Re: [Frameworks] Recommendations for 'Experimental Doc' Fests
New Horizons IFF in Poland (enh.pl) for European doc experimental short films and international long documentary films. On 7 November 2013 05:15, Ken Paul Rosenthal kenpaulrosent...@hotmail.com wrote: I'm researching festivals that interested in docs that are considered more 'experimental' or works of 'creative non-fiction'. May the suggestions come forth! Thanks, Ken www.maddancementalhealthfilmtrilogy.com www.kenpaulrosenthal.com ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks -- Anna Dabrowska ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Recommendations for 'Experimental Doc' Fests
We would be interested in docs that tend more towards the experimental rather than the expository. We leave the boundaries fairly open when we call for submissions. Of course, we prefer works that evade classification, that are alternative to the traditional category of documentary. Sincerely, Greg de Cuir, Jr Selector/Programmer, Alternative Film/Video Belgrade On Thursday, November 7, 2013 11:25 AM, Anna Dabrowska a.d.dabrow...@gmail.com wrote: New Horizons IFF in Poland (enh.pl) for European doc experimental short films and international long documentary films. On 7 November 2013 05:15, Ken Paul Rosenthal kenpaulrosent...@hotmail.com wrote: I'm researching festivals that interested in docs that are considered more 'experimental' or works of 'creative non-fiction'. May the suggestions come forth! Thanks, Ken www.maddancementalhealthfilmtrilogy.com www.kenpaulrosenthal.com ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks -- Anna Dabrowska ___ 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] Ed Pincus RIP
Ed Pincus, the remarkable filmmaker/teacher who was a major contributor to the evolution of personal documentary filmmaking passed away this past Tuesday, November 5th.One of the important early figures in observational documentary (see his BLACK NATCHEZ), Pincus was a founder (along with Ricky Leacock) of MIT's Film Section, where he taught many accomplished filmmakers: Ross McElwee, Robb Moss, Jeff Kreines, Michel Negroponte, to name a few. He was co-author with Steve Ascher of several editions of THE FILMMAKER'S HANDBOOK, a crucial resource for independent filmmakers for a generation. In 1971, feeling the influence of feminism and the civil rights movement and "the personal is the political," he took his camera into his own family life and over the following decade produced DIARIES (1971-1976) (1980), one of the originary masterworks of personal documentary. Pincus dropped away from filmmaking after 1980, when his family was threatened by the man who killed civil rights lawyer Allard Lowenstein in 1980; he moved to Vermont where he founded and oversaw a successful flower raising business. He returned to filmmaking after Katrina when he and Lucia Small made THE AXE IN THE ATTIC (2007), and during his final months he worked with Small on the forthcoming film, THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM, about his own mortality.Pincus was a person of talent and intelligence, integrity and courage; there wasn't a bullshit cell in his body. All who were lucky enough to know Ed will feel his passing, and film history will remember his many contributions. ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] james broughton exhibit @ san francisco public library
I was just checking the hours of my local branch when I noticed this exhibit at the San Francisco Main Public Library, Hymns To Hermes: The Poetics of James Broughton: http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1014710001 I see there was an event last night celebrating the centenary of his birth (reminiscences and readings), but the exhibit continues through 16 Jan 2014 and might be worth a visit for anyone interested and in town. ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] seminal writing on American a/g film after 76
Here's another one: Indiscretions: Avant-Garde Film, Video, and Feminism by Patricia Melllencap (Indiana University Press) De: William Wees, Dr. william.w...@mcgill.ca Para: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Enviado: Jueves 7 de noviembre de 2013 2:26 Asunto: Re: [Frameworks] seminal writing on American a/g film after 76 I would suggest chapters 13 and 14 of Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 3rd edition, by P. Adams Sitney, Oxford University Press, 2002; A Line of Sight: American Avant-Garde Film Since 1965, by Paul Arthur, University of Minnesota Press, 2005; and in all humility, a couple of essays by myself: ”The Changing of the Garde(s)” in Public, No. 25, 2002, and “No More Giants” in Women and Experimental Filmmaking, eds. Jean Petrolle and Virginia Wright Wexman, University of Illinois Press, 2005. --Bill Wees From:FrameWorks [mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of Ara Osterweil Sent: November 5, 2013 10:19 AM To: frameworks Subject: [Frameworks] seminal writing on American a/g film after 76 Hello all, A friend is compiling a bibliography and needs to know the 4-5 most important scholarly books or articles on American a/g film made after 1976. My scholarship on the a/g is mostly in the 60s and 70s and while I know much of the work that comes after, I wanted to confirm my suspicions. Suggestions welcome and appreciated. Thanks, Ara ___ 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] Invitation to visit show at Exploded View in Tucson!
