[Frameworks] seeking help in Oakland, CA on Wed Feb 19

2020-02-13 Thread C Keefer
Center for Visual Music seeks help next week in Oakland, paid, for about an hour on Wed February 19. It’s loading 12 boxes into our vehicle, approx weight 45 lbs each. At 11 am, near Oakland Amtrak station, Second Street, Jack London Square. Will pay, please contact us offlist at cvmarchive (at)

Re: [Frameworks] meditative films?

2020-01-03 Thread C Keefer
Can you not show dvds or files in the classroom? I am troubled by the condition, must be viewable online. A disturbing trend in teaching today which does not provide good quality viewing experiences for many historical experimental films. And especially James Whitney's. Giving students youtube

[Frameworks] ? request email

2019-08-10 Thread C Keefer
i keep getting this request email do I need to do something? ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks

Re: [Frameworks] Suzan Pitt

2019-06-20 Thread C Keefer
Very sad news about Suzan. She was a brilliant artist who will be missed. I'm honored to have guest lectured for a few of her classes, while she was still teaching at Cal Arts. She wanted her students to be exposed to Fischinger and other films from our archive. Suzan was a great supporter of

Re: [Frameworks] walking

2019-05-04 Thread C Keefer
Hi Scott, Oskar Fischinger, Walking from Munich to Berlin https://vimeo.com/54587466 Best regards, Cindy Keefer Center for Visual Music Cvmaccess at gmail.com www.centerforvisualmusic.org www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Fischinger > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Scott

Re: [Frameworks] Expanded cinema and experimental music

2019-02-21 Thread C Keefer
There's some names here, from the Tate Expanded Cinema Conference: http://www.studycollection.co.uk/expanded/index.html More on this conference with some video documentation of talks: http://www.rewind.ac.uk/expanded/Narrative/Tate.html Finally, of course the term "Expanded Cinema" was first

[Frameworks] Visual Music/Animation Screening Series, Aug 14-16 at CVM No. Cal Symposium

2018-07-10 Thread C Keefer
Please share or forward to interested parties: A 5 program Screening Series presented in northern California in August (in conjunction with the CVM Symposium). For Immediate Release: *CVM Symposium 2018: Exploring and Preserving Visual MusicAugust 14-16, Sonoma County, CAIn association with

[Frameworks] 5 CVM Screenings Aug 14-16, near San Francisco

2018-06-10 Thread C Keefer
*Center for Visual Music (CVM) presents five screenings of experimental animation, visual music and abstraction, Aug 14-16 in Sonoma County (1 hour north of San Francisco).* *Aug 14*, 7 pm, 2 programs: --New Restorations & Discoveries (Fischinger, Lye, Belson, Conner, Dockum and more, featuring

[Frameworks] Early Bird Reg. ends May 30 - Visual Music Symposium

2018-05-11 Thread C Keefer
Please share with appropriate lists and persons, thank you. Early bird discount registration ends *May 30 *for: *CVM Symposium 2018: Exploring and Preserving Visual MusicAugust 14-16, Sonoma County, CAIn association with Sonoma State University* * centerforvisualmusic.org/Symposium

[Frameworks] CFP Visual Music Symposium, March 23 deadline

2018-03-12 Thread C Keefer
Exploring and Preserving Visual Music August 14-16 Sonoma County, CA Center for Visual Music (CVM) announces its call for papers for a Symposium on Visual Music, August 14-16, 2018, in association with Sonoma State University. The symposium will explore the theories, histories, and practices of

[Frameworks] Reviews, press for new Oskar Fischinger DVD

2018-02-27 Thread C Keefer
a. Animation historian John Canemaker reviews the new Oskar Fischinger DVD in his blog, Animated EYE: http://animatedeye.johncanemaker.com/blog/eye-looks-four-books-dvd/ He also reviews some new books, including Dali/Destino & Disney. b. Animation World Network announces the new DVD:

[Frameworks] Fischinger San Francisco exhibition extended to February 10

2018-01-13 Thread C Keefer
Center for Visual Music is please to announce that our Oskar Fischinger: *Raumlichtkunst *exhibition in San Francisco has been extended through *February 10*, at Weinstein Gallery's SoMA location. The exhibition also includes animation paintings and artwork by Fischinger (much from the film *Radio

[Frameworks] New Oskar Fischinger DVD from CVM!

