[Frameworks] Anthony McCall in conversation, Yale Center for British Art, 23 Oct

2020-10-14 Thread Eric Theise
Thought to share this online event with you Frameworkers. Anthony McCall will be in conversation with Courtney J. Martin, director of the Yale Center for British Art, on Fri 23 Oct at 5p Eastern. More here: https://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-programs/home-artists-conversation-anthony-mccall

Re: [Frameworks] optical soundtrack generator?

2020-09-10 Thread Eric Theise
Interesting thread. Scott (Stark), the Kapotski "Optical Sound generator" you launched the thread with (http://www.kapotski.be/wp/?p=204) looks to be a simple circuit that maps values of light-to-dark to frequency. A bit like a theremin but for light instead of proximity. (When I was a kid I

Re: [Frameworks] books on animation theory?

2020-08-16 Thread Eric Theise
Francisco, Ceciia, others, I decided to trace my steps back to what led to my interest in the late Hannah Frank's "Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons". It was J. Hoberman's review in Artforum, Sept 2019, which I read in print and to which I don't have access online

Re: [Frameworks] books on animation theory?

2020-08-09 Thread Eric Theise
Hi Cecilia, Your question prompted me to finally look at Light Industry's "bookshop", which has a section on animation. Most of the titles are of the type you're not seeking but a few might qualify. https://bookshop.org/lists/animation Paul Taberham comes at animation through cognition and

Re: [Frameworks] what 16mm stocks are you shooting & where are you getting them?

2020-07-05 Thread Eric Theise
dFiles/Motion/Products/Product_Information/Kodak-Motion-Picture-Products-Price-Catalog-US-Prices.pdf > > Sandy McLennan > Port Sydney, Ontario, Canada > > > On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 5:53 PM Eric Theise wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> Writing from San Francisco where, once

[Frameworks] what 16mm stocks are you shooting & where are you getting them?

2020-07-02 Thread Eric Theise
Hi everyone, Writing from San Francisco where, once upon a time, one could walk into Action Camera (RIP ~2013) or Adolph Gasser's (RIP 2017) and walk out with a 100 ft spool of camera stock. In recent years I've been digging old stocks out of my fridge to shoot but I'm wondering what're the most

Re: [Frameworks] Luther Price RIP

2020-06-16 Thread Eric Theise
Tom Rhoads, wasn't it? First time I encountered his films that was the name under which they were distributed. On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 12:36 PM Dominic Angerame < dominic.anger...@gmail.com> wrote: > The prints that are at Canyon Cinema SODOM, GREEN and WARM BROTH may be > the only copies. He

Re: [Frameworks] Nathaniel Dorsky Films

2020-06-11 Thread Eric Theise
ric On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 5:27 PM Eric Theise wrote: > For Frameworkers not familiar with San Francisco, the gallery we're > talking about has an important legacy. They represent many generations of > Bay Area artists from Beat Generation through the Mission School to current >

Re: [Frameworks] Experimental films on photography

2020-06-10 Thread Eric Theise
Hello Albert, I've seen a film by or about the late Robert Frank containing a scene where he drills a hole through a hefty stack of photographic prints. My memory is that the audience was audibly shaken at the destruction while I thought it was kind of a bullshit move. With all due respect,

Re: [Frameworks] 16mm Film Projector

2020-06-06 Thread Eric Theise
I'm going to take a cue from Dominic's comment about postage and ask where, apart from "wasn't in NYC", are you Chris Rodriguez? Frameworks is an international list and while plenty of its conversations have little connection to the poster's location, discussions involving weighty equipment or

Re: [Frameworks] Nathaniel Dorsky Films

2020-05-29 Thread Eric Theise
to paintings it included spectacular charcoal (or maybe chalk?) drawings of Alameda on nearly black paper. On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 5:04 PM Dominic Angerame wrote: > Ah! ok thanks Eric I stand corrected > > On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 4:46 PM Eric Theise wrote: > >> No. Paule

Re: [Frameworks] Nathaniel Dorsky Films

2020-05-29 Thread Eric Theise
eve that the Anglim Gallery is Kaput! > > d > > On May 29, 2020, at 3:45 PM, Makayla Caldwell wrote: > > thank you! > > On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 3:36 PM Eric Theise wrote: > >> And you'll find occasional tweets at https://twitter.com/ndorsky about >> new

Re: [Frameworks] Nathaniel Dorsky Films

2020-05-29 Thread Eric Theise
And you'll find occasional tweets at https://twitter.com/ndorsky about new work, in-person appearances, and writings. On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 3:21 PM William Basquin wrote: > > Makayla, > > Here is Nathaniel Dorsky's page on the Canyon Cinema website: >

