For those who will be in the vicinity of New Haven on October 8, I'm
presenting a film program at Yale, free and open to the public:
http://www.fredcamper.com/L/Fragmentation.html
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Brakhage's Interpolations was painted on film in 35mm and is
available from the Museum of Modern Art. The detailing is different
from the hand painting of his 16mm films. Also his Dante Quartet
and The Garden of Earthly Delights.
Fred Camper
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how often they will send their prints out.
Sadly, we should probably be thinking about whether there are
improvements to 4K and digital projection systems that will get us
closer to the look of films that may soon not be available on film, or
are already unavailable.
Fred Camper
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prefer it for films
shot on film. But we have little influence over what happens on the
industrial scale, and while we should do what we can, a group of our
size and influence is not going to stop time. In the end, no one can.
Fred Camper
Chicago
I'd like to strongly recommend this program.
Unlike most video art I've seen, Barningham's reveal their materials,
often including extreme pixilation, but also have a powerfully
self-destroying,
coming apart effect. And more.
Fred Camper
Chicago
Quoting Jake B. planet_j...@yahoo.com:
I
recited during a screening of Dog Star Man? Excerpts from the
Tibetan Book of the Dead read during George Landow's Bardo Follies?
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Quoting Eric Theise ericthe...@gmail.com:
My reading of the announcement is that the Vexations concert in
Providence is 45 minutes long, and that it precedes the screening.
It that's what it is, it sounds just fine to me.
Fred Camper
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at silent speed {presumably 16fps (?) } it was a
revelation.
As I wrote in another post in this very same thread, Brakhage always,
and often angrily, denied that there was any truth to this story. He
said it never happened.
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the professional standard for 16mm, ECO, or than
its cousin Kodachrome, so professionals would not have used it much until
finer grained stocks were released in the 1970s.
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. Is there any reason to expect more?
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avant-garde film is acknowledged. My point is that we should not expect
the Academy or the Oscar telecast to recognize or award avant-garde
filmmakers in the way, from a cinema art point of view, most on the list
might feel is appropriate.
Fred Camper
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Oh, and Stan Brakhage's The Process, combining fragments of photographed
images with solid-color frames that are rapidly edited.
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some works that are less medium-specific are also
worthy.
Perhaps there is no one answer for all viewers.
I would, however, urge everyone to be flexible, and to consider as
open-mindedly as possible the possibilities of new formats as they come
along.
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among the many hundreds on this list who do not appreciate seeing all
these meaningless emails. Finally, this particular hoax seems to me to be
insulting to the work of a genuinely great filmmaker. Hell, you even
misspelled Crowley's first name.
Fred Camper
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, there should be a respectful
interval of black leader, like ten seconds, before they appear, with
instructions to the projectionist as necessary to insure that they run.
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of five seconds between the titlecard and the start of the
film. Seemed like getting it over with at the beginning was a less
intrusive place than the end to
stick them.
This sounds fine to me
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I've obtained one from Ernie Gehr and will post it in a day or so and link
to it from a post here
Fred Camper
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Hoping someone might have an up-to-date filmography for Ernie Gehr?
Thanks
for your time...
Best,
Jacob
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Jacob Waltman
4843 So. Naniloa Drive
Hoping someone might have an up-to-date filmography for Ernie Gehr?
Thanks
for your time...
Best,
Jacob
OK, it's at http://www.fredcamper.com/Film/GehrFilmography.html
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be useful to explore/expand this idea and
readings that might also dovetail themes that might be explored.
Transparency (Ernie Gehr)
Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger)
Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
Two Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman)
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and
Eisensteinian montage, are Christopher Maclaine's The End and Ron
Rice's Senseless.
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in closeup detail, without faces,
as they go about daily routines. It's very loving in attention to
detail and motion…respectful.
This is Untitled − Part One (1981)
It's a great film.
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Quoting David Tetzlaff djte...@gmail.com:
Anyway, there's the Frampton walk-through-NYC film (forget the name),
Ordinary Matter.
That walk through NYC continues to, um, Stonhenge...
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foot of 16mm = 720 feet.
