[Frameworks] 1st Alternative Film/Video Research Forum (6-7 December 2012, Belgrade, Serbia)
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Alternative Film/Video Belgrade, we are organizing the first Alternative Film/Video Research Forum. This two-day event (6-7 December 2012), running concurrently with the festival (5-9 December 2012), will gather a group of researchers and writers who are concerned with alternative/experimental/avant-garde/underground works of film, video, and new media, for an intimate forum where papers will be delivered and discussions held. The theme for this initial forum is researching and teaching alternative film and video. How has this field of inquiry been shaped over the years and what are the current challenges that those working in this area face? What are the blind spots in writing the history of alternative film and video and what are the future directions? Currently we are accepting abstracts of 300 words along with short paragraph bios for consideration. Accommodation will be provided for selected research forum participants. Please forward submissions to Greg de Cuir, Jr., Selector/Programmer for Alternative Film/Video Belgrade, no later than 1 August 2012 at gdec...@yahoo.com. Alternative Film/Video Belgrade (Serbia) is the premier international festival in the Balkans for new film and video tendencies and one of the oldest festivals of its kind in Europe. It was founded in 1982 as an antidote to commercial film and video-making and to support radical practices in celebrating the moving image. Alternative Film/Video Belgrade is organized by and hosted at Academic Film Center, which was established in 1958 as a ciné-club and where many legendary filmmakers in the former Yugoslavia worked, including Živojin Pavlović, Tomislav Gotovac, Kokan Rakonjac, and others. Visit the website atwww.alternativefilmvideo.org/.___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] experimental film festival research
All: Hello. I am preparing a new research project on the history of experimental/avant-garde film festivals and thought I might ask the list for advice. I am primarily interested in the early history of these film festivals (pre-1980s) and would love to know about any throughout the world that should be included in this study. I am particularly interested in the history of Knokke Experimental Film Festival and would also love to know if anyone has research materials on this festival, or possibly oral narratives they would be willing to share. Thank you in advance for your ideas. Best regards, Greg de Cuir, Jr. Selector/Programmer, Alternative Film/Video Belgrade http://www.alternativefilmvideo.org/___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] experimental film festival research
All: Thank you to everyone who replied to me, on list and off. I will continue to be in touch with people, as I have been replying directly to private emails. Best regards, Greg de Cuir, Jr. From: Greg DeCuir gdec...@yahoo.com To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Saturday, July 7, 2012 1:18 PM Subject: experimental film festival research All: Hello. I am preparing a new research project on the history of experimental/avant-garde film festivals and thought I might ask the list for advice. I am primarily interested in the early history of these film festivals (pre-1980s) and would love to know about any throughout the world that should be included in this study. I am particularly interested in the history of Knokke Experimental Film Festival and would also love to know if anyone has research materials on this festival, or possibly oral narratives they would be willing to share. Thank you in advance for your ideas. Best regards, Greg de Cuir, Jr. Selector/Programmer, Alternative Film/Video Belgrade http://www.alternativefilmvideo.org/___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Experimental film in the Czech Republic
Jake: Not in the Czech Republic, but do consider coming to visit your Eastern European colleagues in Serbia. I've never been to the Czech Republic but I imagine it is a short plane ride to Belgrade (or a short bus ride from Vienna). Alternative Film/Video Belgrade (5-9 December) is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. We consider ourselves the premiere event for avant-garde/experimental film and video in the Balkans. Furthermore, we are the oldest continuously-running festival of avant-garde/experimental film and video in Europe. If you are academically inclined, this year we are hosting the 1st Alternative Film/Video Research Forum (with participants from Australia, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and more). If you are a film and/or video artist, we are currently still accepting submissions for the festival. Please check our website for more details. Sincerely, Greg de Cuir, Jr. Selector/Programmer, Alternative Film/Video Belgrade http://www.alternativefilmvideo.org/ From: Jake B. planet_j...@yahoo.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2012 6:41 PM Subject: [Frameworks] Experimental film in the Czech Republic Hey all! I'm just getting settled in to the Czech Republic and was wondering if anyone could tell me if there are any decent festivals or screening spaces for experimental film. I've asked around but details are scant. Thanks again! -Jake Barningham ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Material on Editing
