Re: [Frameworks] Texts on sound design in animation

2020-10-15 Thread Bernard Roddy
John Stehura used his music (the > theme "Tango" <https://dockstader.bandcamp.com/track/quatermass-tango> > from the *Quatermass* LP) for the marvelous film *Cibernetik 5.3*. > Best, > Albert > > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 7:04 PM Bernard Roddy wrote: > >

[Frameworks] Texts on sound design in animation

2020-10-15 Thread Bernard Roddy
Hi Christopher: Thank you for initiating this discussion topic. Albert Alcoz has provided a document that is available without download. I am looking past the introduction of Oskar Fischinger, where Rudolph Pfenninger's research is taken up: "Eschewing aesthetic discourse entirely, Pfenninger

[Frameworks] documentary conscience

2020-08-28 Thread Bernard Roddy
When Chrissie Iles posted, it struck me as a diminution of the cause one might want to identify with, say a concern for Black film artists. But what David at Lake Ivan posted restores the question of interest, as I would like to see it. That question has to do with a conscience often belonging to

[Frameworks] Deleuze and Husserl

2020-08-25 Thread Bernard Roddy
Greetings, Michael. There was ambiguity in my sentence regarding Pip. When I wrote that I think "he" sees himself as doing philosophy, I am referring to Deleuze. There is way too much to try to address in your post. But whenever you introduce audiences, I think you are off track. Or, you are not

[Frameworks] architecture

2020-08-23 Thread Bernard Roddy
Thank you for your patience, everyone. It occurred to me that architecture is another part of screen imagery in need of theory. By that I mean the elaboration space for the screen. It isn't really Deleuze who serves experimental animation. Deleuse is too complicated. What is needed, I suggest,

Re: [Frameworks] "phi phenomenon"

2020-08-22 Thread Bernard Roddy
ain it yourself? > > Michael > > > > Michael Betancourt, Ph.D > https://michaelbetancourt.com > cell 305.562.9192 > https://www.amazon.com/Michael-Betancourt/e/B01H3QILT0/ > Sent from my phone > > On Aug 22, 2020, at 1:19 PM, Bernard Roddy wrote: > >  > proofing

Re: [Frameworks] "phi phenomenon"

2020-08-22 Thread Bernard Roddy
proofing my post: 'It's as if the lab *protects* the writer from philosophy.' '*Now*, all these tests [. . .]" Bernie On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 12:13 PM Bernard Roddy wrote: > Hi Pip: > > The perceptual experiments you describe don't seem to me to be necessary. > We alread

[Frameworks] "phi phenomenon"

2020-08-22 Thread Bernard Roddy
Hi Pip: The perceptual experiments you describe don't seem to me to be necessary. We already have the moving image of cinema. What I have noticed, however, is that there is an attraction to the various lab studies. And this will be of particular interest for "experimental" animation. One of the

Re: [Frameworks] animation

2020-08-21 Thread Bernard Roddy
Well, the first volume of Deleuze's work is devoted to "the movement image." On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 5:22 PM Michael Betancourt < hinterland.mov...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Bernard, > > I have some questions before we get started. > > > On Aug 21, 2020

[Frameworks] animation

2020-08-21 Thread Bernard Roddy
n celluloid. Michael Betancourt Savannah, GA USA michaelbetancourt.com | vimeo.com/cinegraphic On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 2:41 PM Bernard Roddy https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks>> wrote: >* Eric Thiese is prepared to read about cartoons. That wasn't what attracted *>*

[Frameworks] animation

2020-08-17 Thread Bernard Roddy
Eric Thiese is prepared to read about cartoons. That wasn't what attracted me to animation. Although I enjoyed making line drawings in order to shoot them in series, of exploring timing tests, and of implementing cut-out as a visual means of theoriing about other things, it was Fischinger and

[Frameworks] animation

2020-08-11 Thread Bernard Roddy
I'm writing on a phone - tap tap. But I wanted to say that animation has always seemed to me to be a poor search term. Tap tap. Let's not give life to inanimate objects. The thread was initiated along with a link. And the critical writing linked invited applications of the expression electronic

