Re: [Frameworks] documentary conscience

2020-08-28 Thread David Baker
In An Anagram of Ideas, On Art, Form And Film , Maya Deren contrasts "wholes which are the sum total of parts” with "an 'emergent whole’… in which the parts are so dynamically related as to produce

Re: [Frameworks] Deleuze and Husserl

2020-08-26 Thread David Baker
/maya-deren-die-haitian-rushes/ > <https://johannjacobs.com/de/formate/maya-deren-die-haitian-rushes/> > > best > > Kerstin Schroedinger > schroedinger.blackblogs.org <http://schroedinger.blackblogs.org/> > +49 179 473 2258 > > > > > >

Re: [Frameworks] Deleuze and Husserl

2020-08-25 Thread David Baker
Chrissie, If you would allow the discussion to expand to Black Lives Matter a film comes to mind I have only seen in an excerpt at Anthology on Jan. 26, 2010  as part of a program presented by Danspace Project, Maya Deren’s Unedited

[Frameworks] Bruce Baillie 10-20-73

2020-04-14 Thread David Baker
Bruce Baillie at Millennium Film Workshop 10-20-73 Audio only ( recorded by Bob Parent ) https://vimeo.com/406686588 With love and respect!___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com

Re: [Frameworks] Jonas Mekas vs. Yalkut, Vogel, Guttenplan, Cooper and Bienstock

2019-07-30 Thread David Baker
meWorks <mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com>> On Behalf Of David Baker > Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2019 11:22 AM > To: Experimental Film Discussion List <mailto:Frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com>> > Subject: [Frameworks] Jonas Mekas vs. Yalkut, Vogel, Gutte

[Frameworks] Jonas Mekas vs. Yalkut, Vogel, Guttenplan, Cooper and Bienstock

2019-07-30 Thread David Baker
As an unsolicited contribution to the ongoing exhibition at Microscope Gallery, “Scrapbook (or, Why Can’t We Live Together)” here is a three part historic radio broadcast circa 1972-73 uploaded to Vimeo which I would like to share with fellow Frameworkers who might find it of interest. Part 1 is

Re: [Frameworks] 7360 Sukiyaki

2018-02-26 Thread David Baker
Dr. Walley, I can not help with regard to the question, where did 7360 Sukiyaki premier? However I have uploaded to Vimeo an audio recording of Tony's projection / performance at Millennium Film Workshop on 6-15-74 which may be of interest to you, your research associate or others on this list.

[Frameworks] Stoneman Douglas

2018-02-22 Thread David Baker
Love and respect to the students and teachers of Stoneman Douglas High School! "I was dreaming in my dreaming Of an aspect bright and fair And my sleeping, it was broken But my dream, it lingered near In the form of shining valleys Where the pure air recognized And my senses newly opened I

Re: [Frameworks] Noteworthy Publications This Year?

2016-01-05 Thread David Baker
ck Kleinhans <chuck...@northwestern.edu> Date: Wed, December 30, 2015 12:41 pm To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com> On Dec 29, 2015, at 6:15 PM, David Baker <dbak...@hvc.rr.com> wrote: Scott MacDonald's revelatory, BINGHAMTON BABYLON: V

Re: [Frameworks] Noteworthy Publications This Year?

2015-12-29 Thread David Baker
Scott MacDonald's revelatory, BINGHAMTON BABYLON: VOICES FROM THE CINEMA DEPARTMENT 1967-1977 PAPER AIRPLANES: The Collections of Harry Smith Catalogue Raisonne Vol I STRING FIGURES: The Collections of Harry Smith Catalogue Raisonne , Vol. II Editors- John Klacsmann Andrew

Re: [Frameworks] All about the Bolex

2015-12-29 Thread David Baker
I remember the great photographer and filmmaker Danny Lyon saying he shared a film camera with Robert Frank. If it was a Bolex they held in common, then Lyon as raconteur ( as well as in oeuvre) would be one of the few who might rival Robert Frank. On Dec 29, 2015, at 7:05 AM,

Re: [Frameworks] Millennium Film Workshop

2015-10-02 Thread David Baker
ou no good will. Elizabeth McMahon On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 7:26 PM, David Baker <dbak...@hvc.rr.com> wrote: Jay, Rare flowers that germinated in the dark in that moldy old place will not come again. We will never be as free to play with all the potentialities of projected light as we were t

Re: [Frameworks] Millennium Film Workshop

2015-10-02 Thread David Baker
Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 10:02 PM, David Baker <dbak...@hvc.rr.com> wrote: Jay, Because I, along with Margot Niederland and Howard helped Lili White to organize and move the vast archives to a safe warehouse I know firsthand how perilous that moment was. There was a porousness and scarine

Re: [Frameworks] Millennium Film Workshop

2015-10-02 Thread David Baker
, David Baker wrote: Your the boss Elizabeth. No poetry intended just the flawed way I write. Thanks for you help, lesson learned. One thing though, please be certain I need no good will from you nor was I trying to garner any from anyone else. I just was trying to find a form that fit. You win some

