Re: [Frameworks] Artists Filmmakers who have used Super 8 Film

2014-06-04 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
IIRC, Scott and Beth B.'s punk films were shot on Super-8. Reynolds and Jolley's Seven Days Til Sunday, The Drowning Room and also (I think) burn were shot on Super-8 IIRC, Jem Cohen has done a lot with Super-8. (Lost Book Found ??) Frameworker Ken Paul Rosenthal's Crooked Beauty is a fine

Re: [Frameworks] removing dust marks on transfer

2014-06-26 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
I was thinking it would be an expensive process to remove digitally. It's not necessarily _monetarily_ expensive. You can do it manually if you can afford the time. Of course, you want as clean a transfer as possible, but there are still likely to be some big nasty dust spot every X number of

Re: [Frameworks] mov files from avid (pc) for quicktime projection (mac)

2014-07-15 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
I'm not an Avid expert, but I know they typically use proprietary codecs. What container were they in? AVI? If QT can't play the files, that could either be an issue with the codec per se, or your Mac not being equipped with the extra widgets needed to handle the headers of PC-based

Re: [Frameworks] Bolex 16/super 16 conversion

2014-07-29 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Does anyone have experience with, comments on Ultra 16mm which creates wide-screen 16 by widening the gate to expose between the top and bottom of the sprocket holes, thus: 1. The mount does not need to be recentered. 2. Pretty much any 16mm lens should cover. 3. The footage can be used as

Re: [Frameworks] Broken mini DV

2014-08-13 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
I've transplanted tape innards into a different shell, and also just replaced the door. I can't remember if I've done either with mini-DV though. I just looked at a tape, and it's not held together by screws, and it's not obvious how to take it apart. It looks like there are 4 holes on the

Re: [Frameworks] cat films

2014-08-15 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
What else could we shown in a Cat Film Fest? As Ekrem mentioned, there's Cat Cradle and Fuses. Dunno if the amount of kitteh-kontent is high enough for a feline fest, but the presence of the pussy... er, scratch that [Meow!] I mean the context of the cat, is the unraveling intertextual ball

Re: [Frameworks] Largest purchaser of Kodak 16mm film stock, NFL Films, has switched to digital production

2014-08-25 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Well, even though NFL Films has gone digital, and will probably close their lab after their current supply of stock runs out, they know the value of their massive archive of 16mm footage, and the archival value of photochemical film. I can't see them committing that history to any conversion to

Re: [Frameworks] Kodak Film Stocks to be Discontinued, Announced in December

2014-08-30 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Alex Balkam wrote: It may be time for Frameworks to consider contacting the higher ups at Kodak to express the importance that the less industrial, less Hollywood products really need to be maintained during this challenging time in order that we can continue to expose young filmmakers and

[Frameworks] Daylight Spools, and 16mm activism: Anyone? (Buehler?)

2014-08-31 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
The daylight spool issue is important. I always try to remember to ask the lab to return them otherwise they keep them and sell them. I don't know how things are in the UK or US at present, but back in the last decade when I was spooling off 400' cores onto 100' daylight loads for my

Re: [Frameworks] CAPTURING DVD

2014-09-13 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
MPEG Streamclip will not do the job alone for commercial DVDs. They're copy protected. Capturing clips from them for educational/scholarly purposes is Fair Use, but the technology to defeat the copy protection is illegal. AFAIK, there are only two current Mac apps that rip copy-protected discs:

Re: [Frameworks] CAPTURING DVD

2014-09-13 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Most of the DVDs I've come across aren't copy protected, but it's still a two step process. Handbrake, which is freeware will rip the NTSC DVD to a mpeg 4 format, then I use mpeg streamclip to make a mov file. With PAL DVD you can rip it with just mpeg streamclip. That's a poor workflow.