2018-01-13 Thread C Keefer
Center for Visual Music is pleased to announced the release of a new DVD *Oskar Fischinger: Visual Music* Classic and rare films by the "Father of Visual Music" Featuring Fischinger's famous *Composition in Blue*, *Muratti greift ein* (ad film), *Study no. 8*, *Study no. 5 and Study no. 2* from

Re: [Frameworks] Electronic Soundtracks for Avant-Garde Films

2017-12-26 Thread C Keefer
A correction re the John Stehura film, mentioned in Albert's first post below. * Cibernetik 5.3* (note correct spelling) was made between 1960-65. Not 1968. Center for Visual Music is the distributor for this film. John's older page about the film with this data is at

Re: [Frameworks] 1920s German abstraction

2017-12-13 Thread C Keefer
Louise O'Konor's monograph on Viking Eggeling Jeanpaul Goergen, ed., Walther Ruttmann: Eine Dokumentation.Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek (1989) (contact CVM if you cannot find this). Recent Oskar Fischinger monograph, includes material on his 1920s work: Keefer, Cindy and J. Guldemond, eds.

[Frameworks] Fischinger's Raumlichtkunst, West Coast premiere in SF

2017-11-29 Thread C Keefer
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE *Weinstein Gallery Celebrates 25th Anniversary with the West Coast premiere of * *Oskar Fischinger’s Raumlichtkunst (c.1926/2012) * *Three-projector Reconstruction by Center for Visual Music* *"Dazzling...an exhilarating phantasmagoria of abstraction and metaphor" - New

Re: [Frameworks] Asking for a friend / naming names

2017-11-28 Thread C Keefer
I agree with Amanda, "naming aggressors should come from the people who have personally been hurt by them…" - and only by them. I agree, that one should "make sure to be careful about who gets to tell their own stories." Also, repeating hearsay is obviously not acceptable. But beyond that -

Re: [Frameworks] Jazz Music and Avant-Garde Film

2017-11-10 Thread C Keefer
many other visual music films for that list, here's a few - More by Harry Smith, Films 2 and 3 and 11 Jordan Belson, Bop Scotch More by Hy Hirsh (no c in Hirsh), including Scratch Pad at least 4 or 5 films by Len Lye more by Norman McLaren Oskar Fischinger, Studie nr 5. On CVM's vimeo VOD

[Frameworks] FRIDAY CVM salon/screening, Sonoma County

2017-09-27 Thread C Keefer
This Friday, Sept 29, Santa Rosa, CA (Sonoma County): *Visual Music and Early Abstract Films* Center for Visual Music and Chroma Gallery present an outdoor salon-style screening of abstract films from the CVM archive, exploring the relationships between images and music. The event features

[Frameworks] the sublime

2017-06-28 Thread C Keefer
Ron, There's a short piece online, "The Sublime and Cultural Difference," by Kathryn Weir, for the *Sublime* exhibition held in Australia in 2015, which included Oskar Fischinger: *Raumlichtkunst.* http://blog.qagoma.qld.gov.au/the-sublime-and-cultural-difference/ If you're not familiar with

[Frameworks] New Visual Music 1947-1986 DVD from CVM

2017-06-14 Thread C Keefer
More trailers online for CVM's new DVD release! Center for Visual Music is pleased to announce a new DVD release, *Visual Music (1947-1986) from the CVM Archive: Belson, Bute, Dockum, Engel, Spinello.* Thirteen rare experimental animation films featuring pre-computer abstraction, using a variety