[Frameworks] remembering a pre-screening and response process

2020-07-23 Thread Bernard Roddy
It's 1997 and I'm sitting in a pre-screening meeting with 8 or 9 people at the Irondequoit High School. We have met to decide on the works to be screened at the Rochester International Film Festival. Each of us has a stack of evaluation forms on which we complete rankings for each work on several

[Frameworks] uncanny and experimental cinema

2020-07-19 Thread Bernard Roddy
Hi Péter: I use Heidegger's conception of the uncanny to discuss Birgit Hein's work. See "The Translator's Echo" (p. 22): https://online.ucpress.edu/afterimage/issue/40/3 Bernie ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com

Re: [Frameworks] Book

2020-07-13 Thread Bernard Roddy
motely, but on the LI > website). > > http://www.lightindustry.org/cinemaexpanded > > Very big thanks to Ed Halter and Thomas Beard (and Erika!) for making this > happen. > > JW > > On Jul 12, 2020, at 8:42 PM, Bernard Roddy wrote: > > Jonathan Walley and friends: >

[Frameworks] Book

2020-07-12 Thread Bernard Roddy
Jonathan Walley and friends: Congratulations, Jonathan. I tried to take a look but only came up with the introduction on Amazon. A few months ago I ordered Poor Man's Expression: Technology, Experimental Film, Conceptual Art, a catalogue for a 2006 Berlin exhibition. I am not sure why the book

[Frameworks] (no subject)

2020-07-09 Thread Bernard Roddy
Just looking up from my reading, which I'm transcribing below: "The most living thought becomes frigid in the formula that expresses it. The word turns against the idea. The letter kills the spirit. And our most ardent enthusiasm, as soon as it is externalized into action, is so naturally

Re: [Frameworks] Liberty!

2020-07-06 Thread Bernard Roddy
John, I think you should make that clown with the plate in his forehead into a profile cycle for Facebook. I have ever seen your work. The metal bucket, the syringe, the fuse, all these things I have been inclined to draw in a technical and realistic way, and limited to a single sheet, end of

[Frameworks] Liberty: a curated show

2020-07-06 Thread Bernard Roddy
Jodie Mack: It's a nice course title, "Curating and Microcinema: Make your own culture." It raises many fine questions. For one, what is the role of "curating" in these microcinemas today? Does the term function in anything like the way it is intended to for budgeted, wall-hung exhibitions? The

Re: [Frameworks] Revelations

2020-06-28 Thread Bernard Roddy
uot; film you are referring to and where can > I see it. Thank you > > John Knecht. > > On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 5:29 PM Bernard Roddy wrote: > >> Dominic: >> >> Thank you. I just watched Revelations. Although I passed over a few of >> your remarks at t

[Frameworks] Revelations

2020-06-28 Thread Bernard Roddy
Dominic: Thank you. I just watched Revelations. Although I passed over a few of your remarks at the festival site, I was most intent on figuring out how to play whatever it was you were posting. And it made me think of Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera. It's Vertov's apocalyptic edit. We

[Frameworks] Fracto deadline July 1

2020-06-26 Thread Bernard Roddy
Fracto announces a political statement: "The streaming initiative was not only about sharing or showing films, but about clarifying how artists need to constantly strive to meet society's demands without giving anything back." And it's slogan (or that of its host venue) resonates with the words

[Frameworks] Onion City Film and Video Festival

2020-06-24 Thread Bernard Roddy
I would like to say more about what I liked in what I have seen, of the "Immaterial Girls" program in particular. There seems to be a remarkable refinement in the way that an artists' thoughts, which on screen text titling serve to invoke, work with the imagery the artist uses. In each of the

[Frameworks] Onion City Film and Video Festival

2020-06-24 Thread Bernard Roddy
Dear film lovers, I have watched works of a couple programs ("Are we there yet?" and "Immaterial Girls") in this year's Onion City Film Festival ( onioncityfilmfest.org) and been thinking about the role of cinema in such work. Here's Immaterial Girls' artists: Victoria Vanderpool Ariel Teal Rebba

