Re: [Frameworks] Experimental Christmas films

2016-11-14 Thread Cinema Project
Note to Pati by Saul Levine On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 4:54 AM, Harriet Warman < harr...@alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk> wrote: > Dear FrameWorks community, > > I'm planning a screening at the beginning of December for an audience > which will include (hopefully) some people who have little to no

Re: [Frameworks] Auto-load projector problem

2016-11-14 Thread Christopher Ball
I am lucky I guess to have two Bell and Howell autoloads that work seamlessly. They also don't scratch and can run forward and reverse seamlessly...also the sound is pretty good! Pure luck, I guess. I do clean them regularly and try to not let them sit around for too long before running them.

[Frameworks] Call For Entries: GAZE Animation Showcase III

2016-11-14 Thread T. Siddle
Call for Entries: GAZE Animation Showcase III The GAZE Screening Series is currently seeking submissions of short to mid-length projects for our third animation showcase. From hand-drawn to computer-rendered, collage to cameraless, and everything inbetween. We are hoping to include a diverse

Re: [Frameworks] Experimental Christmas films

2016-11-14 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> The first film I'm thinking of is: Xmas on earth by Barbara Rubin ( 1963) It’s a great piece, not really a ‘film’ but a two-projector performance… But it’s not really about Christmas, and it might not be the best choice for "an audience which will include people who have little to no

Re: [Frameworks] Reflections on the horizon

2016-11-14 Thread Francisco Torres
About the horizon? 2016-11-14 1:12 GMT-04:00 Takahiro Suzuki : > Hi everyone, > > I’m currently collecting written reflections and contemplations on the > horizon. If you have a few moments to offer and share your thoughts, I > would greatly appreciate it. You can enter

Re: [Frameworks] Video Weavings Clone

2016-11-14 Thread Francisco Torres
Thanks! it really looks great 2016-11-14 17:42 GMT-04:00 Kasper Lauritzen : > Dear Frameworkers, > > Thought some of you might find this interesting, so I'm sharing my latest > video instrument here. > > One of my long standing ambitions has been to make a video

Re: [Frameworks] Films on Farming

2016-11-14 Thread Michael Zryd
Hollis Frampton's Works & Days Jack Chambers's Hybrid Sent from my mobile. Please excuse brevity and typos. > On Nov 14, 2016, at 4:08 PM, Francisco Torres wrote: > > not ''experimental'' but kind of weird and alien, this is an old 40s film > about > farmjer ants i

Re: [Frameworks] Films on Farming

2016-11-14 Thread Francisco Torres
not ''experimental'' but kind of weird and alien, this is an old 40s film about farmjer ants i like a lot https://archive.org/details/0968_Underground_Farmers_18_26_06_27 2016-11-13 21:58 GMT-04:00 Adam Hyman : > Killer of Sheep has a slaughterhouse in an urban

Re: [Frameworks] A bit of good news out of New York // Celebrate 10 years with us

2016-11-14 Thread Scott Dorsey
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[Frameworks] A bit of good news out of New York // Celebrate 10 years with us

2016-11-14 Thread MONO NO AWARE
Hello Frameworkers, Some of you may have already received this email through other social means, my apologies if you are receiving this twice, I'm excited to share a bit of positive news : ) Last year MONO NO AWARE, the cinema-arts non-profit in Brooklyn New York,

Re: [Frameworks] Films on Farming (GD Cohen)

2016-11-14 Thread G D Cohen
Many of the films in Phill Niblock's "The Movement of People Working" series depict people performing agricultural work: "Trabajando Una"; "Trabajando Dos"; etc. The Russian filmmaker to which the poster from "Cinema Project" referred could be Sergei Loznitsa. See, for example, "Life, Autumn,"

Re: [Frameworks] Experimental farming films

2016-11-14 Thread Tara Nelson
Chicken Real by Les Blank On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Meg Jamieson wrote: > "Naomi Uman, almost all of her films that I have seen are about farming. > Also, there is a Russian filmmaker whose name is escaping me right now, > that makes incredible black and white

Re: [Frameworks] Experimental farming films

2016-11-14 Thread Gene Youngblood
Rick, what venue, and will you be here? > On Nov 14, 2016, at 9:26 AM, Rick Prelinger wrote: > > FARMS LOST AND FOUND, my compilation of home movies shot by farmers and rural > Americans, premiering as a work in progress this Wednesday in Santa Fe, New > Mexico. > >

