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)
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
i keep getting this request email
do I need to do something?
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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
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
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> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Scott
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
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
*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
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
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
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:
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
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
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
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.
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
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 -
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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.
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
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):
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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:
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
?*
*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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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:
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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,
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:
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
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
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:
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
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
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
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
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
Oskar Fischinger's Spiritual Constructions
Even as You and I by Barlow, Hay and Robbins (1937)
Cindy Keefer
CVM
www.centerforvisualmusic.org
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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
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
Shirley Clarke, Bridges Go Round
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Center for Visual Music
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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
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
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,
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.
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