[Frameworks] Luther Price and art criticism

2020-06-20 Thread Bernard Roddy
Wait, it was only via email that Luther and I were in contact. But there are a lot of things one could say here in connection to writing and the experimental film. I think I read a quote from Godard where he says film isn't art. Nobody knows what to focus on. The University Film and Video

[Frameworks] Luther Price RIP

2020-06-20 Thread Bernard Roddy
5:48, Bernard Roddy (https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks>>) escribió: >* Hi everyone. I had only heard the name, and heart it often, then in 2016 *>* saw his work at the Chicago Underground. For three years, until August last *>* year, I worked on an essay tha

[Frameworks] Luther Price RIP

2020-06-17 Thread Bernard Roddy
Hi everyone. I had only heard the name, and heart it often, then in 2016 saw his work at the Chicago Underground. For three years, until August last year, I worked on an essay that runs 20 pages and concerns only a single Price film. Bernie ___

Re: [Frameworks] Experiments in Cinema

2020-06-13 Thread Bernard Roddy
onefsky > Founder/Director, Experiments in Cinema > > Sent from my smarty pants fone > > > On Jun 13, 2020, at 1:56 PM, Bernard Roddy wrote: > > > >  > > Paul Tarragó showed a film shot in Super 8. It was also black and white. > > And I would add that it

[Frameworks] Experiments in Cinema

2020-06-13 Thread Bernard Roddy
Paul Tarragó showed a film shot in Super 8. It was also black and white. And I would add that it seemed to me to maximize the look of large grain as well. Various dimensions of the film sought to identify it with this past now receding so quickly, the format and grain and all. All of this was

[Frameworks] Experiments in Cinema

2020-06-12 Thread Bernard Roddy
I watched the first program of this year's film festival, Experiments in Cinema. Director Bryan Konefsky introduces the festival and after the works holds a Zoom discussion with three of the artists (Tarragó, Shi, and Duque). Here's the order of the works in "Experiment 1," the first program:

[Frameworks] Bergson and memory in narrative

2020-06-12 Thread Bernard Roddy
For anyone who has seen the movie, Memento, here's why I began this line of posting: By making reference to Memento, I meant to suggest a direction for experiment in film. I was reading from Matter and Memory and realized that Bergson makes a distinction that bears on the understanding of

Re: [Frameworks] Experimental films on photography

2020-06-10 Thread Bernard Roddy
students? > > Thanks! > > j > > > On Jun 10, 2020, at 4:49 PM, Bernard Roddy wrote: > > > > Dear Albert: > > > > This is a nice invitation to read (I quote it below). For me it leaves > too much to consider. I had two reactions.First, I have been i

[Frameworks] Experimental films on photography

2020-06-10 Thread Bernard Roddy
Dear Albert: This is a nice invitation to read (I quote it below). For me it leaves too much to consider. I had two reactions.First, I have been interested in conceptual art's use of photography. Under these terms we would have to impose a "post-photographic" restriction on what constitutes

Re: [Frameworks] copyright

2020-04-20 Thread Bernard Roddy
this even be addressed on the same terms? Now I must go. Otherwise, it never ends. Bernie On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 6:02 PM Bernard Roddy wrote: > By the way, the whole topic became more interesting as we took up the > collection of information and the ownership of data. Instead of

Re: [Frameworks] copyright

2020-04-20 Thread Bernard Roddy
20, 2020 at 5:28 PM Bernard Roddy wrote: > Artforum (October, 2013) has an article by Ross Lipman on the restoration > of Bruce Conner's film, Crossroads (1976). It's nice reading for aesthetic > reasons, because it's all about decisions regarding digital transfers that > get

[Frameworks] copyright

2020-04-20 Thread Bernard Roddy
Artforum (October, 2013) has an article by Ross Lipman on the restoration of Bruce Conner's film, Crossroads (1976). It's nice reading for aesthetic reasons, because it's all about decisions regarding digital transfers that get complicated by the artist's own reworking of the film, as well as

[Frameworks] What's a visual score?

