Re: [Frameworks] upcoming multi-projector shows (Beebe, Roger W.)

Re. Roger Beebe's upcoming tour, it is worth noting that not just the best way--but the ONLY way--to see some of the best work of this important filmmaker is in live performance. His work is communitarian, not just in subject matter, but literally, in exhibition--his work celebrates and needs to

[Frameworks] Books on the History of Avant-Garde film in US

As straight history: John Hanhardt's A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE CINEMA (NY: American Federation of Arts, 1976). (Like Anthology, proposes a canon.) Wheeler Dixon, THE EXPLODING EYE: A RE-VISONARY HISTORY OF THE 1960s AMERICAN EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA (Albany, SUNY Press, 1997. Not str

[Frameworks] Howard Guttenplan

Howard was one of the pillars of our infrastructure, holding together one of the most important institutions seemingly single-handedly for an era, and then into the next few eras. I saw him last, after a long gap, a couple of years ago--we sat on the sidewalk at Views talking about the Workshop.

[Frameworks] Kid-friendly films?

Maybe: Broughton's THIS IS IT Anything by Robert Breer Ann Severson's ANIMALS RUNNING Gunvor Nelson's MY NAME IS OONA Ken Jacobs's OPTIC ANTICS [featuring Laurel and Hardy] Kubelka or Conrad flicker films Gehr's SERENE VELOCITY Awesh's MARTINA'S PLAYHOUSE [watch it first, of course] Wegman's Man R

[Frameworks] spoiled-countryside films

One experimental film not to be missed in this category is SILBERWALD, a 3-screen installation piece by Christoph Girardet. It's a sort of creepification of the heimat genre; up on YouTube at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOPXrGsR63o Ron Green 356 W 7th Av

Re: [Frameworks] FrameWorks Digest, Vol 63, Issue 17

Ron Green 356 W 7th Ave Columbus OH 43201 614.421.2131 J. Ronald Green Professor Emeritus of Film Studies Department of History of Art The Ohio State University 1. Re: (Un)relieable perceptual information I once drafted a running list of great shots, b