It's always useful to have in one's head a few key statistics
regarding one's chosen gauge(s): frames in a foot, length of typical
reels
Fred Camper
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(who keeps noticing that though no one follows me in listing location,
constant questions pop up
Have you tried contacting Anthology Film Archives?
Fred Camper
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Quoting Maurizio Mercuri mauri...@mercurifilms.com:
Dear friends,
I'm looking for both the transcription of Markopoulos' TWICE A MAN
by Thomas Chomont and the writing by Kenneth Kelman published in Film
Culture, nr. 31
Films and writings of (and about) Paul Sharits, Peter Gidal, Malcolm
LeGrice
Fred Camper
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Quoting Kelly Sears kelly.se...@gmail.com:
Dear frameworkers,
I would love to pick your collective brain about some film/videos that use
abstraction to address political, social
and
sold.
Fred Camper
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Quoting marilyn brakhage v...@shaw.ca:
While they probably wouldn't normally be considered political, some
Stan Brakhage films are short, abstract works that can be seen, at
least in part, as meditations on certain cultural histories. For
examples: Unconscious
justify themselves; everything depends on the total work.
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it is
pushing into territorries few artists have ever reachedIt is not
easy to listen to, and certainly not easy to understand.
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a
different feel than a harder cut And often in the same films Brakhage
would include cuts made in the camera, thus without the two frames of
black.
But I concur with the other advice you have gotten about using a pro
for AB rolling, assuming you're going for a clean clear look.
Fred Camper
, then
more, seen on the screen...
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, but the variability of light in Turner is
deeply inscribed in that film. He also spoke of The Text of Light in
terms of landscape. This aspect of light was explored even more
radically in the Romans, Arabics, and Egyptians. The imagery in
those films is far more removed from ideas of landscape.
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printing system, has robbed filmmakers of what was once a very rich
palette. Perhaps a software engineer somewhere is working on an
Ektachrome G filter for digital video...
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-human behaviours, which seems to be
most of what humans do. Some of the Brakhage films on my list, while
always human-centric, do make a stab at trying to imagine animals as
genuinely other than us.
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On 4/23/2014 4:21 PM, Tim Halloran wrote:
You, sir, are obviously neither an educator nor an artist. ;]
There is just about never a reason for an ad hominem attack such as this
one.
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to shoot, what you want to do.
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in camera, or as close to edited in
camera as you can make them.
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On 5/5/2014 7:14 PM, LJ Frezza wrote:
If you have a computer, I'm from the school that says you don't even
need a camera. You can try re-editing footage from a number of sources
like YouTube, DVDs, etc.
It's
Larry Jordan anmates and hand-colors Muybridge imagery in his great film
Sophie's Place, though I'm not sure how much the film a a whole has to
do with Muybridge. An old review of this film, by me, is at
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/film-of-changes/Content?oid=871558
Fred Camper
The first Lumiere arguably has two instances of montage: the decision
made about the points of time at which to start and stop filming. And
both seem carefully considered choices.
Fred Camper
Chicago
On 5/22/2014 5:41 PM, Francisco Torres wrote:
Montage is used in those films but only
Yes, of course; I should have written editing. My only point is that
long takes involve editing-like decisions.
Fred Camper
Chicago
On 5/23/2014 2:27 AM, nicky.ham...@talktalk.net wrote:
Well, as Vertov argued, the whole process of film making is editorial
from start to finish, but that's
from continuing.
Fred Camper
Chicago
On 5/30/2014 6:08 PM, Jeff Kreines wrote:
Thanks to Saul Levine for finding this.
Wow! Brakhage, Mekas, Warhol, Sedgwick, and the Velvets (without
sound), and more -- along with a little bloviating from Willard Van Dyke.
The Making of an Underground Film
dreamt it all up! I remember in particular early Bruce Conner
films described as if they were almost porn.
Fred Camper
Chicago
On 5/31/2014 3:20 PM, Jonathan Walley wrote:
After reading Fred's post I ran (well, typed) straight to the online
database Academic Search Complete to read the Time
http://online.wsj.com/articles/kodak-movie-film-at-deaths-door-gets-a-reprieve-1406674752?mod=WSJ_hp_RightTopStories
As I understand this, they were considering stopping all film
manufacturing, in all gagues, including of print stock. Does anyone have
more information?