2019-10-12 Thread Bernard Roddy
It's a nice idea, Alix. What's a visual score? One of the appeals of animation in film is the timing sheet. I think that's what it was called in standard drawn animation. How many frames does a single drawing get? But once the persuasivenss of figural movement is no longer the focus, a timing

Re: [Frameworks] suggestions for experimental road movies and/or experimental films about automobility

2019-07-23 Thread Bernard Roddy
Yeah, I think I saw that Joe Dimaggio video at the Nightingale. What does that have to do with road movies? I am reluctant to look more closely at the list. But I was also thinking that instead of the call for non-fiction or diary work, instead of titles that could be associated with documentary

Re: [Frameworks] 16mm and 8mm prints for sale

2019-06-08 Thread Bernard Roddy
Such a difference with the usual art market in prints! On Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at 7:57 AM Dominic Angerame wrote: > I have the following prints for sale. Contact me off list if interested. > These are also listed on eBay and I can give Frameworkers a discount from > the eBay price > > Dimitri

Re: [Frameworks] Documentaries-diaries-essays or video/film installations that play with truth or cinema theory

2019-06-08 Thread Bernard Roddy
Hi Dave: I was thinking about the way in which I tend to experience a personal work, which could be closer to identifying with the maker or with someone who wants to make such a work. And the sense of truth that would bear on such work might better be compared to the significance of an explosion,

Re: [Frameworks] Documentaries-diaries-essays or video/film installations that play with truth or cinema theory

2019-06-07 Thread Bernard Roddy
I remember considering Nichols' introduction to documentary and getting only as far as the way he conceived the material. I think he draws attention to the word "representation." Once you have framed everything under an analysis of that term, I think it's going to be hard to drop the camera or

[Frameworks] La Telenovela Errante

2019-06-02 Thread Bernard Roddy
The Wandering Soap Opera (2017), by the Chilean Raúl Ruiz, is screening at Facets in Chicago. Is this experimental filmmaking? Well, the image is in circulation, but the significance of what people say, how lines are delivered, under what circumstances, all suggest that despite the reliance on

[Frameworks] essay film . . only better

2019-05-25 Thread Bernard Roddy
I know, we're supposed to do this in facebook or something, but I was thinking about the essay and regretting my mention of Ravett, which isn't essay filmmaking: But the Hein totally is. Die Unheimlichen Frauen is an essay. It looks like she called it Kali Film for a while. Check this interview

[Frameworks] essay film

2019-05-24 Thread Bernard Roddy
s group, good times, bad times, shits and giggles alike, I do feel like I've been shooting with a stream of consciousness. Everything is a bunch of scrabbled eggs. As a lost, semi-frustrated, caffeinated 31 year old, I ask photographers, journalists, and poets alike. What would you have me do? M ---

[Frameworks] film and the artist

2019-05-22 Thread Bernard Roddy
And another thing: The contribution film makes to art is that someone who would not accept or recognize in themselves the identity of artist can, by some accident, by some urgency, be compelled to cope with an experience, with precisely this failure to fit the terms of an assessment, this falling

[Frameworks] essay film

2019-05-22 Thread Bernard Roddy
Friends and colleagues, the essay is not really a suitable expression, form, or metaphor for what can be done in the medium of the moving image. The whole idea belongs to an undergraduate class that has to make the case to someone who is in college. The closer the works look and feel like essays,

[Frameworks] academics and religion

2019-05-15 Thread Bernard Roddy
Hello, Shuhita: Although it is not clear what kind of monograph this would be, we can imagine it as an open question about "spirituality" in artists' practice. Two associations come to mind: A practice like Phil Solomon's is, I think, intensely spiritual . . to the point that one might become

[Frameworks] Yoko Ono at Poetry Foundation

2019-05-11 Thread Bernard Roddy
Yesterday I attended a screening of work by Yoko Ono at the Poetry Foundation. The introduction (and presumably the programming) was done by the editor of the magazine for poetry. The structure housing the foundation, I discovered, prides itself on its design, placing it in the precincts of

[Frameworks] thanks

2019-05-04 Thread Bernard Roddy
Thanks Seth and Francisco. Seth, I also appreciate your references to Le Corbusier online. Bernie ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks

[Frameworks] Channels

2019-05-03 Thread Bernard Roddy
Friends, I got out and saw some work. It feels like it's been a very long time. Mabe and Nixon programmed a show for the Block this evening, part of their Channels quarterly series, this time under the auspices of Northwestern's media curator, Metzger. Child's Surface Noise was like watching

[Frameworks] Fwd: Narratives of Copyright Play

2019-05-02 Thread Bernard Roddy
ot; Lipman, however, is particularly sensitive to Conner's conception of that work, and it is Conner himself who complicated the process of fixing the identity of this particular work. -- Forwarded message ----- From: Bernard Roddy Date: Thu, May 2, 2019 at 8:50 PM Subject: Narratives of

[Frameworks] Narratives of Copyright Play

2019-05-02 Thread Bernard Roddy
Hey everyone: I'm teaching a course in a computer science program in which I devote a week to intellectual property. The use of found footage became more interesting as a result of looking for cases with which to raise ethical debate and present new terms of analysis. In a slight departure from

Re: [Frameworks] Closed captions

2018-02-19 Thread Bernard Roddy
to do ("best practices"). On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 9:36 AM, Bernard Roddy <tactilecor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone: > > I'm just now reading Caryn Cline's thread. > > Suppose we were asked to provide closed captioning for a silent film. > > I have placed a mo

[Frameworks] Closed captions

2018-02-19 Thread Bernard Roddy
Hi everyone: I'm just now reading Caryn Cline's thread. Suppose we were asked to provide closed captioning for a silent film. I have placed a moratorium on showing anything in class. We will just read. (Of course it's not an art or film class.) My own work often derives from a classroom

[Frameworks] When Hammer hits the Nightingale

2018-02-02 Thread Bernard Roddy
This will be interesting. What kind of dialogue will be opened up here? The artist is scheduled to skype in for questions. The work is the arguably the most accomplished to screen at a venue now well past its first decade for truly independent urban culture. Or should I say film? Bernie

[Frameworks] Blackbox

2017-12-27 Thread Bernard Roddy
"If your film can be viewed online without a password it will unfortunately be ineligible. A Scottish premiere is a requirement for UK short films." That's Kim Knowles at the Edinburgh Film Festival. It reminds me of a colleague many years ago who said the faculty weren't interested in a

[Frameworks] expeimental or modernist

2017-12-20 Thread Bernard Roddy
Has anyone ever seen a film by Le Corbusier? ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks

[Frameworks] Schaus

2017-12-12 Thread Bernard Roddy
A note on St Francis Hears a Noise, screened at Nightingale in Chicago Sunday evening. One would want to reference Warhol. People are always talking, and it's pretty much improvised. Man with a Movie Camera becomes Man with a Boom Mic. What are people saying? That is where one might want to

[Frameworks] The Future Perfect

2017-11-25 Thread Bernard Roddy
Chicagoans, in particular . . If you also teach and have students who are at early stages of their mastery of English, check out The Future Perfect, at Facets until Nov. 30. The film would count as experimental or avant-garde if it were Godard, but . . all that talking to camera in a Godard is

Re: [Frameworks] Asking for a friend

2017-11-24 Thread Bernard Roddy
Well, I would say it has the appearance of a media fiasco. By the way, I got the unemployment benefits I was being denied! Minimum enrollment for adjuncts went up, classes were cancelled, and I received adjunct offers at two different locations. I decided not to take the better paying

[Frameworks] A Question of Film Criticism

2017-11-23 Thread Bernard Roddy
Greetings and happy holidays, film artists. I was wondering whether there are thoughts here on where to go to read strong writing about art of the kind you might like to make (or see), or that you in fact see. For a moment there I had some doubts about the nature of programming, the kind of

Re: [Frameworks] experimental/feminist films with a woman's voice-over narration?

2017-11-10 Thread Bernard Roddy
What about a voice that is so distorted one cannot say what gender it is. A voice that "disturbs" the difference. I have godforsaken pages on the first utterances in Luther Price's *Clown*. They are incoherent. And is this a man speaking, or what? Does the question make sense? Ok, I'm going.

Re: [Frameworks] experimental/feminist films with a woman's voice-over narration?