Re: [Frameworks] Looking to buy Bolex or similar

2020-04-12 Thread Eric Theise
Jason Halprin, didn't you tell me a few years ago that Dieter (aka http://www.bolexusa.com/) was selling reconditioned Rex 5s? Or was that only for the academic market? On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 7:22 PM Eric Theise wrote: > Forgive me for not looking but have these equipment houses ever adjus

Re: [Frameworks] Looking to buy Bolex or similar

2020-04-12 Thread Eric Theise
Forgive me for not looking but have these equipment houses ever adjusted their prices or are they still acting as if film is the only game in town? I'm thinking of the prices I used to see for gear up on the second floor at Adolph Gasser in San Francisco; already seemed absurdly out of touch in

[Frameworks] shapeshifters cinema (and brewery) indiegogo campaign

2020-02-05 Thread Eric Theise
Is it possible that news of Shapeshifters' new venue hasn't made it to Frameworks? Shapeshifters Cinema has been presenting expanded cinema in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2012. They used the Temescal Art Center in North Oakland as a venue for many years but they've got their own space now,

Re: [Frameworks] Readings on alternative spaces for cinema?

2019-12-15 Thread Eric Theise
Hi Chris, Some time ago Benjamin Taylor added three references tagged "microcinema" to the Zotero library on experimental cinema. https://www.zotero.org/groups/122679/experimental_cinema/items/q/microcinema Weirdly there's one newer title tagged "microcinema" that shows up when searching my

Re: [Frameworks] Maurice Maeterlinck - Death ,1911

2019-12-12 Thread Eric Theise
This? https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-us/rare-books/maurice-maeterlinck/death/1557153922BJS On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 10:20 AM fracto wrote: > I found it > https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ls?field1=ocr;q1=our%20eternity;a=srchls >

Re: [Frameworks] Original soundtrack recordings of Avant-Garde films

2019-12-10 Thread Eric Theise
Regrettably I don't know the films of Johan van der Keuken – "an independent, leftwing filmmaker who is too experimental and formalist for many political people and too politically pointed for many followers of the avant-garde" it says here at

Re: [Frameworks] [HISPAM] Original soundtrack recordings of Avant-Garde films

2019-12-04 Thread Eric Theise
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic's improvised score to Michael Burlingame's 1986 film "To a Random" was released on a vinyl LP called "Soundtracks" and later on their "The Fossil Record 1980-1987" CD. https://www.discogs.com/Birdsongs-Of-The-Mesozoic-Erik-Lindgren-2-Pink-Inc-Soundtracks/release/2830469

Re: [Frameworks] X-Ray motion-pictures

2019-11-20 Thread Eric Theise
Since Diana also asked for examples I'll chime in with the most obvious: Barbara Hammer's Sanctus which reworked James Sibley Watson's archival x-ray footage. http://www.scienceandfilm.org/articles/2710/barbara-hammer-and-the-x-rays-of-james-sibley-watson On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 8:26 AM alena

[Frameworks] Fwd: Jorge González & Mónica Rodríguez, Cuando el maguey cae en un río; Miguel Calderón, On George Kuchar and Tropical Vultures; Summer of '19

2019-11-02 Thread Eric Theise
Frameworkers, if you happen to be in San Francisco on 21 Nov this ought to be of interest. Eric -- Forwarded message - From: KADIST San Francisco Date: Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 11:00 AM Subject: JMiguel Calderón, On George Kuchar and Tropical Vultures KADIST Newsletter

Re: [Frameworks] Help with digitizing reel-to-reel tapes

2019-11-02 Thread Eric Theise
This suggestion has at least one strike against it for your situation (west coast) but I'll again mention the Bay Area Video Coalition's Preservation Access Program. https://bavc.org/preserve-media/preservation-access-program The application process opens twice a year and is relatively painless

Re: [Frameworks] touring "A Roll for Peter"

2019-10-02 Thread Eric Theise
-sur-peter-hutton/. Eric On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 3:16 PM Eric Theise wrote: > Another in my occasional updates about A Roll for Peter, the 16mm > multi-maker Peter Hutton tribute project. A number of venues and dates have > been added since my last email so here's the current list of

Re: [Frameworks] st. john’s, newfoundland

2019-08-10 Thread Eric Theise
sadly mike passed a few years back, but he founded nifco and last I > knew it was still going strong. They could certainly point you to a host > of people both historical and contemporary. > > > > ~ sarah > > > > *From:* FrameWorks *On Behalf Of > *Er

[Frameworks] st. john’s, newfoundland

2019-08-10 Thread Eric Theise
Curious if you Frameworkers know of any experimental film activity – contemporary or historical – in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Thanks, Eric ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com

Re: [Frameworks] suggestions for experimental road movies and/or experimental films about automobility

2019-07-22 Thread Eric Theise
Hi Bryan, Last fall I was using the Film Library & Study Center at PFA and shared a table with a researcher visiting from Poland. Turned out one of the subjects of her teaching and research was the "road movie in American mainstream and avant-garde cinema".