Fred Camper
Chicago
of experimental films: no actors, no obvious
narrative, no sound track
Fred Camper
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On 8/5/2014 4:26 PM, c b wrote:
Greetings Frameworkers,
I'm looking for experimental films that engage with the Fibonacci
sequence - suggestions?
Thanks!
Cade
In the US, the best, in terms of both quality and reputation, is
probably the University of Chicago. And several faculty there are
interested in avant-garde cinema.
Fred Camper
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On 8/10/2014 9:35 AM, Dorottya Szalay wrote:
Hi Frameworkers,
I am looking for PHD programs in film
I have one of these cameras. I haven't used it in decades. The batteries
it came with are presumably dead and unusable? I believe I heard of
someone who manufactures an alternative for this camera. Does anyone
know more? Thanks in advance for any help.
Fred Camper
Chicago
to sign an online petition
without more information.
Fred Camper
Chicago
On 6/21/2016 7:23 AM, Chris Kennedy wrote:
"At the very least, it seems to me that someone who cares about this
curator should try to do the work a good journalist would do and get to
the bottom of the situ
at someone who cares about this
curator should try to do the work a good journalist would do and get to
the bottom of the situation. An authoritative analysis that could show
the firing was really wrong might actually help.
Fred Camper
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Fred Camper
On 1/13/2016 11:32 PM, Gene Youngblood wrote:
I believe Tony Conrad did some kind of demonstration or performance of
“film feedback” in which exposed 16mm film went immediately into a
developing bath and was projected, and the projection was filmed and
projected, and so
e filming a car ride with a camera
with single framing, it's kind of an obvious thing to try.
I'm pretty sure I've seen this in lesser known "experimental" films of
the 1960s.
Personally, I hope no one tries it again (just kidding, but not completely).
Fred Camper
Chicago
On 6/26/2
On 6/26/2016 2:42 PM, Gutenko, Gregory wrote:
Provocation. Works for Trump
I'm not going to descend into this kind of ad hominem attack. The
"first" question has long been a problem in film history, and I tried to
indicate why.
Fred Camp
Cancel my last post. It's been pointed out that you were not replying to
me, sorry. I don't need to get more involved in all this!
Fred Camper
Chicago
On 6/26/2016 2:42 PM, Gutenko, Gregory wrote:
Provocation. Works for Trump. But so far we had not been directed to
any clips of "st
students will be required to read some of the
great Greek texts seriously, and not just as an adjunct to media production.
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A handheld 360 movement around two young men kissing in an obvious
homage to the "Vertigo" kiss appears in Warren Sonbert's first film,
"Amphetamine."
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ot;The person next to you is a leper.") I second the mentions
of /Very Nice, Very Nice/, a film whose sound track was actually
composed first. I don't know if a print can be rented by the NFB has a
high-res version on their site. Lipsett's /21-87/ could be conside
amateurish to someone who hated them.
Then there's my favorite Bruce Baillie sound track, the one for /Tung/.
But check into what i mean before renting the film.
Fred Camper, Chicago
On 5/15/2016 2:36 PM, lagonaboba wrote:
For a class I’m preparing, I’m interested in suggestions as to
Experime
much I try to proofread...
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and there's more information at http://fredcamper.com/Brakhage/Colby.html
These represent my idea of some of Brakhage's very greatest from various
phases of his career.
Sorry for the short notice -- I only received the final details a few
days ago.
Fred Camper
graduates in jobs. The program is, however, highly competitive,
and only a few are admitted. I'm sure they can give you more currenbt
information.
If there is a Ph.D. program "specialized" in avant-garde film, I'd like
to hear of it!
Fred Camper
Chicago
On 7/30/2016 10:11 PM, 이고운 K
On 2/11/2017 7:21 AM, Chris Kennedy wrote:
Couples once, maybe and still:
Once, for six months, but not "still"
Gregory Markopoulos and Warren Sonbert
I think a few other noted filmmakes were "with" Gregory briefly, but I'm
not sure they were couples..
ho might have at one time self-identified
as "film fundamentalists," have to awaken, however sadly, to the
realities of our current situation. I would guess that David made, from
my point of view, the best possible choice.