Re: [Frameworks] Experimental Christmas films

2016-11-14 Thread Warren Cockerham
There's also Bryan Konefsky's 2004, A Junky's Christmas On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Stephen Broomer < stephen_broo...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Lights, by Marie Menken. > > SB > > > > On Nov 14, 2016, at 9:55 AM, Gene Youngblood wrote: > > > >

Re: [Frameworks] Experimental farming films

2016-11-14 Thread Rick Prelinger
FARMS LOST AND FOUND, my compilation of home movies shot by farmers and rural Americans, premiering as a work in progress this Wednesday in Santa Fe, New Mexico. http://www.agrariantrust.org/2016symposium/ Rick Rick Prelinger / @footage Prelinger Archives, San Francisco

Re: [Frameworks] Experimental farming films

2016-11-14 Thread Pip Chodorov
Do you mean Tractor by the Aleinikov brothers? At 9:15 -0600 14/11/16, Meg Jamieson wrote: Also, there is a Russian filmmaker whose name is escaping me right now, that makes incredible black and white films about farming. Maybe someone can fill in the name."

Re: [Frameworks] Experimental farming films

2016-11-14 Thread Angelica Cuevas Portilla
Yes! I was going to say Naomi Uman, her two documentaries : LECHE and MALA LECHE LECHE (1998, 30 min.) Filmed in black and white 16mm, hand-processed and hung to dry, Leche examines details of the life of one family, living on an isolated dairy ranch in Central Mexico. MALA LECHE (2003, 47

Re: [Frameworks] Experimental Christmas films

2016-11-14 Thread Stephen Broomer
Lights, by Marie Menken. SB > On Nov 14, 2016, at 9:55 AM, Gene Youngblood wrote: > > Here are George Kuchar’s Christmas diaries. Descriptions are at VDB. > > 1985 Thanks Giving NY CA, 55:30 > 1986 XMAS 1986, 36:51 > 1987

Re: [Frameworks] Experimental Christmas films

2016-11-14 Thread Gene Youngblood
Here are George Kuchar’s Christmas diaries. Descriptions are at VDB. 1985 Thanks Giving NY CA, 55:30 1986 XMAS 1986, 36:51 1987 Xmas 1987 New Years, 14:00 1988 Return to the House of Pain, 27:00 1989 Fill

Re: [Frameworks] Experimental Christmas films

2016-11-14 Thread Angelica Cuevas Portilla
Hello Harriet! The first film I'm thinking of is: XMAS ON EARTH by Barbara Rubin ( 1963) cheers Angélica --- Angélica Cuevas Portilla MEX-PARISMENTAL 85 boulevard Brune 75014 Paris France +33-6-64 24 09 10 @MexParismental [1] https://www.facebook.com/MexParismental

Re: [Frameworks] Experimental Christmas films

2016-11-14 Thread Pip Chodorov
Kenneth Anger's FIREWORKS has a burning Christmas tree... At 12:54 + 14/11/16, Harriet Warman wrote: I'd like to show one or two Christmas/festive themed works and I'd welcome any suggestions you might have for works I should consider. They could involve anything we might associate with

[Frameworks] Experimental Christmas films

2016-11-14 Thread Harriet Warman
Dear FrameWorks community, I'm planning a screening at the beginning of December for an audience which will include (hopefully) some people who have little to no experience viewing experimental/artist's film. I'd like to show one or two Christmas/festive themed works and I'd welcome any

Re: [Frameworks] Auto-load projector problem

2016-11-14 Thread Scott Dorsey
> Do these projectors have issues or is there a trick? Autoload systems are touchy and need constant maintenance. If you pick one up off the shelf that has not been lubed in a decade, the chances that it will work flawlessly are about zero. Make sure that the tip of the film has been trimmed

Re: [Frameworks] Auto-load projector problem

2016-11-14 Thread Pip Chodorov
And sometimes you cam jog the run lever in spurts until the film starts to jump out of the loop former. At that point you can guide the end of the film into the gate at the point where it is catching, then it should load the rest of the way automatically. -Pip

Re: [Frameworks] Auto-load projector problem

2016-11-14 Thread Fred Camper
In addition to the good suggestions already given, sometimes it helps, especially with some super8s, to bend the head of the film a bit to put a little temporary curl in it to match the direction of the loop former. This seems especially helpful with some super-8s. With the Bolex super-8