Re: [Frameworks] DVR compression

2014-09-15 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
I assume that video recorded on a satellite DVR receiver is compressed much more than on a DVD, right? Not necessarily. Some DVDs are much more compressed than others. Satellite receivers are getting MPEG2 streams, the same basic data format as DVD. I'm not sure exactly how much bandwidth is

Re: [Frameworks] Bolex EL Power question

2014-09-18 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
If it shows as charged, and then runs the camera at all just not well, does it still show as charged after that? A bad cable would likely produce intermittent power, not weak power. . The thing to do is isolate the source of the problem. Don't go out an get your battery recelled until you

Re: [Frameworks] Bolex EL Power question

2014-09-18 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Ooof. Sorry, I was imagining a battery belt. Sorry, I think my info is bad. Any NiCAD/NiMH battery is made up of a number of individual cells, whether it be configured as belt or brick. !2V almost always = 10 cells at 1.2V ea. The only kind of battery that comes as one big singular thing is

Re: [Frameworks] Constructing A Foley / Sound Studio

2014-11-07 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Matt: I doubt you'll find good models at other schools. In my travels, college sound facilities have either been created from the ground up as part of an expensive building project, or jury rigged into some existing space so cheaply and poorly they're barely worth having. If you can find any

Re: [Frameworks] 16mm/Super8 Screening Panel Discussion @ NYPL Jefferson Market Library

2014-11-11 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Cherry-picking a definition from Google will not do for prescriptive lexicopraphy: of, relating to, or being a mechanism in which data is represented by continuously variable physical quantities http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/analog A photochemical film frame is an analog

Re: [Frameworks] HIGH SCHOOL workflow

2015-01-14 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Jeff: BW neg, quite clearly, probably Kodak Double-X Would they have pushed the stock? My impression has always been that Direct Cinema first generation looked pretty crappy to begin with because they were getting a lot of grain and getting grayer blacks etc, to shoot with available light.

Re: [Frameworks] Experimental shorts with science-fiction themes?

2015-01-12 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
The obvious but not yet mentioned: Sins of the Fleshapoids - Mike Kuchar Science Friction (and other works) - Stan Van Der Beek America is Waiting, Mongoloid, Cosmic Ray, Mea Culpa - Bruce Conner ___ FrameWorks mailing list

Re: [Frameworks] Response to Gene Youngblood

2015-03-31 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Chill out, people! This is a Listserv. People write short posts quickly, and hit 'Send'. Rhetorical excess comes with the territory as we dash off our thoughts w/o reflecting deeply about whether our wording will read to others with the meanings they had for us when they popped into our

Re: [Frameworks] Films on nuclear energy, The Cold War, utopia

2015-02-27 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
-utopia Sins of the Fleshapoids, and of course, Zardoz. -nuclear energy/war -The Cold War Cristopher Maclaine: The End (essential) Lots of Conner besides Crossroads: A Movie; Cosmic Ray; America is Waiting; Report Craig Baldwin: Wild Gunman, RocketKitKongoKit, Tribulation 99, ¡O No

Re: [Frameworks] Is there any editing pattern on Critical Mass by Hollis Frampton?

2015-04-22 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Watching the film one could assumed Frampton followed a random process but i'm not sure about it. It's not random at all. IIRC, both the length of all the cuts and the advance between cuts are numbers of frames with some 'significance', e.g. I think the shots may all be ~ 40 frames / 1 foot.

Re: [Frameworks] Battery for super-8 Beaulieu 4008ZM4

2015-04-22 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
When looking to re-power any Beaulieu, remember the original batterie were made from no-obsolete NiCad cells. If you're going to the expense and effort of re-celling a battery, you sure don't want to wind up with NiCads -- low capacity and the dreaded memory effect. At a minimum, you'd want

Re: [Frameworks] sound examples in film + video

2015-06-15 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
For Hollywood film, 'Die Hard' ia masterpiece of sound production. The SFX carry a huge amount of information, tone and style, and (naturally) they're all post-production, including lots of Foley. I heard the lead Foley artist give a talk on it as part of an audio-art series many moons ago, and

Re: [Frameworks] Compression Codecs

2015-05-28 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
If you're doing a screen capture to create footage from Google Maps, the resolution of the image, the frame-rate, and the compression codec will all be determined by the capture program. If you tell us what software you're using to create the original files, and with what settings, we can help

Re: [Frameworks] 16fps 16mm projectors?