Re: [Frameworks] Millennium Film Workshop

2015-10-01 Thread David Baker
our last day'' it seems that day is long past for the MFW. Maybe it was the day they closed shop at 4th street. Only the journal will remain as testimony of its greatness. And our memories. 2015-09-30 12:26 GMT-04:00 David Baker <dbak...@hvc.rr.com>: Dear Sasha, For all t

Re: [Frameworks] Millennium Film Workshop

2015-09-30 Thread David Baker
rom last year's 89 to the current 40 active members (as I count them on this recent list, http://millenniumfilm.org/memberlist/ ) I would very much appreciate a response from you here in this forum. Herein I also appreciate Jonathan Walley's caring constructive words as they pertain to this mat

[Frameworks] Howard Guttenplan (April 6th, 1934 - February 23rd, 2015)

2015-03-09 Thread David Baker
Howard Guttenplan and the Millennium Film Workshop will be forever inextricably linked. With absolute devotion until the very end, Howard dedicated his energy and expertise to keeping the Millennium going. With inexplicable grace he withstood the recent indignities he was made to suffer.

[Frameworks] Piero Heliczer

2014-02-24 Thread David Baker
In the banquet years of the early sixties deep on the Lower East Side of New York City a legendary concrescence of genius occurred in the little circle consisting of neighbors, friends and collaborators Jack Smith, Tony Conrad, Angus Maclise and Piero Heliczer. Like a fire in a flowerpot,

Re: [Frameworks] artist portraits

2014-02-08 Thread David Baker
Mental telepathy Andy. I was just thinking of that seminal portrait with the Morton Feldman soundtrack. Others that have been meaningful to me: Bruce Conner's THE WHITE ROSE (in which Jay DeFeo makes a painting so big and consequential that an exterior wall has to be knocked down in order

Re: [Frameworks] artist portraits

2014-02-08 Thread David Baker
that Robert Smithson was every bit Richard Serra's equal. With his geologic unorthodoxies being a necessary counterpart to Serra's steely rigor. What was lost with Smithson's death can never be calculated, only dreamed about forever after. On Feb 8, 2014, at 10:39 AM, David Baker wrote: Mental

[Frameworks] To A Locomotive In Winter

2014-02-05 Thread David Baker
/8138.html This will be the program: Danses de Travers, for piano – Eric Satie What Was Was, for video and electronics – David Baker (US), Florian Wittenburg (GER) In a landscape, for piano – John Cage Currents, for video and electronics – Jon Forshee (US), Russell Richardson (US) Last pieces

Re: [Frameworks] Kenneth Anger?

2014-02-04 Thread David Baker
Well While I can not offer direct contact information for Kenneth Anger I can relate an instance of uncanniness vis a vis Mr. Anger. At a Cine Equipment Sale on January 28, 2012, held to expunge the old 4th Street basement Millennium Film Workshop of some of its lesser assets along with

Re: [Frameworks] Films/Videos looking at concepts of work

2014-01-08 Thread David Baker
Getting work: nestled deep in Ken Jacob's STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH is another film by James Otis - ON YOUR OWN (1981) a cut-up found film shot in an employment agency (circa the 1960s?) with editing structured around the repeated words job jobs and training . Getting to work: Mark Ostrowski's

Re: [Frameworks] Found Soundtrack Films

2013-11-25 Thread David Baker
I will cite Ken's anamorphic astonishment KRYPTON IS DOOMED (2005) http://www.eai.org/title.htm?id=10759 also see Mary Helena Clark's most amazing AND THE SUN FLOWERS http://vimeo.com/42048057 (Here found sound starts at 2:04 approximately.) DB On Nov 25, 2013, at 9:27 PM, William Wees,

Re: [Frameworks] sand animation examples?

2013-11-18 Thread David Baker
Not straight - ahead per se, but seminal granular vision nonetheless... HISTORY - Ernie Gehr (1970) AXIOMATIC GRANULARITY - Paul Sharits (1973) ALAYA - Nathaniel Dorsky (1976-1987) -DB On Nov 18, 2013, at 5:14 PM, Pierce, Greg wrote: Hi, Stephanie. This is the one I remember seeing on PBS

Re: [Frameworks] avant-garde, seminal writing on American a/g film after 76

2013-11-08 Thread David Baker
Youngblood, like Zeuss you are throwing lightning bolts here! At the top of my list then, the forthcoming SECESSION FROM BROADCAST: GENE YOUNGBLOOD AND THE COMMUNICATIONS REVOLUTION and/or VIRTUAL SPACE: THE CHALLENGE TO CREATE ON THE SAME SCALE AS WE CAN DESTROY ( Electrified by your thoughts

[Frameworks] Yalkut's AQUARIAN RUSHES

2013-11-06 Thread David Baker
At the Filmmaker's Coop a week ago the fearless indefatigable M.M. Serra along with perspicacious resident scholar Greg Zinman presented (for a tiny group of cognoscenti) the astounding part 2 of a Jud Yalkut Memorial Screening. Like a lightning bolt out of the darkness they projected a