Exploded View Microcinema in Tucson is putting together our preliminary slate of shows for Spring 2014 which will run from late Jan-May. If you filmmakers are planning a tour through the Southwest (I-10) or visiting Tucson, AZ for any other reason-consider dropping us a line so we can see about booking you a show at Exploded View. Check out what we have been up to at explodedviewgallery.org Cheers, David -- David Sherman 646 E. 5th Street Tucson, AZ 8705 520-366-1573 www.explodedviewgallery.org www.davidshermanfilms.com ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] seminal writing on American a/g film after 76
Perhaps we should just admit that the Avant-Garde ended where Post-Modernism and identity politics picked up. (the Post 70s chapters in Sitney notwithstanding). The take was driven into the heart of the Avant-Garde at the turn of this century with the web. There is no avant-garde now. The internet insures that NOTHING will stay avant - EVER. This is not nescessarily a bad thing. Time to move on to the great future where everything is available to everyone all the time - no exclusive clubs anymore. Keep the faith... Stashu Kybartas Lecturer IV University of Michigan Department of Screen Arts and Cultures 6330 North Quad 105 South State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 (734) 546-9966 (773) 348-4292 On Nov 7, 2013, at 11:59 AM, Albert Alcoz albertalc...@yahoo.es wrote: Here's another one: Indiscretions: Avant-Garde Film, Video, and Feminism by Patricia Melllencap (Indiana University Press) De: William Wees, Dr. william.w...@mcgill.ca Para: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Enviado: Jueves 7 de noviembre de 2013 2:26 Asunto: Re: [Frameworks] seminal writing on American a/g film after 76 I would suggest chapters 13 and 14 of Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 3rd edition, by P. Adams Sitney, Oxford University Press, 2002; A Line of Sight: American Avant-Garde Film Since 1965, by Paul Arthur, University of Minnesota Press, 2005; and in all humility, a couple of essays by myself: ”The Changing of the Garde(s)” in Public, No. 25, 2002, and “No More Giants” in Women and Experimental Filmmaking, eds. Jean Petrolle and Virginia Wright Wexman, University of Illinois Press, 2005. --Bill Wees From: FrameWorks [mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of Ara Osterweil Sent: November 5, 2013 10:19 AM To: frameworks Subject: [Frameworks] seminal writing on American a/g film after 76 Hello all, A friend is compiling a bibliography and needs to know the 4-5 most important scholarly books or articles on American a/g film made after 1976. My scholarship on the a/g is mostly in the 60s and 70s and while I know much of the work that comes after, I wanted to confirm my suspicions. Suggestions welcome and appreciated. Thanks, Ara ___ 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 mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] 35mm Gate for JFK Optical Printer
Wow!! Thanks...all! The web of JK Camera is not working now... George Sherman i will contact next week whit you out of the mail list...and send you some pictures... best to all L. Luis Macías tfn: 0034 629709266 Vzla: 0412 025 1688 Skype: Luis-maci mabaluf...@gmail.com http://vimeo.com/luismacias/videos http://www.cratercollective.com/ mabaluf...@gmail.com 2013/11/6 George, Sherman sgeo...@ucsd.edu Send me a photo of the projector head with the gate removed. Place a ruler near the two threaded mounting points so I can get and idea of the spacing. Are the mounting bolts 10-32? The gate looks a lot like the Richardson movement use in military photo interpretation equipment. Sherman On Nov 6, 2013, at 1:04 PM, luis ? wrote: Hi Frameworks, I'm looking for a 35mm Gate for a JFK Optical Printer... Anyone know where i can find one? Best Luis Macías ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks Sherman George sgeo...@ucsd.edu 858-229-4368 ___ 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] Video Projector Recommendations
A conference where I'll be screening will be renting a projector for moving images (not LCD/data) and would like a recommendation for a particular model. Suggestions? Thanks, Ken www.maddancementalhealthfilmtrilogy.comwww.kenpaulrosenthal.com ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] PS: Video Projector Recommendation
If not a particular model, what are the basic specs that it should have? www.maddancementalhealthfilmtrilogy.comwww.kenpaulrosenthal.com ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] seminal writing on American a/g film after 76
