think it's important to note that abstraction is not an absolute but that there's a large gray area between abstraction and representation. I'd argue that many if not most experimental films inhabit that

Re: [Frameworks] Literature and experimental film

2013-09-28 Thread Beebe, Roger
Has no one mentioned Rameau's Nephew yet? If not, then Rameau's Nephew (by Diderot and Michael Snow). Just reshelved my copy of the former yesterday. ... R. From: FrameWorks [frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] on behalf of sc...@financialcleansing.com

Re: [Frameworks] Lipsett, Night tide and Lonesome

2013-08-24 Thread Beebe, Roger
I've rented a few of the Lipsett films from Murray Glass (the Em Gee Film Library) before. Rental rates there are cheap, but it's a bit of a hassle to figure out exactly what he has. ... R. On Aug 24, 2013, at 6:12 AM, Chen Sheinberg wrote: Dear frameworkers, Does anybody know who

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