Re: [Frameworks] Yalkut's AQUARIAN RUSHES

2013-11-06 Thread David Baker
Andy, My pleasure. I am thankful as well for this important place to testify to the sights and sounds that make me shake. DB On Nov 6, 2013, at 10:09 AM, Andy Ditzler wrote: David, thank you for this. Andy Ditzler On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 8:45 AM, David Baker dbak...@hvc.rr.com wrote

[Frameworks] Richard Aidala projectionist extraordinaire

2013-08-27 Thread David Baker
Just a word here to say good bye to an old, very loved, friend Richard Aidala chief projectionist at the American Museum Of The Moving Image. He was a great raconteur and one of the very greatest projectionists in New York City or anywhere else. If there was ever a place for a projectionist

Re: [Frameworks] Jud Yalkut RIP

2013-07-29 Thread David Baker
Wouldn't that be something if the powers that be at the Coop soon let loose a Yalkut marathon of his ecstatic oeuvre?! Yes we are all part of a continuum. We must be nourished by those who have gone before in order to set forth new seeds of jouissance built precisely on our predecessors backs.

Re: [Frameworks] Jud Yalkut RIP

2013-07-26 Thread David Baker
I would go a little further... like the Beatles played backwards or Yoko Ono's Grapefruit Jud Yalkut's work made total sense and meant a whole lot to me as an artist. To say that he was consort to Yayoi Kusama and Nam June Paik speaks as loudly as anything to the level he elaborated. Yalkut

Re: [Frameworks] A

2013-07-23 Thread David Baker
Bait On Jul 23, 2013, at 7:34 PM, Will Erokan wrote: 8 On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Sasha Janerus sasha.jane...@gmail.com wrote: B On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Joshua Gibson josh...@duke.edu wrote: Sent from my iPhone ___

Re: [Frameworks] ELEPHANTS AND FILM

2013-03-19 Thread David Baker
phone in China? I'd give money for that. - Sandy Maliga On Mar 18, 2013, at 11:02 AM, David Baker dbak...@hvc.rr.com wrote: Esteemed cohorts everyone, What I really love besides Experimental Film are Elephants. I LOVE all Elephants but especially those that live free in the wild. I

[Frameworks] The Elephant held vigil in Tennessee

2013-03-18 Thread David Baker
I expect most everybody has seen this. Still I want to share this story, of an elephant and her unlikely best friend. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdzassDm7eM this in the snow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2NTOWmJ0gw and a sad end:

Re: [Frameworks] drugged

2013-02-09 Thread David Baker
Thinking about the trope of the trip in the manner lets say Amos Vogel's Cinema 16 might hypothetically have considered this theme: I would suggest Tex Avery's King Size Canary (1947) in which an elixir called Jumbo-Gro allows for a mouse, a cat and a canary to move past each other in

Re: [Frameworks] Films composed to music

2013-01-09 Thread David Baker
A story told by poet Allen Ginsberg about his first meeting with Harry Smith immediately comes to mind: He (Jordan Belson) told me enough about him so that when I was in New York later in 1959 I went to the Five Spot to listen to Thelonious Monk night after night. The Five Spot was then on

Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture

2012-12-17 Thread David Baker
There is an auto-inquisition of sorts in John Carpenter's original 1976 Assault On Precinct 13 with a murderous episode at an ice cream truck as catalyst. Terrific moments of terror are triggered when cars are simply pushed from behind across a deserted parking lot. Otherwise there is Lemmy

Re: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture

2012-12-14 Thread David Baker
Powerful automobile related imaginings occurred in the early sixties beginning with Disney's flying car flubber apotheosis in The Absent Minded Professor (1961) followed by the anthropomorphic VW Herbie films beginning in 1963 including The Love Bug (1968). If you will allow television

Re: [Frameworks] Flicker Films

2012-04-24 Thread David Baker
Considering Paul Sharits whole oeuvre (with respect to Fred) In particular: N:O:T:H:I:N:G (1968) Ray Gun Virus (1966) Fluxfilm 27 / Dots 1 2 (1965) Unrolling Event (1965) Wrist Trick (1965) Epileptic Seizure Comparison (1976) -DB On Apr 24, 2012, at 2:18 PM, Fred Camper wrote: Oh, and

Re: [Frameworks] Robert Nelson

2012-01-11 Thread David Baker
all that the counter culture should have been and then some. Mark, your shining words properly testify. Please bring his work to us on the god forsaken East Coast so that we may know and verily celebrate his vision. I am with the highest regard for he and you, David Baker On Jan 10, 2012, at 8

Re: [Frameworks] Robert Nelson

2012-01-11 Thread David Baker
typo gremlin in transmission: please substitute the plural, artists (not artist), the artists who worked for Mad Magazine. gracias On Jan 11, 2012, at 12:11 PM, David Baker wrote: Robert Nelson's work is an abiding source of inspiration that never quits! I was sixteen; OH DEM WATERMELONS