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 time and commitment to maintain a website that disseminates and chronicles it. In contrast to what you write, the site would be the form in which the book-making filmmaker would become a publisher, a self-styled, well-read, but unemployed publisher.
(I'm looking through the recent frameworks archive. You shared in July that you had been invited to present on the book and cinema. There's a book called *Cinema by Other Means* that comes to mind, not to recommend it, but to think about your query. It's published by Oxford. Need I say more? I mean, doesn't that tell you enough to move on?) I looked briefly at some of your writing online, via your site. It looks like what I would call journalism. I don't mean to dismiss it. But you make work as well. How is this possible? Writing on the history, making new work, these seem like completely different modes. Last night I saw another late Akerman. Chicago Filmmakers screened it. It was a listening experience. Or maybe a visual experience that can only be accessed by listening. And wouldn't this be a writer's work? Despite the long takes? It actually reminded me of Kurt Johannsen, in conversation after a performance in Essen, German. He had used a stack of copy paper, and he said he liked the idea of having a stack of copy paper in the space that is never used at any time during the performance. That's an aesthetic of Norway. Akerman reminded me of that, as if she had become so refined that it was going to be an experience just withstanding how little she would give us. Anyway, although your writing isn't of any interest, the thinking you might be doing in relation to the art work is. Bernie - - - - - - - - - Dear Frameworkers, I´ve been invited to contribute to *The Book to Come*, a series of talks,reading sessions, interventions, etc., focusing on 5 of the books of Belgian poet Marcel Broodthaers. My intervention will be about the relationship between the book and the cinema, and by extension, the text and the image, the text as performance, the act of reading/writing as projection, etc. It´s a very interesting subject that I have approached directly in my work. There is a marvelous piece of writing by Jean-Christophe Royoux on Broodthaers cinematographic model in which the mentioned subject is approached, but I was wondering if you know of any texts that deal with this theme: the book and the cinema, possible relations, translations, communications between these two constructions. The writings I would expect to find dont have to approach the work of Broodthaers, of course. Cheers and best wishes, Esperanza Collado - - - - - - - - - - - - - -www.esperanzacollado.org
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