Eleni, all: I would be interested to hear about references for this as well. If I can also throw a request into the ring, I am currently writing a presentation on the aesthetic of mobility/movement in contemporary avant-garde film and video. I would love to know about suggested readings (particularly if open access). Thank you in advance. Sincerely, Greg de Cuir, Jr Selector/Programmer, Alternative Film/Video Belgrade http://www.alternativefilmvideo.org/ From: Eleni Philippou eleni_philip...@hotmail.com To: Frameworks frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 3:11 PM Subject: [Frameworks] Material on Editing Hello everyone, as I am writing a chapter on Markopoulos' editing technique, do yoy know any books or periodicals on the theory of experimental editing? My research so far hasn't given me great results. Thank you. Best, Eleni ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] FLEXfest 2013 full program
R.: Great looking program, with some wonderful films and videos. Thank you for sharing. Good luck with FLEXfest 2013! Sincerely, Greg de Cuir, Jr Selector/Programmer, Alternative Film/Video Belgrade http://www.alternativefilmvideo.org/ From: Beebe, Roger roge...@ufl.edu To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 2:01 AM Subject: [Frameworks] FLEXfest 2013 full program For those interested in perusing the full program of FLEXfest 2013 (which starts tomorrow and runs through Sunday), we've just put it online: http://flexfest.org/FLEX_13_full_program.pdf. If you happen to find yourself in North Central Florida over the weekend, do drop by. ... R. ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] textbook recommendation
All: Very interested in this question and the responses. Just today I was asked to put together a special festival program on the history of American avant-garde cinema. This is for an audience that may have never seen a survey of this type, so it should be very basic and canonical even but with some challenging picks added to the mix to keep things interesting from a curatorial perspective. Simple starting point but challenging because there is a lot to try to reduce into one program. Looking forward to absorbing these various histories we're discussing and then building something. If anyone feels so inclined, please do chime in with a this program can't do without... Sincerely, Greg de Cuir, Jr Selector/Programmer, Alternative Film/Video Belgrade http://www.alternativefilmvideo.org/ From: Jonathan Walley wall...@denison.edu To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2013 4:13 PM Subject: Re: [Frameworks] textbook recommendation Dear Joan (and Frameworkers), I hope people respond on-list, as this is a perennial problem for anyone teaching undergraduate courses on avant-garde cinema. To my knowledge, there is not a good general history of AGF, much less one accessible to students with little or no background in the subject (or related subjects like art history). Indeed, I can't think of any book that purports to offer such a history - the closest I can think of is A.L. Rees's A HISTORY OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO, which, while fascinating, is a little advanced for uninitiated readers, and leaves off in the 1970s before going on to focus specifically on British practice. Despite its title, it's a little scattershot historically (which I say as an admirer of the book and of Rees's work generally). Any other text that comes to mind is focused on specific periods, nations, filmmakers, or themes. For this reason, I've always cobbled together my reading lists for such classes in the same way you're doing - journal essays, book chapters, artist interviews, online stuff, etc. This is the history we need, as they say; I've always wondered why there isn't such a book. And I've thought about writing one. Perhaps it seems like too pragmatic, or too simplistic, an endeavor for avant-garde-y folks, or perhaps it's the fear of backlash against such a project, which would necessarily oversimplify, leave out worthy filmmakers, suffer from blind spots, etc. Maybe the controversy over VISIONARY FILM, and the related Essential Cinema canon, has made subsequent scholars wary of taking on a synthetic, general historical account of the subject. I have only skimmed it, but Michael O'Pray's AVANT-GARDE FILM: FORMS, THEMES, AND PASSIONS is probably worth looking at. Anyway, probably not a terribly helpful response, but confirmation that there are others out there who have the same problem. So I do hope others on this list will chime in publicly. Best, Jonathan On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Joan Hawkins jchaw...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Frameworkers,I'll be teaching a History of the American Avant-garde class in the fall (there'll be 2 weeks of early cinema and then we'll move quickly into the 1942-present period) -- and I would like to have a good history to use as the basic text, to be supplemented with journal essays, artist's essays etc. Is there a text you'd recommend, preferably one that discusses some of the major critical responses to the films as well as the films themselves? The class will be offered to juniors and seniors, with very little experimental film background or experience. There will be a production for component for students who sign up for it (so students can take the history course alone or take an experimental production course in conjunction with my crit/hist class). Feel free to respond to me offlist. Many thanks, Joan -- Joan Hawkins Associate Professor Indiana University Dept of Communication and Culture 800 E. Third St Bloomington, IN 47405 office phone 812-855-1548 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks -- Jonathan Walley Associate Professor Department of Cinema Denison University wall...@denison.edu ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] meet in prague
Dear Frameworkers: Hello. I will be in Prague next week and was wondering if I can meet anyone involved in programming avant-garde films and videos. I would love to be able to see some contemporary works from the Czech Republic (or historical works) and also learn about any avant-garde film festivals there. Feel free to contact me offline. Thank you. Sincerely, Greg de Cuir, Jr Selector/Programmer, Alternative Film/Video Belgrade http://www.alternativefilmvideo.org/___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Literature on james benning