2015-08-03 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
I don't know of any specific models, but since 16fps was once the standard, there must be really old 'silent only' projectors that run at that speed, yes? I vaguely recall that some sound projectors can be made to run at 16fps by changing a pulley. I'm guessing they wouldn't be Elmos or Eikis

Re: [Frameworks] 16fps 16mm projectors?

2015-08-07 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
It is in fact 'Sleep' that we'll be showing in Austin, TX in October; I'm not hopeful that I'll be able to find two functioning 16fps projectors locally... I got an email from someone encouraging me to instead use four projectors, as it would cut the screening time in half. So...Why two

Re: [Frameworks] countryside film

2015-07-13 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Experimental filmmakers don't seem to get out of the city that much, and when they do they're more likely to wax rhapsodic on 'nature'. I'm not sure the violence and ignorance that reign in the little villages is something most experimental makers would have cred handling, w/o condescendingly

Re: [Frameworks] countryside film

2015-07-13 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
An experimentalish narrative feature: The Draughtsman's Contract Maybe those early 70s S8 films of the British countryside by Derek Jarman, I always feel they contain menace in the pastoral views. ___ FrameWorks mailing list

Re: [Frameworks] Sound ? from an Eikie

2015-11-01 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Yes! That looks like EXACTLY what you need, and that's a good price for a readymade box. Connecting a 16mm projector with only a speaker jack to an audio system usually requires TWO things, and the Rolls box offers both: 1. An attenuator circuit to drop the output level from the speaker and

Re: [Frameworks] Tech help - extracting clips from DVDs

2015-11-03 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> I have a relatively new Mac laptop and I've uninstalled/reinstalled both > programs. Be aware that every new release of the Mac OS breaks old reliable tools for ripping clips from DVDs. MPEG Streamclip doesn't work past 10.6. There are a few dozen or more similar software packages sold by a

Re: [Frameworks] Any DVD

2015-10-09 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> 1. Is there a Mac equivalent of Any DVD? Yes. It's called Fairmount. It was once available as a standalone, but is now incorporated into Mac DVD Ripper Pro: http://www.macdvdripperpro.com/ (not to be confused with MacX DVD Ripper Pro...) > which allows you, for example, to play PAL DVDs

Re: [Frameworks] NEW DIRECTOR NEEDED for Millennium Film Workshop

2015-09-26 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Francisco Torres wrote: >> I figured it couldn't be that bad, that I could surely draw inspiration from >> artists with a lifetime of experience, and that it could enrich my practice >> and inspire me. > > Do people really talk like THAT? Is this guy for real? Hmmm. Maybe not. Could be a

Re: [Frameworks] High-definition frame grabs

2015-10-03 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> My concern in the matter of film stills is not making money, but having the > films reasonably well represented. This is kind of a moot point for images used to illustration a point in an academic essay published in a journal or book. They will appear as a halftone with a max screen of

Re: [Frameworks] experimental cinema and the anthropocene

2015-12-07 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> Some of Brakhage's animal studies might fit -- such as "The Domain of the > Moment" or "The Presence" Actually my first thought was that a lot of Brakhage could be appropriate – c.f. the famous opening of 'Metaphors on Vision' Adventures in perception, the un-tutored eye seeing as before the

Re: [Frameworks] Shower scenes...