Re: [Frameworks] Major exhibitions of moving image art

2017-05-21 Thread C Keefer
Dennis posted about a screening series in Boston, but I read Ben's original post as regarding exhibitions of moving images (installed) in art museums. Here are a few CVM has provided films/digital versions for, though the first is filmmaker-specific based on his films. Others are broader. *Oskar

Re: [Frameworks] optical sound film screening

2017-03-03 Thread C Keefer
Hi Peter, Are you seeking film prints or digital copies? Fischinger's *Ornament Sound*, as Ingo mentioned (contact Center for Visual Music, Los Angeles for Fischinger films). We also have a16mm print at Light Cone, Paris. Several films by Barry Spinello, several by Norman McLaren. Many by Devon

[Frameworks] Jordan Belson show Tues pm Berkeley

2017-02-06 Thread C Keefer
Area light shows of the 1960s (C. Keefer). Films include: Bop Scotch, Mandala, Seance, Vortex V presentation reel, Allures, LSD, Samadhi, Momentum, Chakra, Cycles, Music of the Spheres (original 1977 long version). *Many of the films in this program were preserved by Center for Visual Music

[Frameworks] Molly Surno contact

2016-12-23 Thread C Keefer
Can anyone provide current contact info and phone number, off list, for Molly Surno? thanks in advance, Cindy Keefer Center for Visual Music www.centerforvisualmusic.org cvmaccess (at) gmail (dot) com ___ FrameWorks mailing list

[Frameworks] Attn UK list members, 2 CVM salons this week

2016-10-08 Thread C Keefer
Center for Visual Music presents two UK CVM Salons this week, screening rare animation films by Jordan Belson, Mary Ellen Bute, Jules Engel and others, plus a wide range of contemporary experimental animation and visual music. Followed by a set of live light painting by Mark Rowan-Hull accompanied

[Frameworks] CORRECTION: Belson show is SATURDAY

2016-10-07 Thread C Keefer
Sorry, this Belson show in Lisbon is SATURDAY, not Friday > From: C Keefer <keef...@gmail.com> > To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com > Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 11:54:44 > Subject: [Frameworks] FRIDAY: Jordan Belson Retrospective in Lisbon > Center for Visual Music presents Fil

[Frameworks] 2nd Oskar Fischinger DVD is coming / indiegogo campaign

2016-04-20 Thread C Keefer
In production now.the second Fischinger DVD, *Oskar Fischinger: Visual Music*. We have an indiegogo campaign for completion funding, where you can receive perks such as the fun new Fischinger Coaster set, flipbooks, posters, signed books and other items. Or just pre-order a copy of the DVD.

[Frameworks] Oct 17 Newark: Animation program for all ages from CVM

2015-10-16 Thread C Keefer
The Newark Museum (New Jersey, near NYC) will hold a *Festival of Color & Light* for all ages this Saturday, October 16, featuring activities for kids and adults. Center for Visual Music has provided a film program (16mm and digital) which screens twice, per the request for "colorful animation for

[Frameworks] RIP Henry Jacobs

2015-10-10 Thread C Keefer
Sad news, Henry Jacobs has passed. From Wikipedia (in 2014 Jacobs indicated his Wikipedia entry was mostly accurate) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Jacobs >From a local paper in northern California (though not entirely accurate):

[Frameworks] NY, Oct 1: Cecile Starr Tribute Celebration

2015-09-21 Thread C Keefer
Thursday, Oct. 1, 6 pm at Lincoln Center - Cecile Starr Tribute Celebration Center for Visual Music and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, present a Cecile Starr Tribute Celebration on October 1 at Lincoln Center, New York. As a writer,

Re: [Frameworks] titles of Scratch films

2015-08-26 Thread C Keefer
Hi Tess, Hy Hirsh's Scratch Pad (1961). Possibly also a few shots in his La Couleur de la Forme. More on Hy Hirsh: centerforvisualmusic.org/Hirsh/CVM-HirshFilmography.htm Cindy Keefer Center for Visual Music www.centerforvisualmusic.org Contact: cvmaccess (at) gmail.com