Check out MUBI Notebook for some good interviews with and criticism on Benning. http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/tag/James%20Benning Greg de Cuir, Jr Selector/Programmer, Alternative Film/Video Belgrade http://www.alternativefilmvideo.org/ From: George Robinson george.robinson.communicati...@gmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Sunday, July 7, 2013 3:55 PM Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Literature on james benning The Austrian Film Museum published an exceptionally good book on Benning in 2007, edited by Barbara Pichler and Claudia Slanar, through their Filmmuseum Synema Publikationen imprint. If memory serves, there are several essays that touch on your subjects. Also Benning was profiled and interviewed in the excellent Canadian magazine CinemaScope a few years ago when RR came out. You can check on both these publications at their respective websites. George Robinson Artistic Director, Washington Heights Film Class -- Crazy old men are essential to society. Otherwise young men have no suitable models. -- James Broughton On 7/7/2013 9:36 AM, Ben Gwilliam wrote: Was wondering if anyone knew about any literature or online critique on the films of James Benning, specifically on the experience of looking and anything about his sound design. Mucho apprecio! Ben www.thosesoundsbetween.co.uk ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] 2nd Alternative Film/Video Research Forum (Belgrade, December 2013)
ALTERNATIVE FILM/VIDEO BELGRADE 10-14 December 2013 2nd Research Forum (Call for papers) After the success of the 1st Alternative Film/Video Research Forum in 2012, which featured such notable participants as Dirk de Bruyn, Ivan Ladislav Galeta, and others, we are now organizing the second edition of the forum at Alternative Film/Video Belgrade 2013. This one-day event (12 December) running concurrently with the festival will gather a group of researchers and writers who are concerned with alternative works of film, video, and new media for an intimate forum where papers will be delivered and discussions held. The theme for the 2nd Alternative Film/Video Research Forum is fragmentation. How has an aesthetic of fragmentation marked the alternative moving image throughout history? How does one engage with the fragmented and marginalized status of independent and non-commercial moving image culture? What are the alternative notions of fragmentation that are relevant to thinking and understanding the avant-garde moving image? Currently we are accepting abstracts of 300 words on the theme of fragmentation along with short biographies of 150 words for consideration. We are particularly interested in those who would like to contribute to an edited collection on this subject, which we are currently developing with past forum participants. Accommodation will be provided for selected research forum attendees. Please forward inquiries and submissions to Greg de Cuir, Jr, Selector/Programmer for Alternative Film/Video Belgrade, no later than 15 August 2013 at gdec...@yahoo.com. Alternative Film/Video Belgrade (Serbia) is the premier international festival in the Balkans for new film and video tendencies and one of the oldest festivals of its kind in Europe. It was founded in 1982 as an antidote to commercial film and video-making and to support radical practices in celebrating the moving image. Alternative Film/Video Belgrade is organized by and hosted at Academic Film Center, which was established in 1958 as a ciné-club and where many legendary filmmakers worked, including Živojin Pavlović, Tomislav Gotovac, Kokan Rakonjac, and others. Visit the website at www.alternativefilmvideo.org/. ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Recommendations for 'Experimental Doc' Fests
We would be interested in docs that tend more towards the experimental rather than the expository. We leave the boundaries fairly open when we call for submissions. Of course, we prefer works that evade classification, that are alternative to the traditional category of documentary. Sincerely, Greg de Cuir, Jr Selector/Programmer, Alternative Film/Video Belgrade On Thursday, November 7, 2013 11:25 AM, Anna Dabrowska a.d.dabrow...@gmail.com wrote: New Horizons IFF in Poland (enh.pl) for European doc experimental short films and international long documentary films. On 7 November 2013 05:15, Ken Paul Rosenthal kenpaulrosent...@hotmail.com wrote: I'm researching festivals that interested in docs that are considered more 'experimental' or works of 'creative non-fiction'. May the suggestions come forth! Thanks, Ken www.maddancementalhealthfilmtrilogy.com www.kenpaulrosenthal.com ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks -- Anna Dabrowska ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] Alternative Film/Video Belgrade 2013, 10-14 December, Competition programs