2016-01-06 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Don't know if they've already been mentioned: Showers: Eastern Promises, Starship Troopers, The Faculty Baths: Goldfinger, Fatal Attraction, Slither ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com

Re: [Frameworks] Athena Projector

2016-06-16 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> If you are interested to see more, follow this link where I demonstrate the > problem (password is 'loop'). There are probably folks here who know projectors better than I do, but I'll offer my best guess fwiw in case you don't get a more expert response… I suspect your Athena needs some

Re: [Frameworks] Sally Berger, film curator, fired at MoMA;

2016-06-20 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Chris: Thanks for the clarification on Vaxxed/Tribeca. But it wasn't 'Tribeca recognizing that it needed to firm up its institutional character and to counter a reactionary push from powerful autocrats (De Niro)'. RDN bypassed the programmers to put Vaxxed on the schedule, and he alone pulled

Re: [Frameworks] Sally Berger, film curator, fired at MoMA;

2016-06-19 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> But, isn't censorship also a serious issue? Haven't we been fighting for > institutions, especially cultural institutions to commit themselves to stand > up for and support artists who are being attacked? Remember the dust up over > the anti-vax movie that tried to screen at Tribeca? The

Re: [Frameworks] 2 Video Installation Questions

2016-06-20 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> So do we use a very small dvd player or is there a way to play a looping > digital file through a projector? Your best bet is probably a mini 'digital media player', e.g.: http://tinyurl.com/hf6a62b http://tinyurl.com/zh7r7nw There are various similar models on Amazon and eBay, between $25

Re: [Frameworks] Experimental Films on Farming/ Agriculture

2016-01-15 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Chuck Statler - 'Ain't We Havin' Fun' definitely Werner Herzog = 'How Much Wood Could A Woodchuck Chuck' maybe > Any suggestions on avant-garde/experimental films that deal with any aspects > of farming/gardening/plant or animal agriculture? ___

Re: [Frameworks] Buying a VCR in 2016

2016-02-04 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Check thrift stores that let you return electronics (usually just for store credit) if it doesn't work: Salvation Army and Goodwill usually do. Thrift stores are where all VHS decks go to die – and the stores just want to move them, so they price the good ones the same as the crappy ones. For

Re: [Frameworks] Annette Michelson and Peter Gidal

2016-02-23 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
I've been thinking, about the original query from John Muse in light of the follow-up query about Michelson, doing some wild-ass speculating. Mark's post (he certainly knows WAY more about this than I do) suggests my imaginings are at least not grossly inconsistent with known facts. And my

Re: [Frameworks] 360 degrees

2016-02-23 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Folks, Gene asked for 360° _tracking_ shots, not pans. Is there an old DePalma film that DOESN'T have one? I can't recall if any of the 'bullet time' slo-mo shots in the Matrix films, or subsequent action films that aped that technique, went all the way around But I'm guessing there are

Re: [Frameworks] Annette Michelson and Peter Gidal

2016-02-23 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> My notion of "including Ono and Ackerman [sic]" is, you're right, wrongheaded. Sorry if the double-negative was unclear, but I was saying including those makers is NOT wrongheaded at all. The gag (I was going for a bot o' irony) was that your thinking that doing so 'went against the grain'

Re: [Frameworks] seamless media player recommendations?

2016-02-27 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> if you are coming from a Mac, the media players are all Windows-formatted Not true. I have an old Seagate FreeAgent Theater+ HD media player that reads HFS+ (Mac) hard drives and thumb drives. It also goes directly from the end of one file to the next alphabetically w/o putting any display on

Re: [Frameworks] Ganon GL-2 minidv camcorder repair

2016-02-22 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
I have no experience with either of those shops, but I'll offer some general comment on video gear service. Over the years, I had nothing but problems with local, independent shops that were listed as service facilities for my geographic area by the manufacturer. I resolved to only send repair

Re: [Frameworks] SCOOPIC 16 battery recalling (Spain/Europe)

2016-01-19 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Making DIY Scoopic battery packs is pretty easy. I made a .pdf: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pdfzutv84jcj370/scooby.pdf?dl=0 Original Scoopic packs used NiCad cells, which less run time than the newer NiMH cells, and also have 'the memory effect' which NiMH doesn't. Even if you revel an original