2017-11-10 Thread Bernard Roddy
I was just thinking,why should it matter? Chuck offers sociological considerations, a history. Let's have voices hitherto unheard or interrupted. But that's not it for me. I think, when it's an authoritative voice, it really hardly matters. The lecture could as well have been male. On the

[Frameworks] Laibach on screen

2017-11-08 Thread Bernard Roddy
Liberation Day Laibach serves provocateur "director"'s stunt. If we were wondering how compromise looks . . ahem, and who could not be wondering that today? . . this film, which is screening at Facets until Nov. 11, would be my vote for "production values" entry into the "experimental" film

[Frameworks] hearing voices, women in voiceover, and otherwise

2017-11-02 Thread Bernard Roddy
I hear a Renwick and a Duke/Battersby now. And I want to say, the Marker isn't the woman speaking. Could it be? She reads it. But more importantly, where do we get these things? I want to recognize the sources of a book collection (they are books, as dear and durable): Peripheral Produce,

[Frameworks] review

2017-10-14 Thread Bernard Roddy
How odd that LightPress grants are for scans. And after all that stuff about supporting independent filmmakers. And why doesn't Arsenal just translate the German of the Ute Aurand film, Blanca García? It's much more interesting than what the English text makes the work out to be about. By the

[Frameworks] Request for titles: death of the father - works on a parent

2017-10-06 Thread Bernard Roddy
Dearest frameworkers: My father passed away a couple weeks ago, and during the service last week a video of him was shown. It had been shot within the last year, and it reminded me of a work I made on him 12 years ago: Death of a Maniac I don't even list as among my works in film or video (it

[Frameworks] Joe Gibbons

2017-09-30 Thread Bernard Roddy
Thank you, Dave, for the Joe Gibbons coverage. Gibbons can still divide an audience, it seems to me. We are so far from the Yes Men nowadays that Harry Smith paper airplanes is likely to make the register sing before we get around to playing in tune with the kneeling Trumps.

[Frameworks] Cinema v Gallery: Robert Frank in Chicago

2017-05-26 Thread Bernard Roddy
Yesterday I passed through a small gallery filled with Robert Frank pictures. Lined up along a 12 or 15 ft wall were projections about 11 x 17 in. of 6 or 7 films. This is gallery exhibition: I saw all Franks films in under a minute. By contrast, when the Music Box Theater programmed Frank's

Re: [Frameworks] looking for films, works of expanded cinema, web-based projects, and installations

2017-05-24 Thread Bernard Roddy
de Sica's *Umberto D*. Well, you raised the question of time. It wasn't motion or clock time, as if you would be interested in seeing second hands. Or maybe time can only be appreciated when you are, well, doomed. It's almost over for you. On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 8:19 PM, Jorge Lorenzo Flores

[Frameworks] Artforum

2017-04-20 Thread Bernard Roddy
Greetings, everyone. What does it mean when one's name is listed in the header of a discussion thread. I'm spooked. And for those of you, if there are any, who are also searching for the relationship between art and film (for those who refuse to give up!), or perhaps those who are forever

[Frameworks] Experimental Animation Film Scripts

2017-04-02 Thread Bernard Roddy
Hi Mark: Doesn't this query raise the question of what experimental is? Looking at this invite, I could only bring to mind the task of creating what is called an exposure sheet. And this I found to be a very interesting dimension of shooting animation that I wanted to say is "experimental."

[Frameworks] Barrie, Tuohy, Martin, Trinks

2017-03-17 Thread Bernard Roddy
(Just out of the shower . . , no classes to prepare for, . .) It’s interesting how networking becomes gendered. The gallery scene, which is much more interpersonal, would be domintated by women if they weren’t always interested in others. The email list requires a moderator who has an agenda

[Frameworks] Joan

2017-03-15 Thread Bernard Roddy
Joan Hawkins. I mistook that for Joan Brederman, which got me to thinking. Professor Hawkins, forgive me for continuing, and for mistaking your name for that of someone else. Venessa Renwick has been showing work that is long-take footage of wild animals, in particular shots of prey in flight.