Alternative Film/Video Belgrade 2013 Competition programs Competition program #1 Binary Pitch (Vladislav Knežević, 2013, Croatia, 7 min.) During the Day My Vision is Perfect (Benjamin Ramirez Pérez, 2013, Germany, 10 min.) Charade (Salise Hughes, 2012, USA, 9 min.) Spectrography of a Battle (Fabio Scacchioli Vincenzo Core, 2012, Italy, 4 min.) Funny Games Ghost (Stefan Hafner Karen Hammer, 2012, Austria, 10 min.) Petite histoire des plateau abandonnés / Short History of Abandoned Sets (Rä di Martino, 2012, Italy, 8 min.) La résurrection des natures mortes / Living Still Life (Bertrand Mandico, 2012, France/Belgium/Germany, 15 min.) And Changing Your Alarm Clock … (Sasha Litvintseva, 2012, UK, 3 min.) The Residency (Ioannis Savvidis, 2012, Germany/Ireland, 25 min.) Competition program #2 Un instant de verite / A Moment of Truth (Gisèle Rapp-Meichler, 2013, France, 7 min.) Surrounded (Arne Körner, 2013, Germany, 10 min.) Bernoulli Trial or: How Nothing Stays the Same in Two Different Minds (Željko Vukičević, 2012, UK, 5 min.) Bauk / Spectre (Ibro Hasanović, 2012, Croatia, 8 min.) Moje lepe noge / My Beautiful Legs (Coralie Girard, 2013, Slovenia, 11 min.) Gowanus Canal (Sarah J. Christman, 2013, USA, 7 min.) The Smell of Oil and Cheap Perfume (Allan Brown, 2013, Canada, 10 min.) Schneesturm / Snowstorm (Julia Weißenberg, 2013, Germany, 11 min.) Grad / The City (Milica Jovčić Nenad Ćosić, 2013, Serbia, 3 min.) Vision of Traces (Johannes Gierlinger, 2012, Austria, 1 min.) Prevrtači osvajači / Market Conquerors (Petar D. Aranđelović, 2013, Serbia, 10 min.) Comparing Now and Then (Nina Wiesnagrotzki, 2012, Germany, 6 min.) Competition program #3 Portrét I (Jake Barningham, 2013, USA, 7 min.) Myth (Spiros Alidakis, 2013, Greece, 19 min.) Sky Lines (Nadine Poulain, 2013, Serbia/Germany, 10 min.) Three to Four (Ben Thompson, 2011, UK, 7 min.) Ellen (Davorin Marc, 2013, Slovenia, 2 min.) Displacement (Liliana Resnick, 2012, Croatia, 7 min.) Papierschnitzel (Nemanja Lađić, 2013, Serbia, 8 min.) Razglednice / Postcards (Ana Hušman, 2013, Croatia, 23 min.) Competition program #4 A Woman on the Trapeze (Iván Marino, 2012, Spain, 7 min.) Party Island (Neil Beloufa, 2012, France, 9 min.) Buffalo Death Mask (Mike Hoolboom, 2013, Canada, 23 min.) Lugares fronterizos (Hogar) / Border Locations (Home) (Blanca Giménez, 2013, Spain, 10 min.) M. Tomazo okrvavljena / Bloody Mr. Tomazo (Krasimir Dobrev, 2013, Bulgaria, 2 min.) Le jour a vaincu la nuit / The Day Has Conquered the Night (Jean-Gabriel Périot, 2013, France, 28 min.) Greg de Cuir, Jr Selector/Programmer, Alternative Film/Video Belgrade http://www.alternativefilmvideo.org/ ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Ladislav Galeta
He was a good friend of our festival. We were happy to have him here the past two years teaching a workshop, participating in our research forum, and of course presenting a program of his films. He will be missed. God bless and rest in peace. Sincerely, Greg de Cuir, Jr Selector/Programmer, Alternative Film/Video Belgrade http://www.alternativefilmvideo.org/ From: Pip Chodorov framewo...@re-voir.com To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2014 8:56 PM Subject: [Frameworks] Ladislav Galeta Very sorry to hear that a great friend and a great filmmaker has passed away. Ladislav Galeta 1947-2014 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] concept of work
A new volume Work in Cinema was just released, edited by Ewa Mazierska. Haven't read it yet but I'm eager to. http://us.macmillan.com/workincinema/EwaMazierska Sincerely, Greg de Cuir, Jr Selector/Programmer, Alternative Film/Video Belgrade http://www.alternativefilmvideo.org/ From: Brigitta Burger-Utzer brigi...@sixpackfilm.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2014 5:33 PM Subject: [Frameworks] concept of work Here are some of my suggestions: Work Hard Play Hard (2011) - documentary by Carmen Losmann Indoctrination - Harun Farocki The Interview - Harun Farocki The Creators of the Shopping Worlds - Harun Farocki In Comparison - Harun Farocki Workers Leaving the Factory - Katharina Gruzei (2012) Am laufenden Band - Gustav Deutsch (1994) Marina and Sasha, Coal Shippers - documentary by Ivette Löcker (2008) Brigitta Burger-Utzer Geschäftsführerin / Managing Director sixpackfilm ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] exp film orgs suggestions
In the new issue of NECSUS we have a number of articles on experimental work, including the following: Anik Fournier on installation art http://www.necsus-ejms.org/archival-gambits-in-recent-art-what-can-an-image-do/ Kim Knowles on bodily inscriptions in contemporary experimental film http://www.necsus-ejms.org/blood-sweat-and-tears-bodily-inscriptions-in-contemporary-experimental-film/ Hanna B. Hoelling on conservation and Nam June Paik http://www.necsus-ejms.org/transcending-obsolescence-in-technological-ruins-questions-of-conservation-and-presentation-in-nam-june-paiks-something-pacific-and-rembrandt-automatic/ We are also launching a new exhibition review section edited by Miriam De Rosa and Malin Wahlberg of the NECS Publication Committee. Please do get in touch with us if you would like to propose covering a show. Sincerely, Greg de Cuir, Jr Managing Editor, NECSUS From: Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 2:54 PM Subject: Re: [Frameworks] exp film orgs suggestions In terms of publications, there are relatively few that are dedicated solely to experimental work, but there are quite a few that regularly carry some articles and reviews, such as JumpCut (www.ejumpcut.org) and Afterimage (print, but also a web site: http://vsw.org/afterimage/issues/afterimage-vol-41-no-5/) There is some very good writing on experimental media sometimes found on the web sites of institutions already listerd here. It's worth it to search both organizations, galleries, specific critics, blogs, artist's sites, etc. Here's a handful I could quickly grab from a bookmark folder. http://www.luxonline.org.uk http://www.derives.tv http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net http://www.filmgalerie451.de/en/dvd/editionen/arsenal/ http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/james-broughton-light-and-dark https://www.nfb.ca http://alternativeprojections.com http://www.incite-online.net http://making-light-of-it.blogspot.com/2009/10/reading-list.html http://www.alphavillejournal.com/index.html http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk http://www.vtape.org http://www.moremilkyvette.blogspot.com Chuck Kleinhans chuck...@northwestern.edu ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Student Film/Video Fests?