Re: [Frameworks] recording audio from a Pageant

2016-03-10 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
I don't have the OP, only Scott's reply, so I'm not sure what setup is desired, But, in general, getting audio from a Pageant into a line-level input on recording gear is more than just connecting cables: you'll want an in-line isolation transformer to avoid ground loop hum, and a simple

Re: [Frameworks] two more

2016-03-10 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> Empty city streets. Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky) 'I am Legend' and various similar post-apocalyptic films, e.g. '28 days later'. Also maybe the current TV shows 'The Walking Dead' and 'Last Man on Earth' (which i haven't seen…) ___ FrameWorks

Re: [Frameworks] recording audio from a Pageant

2016-03-10 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> Those things have transformers inside them... not very good transformers, but > transformers nonetheless. Yeah, the quality varies. I've used some that worked fine. The thing is they're not THAT cheap, you still might need an attenuator, and the Rolls direct box is priced right at $25. I

Re: [Frameworks] (nostalgia) versions...

2016-03-05 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> each segment has a slightly different length. About ten years ago, I was showing (nostalgia) in class, pondering the duration of the shots, looking at a watch occasionally as the edits went by, and I had a kind of revelation: Each shot is a 100' load. I don't know if any one's written about

Re: [Frameworks] subtitle question

2016-05-12 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> I'm currently laying it out in 42 point Verdanna, keeping it under 40 > characters per line… Standard printing and screen fonts, like Verdana, are not good for subs. The strokes are too thin and the detail too fine to render well in video and provide maximum readability. There are a number

Re: [Frameworks] Resources on history of 16mm technology

2016-07-13 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> I'm writing about the use of 16mm in experimental filmmaking of the 1970s and > am looking for texts that deal with the history of film technology, scholarly > sources that look, for example, at the emergence of 16mm as an > amateur/documentary/artists' medium. Hmm. If we distinguish

Re: [Frameworks] Resources on history of 16mm technology

2016-07-13 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> the vast majority of artists working in 16mm from the '40s through the '60s > did in fact use Kodachrome and Ektachrome. Color negative didn't even exist > in 16mm until 1964, and very few "experimental filmmakers" used it much until > the later '70s or even early '80s. 'Amateur' making was

Re: [Frameworks] experimental films with philosophical text?

2017-01-26 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
i guess I’m the first to mention the obvious: Michael Snow, "Rameau's Nephew by Diderot" ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks

Re: [Frameworks] pageant arc projectors

2017-02-28 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
I’m more techy-geeky than most. I once tried to get an old pageant arc projector going in an effort to get a brighter image in our schoolo auditorium, but gave up. The technology is not really suitable for infrequent use sans tech support: there’s that massive old-school power supply driving a

Re: [Frameworks] iOS 10 update - think twice before doing it

2016-10-06 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> For those of you who might still be running OSX 10.6.8 on a Mac (for FCP > editing, for example). I’d heard that FCP 7 has ‘issues’ past 10.6.8, but also that it works fine on Yosemite (10.10.5). I don’t do mobile, so I don’t care about iOS, but I’m curious if Adam or others have info on

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] 16mm projector sales in Germany/Europe? + wide angle 16mm projector lens questions

2016-11-25 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> I would get a projector first and get the lens for the projector I would, too. But Benj wants a projector that will accommodate his looper, and that may limit his choices. > How does putting a magnifying element in front of a 50mm lens this compare > optically to using a dedicated WA

Re: [Frameworks] Films on Gold and Gold Mining

2016-11-17 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
The Man Who Invented Gold; Christopher Maclaine ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks

Re: [Frameworks] Auto-load projector problem

2016-11-13 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> I keep encountering auto-load projectors in 16mm and S8 mm that don't load > for me. You push down the thingie at the top of the threading pattern to > start auto-loading but when the film feeds in it goes straight up after the > first curve without entering the gate. Do these projectors have

Re: [Frameworks] ISO a wide angle (38mm) lens for my 16mm Eiki projector

2016-11-15 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> You could adapt a barrel from a 16mm format to the 35mm format lens. If fits > perfectly in my Bell and Howell 16mm projector. B+H barrels are a lot wider than Eiki barrels, so that might not work for the Eiki. ___ FrameWorks mailing list