a·vant-garde noun 1. new and unusual or experimental ideas, esp. in the arts, or the people introducing them. adjective 1.favoring or introducing experimental or unusual ideas. So avant garde science would include all the unsuccessful experiments regardless of significance, validity, or connection to any historical development. Fortunately science never succumbed to the tradition of the new which undermined sanity in the arts. Insanity seems to rule and reference to or use of tradition is branded as (been there done that - anti avant garde) plagiarism. I prefer the idea of art, like science, being built on a history of useful discoveries for expression, not expression for its own sake at the expense of insightful universality, technique, and craft. -not making any friends, Myron Ort On Nov 7, 2013, at 11:25 AM, Stashu Kybartas wrote: Perhaps we should just admit that the Avant-Garde ended where Post-Modernism and identity politics picked up. (the Post 70s chapters in Sitney notwithstanding). The take was driven into the heart of the Avant-Garde at the turn of this century with the web. There is no avant-garde now. The internet insures that NOTHING will stay avant - EVER. This is not nescessarily a bad thing. Time to move on to the great future where everything is available to everyone all the time - no exclusive clubs anymore. Keep the faith... Stashu Kybartas Lecturer IV University of Michigan Department of Screen Arts and Cultures 6330 North Quad 105 South State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 (734) 546-9966 (773) 348-4292 On Nov 7, 2013, at 11:59 AM, Albert Alcoz albertalc...@yahoo.es wrote: Here's another one: Indiscretions: Avant-Garde Film, Video, and Feminism by Patricia Melllencap (Indiana University Press) De: William Wees, Dr. william.w...@mcgill.ca Para: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Enviado: Jueves 7 de noviembre de 2013 2:26 Asunto: Re: [Frameworks] seminal writing on American a/g film after 76 I would suggest chapters 13 and 14 of Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 3rd edition, by P. Adams Sitney, Oxford University Press, 2002; A Line of Sight: American Avant-Garde Film Since 1965, by Paul Arthur, University of Minnesota Press, 2005; and in all humility, a couple of essays by myself: ”The Changing of the Garde(s)” in Public, No. 25, 2002, and “No More Giants” in Women and Experimental Filmmaking, eds. Jean Petrolle and Virginia Wright Wexman, University of Illinois Press, 2005. --Bill Wees From: FrameWorks [mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of Ara Osterweil Sent: November 5, 2013 10:19 AM To: frameworks Subject: [Frameworks] seminal writing on American a/g film after 76 Hello all, A friend is compiling a bibliography and needs to know the 4-5 most important scholarly books or articles on American a/g film made after 1976. My scholarship on the a/g is mostly in the 60s and 70s and while I know much of the work that comes after, I wanted to confirm my suspicions. Suggestions welcome and appreciated. Thanks, Ara ___ 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 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] mistake
My previous posting about Ed Pincus's passing included an error: the film about mortality that Ed and Lucia Small collaborated on in recent months is now called One Cut, One Life not The Elephant in the Room. Sorry.Scott ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] seminal writing on American a/g film after 76
If Avant-garde is considered as any politically advanced or progressive cultural practice then there is still a desperate need for it (though the concept of 'progressive' may have ceased). The contexts of globalisation, reification and commodification need resisting and not conforming to. Post-modernity isas Lyotard put it, a condition and as a condition (and not a successor, 'replacement or 'style') and encompasses both the traditional and the modern. Rob On 07/11/2013 20:59, Myron Ort z...