Dear all: At Alternative Film/Video Belgrade we make no distinction between young/emerging/student work and other works. All are eligible for and welcome in our competition program. We often have student works that are nominated by our jury to the festival's list of significant achievements. In fact, last year we had one: Julia Weissenberg (Germany) with her video Snowstorm. Sincerely, Greg de Cuir, Jr Selector/Curator, Alternative Film/Video Belgrade http://www.alternativefilmvideo.org/ From: Jesse Malmed jesse.mal...@gmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Thursday, April 3, 2014 5:43 PM Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Student Film/Video Fests? Hey Cousin, Student Experimental Film Festival Binghamton is dedicated to showing Experimental Film (and video) by Students at their Festival in Binghamton. I believe they encourage students of all levels and seem to do a very good job. This will be a great resource for teachers and students alike. Excited to see what comes of it. Jesse On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Laura Trager tragerla...@gmail.com wrote: The backup_festival in Weimar, Germany is exactly what you are looking for. Their deadline passed for this year, the festival is happening in May. But there is no submission fee, and they are specifically looking to screen films of students and emerging artists. They have two competitions with monetary prizes, and an audience award. http://backupfestival.de/ (choose the English language version in the upper right hand corner) Best, Laura 2014-04-03 8:11 GMT-04:00 Roshanak Elmendorf roshana...@optonline.net: Hi Benjamin, Try Athens Film Fest(ohio). They have accepted one of my experimental films. Also a friend send me info about this festival in Rome: http://www.i-m.co/inte/intecinemafestival/home.html. There are wonderful venues in New York city for experimental films. I will share them with you as I discover them. Good luck! Roshanak On Apr 2, 2014, at 11:59 PM, Benjamin Pearson b.seth.pear...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all! I am wondering if anyone has any leads/suggestions for fests that are friendly to (undergraduate) student experimental film and video makers? By friendly I mean something along the lines of no/low cost, preferential focus on young/emerging artists (or have specific categories for such artists as part of a larger fest) whose emphasis is on works other than traditional narrative, documentary or music videos. Any and all ideas would be greatly appreciated by me, and even more by the young artists who are subject to benefit from such info!! thank you in advance! -Benjamin Pearson ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks Roshanak Elmendorf roshana...@optonline.net roshanakelmendorf.com ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks -- // // // J E S S E M A L M E D 505.690.7899505.690.7899 // jesse.mal...@gmail.com // www.jessemalmed.net // deep leap // nightingale // trunk show // projective verse // bad at sports // ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] festival suggestions for an alt-narrative?
Dear Caryn: We actually have a non-competition program in our festival called Alternative Narrative, specifically for works like this that slip through the boundaries. Since we're already in touch I'm sure we'll talk more! Best, Greg de Cuir, Jr Selector/Curator, Alternative Film/Video Belgrade http://www.alternativefilmvideo.org/ From: Caryn Cline carynycl...@gmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2014 6:45 PM Subject: [Frameworks] festival suggestions for an alt-narrative? Dear Frameworkers, For the last two years, I’ve been working with a friend on an experimental narrative short (25 minutes) that is now finished. It is a film about a middle-aged woman’s attempts to understand and process her mother’s dementia and death. The film explores other ways besides the conventional “classical” narrative to tell the story. I’m writing to ask for your advice about festivals that might be interested in such a film. We will send it to women’s film festivals, of course, but I’m wondering about experimental festivals that might be open to alt-narratives. I’d be happy to hear any festival suggestions that you might offer—national and international. Also, does anyone out there know of festivals that focus on senior or aging issues? Many thanks. CC -- Caryn Cline co-producer, Acts of Witness www.actsofwitness.com vimeo.com/carynyc ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] Alternative Film/Video Research Forum, 2014
Alternative Film/Video Belgrade 9-13 December 2014 3rd Research Forum (Call for papers) After the success of the 1st Alternative Film/Video Research Forum in 2012 which featured such notable participants as Dirk de Bruyn, Ivan Ladislav Galeta, and others, and the second edition of the forum in 2013, featuring Branka Benčić, Bruce Posner, and more, we are now announcing the 3rd Alternative Film/Video Research Forum. This one-day event (on 11 December) running concurrently with the festival will gather a group of curators, critics, artists, and researchers for an intimate forum where papers will be delivered and discussions held concerning alternative works of film, video, and new media art. Cinephilia is thriving, particularly a certain obsessive-compulsive attachment to the film apparatus in the wake of the continuing onslaught of digital media. In the alternative, avant-garde realm, quite ironically, celluloid is cherished as a prior standard, an ideal, often traced to canonic achievements of the past. Video has always been the black sheep of the visual mechanical reproductive family. In the 2014 research forum we will liberate ourselves from the dogmatic tangle of the film strip and celebrate video as an inherently progressive form of expression. In 2014 Alternative Film/Video Belgrade will commemorate the introduction of video to the profile of the festival in 1985. The research forum will look to explore and contextualize the emergence of video art. However, we will not limit ourselves to the past. We will also be interested in exploring contemporary forms of video art, including the use of webcams, CGI, net art, mobile media, and more. As such, we invite contributions on artists, aesthetics, technology, workshops, exhibitions, conservation, curation, and other subjects relevant to understanding experiments in video art past and present. We are accepting abstracts of 300 words along with short biographies of 150 words for consideration. Selected participants will be given support towards their accommodation in Belgrade but are asked to cover travel expenses on their own. Please forward inquiries and submissions to Greg de Cuir, Jr, Selector/Curator for Alternative Film/Video Belgrade, no later than 1 September 2014 at gdec...