Re: [Frameworks] using a hot splicer

2016-10-09 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Excellent advice from Scott. The heat is just a drying time aid. Less expensive glue splicers don’t have heaters. Glue splicing is all about scraping technique, good cement, and technique in applying the cement properly. It takes some practice to do it right, so newbies should experiment on

Re: [Frameworks] film scanner

2016-12-02 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
I found the instructions for older models on the MovieStuff site. Roger Evans had produced three different lines based on Eiki projector mechanism before going exclusively to the “made totally from scratch” ‘Retro' units. The earliest and simplest of these ran at standard projector speed, with

Re: [Frameworks] film scanner

2016-11-29 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> I wonder if there is any alternative to it at a decent price (under 10 K?) Did you really mean “under $10,000”? Well, there’s the MovieStuff Retro, $4.500: http://moviestuff.tv/moviestuff_home.html Mr. MovieStuff, Roger Evans, used to make film scanners based on projector mechanisms,

Re: [Frameworks] Digital hd projection

2016-12-05 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> If you're seeing lines on the edges of the frame, I'd wonder also if the > blacks aren't really very black at all. Careful there, though, Scott. You’re not going to get black blacks out of any brand new ‘affordable’ video projector. I have an Epson VS335W, which I bought in 2014 (~$525 at

Re: [Frameworks] Eiki EX-2000A power cords

2016-12-30 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Got a picture of the receptacle on the projector? > If anyone has any suggestions about where I could find some for a reasonable > price, they would be much appreciated. Or even advice about the part name or > number! ___ FrameWorks mailing list

Re: [Frameworks] digital-era distro

2016-12-24 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
A more general way of framing the issue is that moving pictures have moved toward ephemera, or, in a more historical vocabulary a spreading dominance of ’television'. How else could we explain the low adoption of Blu-Ray among both individuals and institutions? HD-DVD is long dead, Blu-Ray

Re: [Frameworks] mental problems

2017-03-22 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
I know the request is for features, [just about everything by David Lynch, but especially Eraserhead and Mulholland Drive] but there’s lots of recent TV that goes into “inner states of mind” with mentally ill protagonists: including ‘River' [UK] about a haunted, hallucinating detective, the

Re: [Frameworks] Looking for Angenieux 12-120mm lens or another Auricon-compatible

2017-03-29 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
On the versions of the dogleg Berthiot I’ve used, you can change the orientation of the finder by unscrewing a ring at the rear of the barrel. Then the barrel detatches from the C-Mount, and can be re-positioned, either freely or to a different position fixed by tabs and slots, depending on the

Re: [Frameworks] optical sound film screening

2017-03-06 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Sorry Roger. Yes, yes, yes. TBTX Dance is PERFECT (maybe essential?) for the theme of optical sound produced by non-traditional means, and unique afaik in the use of laser printing. It’s also just a cool film, and the prefect (short) length for a program that seeks to survey and explore a

Re: [Frameworks] Kodak Super8 digital camera

2017-07-13 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> Mindless design. No optical viewfinder, just a flip out video screen. Plus, > it is overpriced. The projected price of the initial "limited edition” version is $2000, with a less expensive “standard edition” supposedly to follow. It’s a film camera, so the real cost is in the stock and

Re: [Frameworks] Kodak Super8 digital camera

2017-07-15 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Nicholas wrote that the Kodak was designed by Logmar. I couldn’t find anything about this online, but I assume since Nicholas has one of the Logmars, he’s in touch with the company and knows what he’s talking about. Logmar apparently made 50 units in one batch in 2014 and that was the end of

Re: [Frameworks] Seeking advice for licensing a 1929 film owned by Warner Brothers

2017-07-15 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
For an “essay film” I’d guess the way you’d incorporate only “some clips” would be textbook Fair Use, and you shouldn’t have to pay anything for rights or obtain permission from anyone. You can check out the American University Center for Media and Social Impact (formerly The Center for Social