@sonic.net wrote: a·vant-garde noun 1. new and unusual or experimental ideas, esp. in the arts, or the people introducing them. adjective 1.favoring or introducing experimental or unusual ideas. So avant garde science would include all the unsuccessful experiments regardless of significance, validity, or connection to any historical development. Fortunately science never succumbed to the tradition of the new which undermined sanity in the arts. Insanity seems to rule and reference to or use of tradition is branded as (been there done that - anti avant garde) plagiarism. I prefer the idea of art, like science, being built on a history of useful discoveries for expression, not expression for its own sake at the expense of insightful universality, technique, and craft. -not making any friends, Myron Ort On Nov 7, 2013, at 11:25 AM, Stashu Kybartas wrote: Perhaps we should just admit that the Avant-Garde ended where Post-Modernism and identity politics picked up. (the Post 70s chapters in Sitney notwithstanding). The take was driven into the heart of the Avant-Garde at the turn of this century with the web. There is no avant-garde now. The internet insures that NOTHING will stay avant - EVER. This is not nescessarily a bad thing. Time to move on to the great future where everything is available to everyone all the time - no exclusive clubs anymore. Keep the faith... Stashu Kybartas Lecturer IV University of Michigan Department of Screen Arts and Cultures 6330 North Quad 105 South State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 (734) 546-9966 (773) 348-4292 On Nov 7, 2013, at 11:59 AM, Albert Alcoz albertalc...@yahoo.es wrote: Here's another one: Indiscretions: Avant-Garde Film, Video, and Feminism by Patricia Melllencap (Indiana University Press) De: William Wees, Dr. william.w...@mcgill.ca Para: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Enviado: Jueves 7 de noviembre de 2013 2:26 Asunto: Re: [Frameworks] seminal writing on American a/g film after 76 I would suggest chapters 13 and 14 of Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 3rd edition, by P. Adams Sitney, Oxford University Press, 2002; A Line of Sight: American Avant-Garde Film Since 1965, by Paul Arthur, University of Minnesota Press, 2005; and in all humility, a couple of essays by myself: ²The Changing of the Garde(s)² in Public, No. 25, 2002, and ³No More Giants² in Women and Experimental Filmmaking, eds. Jean Petrolle and Virginia Wright Wexman, University of Illinois Press, 2005. --Bill Wees From: FrameWorks [mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of Ara Osterweil Sent: November 5, 2013 10:19 AM To: frameworks Subject: [Frameworks] seminal writing on American a/g film after 76 Hello all, A friend is compiling a bibliography and needs to know the 4-5 most important scholarly books or articles on American a/g film made after 1976. My scholarship on the a/g is mostly in the 60s and 70s and while I know much of the work that comes after, I wanted to confirm my suspicions. Suggestions welcome and appreciated. Thanks, Ara Falmouth University ___ 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 mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listi nfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] seminal writing on American a/g film after 76
Quoting Stashu Kybartas skyb...@me.com: There is no avant-garde now. The internet insures that NOTHING will stay avant - EVER. I tried to make this point pre-Internet, in my 1986 article The End of Avant-Garde Film in the 20th anniversary issue of Millennium Film Journal. By 1986, in my opinion, common usage was that an experimental or avant-garde film was a film with certain features, such as scratching or painting on film, a limited or abstracted narrative, non-linear editing, very small cast and crew, and others -- some of these if not all of them. Scratching on film was by then no longer avant-garde, in the sense of new or advanced, and the terms experimental and avant-garde has come to denote a style of filmmaking. This is neither good nor bad, but one important reason to understand it is that artists must realize that techniques already used don't justify themselves; everything depends on the total work. Fred Camper Chicago ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] seminal writing on American a/g film after 76
My high school girlfriend's father was heard once to say, I don't like avant-garde music... like later Beethoven. I think there will always be an avant-garde for someone --scott ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] seminal writing on American a/g film after 76
Quoting Scott Dorsey klu...@panix.com: My high school girlfriend's father was heard once to say, I don't like avant-garde music... like later Beethoven. Actually Beethoven's Opus 131 is far more avant-garde that most films, of any type, made today, in the sense that it feels like it is pushing into territorries few artists have ever reachedIt is not easy to listen to, and certainly not easy to understand. Fred Camper Chicago ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