@yahoo.com. Alternative Film/Video Belgrade (Serbia) is the premier international festival in the Balkans for new film and video tendencies and one of the oldest festivals of its kind in Europe. It was founded in 1982 by festival director Miodrag Milošević as an antidote to commercial film and video-making and to support radical practices in celebrating the moving image. Alternative Film/Video Belgrade is organized by and hosted at Academic Film Center in Belgrade, which was established in 1958 as a ciné-club and where many legendary filmmakers worked, including Tomislav Gotovac, Živojin Pavlović, Radoslav Vladić, and others. Visit the website at www.alternativefilmvideo.org/. ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] reflexivity and Dziga Vertov
And though it seems to have been forgotten, Vlada Petric's monograph on the film is the ideal primary source. Cambridge even recently put out a second edition. Constructivism in Film A Cinematic Analysis The Man with the Movie Camera | Media, mass communication Greg de Cuir, JrSelector/Curator, Alternative Film/Video Belgrade From: Jonathan Walley wall...@denison.edu To: jaime cleeland ethnom...@yahoo.co.uk; Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 1:48 AM Subject: Re: [Frameworks] reflexivity and Dziga Vertov I’m not sure anything’s ever been written about DV/MWMC that didn’t address his/its reflexivity. Any source you consult will have something to say about it. Some recommended sources include: http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520056305http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199388707.dohttp://books.google.com/books/about/Documentary.html?id=qtZ91DNvgBMC This doesn’t mention TONS of scholarly essays on Vertov and MWMC. Lots to work with.JW Dr. Jonathan Walley Associate Professor Department of Cinema Denison University wall...@denison.edu On Nov 23, 2014, at 4:08 PM, jaime cleeland ethnom...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hello, I am writing an academic essay about 'Man with the Movie Camera' . Any pointers on the reflexive mode within the film would be helpful. Jaime ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] NECSUS_Autumn 2014_'War'
Dear colleagues: The new issue of the journal NECSUS has recently been published online and in open access (http://www.necsus-ejms.org/portfolio/autumn-2014_war/). Please note that we have introduced a new audiovisual essay section edited by Cristina Álvarez López Adrian Martin, which features the work of Dirk de Bruyn (http://www.necsus-ejms.org/found-found-found/). We have also introduced a new exhibition review section edited by Miriam De Rosa and Malin Wahlberg (NECS Publication Committee). We look forward to receiving proposals for both audiovisual essay work and exhibition reviews. We hope you will enjoy the new issue. Thank you. Happy holidays, Greg de Cuir, JrManaging Editor, NECSUS ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Response to Gene Youngblood
I'm with you Kelly and everything you're saying, even though I have only followed this thread intermittently. A bit more maturity and understanding on all sides seems like it would not hurt. For what it is worth, and in my humble opinion, Sadie Benning's It Wasn't Love is one of the greatest works of cinema I have ever seen, barring no one and nothing. It will always have a special place in my own personal canon, which I only hope is out of step with accepted/entrenched/official ones. Cordially, Greg de Cuir, JrSelector/Curator, Alternative Film/Video Belgrade From: Kelly Gallagher ke...@purpleriot.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 8:20 PM Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Response to Gene Youngblood Sasha, I appreciate your intelligent and helpful response bringing some radical women filmmakers into the original post. Sometimes many people in this space seem to get very stuck on notions of the canon which means that important work like that of Sadie Benning and Hito Steyerl gets swiped aside. As a young woman experimental filmmaker I appreciate your challenging and provoking comments in your original post. As a young woman experimental filmmaker I also stand fervently and explicitly against sexist and patronizing comments, tone, and antagonizing. I'm a little taken aback that more people haven't loudly and explicitly critiqued the sexism and sexist patronizing/condescension that was thrown at Sasha and I'm kind of surprised and disappointed. Frameworks will continue to lose many radical and important filmmakers, thinkers, and feminists, especially many young filmmakers, over deplorable vitriol such as what's played out here in this incident.In solidarity with Sasha, Kim, and all women filmmakers in experimental spaces who demand to stop being condescended to. -Kelly On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Tim Halloran televis...@hotmail.com wrote: Calm down. Thanks for adding nothing to the conversation. Tim Sent from my iPad On Mar 31, 2015, at 8:09 AM, Cari Machet carimac...