Re: [Frameworks] Hutton

2016-12-03 Thread Bernard Roddy
an inherent given of personality, biology, or > whatever. Taste is a social construction, > > 3. Educating potential viewers so they can have such art experiences is (at > least in part) an act of love, a social act that makes this a better world. > > Chuck Kleinhans > > >

Re: [Frameworks] Hutton

2016-12-03 Thread Bernard Roddy
motion > are unique in cinema. Good art makes places for us to go. Peter's films > took you to a place the other night. It took the couple in front of you > there too. You've never been there before. Come back again. > > John Knecht > > On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 2:03 PM, Bernar

[Frameworks] Hutton

2016-12-03 Thread Bernard Roddy
Frameworkers! I don't know who you are, but . . . It's like the letters my father writes that I never answer. They just keep coming, even as I throw them directly in the trash. What, then, is it to write someone, anyway? But Peter Hutton work screened at Nightingale. And I wonder, well:

[Frameworks] Film-letters by experimental filmmakers

2016-11-22 Thread Bernard Roddy
Reviewing: Anna Briggs link went nowhere (404). Kiarostami is supposed to have a "filmed correspondence." What would that mean? Escobar suggests "Jose Luis Guerin and Jonas Mekas." What about them? Sebastian wants recognition for working with Kiarostami. Contributing: I suggest a question.

Re: [Frameworks] new website for irish experimental film!

2016-10-22 Thread Bernard Roddy
I'm pasting some content provided by the site, MExIndex below. The post to Frameworks reminded me of a book I have had in mind to buy, Performance Art in Ireland: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/P/bo20282727.html The question I opened the post with was, roughly, I wonder

[Frameworks] Josh and Simon, Chicago

2016-09-30 Thread Bernard Roddy
I attended this screening event at the Nightingale, Chicago, last night: http://expcinema.org/site/en/events/nightingale-cinema-josh-lewis-simon-liu Josh said something in the course of the Q & A that I thought I would post. For me the duration and variability of the work made it tedius,

[Frameworks] highlights

2016-09-18 Thread Bernard Roddy
*¡O No Coronado!* is mentioned in Unthinking *Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media*, by Ella Shoat and Robert Stam. Ten years ago I was watching a lot of this kind of thing, what you could look to Defibrillator in Chicago for in terms of live performance. But I wanted to post some

[Frameworks] (no subject)

2016-08-30 Thread Bernard Roddy
I always doubted the relevance of "documentary." Bernie ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks

[Frameworks] the book to come

2016-08-14 Thread Bernard Roddy
Hi Esperanza: *The Gas Works* looks like performance art, "European style". *Things Said Once* looks like a book . . or that's the way I want to read it. But your site itself is the form of our contact with a book-style film sensibility. It's the form of an artist making work, one who has the

Re: [Frameworks] Barcelona Film Show

2016-03-02 Thread Bernard Roddy
I didn't even need to open this. On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Mark Street wrote: > Sisters and Brothers, > > If you find yourself in Barcelona March 5, below is a link announcing a > show I'm doing at the amazing Crater Lab. Spread the word if you are so > inclined. >

Re: [Frameworks] Geiser a Performance Artist

2016-03-02 Thread Bernard Roddy
I think The Harrowing was by Jane Hooker and the other person, not Jake. On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Francisco Torres wrote: > The Donald Trump (TM) act is pure performance art circa 1980 Guy > could had played at The Kitchen to packed audiences. > > 2016-03-02

[Frameworks] Geiser a Performance Artist

2016-03-02 Thread Bernard Roddy
If Janie Geiser is a performance artist, we need a new term. It's all over for performance art. Bernie ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks

Re: [Frameworks] films for the anthropocene

2016-01-29 Thread Bernard Roddy
d be happy to hear of a school of art that has > the budget to rent a 16mm and a 35mm projector for an audience of 12 > students. So the choice is to share knowledge with the means available > to you, or to keep it to yourself. > Marco > > On 28 January 2016 at 22:02, Bernard Roddy &

Re: [Frameworks] films for the anthropocene

2016-01-28 Thread Bernard Roddy
I > sent you is a copy paste of one of my work documents. The films were > organized in groups according to thematic lines and some conceptual > affinities amongst them, and properly introduced. > > > On 28 January 2016 at 21:09, Bernard Roddy <tactilecor...@gmail.com> > w