[Frameworks] NYC area 16mm projector projectionist needed

2015-08-12 Thread C Keefer
Dear list, Anyone have recommendations for a 16mm projector projectionist in NYC area who travels to venues, who can screen some of our films in mid-October? It's a NJ venue, close to NYC. Need to screen a short program (c. 40 mins) twice on a Saturday, afternoon early evening. Please email

[Frameworks] Summer SALE: Books, DVDs, ephemera etc

2015-08-01 Thread C Keefer
SUMMER SALE: Center for Visual Music occasionally sells duplicates and other materials. Some vintage research materials here may be of interest to list members. Proceeds from all sales support CVM's programs preserving and promotion abstract cinema and experimental animation. Items can be

[Frameworks] Cecile Starr Tribute, Oct 1, New York

2015-07-17 Thread C Keefer
Please hold the date: Center for Visual Music and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, present a *Cecile Starr Tribute Celebration* on Thursday, October 1, 6 pm, at Lincoln Center, New York. As a writer, educator, scholar, and film

Re: [Frameworks] What are the 3 Essential Films that you would show Artists on their first foray into the Moving Image Realm ?

2015-03-29 Thread C Keefer
Just a note to follow up on Elizabeth's great post. The Cecile Starr Memorial Tribute in NY is October 1, separate announcement to follow. Also, sorry to report Cecile's widow Aram Boyajian had been quite ill, and passed recently this month. Spook Sport is a film by Mary Ellen Bute, in which she

[Frameworks] Cecile Starr Tribute Celebration, NY October 1

2015-03-29 Thread C Keefer
HOLD THE DATE: Center for Visual Music and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, will present a *Cecile Starr Tribute Celebration* on Thursday, October 1, 6 pm, at *Lincoln Center, New York*. More information will follow soon, to be posted on

Re: [Frameworks] Optical sound – Structural film

2015-02-11 Thread C Keefer
Though earlier than your time period, Oskar Fischinger's Ornament Sound experiments (c. 1932). On CVM's VOD channel on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/26951 More recently, possibly some of Devon Damonte's work, though it's not 60s or 70s. best regards, Cindy Keefer Center for Visual Music

Re: [Frameworks] question regarding color preservation of early animation films

2015-02-01 Thread C Keefer
Stefan Drossler of the Munich Filmmuseum screened a digital copy of their recent restorations of Ruttmann's Opus films with the color, a few years ago in Los Angeles. Afterwards we spoke about their restoration, and he confirmed the intensity of colors (seen on their Ruttmann DVD compilation)

Re: [Frameworks] Cecile Starr 1921-2014

2014-12-25 Thread C Keefer
We have lost a remarkable person, whose story needs to be written. For those who are curious, there will be a memorial in the Spring, likely in May. We extend our condolences to her family. Many on this list might like to know she'd placed a great deal of her papers in the Yale library's

[Frameworks] Sun 16th in NY - rare Belson, Cage + Fischinger, Deren, more

2014-11-10 Thread C Keefer
Center for Visual Music screens Jordan Belson's rare LSD (c. 1962), plus 3 other preserved prints from our archive next Sunday Nov 16th, 1:30 pm at MoMA, as part of To Save and Project: The 12th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation. Includes the 2 newly discovered and restored John

[Frameworks] 2 new DVD releases from CVM: doc Baily and Robert Seidel

2014-11-05 Thread C Keefer
For immediate release: Robert Seidel: Projections, Installations and Films and Richard “dr.” Baily and John Buchanan: experiments in spore Center for Visual Music is pleased to announce its release of two new DVDs that showcase the dazzling work of contemporary digital artists. *Robert Seidel:

Re: [Frameworks] Cinematic altered states - BFI Southbank screening

2014-11-02 Thread C Keefer
Hello Stuart and list, Re the BFI program Tuesday, Nov 4, the listing doesn't indicate but some might wish to know that's a brand new 16mm print of Momentum by Jordan Belson. CVM loaned this as well as Belson's Samadhi (digital) and John Stehura's Cibernetik 5.3 (digital). Looks to be a great

