Re: [Frameworks] Articles/essays on the loop in film

2013-01-17 Thread MIllennium Film Journal
I suppose you already know about the excellent recent article on the film/video loop by Ron Green in Millennium Film Journal No 55 (Spring 2012). http://www.mfj-online.org/issues/mfj-no-55-spring-2012/ Grahame Weinbren Senior Editor Millennium Film Journal http://mfj-online.org On Jan 16,

Re: [Frameworks] Articles/essays on the loop in film

2013-01-16 Thread Jen Proctor
Thanks to all of you who responded on- and off-list to my query. I look forward to following up on all these great leads! Much appreciated, Jen On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Damon damonc...@gmail.com wrote: Jen, It has been ages since I've seen a copy, but there was an exhibition

Re: [Frameworks] Articles/essays on the loop in film

2013-01-13 Thread John Knecht
Jen, Send me your mailing address and I will send you something that Keith Sanborn wrote about loops. John On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Jen Proctor proctor.jenni...@gmail.comwrote: Hi everyone, Can anyone point me to any good writing on the notion of the loop in cinema (that is, the

Re: [Frameworks] Articles/essays on the loop in film

2013-01-13 Thread Colinet André
Gustav Deutsch (Austrian exp. filmmaker) has interesting ideas on “wiederholung”. Maybe you should contact the DVD- label “INDEX” and Sixpackfilm. Best. Colinet André From: Jen Proctor Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 11:01 PM To: Experimental Film Discussion List Subject: [Frameworks]

Re: [Frameworks] Articles/essays on the loop in film

2013-01-13 Thread Damon
Jen, It has been ages since I've seen a copy, but there was an exhibition catalog about the loop in artist's films in 2001-2002. It had many short essays, some focused upon the exhibited artists, and others on the loop as a concept, but none really longer than 5 pages (however the

Re: [Frameworks] Articles/essays on the loop in film

2013-01-12 Thread Beebe, Roger
Actually, my colleague Maureen Turim has a short essay on Martin Arnold's pièce touchée. I don't remember it being couched in terms of a theory of the loop, but if you're interested in taking a look, send me an email off list, and I'm sure I could get her to send you an electronic copy. (The

Re: [Frameworks] Articles/essays on the loop in film

2013-01-12 Thread Chuck Kleinhans
I don't have the reference, but I recently stumbled on a discussion of the online use of gifs in terms of the pleasure of snippets and repetition. This inquiry could probably be extended to the fairly extensive theoretical work on musical repetition, nursery rhymes, etc. and child pleasure and

Re: [Frameworks] Articles/essays on the loop in film

2013-01-12 Thread Jonathan Walley
Hello Jen, Ron Green (who often goes by J. Ronald Green when publishing) is working on a book about film and video loops in experimental film and gallery art. He had a piece called The Re-emergence of the Film/Video Loop in Millennium Film Journal, issue #55. Best, Jonathan p.s. really enjoyed

Re: [Frameworks] Articles/essays on the loop in film

2013-01-12 Thread Tom Whiteside
Along this line - other than the kinetoscope loops are their kin from the very earliest days (when they were loops because that's what the technology allowed), do most people agree that the washerwoman climbing the stairs in Ballet Mecanique was the first loop? Always been curious about that.

Re: [Frameworks] Articles/essays on the loop in film

2013-01-12 Thread Tim Halloran
http://gifmovie.tumblr.com/ Tim Sent from my iPhone On Jan 12, 2013, at 3:27 PM, Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu wrote: I don't have the reference, but I recently stumbled on a discussion of the online use of gifs in terms of the pleasure of snippets and repetition. This