@gmail.com wrote: gene owes no fucking apology in any way you on the other hand need to do some hefty work on yourself - obliviousness to self critique is a frightening place to even witness a hearty fuck off to you sasha On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 4:08 PM, chris bravo iamdir...@gmail.com wrote: Clearly my rhetorical excesses with regards to Wavelength your rhetoric wasn't excessive it was offensive. On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Sasha Waters Freyer swfre...@vcu.edu wrote: Mr. Youngblood, Clearly my rhetorical excesses with regards to Wavelength offended you. However, turning a critical disagreement over a 48-year-old film is no excuse to attack my ability as a teacher or to dictate my responsibility to my students. I will chalk this exchange up to your passion for Snow's work, and not an inherent rudeness of your character. I accept your apology in advance. Yours, Sasha Waters Freyer On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 3:02 AM, frameworks-requ...@jonasmekasfilms.com wrote: Send FrameWorks mailing list submissions to frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to frameworks-requ...@jonasmekasfilms.com You can reach the person managing the list at frameworks-ow...@jonasmekasfilms.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of FrameWorks digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: VSW - to your attention! (Bernard Roddy) 2. Looking to purchase a JK Optical Printer (Christopher Harris) 3. Re: 2. Re: What are the 3 Essential Films that you would show Artists on their first foray into the Moving Image Realm ? (Bernard Roddy) 4. 3 sound works (Bernard Roddy) 5. Re: 2. Re: What are the 3 Essential Films that you would show Artists on their first foray into the Moving Image Realm ? (direc...@lift.on.ca) 6. Re: VSW - to your attention! (Amanda Christie) 7. Re: 2. Re: What are the 3 Essential Films that you would show Artists on their first foray into the Moving Image Realm ? (Kelly Gallagher) 8. Re: 2. Re: What are the 3 Essential Films that you would show Artists on their first foray into the Moving Image Realm ? (Francisco Torres) 9. TONIGHT 3.30 7pm - Jonas Mekas 365 Day Project - Part 3 - March at Microscope, Mekas in person w. pizza and rootbeer (LBurchill) 10. Re: 2. Re: What are the 3 Essential Films that you would show Artists on their first foray into the Moving Image Realm ? (George, Sherman) 11. New photo essay posted to flickr (Emile Tobenfeld) 12. ed Reflections of Life: American Indian and Indigenous filmmaker screening series this week at California Institute of the Arts.
Re: [Frameworks] Los Angeles Filmforum presents Reclamation Works: New and recent films by William E. Jones and Thom Andersen on Sunday July 26
http://decinema-decuir.tumblr.com/post/123115134176/avant-noir-volume-2-program-notes https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/artists-film-club-avant-noir-volume-2-curated-greg-de-cuir-jr Dear Adam: How are you? Hope you enjoyed Oberhausen. Too bad we didn't get a chance to have coffee and catch up. A question for you. I'm really interested to see Andersen's Juke. Do you know if he has an online preview available, and if so, how I could come to it? Not sure if I told you but I've been curating the multi-part series Avant-Noir for ICA London. Links with details are above. Hope to be in touch. Have a great summer. Best, Greg Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android From:Adam Hyman a...@lafilmforum.org Date:Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 17:58 Subject:[Frameworks] Los Angeles Filmforum presents Reclamation Works: New and recent films by William E. Jones and Thom Andersen on Sunday July 26 Behind in postings, so sending this to the list, for those of you in Southern California tomorrow: Sunday July 26, 2015, 7:30 pm Los Angeles Filmforum presents Reclamation Works: New and recent films by William E. Jones and Thom Andersen At the Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90028 William E. Jones and Thom Andersen in person! One U.S and five Los Angeles premieres! William E. Jones and Thom Andersen each return to Filmforum to present recent works that look deep into past films to find and revitalize their meanings. Whether social investigation, political commentary, or a now-forgotten filmmaker’s documentation of an era largely forgotten, these two artists again show why they are two of the finest cinema makers of today. Five works by William E. Jones include one U.S. and four Los Angeles premieres, and Thom Andersen’s Juke is its local premiere. For more event information: www.lafilmforum.org http://www.lafilmforum.org , or 323-377-7238 Tickets: $10 general, $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available by credit card in advance from Brown Paper Tickets at http://bpt.me/2005522 or at the door. Screening: Midcentury (William E. Jones, 2012, video, color, sound, 30:00) *U.S. premiere Midcentury is a compilation originally commissioned for the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009), reworked once for the 57th Oberhausen Film Festival (2011), then again for an exhibition at White Cube in London (2012). Its form mimics that of a network’s broadcast day, condensed to a half hour. Although Midcentury contains no first person narration, it can be considered an autobiography of sorts—the work of a hyperactive child who grew up in an industrial wasteland during the Cold War and watched far too much television. Juke: Passages from the Films of Spencer Williams (Thom Andersen, 2015, 29 min.) *Los Angeles premiere! “During the 1940s, Spencer Williams directed nine race films for Sack Entertainment in central Texas, and he acted in eight of these films. Six of these films exist today. “In Juke, I attempt to reclaim his work, to demonstrate its originality and beauty as well as its documentary value. Williams returns always to the same theme: the struggle between the sacred and the profane, the church and the juke joint, gospel and blues. He portrays both with equal conviction. The church always prevails, but he gives the devil his due. That’s what