[Frameworks] NE US interest in Fischinger/Belson/Bute Retrospectives

2014-10-03 Thread C Keefer
?* *Scott* Original Message Subject: [Frameworks] Sun/Mon - Fischinger Bute Retrospectives, Harvard From: C Keefer keef...@gmail.com Date: Sat, September 27, 2014 8:58 am To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com 2 programs from Center for Visual Music at Harvard Film Archive Sun

[Frameworks] Sun/Mon - Fischinger Bute Retrospectives, Harvard

2014-09-27 Thread C Keefer
2 programs from Center for Visual Music at Harvard Film Archive Sun, Sept 28, *Optical Poetry: Oskar Fischinger Retrospective* at Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge MA, 7 pm. 35mm prints of his classic films, and a new restoration of Studie nr 5.

[Frameworks] Fischinger's Raumlichtkunst, plus Retrospective screening in Australia

2014-08-13 Thread C Keefer
For those in Australia/New Zealand - Oskar Fischinger's *Raumlichtkunst* opens August 30 at another museum, this time in Australia. It's part of an exhibition called Sublime at the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art (which is an excellent museum), Brisbane, on view through May, 2015.

[Frameworks] CVM's avant-garde benefit auction opens

2014-06-13 Thread C Keefer
CVM's online Benefit Auction has opened, with many items of interest to list members - artwork, photography, film, posters plus rare and signed books, and more. Art by Oskar Fischinger, Jordan Belson, Steve Roden, Robert Seidel, Christina McPhee, George Stadnik and more; two 16mm film prints by

[Frameworks] Rare Belson, Cage, Fischinger, Yalkut films at Bard College, NY, April

2014-03-25 Thread C Keefer
hold the date - April 26. The John Cage Trust and Bard College Conservatory of Music present: New Restorations and Discoveries from Center for Visual Music April 26 at Ottaway Film Center, Bard College, New York From absolute film to psychedelia, this program of revelatory moments from the

Re: [Frameworks] 16mm print of Ballet Mecanique -- version by William Moritz

2014-01-17 Thread C Keefer
Clarifications re recent William Moritz posts - Jonathan, only a small collection of LGBT-related materials from Moritz's estate were donated to the ONE archive, per his wishes. No experimental films were given to ONE. The USC Library would not hold any rights for any Moritz films. Regarding

Re: [Frameworks] Cinema Siblings

2013-10-15 Thread C Keefer
The Whitney offspring (sons of John Sr.) are Mark, John Jr. and Michael. Details in Youngblood's Expanded Cinema about their famous Untitled Three Screen film, each brother operated a projector. Here's an invitation to a 1974 screening event at Cirrus (Los Angeles), from the CVM Collection:

Re: [Frameworks] Literature and experimental film

2013-09-28 Thread C Keefer
Germaine Dulac, L'invitation au Voyage (Charles Baudelaire) Mary Ellen Bute, Passages from Finnegans Wake (James Joyce) Cindy Keefer Center for Visual Music www.centerforvisualmusic.org CVM email = cvmaccess (at) gmail.com From: Esperanza Collado

Re: [Frameworks] Rare Jordan Belson work in CVM UK events

2013-09-19 Thread C Keefer
dy,Are all these films on 35mm or are they 16mm prints--and do you show them at non-archival places?Just checking!Hope all is well--glad you're busy with Belson!Scott Original Message Subject: [Frameworks] Rare Jordan Belson work in CVM UK eventsFrom: C Keefer <kee...@earthlink.

