Re: [Frameworks] Asking for a friend

2017-11-23 Thread Pip Chodorov
Hi all, Of course anything can happen in any domain, whether in a university or in a community film lab. No community is immune from people who use their position of authority inappropriately. I'm sure Fred is right about filmmakers exhibiting inappropriate behavior, and I'm sure filmmakers

Re: [Frameworks] Asking for a friend

2017-11-23 Thread Gina Marchetti
Thanks, Chuck and Pip, for starting the discussion on this. I recommend looking at this article by Mary Celeste Kearney, Guest Post: How Film Schools Lead to Pipelines Full of Weinsteins:

Re: [Frameworks] Asking for a friend

2017-11-23 Thread Fred Camper
This utopian view of experimental cinema seems to me to be incorrect. Some of those I would call the very greatest experimental filmmakers were also sexual harassers. Remember that many filmmakers had a position of profesorship, which certainly conveys an aura of authority, or other positions

Re: [Frameworks] Asking for a friend

2017-11-23 Thread Amanda Christie
interesting perspective pip… sadly, sexual harassment and assault do not only result from the hierarchical power structures of industrial or commercial productions… nor are they limited to territoriality and competition…. sometimes, these things can happen precisely because we are working

Re: [Frameworks] Asking for a friend

2017-11-23 Thread Pip Chodorov
Asking for a friend? Hilarious subject line. I think experiemental film's freedom comes from its marginality. In this business there is no money or power because these films are outside the film industry and outside the art market. There is only passion, sharing, and working in cooperative

[Frameworks] Asking for a friend

2017-11-23 Thread Chuck Kleinhans
Given the proliferation of items in the news about sexual harassment in the film industry, and entertainment, and politics and academe, etc. why is this listserv so quiet on these issues? Nothing to report? Chuck Kleinhans ___ FrameWorks mailing list

[Frameworks] A Question of Film Criticism

2017-11-23 Thread Bernard Roddy
Greetings and happy holidays, film artists. I was wondering whether there are thoughts here on where to go to read strong writing about art of the kind you might like to make (or see), or that you in fact see. For a moment there I had some doubts about the nature of programming, the kind of