Re: [Frameworks] Christopher MacLaine

2017-07-05 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
IIRC, J.J. had looked into Maclaine’s writing, and he might have some photocopies of poems or the magazine, so i;d definitely contact him. ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com

[Frameworks] San Francisco Video Store

2017-04-28 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Björn" For non-blockbuster cinema on optical disc in SF, check Amoeba on Haight (near Stanyan and GG Park). They have as good a browsing selection as you’ll find in the US (since Mondo Kim’s is no more). There isn’t much experimental stuff on disc of any kind, much less BluRay, so Ken’s right

Re: [Frameworks] Titles on film

2017-06-26 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
IIRC, the old school method was printing the title on a card, white text on black, and shooting it with special high contrast film, yes? Even if using an LCD screen, it would seem the stock matters a lot. I ‘spose if you’re on a certain budget, the LCD method lets you get decent results with

Re: [Frameworks] looking for films, works of expanded cinema, web-based projects, and installations

2017-05-23 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Belaboring the obvioius perhaps, but Hollis Frampton ‘Critical Mass’ and ‘(nostalgia)’ [each shot is one 100’ load]; Owen Land ‘Film in which…’; Robert Nelson ‘Bleu Shut’; Barbara Rubin ‘Christmas on Earth’ [non fixed image-iaage and image-sound relationships]; Michael Snow ‘<—>’...

Re: [Frameworks] Vegetable films?

2017-09-14 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
From the Department. of I Can’t Beleieve This Hasn’t Been Mentioned Yet… It’s not film per se, just proto-film, but how could you have a ‘vegetables on film’ program without somehow includingn "Sixteen Studies from Vegetable Locomotion" (1975) by Hollis Frampton & Marion Faller?

[Frameworks] New article about Joe Gibbons on The Daily Beast

2017-09-29 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-sociopath-scholar-who-made-films-of-his-crimes-tried-to-confess-to-americas-most-famous-art-heist ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks

Re: [Frameworks] Editing negative

2017-10-23 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
The old school workflow of workprint/conform/let the lab do the rest was premised on making a number of release prints from the conformed original. I’m assuming Esperanza asked her question because she wants to project the work from photochemical film for some reason, not digitally. The

Re: [Frameworks] Editing neg?

2017-10-22 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
I wouldn’t suggest conforming any negative you care about yourself unless you have plenty of experience both with handling negative and with a glue splicer. Any dust or whatever that gets on the neg will show up in the print. It takes technique to scrape just the right amount of emulsion off

Re: [Frameworks] How to Make a DVD Screener?

2017-11-30 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
You should first contact the programmer and ask if the jury has the ability to view an HD digital file from a computer connected to whatever screen they use, or just on the computer, if that’s how they’d view the streaming file. You’d need to compress the Quicktime output to h.264 mpeg-4,

Re: [Frameworks] analog cinema machines

2018-06-08 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Uhh, Peeping Tom. > I'm looking for movies (experimental or not) that feature the analog cinema > machines (Man with a Movie Camera de Vertov, Kodak de Dean)... ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com

Re: [Frameworks] Entertaining the film

2018-07-21 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> "What I was picturing specifically was something where a movie goer at a > cinema walks into the screen, or is otherwise drawn into it and finds > themselves in that films world." > > Does VIDEODROME (1983) count? Probably not, as the question is stated, but methinks it would be a useful

Re: [Frameworks] Entertaining the film

2018-07-22 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Reminds me I forgot Wes Cravens New Bightmare, which differs from Videodrome in that the TV world there only overtakes Max’s reality, while in New Nightmare the filmic world emerges into the diegesis as a whole, affecteing several characters. Moreover, the diegesis is presented more as actual

Re: [Frameworks] film/art for the autistic

2018-08-29 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Dan: I assume if your students are enrolled in a college class, they’re at the end of the spectrum formerly called Aspergers. I once had such a student in a documentary production class. (Alas I learned this ‘the hard way’ as he was apparently undiagnosed and his parents in denial. But I have