[Frameworks] Rare Jordan Belson work in CVM UK events

2013-09-18 Thread C Keefer
Greetings from London - CVM has 3 UK events in September, featuring Jordan Belson's films (and others), and the premiere of our restorations of Belson's LSD, a reel used by Belson at the '59 Vortex Concerts, and much more. Also, lost John Cage films, newly restored! 1. *Sept 21, Bristol.* Two

[Frameworks] Paris: Fischinger Raumlichtkunst opening June 20

2013-06-13 Thread C Keefer
For anyone near Paris in the next 3 months - or especially next week:Oskar Fischinger: Raumlichtkunst opens next Thursday, June 20 at Palais de Tokyo, Paris. It's part of an exhibition called La Fin de la Nuit, which runs to September 9, 2013.

[Frameworks] CVM online auction begins! Fischinger, Hirsh and contemporary artwork, posters, books

2013-05-22 Thread C Keefer
CVM's online Benefit Auction started today, May 22!Please help spread the word:www.centerforvisualmusic.org/2013SilentAuction.htmlWe invite you to view some amazing work in Center for Visual Music's 2nd benefit auction. The auction features several pieces by Oskar Fischinger: two early 1940s oils

[Frameworks] Belson's Music of the Spheres

2013-04-13 Thread C Keefer
Thanks for posting this, Doug. CVM has a low res excerpt from Music of the Spheres on our vimeo channel, http://vimeo.com/29465984 Though it's impossible to really see his work online. This 16mm film is being preserved by Center for Visual Music; note there are 2 versions of this film. best

[Frameworks] London Fischinger exhibition closes Sun Mar 24

2013-03-20 Thread C Keefer
Oskar Fischinger: Raumlichtkunst, our HD 3-screen installation currently at Tate Modern, London, closes this Sunday, March 24. Tate Collection Displays 5th Floor. The reconstruction has been on view since June 1, 2012 at Tate, and was at the Whitney Museum, New York for 4 months in 2012. In 1926,

Re: [Frameworks] drugged

2013-02-10 Thread C Keefer
LSD by Jordan Belson. Currently being preserved. parts of Yellow Submarine? Cindy Keefer Center for Visual Music www.centerforvisualmusic.org cvmaccess at gmail dot com From: Eric Theise ericthe...@gmail.com To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Subject:

[Frameworks] Belson prints (was trip to PFA and Canyon)

2012-12-21 Thread C Keefer
thanks for this post, Doug, about screening some Belson prints at PFA. You'll be pleased to learn that World has since been preserved, as has Momentum (we screen a 16mm print of the latter in CVM's traveling Belson Retrospective program). World is scheduled for the second Belson DVD, though no

[Frameworks] Closing Sunday, NY: Fischinger's Raumlichtkunst installation

2012-10-27 Thread C Keefer
Last weekend to see Oskar Fischinger: Space Light Art (otherwise billed as Raumlichtkunst) at the Whitney Museum, New York, through Sunday Oct 28. This is Center for Visual Music's three screen recreation of his 1920's cinema performances, with newly restored film transferred to HD. In Whitney's

[Frameworks] NY Sat: Belson / Fischinger double feature CVM screening

2012-10-18 Thread C Keefer
This Saturday Oct 20, 2 pm at The Whitney Museum, NY, two programs from Center for Visual Music. Optical Poetry: Oskar Fischinger Retrospective (35mm) Jordan Belson: Films Sacred and Profane (16mm/video) Each program c. 70 minutes, free with museum admission, details here:

[Frameworks] Fischinger in artforum

2012-09-30 Thread C Keefer
http://artforum.com/film/id=34566 Oskar Fischinger's Raumlichtkunst at Whitney Museum, NY through October 28. On view at Tate Modern, London (5th Floor), through May 2013 More European installations pending. http://centerforvisualmusic.org/Raumlichtkunst.html Cindy Keefer Curator/Archivist

[Frameworks] Belson program at Bard this October?