At the same time,we should of course support those venues tha
, Fred Camper <f...@fredcamper.com
<mailto:f...@fredcamper.com>> wrote:
Since I've been known as a rather arch defender of film on film, I
have to weigh in a bit on David's side here.
As film projection becomes rarer an d rarer, various perhaps
unexpected but not una
eaning through usage, "documentary" now includes
films full of reenactments.
I'm with you, Jeff.
"Grumpy" Fred
aka
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-5s, it is possible to remove the upper and
lower loop formers and the bottom film guide to turn them into manual
loads. You have to break a little plastic but it doesn't damage the
projectors to do so.
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Chicago
On 11/13/2016 7:55 PM, Robert Withers wrote:
Hi,
I keep encountering
was going on. I did engage in some serious discussions. I also
wound up in a few unfortunate flame wars. Now real discussions are rare.
"Give me money" is common.
One I hope helpful hint: insulting the members of a community is not the
best way to gain their support.
Good luck w
Pretty much the "textbook definition of bigorty," to paraphrase a
certain prominent Republican on another Republican, characterizing a
whole group of people and making blanket assumptions about them. But I
long ago learned to pay little attention to Bernie's posts....
Fred Camp
ing a FrameWorks
post in the pre-Kickstarter days stating, "I need money to finish my
film. Please send me some. Here's my address. I'll send you a T-shirt in
return." The current Web has made us even more self-absorbed, it seems.
In the spirit of holiday giving,
Fred Camper
Chicag
y /is arguably
reel four, the imitation Western.
Fred Camper
Chicago
On 3/22/2017 11:41 AM, Gene Youngblood wrote:
Friends, I’m seeking recommendations of feature films with scenes that
attempt to visualize inner states of mind such as breakdowns
(Vertigo), nightmares (Spellbound), ac
order for these, I can go
"halfsies" on it.
Fred Camper
Chicago
(...who is still astounded by posts to an international mailing list
that don't even mention the city, even posts about spaces for rent.
These are almost invariably from New York or San Francisco, as if
everyone knows in
ways glad that should did not do so.
These issues are not so simple. It is all too easy to name another
person as disgusting. But as I said, in my view, disgusting behavior has
come from many of the makers of great art, and not just in cinema. Read
about a few painters sometime.
Fred Camper
with a
slight rewrite now? I am not sure what to use instead of death though.
Fred Camper
Chicago
On 11/23/2017 8:21 PM, Pip Chodorov wrote:
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
any male get out of such behavior? I will say with
virtual certainty that nothing that you did "prompted" him. I guess we
humans are all different, and not always in good ways.
Thanks for speaking up.
Fred Camper
Chicago
On 11/24/2017 11:17 AM, Kate Ewald wrote:
I will give an anec
ut.
Jonathan, I am in the same situation as you are with regards to grading.
It is always nice by way of relief to read a bit of writing by someone
who knows the difference between "its" and "it’s," that most sentences
need both subjects and verbs, and when to use capital le
.
If there is a possibly adequate digital version, I would like to hear of it.
Fred Camper (who is still considering his response to the unfair and
erroneous insults hurled his way a week ago)
Chicago
On 12/2/2017 5:59 PM, Ignacio Tamarit wrote:
I will recommend Jose Antonio Sistiaga´s /era erera baleibu
field is annoying, but it does remind one of the material nature
of celluloid. A white speck against dark, which happens all too often
with negative, what is that about? A lot more noticeable than a black
speck, and actually a little too revealing of the process, if you ask me...
Fred Camper
mostly not acting on the massive threat climate change presents. Curing
disease in Africa, as the Gates Foundation is doing, will make no
difference in the face of this potential apocalypse.
I have a short, somewhat related essay, titled /Trump, Bach, and Me/, at
http://fredcamper.com/W/Bach.h
Yes again. The best source would have been the founder and owner, who
refused my request to come out and interview him shortly after Stan
died, and who sson after died himself. When I corresponded with David
briefly, he had saved the lab records, so I hope he still has, or has
donated them.
know that at this I have often failed.
