Re: [Frameworks] 8mm/16mm looping
hey matthew check out http://www.looper8.ch have fun, paul On 20.01.2013 07:34, matthew brown wrote: Hi, I am trying to set-up a basic loop on a super-8 projector and also a 16mm projector, the film would be pretty short, no more than 10ft. anyone with experience with looping have suggestions/readings/instructions??? thanks so much, matthew brown ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] FW: Seeking suggestions - Polaroids in film or video
Hi All, Mimi Brody at Northwestern University¹s Block Cinema is looking for films/videos that use Polaroids (see below) - especially experimental works. Contact her directly (m-br...@northwestern.edu) or, if you reply here, I¹ll forward to her. Thx. Patrick Friel -- Forwarded Message From: mimibrody m-br...@northwestern.edu Reply-To: filmprogrammers filmprogramm...@yahoogroups.com Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:01:33 - To: filmprogrammers filmprogramm...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [filmprogrammers] Seeking suggestions - Polaroids in film or video Hi everyone, I'm looking for films and videos that incorporate Polaroid film in some way. I know there are a few feature films that use Polaroids (for instance, Alice in the Cities and Memento) and a recent documentary (Time Zero). I'm mostly interested in experimental works, but am curious to hear about additional features as well. Thanks! Mimi Brody Block Cinema -- End of Forwarded Message ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Singularity and intentional incoherence
Hi Ittai -- My memory is hazy, but I remember there's a Jane Campion film -- I think it might be The Piano, but possibly an earlier film than that -- where a girl is telling a story and it suddenly cuts to a short hand-drawn animation sequence. It's the only moment in the film that's like that (the rest of the movie is live-action) and it's never really explained why we're seeing it like this, though it does relate to the story the girl is telling. (If I'm remembering correctly...it's possible I'm just imagining remembering it.but I'm sure others on fw would know for sure.) Carl On 1/23/2013 6:04 PM, Ittai Rosenbaum wrote: Tom, Bryan, Roger Thank you so much! The examples - of which I knew only one: Blazing Saddles - sound very interesting and relevant. I will check them all out and share any further information. Ittai On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Beebe, Roger roge...@ufl.edu mailto:roge...@ufl.edu wrote: Just to piggyback on/unpack Tom's mention of Hapax Legomena--it's actually 7 films (that can be considered as one larger unit). The title refers to words that only appear once in the written record, in an author's work, etc. (In ancient texts, this makes them especially difficult to decipher, as you might imagine.) So the title itself refers to singularity--you'll have to take a look at the films, three of which are on the Frampton Criterion set, to see if the films seem to speak to/embody that concept. ... Roger On Jan 23, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Tom Whiteside wrote: This is interesting – thanks for asking a fresh question. As a “film person” who started out in music decades ago, I have always envied and admired the breadth and depth of musicology. Film studies is such a young field – we are centuries behind. Filmmaker Hollis Frampton made a film titled “Hapax Legomena” which immediately comes to mind. And although Mel Brooks doesn’t make this list too often, he’s going to hit it twice right away. A good example of your singular event would be in his Western film “Blazing Saddles,” the cowboys are galloping across the plains and the movie music is playing on the soundtrack, sounds like Count Basie and His Orchestra – well my goodness, it IS Count Basie and His Orchestra and the cowboys just rode right past them, out there on the plains. It’s a simple thing, played for laughs – the previously unseen soundtrack orchestra revealed – but it is quite a singular moment. And for many people it probably changed, at least a little bit, the way they think about “movie music.” There is the moment in Jem Cohen’s “Lost Book Found” when the conventional “unseen narrator” voice slowly fades out and is replaced by a different, unexpected voice, delivering a more cryptic message. It is a pivotal moment in that film. Similarly, in Raul Ruiz’s “Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting” a guy is sitting in a chair talking in rather flat tones, it becomes increasingly boring, he slows down…. and he falls asleep. On camera, the narration just goes to sleep. I only saw that film once and am probably not remembering this correctly, but I do remember the singularity of my experience sitting there, listening to this guy, trying to make sense of it, getting a bit bored, then watching him nod off. That woke me up! Tom Durham Cinematheque *From:*frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com[mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com]*On Behalf Of*Ittai Rosenbaum *Sent:*Wednesday, January 23, 2013 2:37 AM *To:*frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com mailto:frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com *Subject:*[Frameworks] Singularity and intentional incoherence Hi My name is Ittai Rosenbaum, I am a doctoral student at the music composition department at UCSC and in the process of defining my Qualification Exams topics. I wondered if anyone could perhaps have interesting knowledge or insights about a subject in film theory that might parallel one of my topics. I am interested in singular events in composition: events that occur only once, contrasted and incoherent to the main musical language of the work, yet deliberately conceived and intentionally inserted in the composition, contributing, by way of distraction and surprise, to the conception of the piece. Coherence seems to constitute a compulsory element in composition, and even incoherence (surprise, collage etc.) as it happens in the music of, say, Charles Ives, George Crumb or John Zorn, becomes coherent and even homogenous once it recurs. I suspect that/singular/, incoherent events may have a genuine effect, different than that. I am interested in parallel or similar phenomena in film, as my own
Re: [Frameworks] FW: Seeking suggestions - Polaroids in film or video
Title: FW: Seeking suggestions - Polaroids in film or video Morgan Fisher's Production Stills, JJ Murphy's Movie Stills. Original Message Subject: [Frameworks] FW: Seeking suggestions - Polaroids in film or video From: Patrick Friel patrick.fr...@att.net Date: Thu, January 24, 2013 11:35 am To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Hi All, Mimi Brody at Northwestern University’s Block Cinema is looking for films/videos that use Polaroids (see below) - especially experimental works. Contact her directly (m-br...@northwestern.edu) or, if you reply here, I’ll forward to her. Thx. Patrick Friel -- Forwarded Message From: mimibrody m-br...@northwestern.edu Reply-To: filmprogrammers filmprogramm...@yahoogroups.com Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:01:33 - To: filmprogrammers filmprogramm...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [filmprogrammers] Seeking suggestions - Polaroids in film or video Hi everyone, I'm looking for films and videos that incorporate Polaroid film in some way. I know there are a few feature films that use Polaroids (for instance, Alice in the Cities and Memento) and a recent documentary (Time Zero). I'm mostly interested in experimental works, but am curious to hear about additional features as well. Thanks! Mimi Brody Block Cinema-- End of Forwarded Message___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] FW: Seeking suggestions - Polaroids in film or video
³The American Friend² Wim Wenders Near the end of the movie: Dennis Hopper shooting pictures of himself on a pool table. On 1/24/13 10:35 AM, Patrick Friel patrick.fr...@att.net wrote: Hi All, Mimi Brody at Northwestern University¹s Block Cinema is looking for films/videos that use Polaroids (see below) - especially experimental works. Contact her directly (m-br...@northwestern.edu) or, if you reply here, I¹ll forward to her. Thx. Patrick Friel -- Forwarded Message From: mimibrody m-br...@northwestern.edu Reply-To: filmprogrammers filmprogramm...@yahoogroups.com Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:01:33 - To: filmprogrammers filmprogramm...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [filmprogrammers] Seeking suggestions - Polaroids in film or video Hi everyone, I'm looking for films and videos that incorporate Polaroid film in some way. I know there are a few feature films that use Polaroids (for instance, Alice in the Cities and Memento) and a recent documentary (Time Zero). I'm mostly interested in experimental works, but am curious to hear about additional features as well. Thanks! Mimi Brody Block Cinema -- End of Forwarded Message ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