2012-08-26 Thread C Keefer
Is anyone on the list teaching at Bard College this fall, and/or interested in booking the Jordan Belson Retrospective program mid-October at Bard? (16mm and video) The Belson program screens this fall at: October 14, Harvard Film Archive October 16, Colgate University October 20, Whitney

[Frameworks] Friday reminder - Jordan Belson show, Philadelphia

2012-07-06 Thread C Keefer
A reminder for tonight, Friday July 6, 7 pm: Jordan Belson: Films Sacred and Profane, Retrospective program from Center for Visual Music screens at International House, Philadelphia. 16mm preserved prints. Born in Chicago and raised in the Bay Area, Jordan Belson trained as a painter before

[Frameworks] Fischinger in New Yorker/NY opening Thurs

2012-06-24 Thread C Keefer
surely a first, Oskar Fischinger in the New Yorker, http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/art/oskar-fischinger-space-light-art-a-film-environment-whitney-museum-of-american-art-art In Goings on About Town: Art Oskar Fischinger: Space Light Art The [Whitney] museum presents one of the first

[Frameworks] Belson (was Experimental Science Films)

2012-06-13 Thread C Keefer
Some of Belson's cosmologically-inspired films, including Re-Entry, Music of the Spheres, Momentum and Light will screen in the program Jordan Belson: Films Sacred and Profane at International House, Philadelphia on July 6. A version of this program will also screen at Harvard Film Archive in

Re: [Frameworks] humorous experimental films

2012-05-27 Thread C Keefer
Oskar Fischinger's Spiritual Constructions Even as You and I by Barlow, Hay and Robbins (1937) Cindy Keefer CVM www.centerforvisualmusic.org ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com

[Frameworks] CA Abstract Animation on the LACMA Blog

2012-04-27 Thread C Keefer
Oskar Fischinger and California Abstract Animation, on the LACMA Blog UNFRAMED http://lacma.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/oskar-fischinger-and-california-abstract-animation/ 2 programs from Center for Visual Music screen tonight at LACMA, 35mm and 16mm. First, Optical Poetry: Oskar Fischinger

Re: [Frameworks] Digital Technology and Film Esthethics

2012-04-18 Thread C Keefer
Fossati, Giovanna. From Grain to Pixel: The Archival Life of Film in Transition. Amsterdam University Press/Nederlands Filmmuseum, 2010 www.amazon.com/From-Grain-Pixel-Archival-Transition/dp/9089641394/ref=sr_1_1?s=booksie=UTF8qid=1334809786sr=1-1 or: http://amzn.to/I7Nxld Fossati's book also

Re: [Frameworks] Architecture in Film

2012-03-23 Thread C Keefer
Shirley Clarke, Bridges Go Round Cindy Keefer Center for Visual Music www.centerforvisualmusic.org CVM email: cvmaccess (at) gmail.com ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com

Re: [Frameworks] experimental film in the art world

2012-03-05 Thread C Keefer
Myron asked, "how many major museums in the country have such theaters with well maintained projection equipment?"A number still exist. We present programs at museum auditoria, both in 35mm and 16mm (Fischinger and Belson, among other programs). Just in the last 2 months, at SF MoMA and at The

[Frameworks] Lucas and supporting the avant-garde

2012-03-01 Thread C Keefer
re the posts on Lucas and institutions supporting the avant-garde -George Lucas, along with Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas, Sydney Pollack, Robert Redford and Steven Spielberg are the founders of The Film Foundation, "dedicated to ensuring the

Re: [Frameworks] Alchemy / James Whitney's Dwija (1973) (Richard Ashrowan)

2012-01-24 Thread C Keefer
Hello Richard,As you know, we answered your other email earlier today. This film can be studied at Center for Visual Music in LA, along with related reference materials in our paper files and library. We don't loan or sell DVD or VHS copies of this film. I don't know of any copies where you are,

[Frameworks] Sat. in DC: Fischinger double Retrospective at NGA

2012-01-02 Thread C Keefer
this didn't make the this week list: This Saturday, January 7, at National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Center for Visual Music presents a special two part Optical Poetry: Oskar Fischinger Retrospective. The program is free, begins at 3pm and features 35mm preserved prints.