Re: [Frameworks] Films about the clock

2018-10-31 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
If we take the concept of “clock” as ’time keeping device’ then it seems to me that topic might include any motion picture works that foreground how the medium keeps time: for example: any footage in the final product with timecode burned-in, or time and date stamped. Also the use of the

Re: [Frameworks] Films about the clock

2018-10-27 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Not exactly “contemporary”, but Bleu Shut by Robert Nelson ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks

Re: [Frameworks] Cine-Kodak Special II

2018-12-11 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
If the camera sat for a long time with the spring wound, you might be in trouble, as that causes the spring to lose force. What you’re hoping is that the spring is OK, and the rest of the mechanism is just gummed up from sitting. In which case you may only need a clean and lube to get it

Re: [Frameworks] Linear film editing

2018-11-29 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> I'm interested in 'linear film editing', as in cutting and splicing film at > an edit bench or Steenbeck or however you do it. That’s not linear editing. Physical film editing is non-linear, which means you can edit anywhere in the piece you want by winding the reels to that spot. Linear

Re: [Frameworks] Linear film editing

2018-12-02 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Mary: You might want to pick up an old filmmaking book that covers the different processes on physical editing of photochemical film. E.g. Lenny Lipton’s “Independent Filmmaking”. A. There are two methods of putting the cut pieces of film together: 1) glue splices and 2) tape splices. •

Re: [Frameworks] Films about darkness

2018-11-22 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
The End, Christopher Maclaine Lots of ‘dark’ narration over black leader. ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks

Re: [Frameworks] Bolex 150 Super 8 camera

2018-12-18 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> Does anyone know where I could get a replacement part? Or at least how to > test the camera and see if the rough contact point is indeed the issue? If the problem is indeed related to the battery contact, you wouldn’t need a new part, just a rehab on what you have. From the photo it looks

Re: [Frameworks] Drone vision and violence in experimental film/video art

2019-02-26 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Maybe Iraq Campaign by Phil Patiris? https://is.gd/V3CqvY ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks

Re: [Frameworks] Bell & Howell Film 70 series

2019-02-26 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Missed this thread before… The Filmo 16 dates from the 1930s and there were many iterations over the years, including the military models used by combat photogs in WWII. Those weren’t actually model 70’s, but basically the same guts. Only the later Filmos are really modern enough to be

Re: [Frameworks] Tips on projecting S-8 for digital recording?

2019-02-26 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
I agree that off-the-wall DIY transfers can be quite good, though I’ve mainly done 16mm, not S8. The two main things are: 1. The camera has to be capable of running at the same frame rate as the projector. (e.g. 24fps, for 16mm). You may or may not need the frame sync feature in the camera

Re: [Frameworks] Tips on projecting S-8 for digital recording?

2019-02-27 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
> There are probably very few projectors that run at 24fps or 18fps even. Actually 16mm projectors are pretty tight at 24fps. I did lots of 100’ roll transfers with a standard Pageant into a Canon XH-A1, and never had to fiddle with the A1’s “Clear Scan” setting. After all, old-school telecine

Re: [Frameworks] Cheap VHS transfer solutions?

2019-02-16 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
I’d look for a used DV camcorder with AV pass-thru. You should be able to find one for under $50. Note, the camera section and tape transport dn’t need to work, just the basic electronics. Connect your VHS to the camcorder input with an S-Video cable, and capture to FCP or whatever...

Re: [Frameworks] Documentaries-diaries-essays or video/film installations that play with truth or cinema theory

2019-06-07 Thread Dave Tetzlaff
Fake docs like 'No Lies' and 'Daughter Rite' don’t really question the concept of truth in any profound way. They are also genre specific to Cinema Verite. If anything, the problem with Daubghter Rite is that the gimmick of the fakery subverts the theme more than it deepens it. So you can

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