Re: [Frameworks] films for the anthropocene

2016-01-28 Thread Bernard Roddy
Hi Marco: I wasn't watchng when you posted the request, but I have to wonder how these works were shown, given that everything has been forced into lower case titles. On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Marco Poloni wrote: > Hello all, > I just finished screening a number of

Re: [Frameworks] Texts / Works Bridging Early Cinema, Early Video, Early ___

2016-01-14 Thread Bernard Roddy
I think this work by Tony mentioned by Fred is reproduced as a diagram/instruction in: W + B Hein : Dokumente 1967-1985, Fotos, Briefe, Texte. On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:47 AM, Cinema Project wrote: > Jesse! > > In regards to "well-deployed spoilers," I might look into

Re: [Frameworks] Millennium Film Workshop

2015-10-03 Thread Bernard Roddy
Hi Amanda! Good luck in Rochester tonight! (I remember when you posted asking for films that included car crashes.) Bernie On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Amanda Christie < ama...@amandadawnchristie.ca> wrote: > I for one appreciated the poetic touch... > > > I believe in the flowers that

[Frameworks] Rochester film

2015-07-20 Thread Bernard Roddy
Hi Suyash: It sounds like you are embarking on a video documentary. As I read over your request, I am reminded of my years in Rochester (until around 1999). But what I remember is the Visual Studies Workshop and screenings at the Dryden Theater of the George Eastman House. I think this raises

[Frameworks] things

2015-05-25 Thread Bernard Roddy
Chris, I didn't intend a connection between the objection to recognition for the film and the observation about the presence of women at festivals. But do you remember Cari Machet? So often the exchanges on this list raise interesting questions that are quite incidental to anything anyone might

[Frameworks] things

2015-05-25 Thread Bernard Roddy
I was, however, very happy with that whole period of frameworks, the time when there was that flaming. It was remarkable simply because the writers were unfamiliar. But I might be forgiven if I take Jesse McLean to draw this thought out (without any intention to ignore the obituary). If you saw

[Frameworks] things

2015-05-23 Thread Bernard Roddy
I was at the Chicago Underground Film Festival, where I saw, among other work,Things, by Ben Rivers. It truck me as several films that should have been cut and submitted individually. I just noticed that Ann Arbor gave it an award. This is not a comment on the jurors, of course (although we

[Frameworks] 3 sound works

2015-03-30 Thread Bernard Roddy
Did I mention the course in which I included a section on sound? Three works I played: Tony Conrad with Faust, Outside the Dream Syndicate Alvin Lucier, Music for Solo Performer Yasunao Tone, Musica Iconologos I dare anyone on this list to play Tone for more than 5 minutes! Bernie

Re: [Frameworks] VSW - to your attention!

2015-03-30 Thread Bernard Roddy
Squeaky Wheel in Buffalo. On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Amanda Christie ama...@amandadawnchristie.ca wrote: Thanks for sharing Walter! I also have a question on a similar subject for the group. I'm going to be doing a radio-art residency in upstate new york next fall (late October),

Re: [Frameworks] 2. Re: What are the 3 Essential Films that you would show Artists on their first foray into the Moving Image Realm ?

2015-03-30 Thread Bernard Roddy
Go Sasha! On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Gene Youngblood ato...@comcast.net wrote: The original question is so absurd that I almost didn’t respond, but i did, only to make the point that, within such a restricted frame, you don’t start with specific films, you start with possibilities:

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 Bernard Roddy
) - in that order. Peter (Perth) On 28/03/2015 9:47 am, Bernard Roddy rodd...@yahoo.com wrote: I taught an introductory course in which I framed things under the terms underground, avant-garde, studio-art video, video as technology, documentary, and a concluding section called film culture

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 Bernard Roddy
You can get a canon of women, no problem. I would list early Su Friedrich. But I wouldn't want to be raised as a potential name for a list because of my gender. As it happened, in the class I taught I found myself watching Norman McLaren next to Joanna Quinn's Girls' Night Out. The comparison

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