makes The Blood of Jesus a masterpiece: it takes a miracle to bring her back from the allure of the city and its night clubs. “The drama in his other films is more banal, but I began to notice a remarkable documentary record of black life in the 1940s in these films. There are the nightclub scenes, of course, but there is also a precious recording of residential spaces, from the shack in The Blood of Jesus to the comfortable middle class home in Juke Joint. “I bring out these documentary qualities by looping shots of empty interiors and showing actions freed from the plot. I am not trying to make some new meaning from these films; I am striving to bring out the meanings that are there but obscured by the plot lines: the dignity of black life and the creation of a dynamic culture in the segregated society of 1940s Texas. I regard my movie as a kin to Walker Evans’ photographs of sharecroppers’ homes in the 1930s and George Orwell’s essays on English working class interiors. “Juke was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art to open its film series “A Road Three Hundred Years Long: Cinema and the Great Migration,” running in conjunction with a show on Jacob Lawrence’s “Great Migration” paintings.” --Thom Andersen Shoot Don’t Shoot (William E. Jones, 2012, video, color, sound, 4:30) *Los Angeles premiere Shoot Don’t Shoot adapts a 1970s law enforcement instructional film that trains officers to decide by instinct whether or not to fire their guns. The suspect in this sequence fits the following
[Frameworks] Alternative Film/Video Research Forum 2016, Documentary Intersections
AlternativeFilm/Video Research Forum 2016 DocumentaryIntersections AlternativeFilm/Video 7-11December 2016, Belgrade Regardingthe active fault line between modes of expression in cinema, Bill Nichols wroteabout ‘blurred boundaries’ in 1995. Twenty years later Erika Balsom and HilaPeleg wrote about ‘documentary across disciplines’ with a specific focus onalternative forms. Notwithstanding these important recent critical brackets,there is a very long tradition of documentary practices making incursions intothe field of alternative film and video, though there does seem to be a risingcurve of such work in the early 21st century, through the use ofarchival material, amateur film/video, and other forms of non-fiction contentthat is experimented upon and/or with. This year’s Alternative Film/VideoResearch Forum will take stock of the current state of such ‘documentaryintersections’, analyzing their pasts, presents, and future prospects for adynamic, borderless cinema. Wedo not normally think of alternative film and video in terms of genre orthrough genre studies. As such, we do not often enough consider the effects ofgenre hybridity or ‘interdisciplinarity’ as exhibited in such work. As a genrethe documentary has been very fluid across the history of cinema. One can seeits artifacts in various national styles and movements. On the other end of thespectrum, documentary itself has had something of an experimental affinitysince the silent era of cinema. One might recall the interactive plays withperformance of Flaherty, or the archival fever of Shub, or the radical montagestrategies of Vertov. How do we account for these early intersections? How havethey developed over time while impacting alternative film and video work? Whatare the qualities of contemporary attempts to experiment along these and otherpaths? InJeffrey Skoller’s 2005 study, Shadows,Specters, Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde Film, he argues for theimportant role that alternative film and video plays in evoking social andpolitical history – maybe more important than conventional non-fiction formats.Here we have an ethical concern with the documentary intersection, with the largerresponsibility and burden it carries. In the 2016 anthology Ortsbestimmungen.Das Dokumentarische zwischen Kino und Kunst, edited by Katrin Mundtand Eva Hohenberger, we again find an investigation of the documentary betweenthe disciplines of cinema and art. Can we place the ‘alternative documentary’on such a continuum, and if so to what pole does it tend toward? To againborrow a title from one of Nichol’s books, the documentary might be chargedwith ‘representing reality’ but the documentaryintersection, with its elemental collisions and fusions, may have the moreimportant task of re/creating reality. Building a better world out of theshadows, specters, and shards of the existing one is a formidable concern forsuch a cinematic intervention. We will explore and exercise this concern in theAlternative Film/Video Research Forum 2016. Thisone-day event (on 9 December) running concurrently with the festival willgather a group of curators, critics, artists, and researchers for an intimateencounter where presentations will be delivered and discussions held concerningalternative works of film, video, and new media art. We are accepting abstractsof 300 words along with short biographies of 150 words for consideration.Selected participants will be given support toward their accommodation inBelgrade but are asked to cover travel expenses on their own. Please forwardinquiries and submissions to Greg de Cuir, Jr, selector/curator for AlternativeFilm/Video Belgrade, no later than 15 October 2016 at gdec...@yahoo.com. AlternativeFilm/Video Belgrade (Serbia) is an international festival for new film andvideo tendencies and one of the oldest manifestations of its kind in Europe. Itwas founded in 1982 by Miodrag Milošević as an antidote to commercial film andvideo-making and to support unconventional practices while celebrating movingimage cultures. Alternative Film/Video Belgrade is organized by and hosted atAcademic Film Center in Belgrade, which was established in 1958 as a kino cluband where many iconic filmmakers worked, including Tomislav Gotovac, ŽivojinPavlović, Radoslav Vladić, and others. Visit the website at www.alternativefilmvideo.org/. ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