Fred Camper
Chicago
On 4/11/2018 8:54 PM, Jon Behrens wrote:
wow
Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 11, 2018, at 4:28 PM, Ed Halter <h...@edhalter.com> wrote:
Hey Frameworks
Felt I should share this announcement that was forwarded to me from the M
involved.) The extreme disregard of facts in our broken political
culture sometimes has faint echoes here.
Fred Camper
Chicago
On 4/11/2018 9:33 PM, Salah Hassanpour wrote:
Isn’t this a tacit admission of that faculty’s gross incompetency as
far as failing to exhaust appropriate ways to deal
And I feel sure that for many, alternative-to-teaching
jobs might be far worse than teaching.
Fred Camper
Chicago
On 4/14/2018 12:40 PM, Francisco Torres wrote:
I suggest one course of action to avoid such problems- Total boycott
of academia. Find other sources of employment if possible. I
– or a kindergarten.
Fred Camper
Chicago
On 4/1/2018 5:42 PM, John Muse wrote:
Surprised that I haven’t read anything here on the recent news that Saul Levine
"was pushed out of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design after
administrators accused him of 'harming students' by showin
i was glad to hear of your interesting topic. I trust /The Man With the
Movie Camera/ is included?
Fred Camper
Chicago
On 12/1/2018 1:24 PM, mstark...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everyone,
Thanks for your feedback. It has been very helpful! I stand
corrected. I somewhat thoughtlessly rushed
Mary,
Yes, but you must also have seen what that film editing is intercut with
at several moments...
Fred Camper
Chicago
On 12/2/2018 11:26 AM, mstark...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Fred,
Yes Man with A Movie Camera is an important reference for the study,
with those great images of Elizaveta
because we rarely hear the reason for it.
Fred Camper
Chicago
On 5/14/2019 9:38 AM, jimmyschaus1 wrote:
Trusted Frameworkers,
I am seeking examples of great "first encounters" between characters.
Two people seemingly pushed together by the universe sort of thing,
perhaps generated by a
OK, good, fine, thanks.
Fred
On 5/14/2019 1:20 PM, jimmyschaus1 wrote:
I'm a filmmaker working on a scene of this nature, and (among many
other sources of inspiration not explicitly related to cinema), it's
helpful. I've found this to be a good resource...it can yield
surprises...such as
A Facebook post, shared by Steve Elworth:
Phil Solomon
It is with great sadness that we report that Phil Solomon passed away on
Saturday, April 20, 2019.
Phil succumbed to severe complications during a long recovery from major
surgery a few months ago. He passed peacefully, surrounded by
Even though I usually gripe about questions like this, I have to answer
this one, because a film that i deeply love is missing, Joyce Wieland's
/La Raison Avant la Passion/.
https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/reason-over-passion/Film?oid=1055619
Fred Camper
Chicago
On 10/18/2019 9:58 PM
, as manifested by facial
expression, posture, gestures, tone of voice, etc."
Fred Camper
Chicago
On 2/15/2020 8:37 PM, Gene Youngblood wrote:
Academic Frameworkers: I like to keep abreast of trends in academic
language, and I've noticed an increased use of the word “affect” in
scholarly p
incompatabilities. Wait until you get a new computer with a new OS.
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some kind of fee first, it is a scam.
Fred Camper
Chicago
On 3/12/2020 8:48 PM, christopher nigel wrote:
I would find out. what there would like too use it for ?
before you make any kind of a agreement as could back fire on you in
this age of paranoid .
Christopher
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 7:0
could be swamped. There are
other places for that.
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that the camera works, and then try to sell it -- or
try to sell it for almost nothing even if it doesn't work, for display
as a living room museum piece?
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Thank you, but I only really want to sell it if it works. I will look
into checking it. These seem to go for over $500 working with a good
zoom, and I have an excellent one.
Fred Camper
Chicago
On 9/4/2020 2:47 PM, Dominic Angerame wrote:
Hi Fred if it was mine, I would sell as is, unless u
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