Re: [Frameworks] Films with creative off-screen voice reading diaries?

2019-07-21 Thread Eric Theise
I don't know the film you cite and am not presently in a place where I can see if it, or excerpts of it, are online. I wonder what you mean when you say "creative". The diary is written creatively? The reading itself is creative? I ask partly because I'm nearing completion of a piece where, I've

Re: [Frameworks] Suzan Pitt

2019-06-28 Thread Eric Theise
th of > us it was an extremely rewarding experience that I remember with fondness > to this day. > > Suzan will be missed by many of us in the AG Community > > > Dominic > > On Jun 17, 2019, at 12:21 AM, Eric Theise wrote: > > I've only come across what Laura Kraning pos

Re: [Frameworks] Suzan Pitt

2019-06-17 Thread Eric Theise
I've only come across what Laura Kraning posted to Suzan's Facebook page, which was: "Dearest friends, We are so sorry to report the very sad news that our dear Suzan Pitt passed away this morning at her home in New Mexico. She was very private about her illness but she would want you all to

[Frameworks] Fwd: In dehydration melts: Shapeshifters Cinema presents Keith Evans with Rae Diamond' s Long Tone Choir, Sunday, April 14th

2019-04-09 Thread Eric Theise
On the one hand, there are two count 'em two listings for this show in the This Week in Avant Garde Cinema calendar. On the other, those mailings sometimes go out on Sundays and it's easy to miss a same-day screening. If you're in the Bay Area this weekend do consider attending this Shapeshifters

Re: [Frameworks] Digibeta to digital

2019-04-09 Thread Eric Theise
Hi Dominic, If you have time and a number of tapes I'd encourage you to look into BAVC's Preservation Access Program. They accept applications twice yearly and the spring cycle is open until 21 April. I was accepted into the program a year ago and they were able to recover a variety of work for

Re: [Frameworks] Agnes Varda

2019-04-01 Thread Eric Theise
I'm so glad you posted the story about walking into that "video store", Dominic, I remember hearing you tell it elsewhere (BAMPFA?) and am glad to see it "in print". On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 12:29 PM Dominic Angerame wrote: > I am so glad that I had the chance to meet and talk with Agnes Varda >

Re: [Frameworks] Chris Marker les vies d'un cineaste???

2019-03-22 Thread Eric Theise
Hi Erika, This search turns up a number of non-US Amazons and AbeBooks vendors. https://www.bookfinder.com/search/?isbn=9782330015695=xl=qr Eric On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 10:25 AM erika suderburg wrote: > Hello Has anyone had luck purchasing the catalog for Chris Marker les vies > d'un

Re: [Frameworks] projector rental

2019-01-20 Thread Eric Theise
: > Can you send a link to light/fog > > Thanks > > > > On Jan 19, 2019, at 3:52 PM, Eric Theise wrote: > > Charles, > > If Facebook is an option for you I recommend you seek out and join the > public group called “light//fog” that traffics in Bay Area equipm

Re: [Frameworks] projector rental

2019-01-19 Thread Eric Theise
Charles, If Facebook is an option for you I recommend you seek out and join the public group called “light//fog” that traffics in Bay Area equipment, screenings, and miscellaneous. Definitely some people active there I’ve never seen on Frameworks. Eric On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 14:46 Charles

Re: [Frameworks] Western Cine guide to editing 16mm film?

2018-12-14 Thread Eric Theise
es Susie Phillips, (303) 777 2110 1115 S. Josephine, Denver, Co. 80210 Post back here if you ever find it, sounds useful. On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 4:24 PM Eric Theise wrote: > Hi Jason, > > I think this must be what you're looking for but it doesn't appear that > the Wayback Mac

Re: [Frameworks] Western Cine guide to editing 16mm film?

2018-12-14 Thread Eric Theise
Hi Jason, I think this must be what you're looking for but it doesn't appear that the Wayback Machine actually archived it, just the frame-based site that contained it. https://web.archive.org/web/20040627095859fw_/http://www.thecinemalab.com:80/booklet.zip Eric On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 4:11

Re: [Frameworks] speaking of Bleu Shut...

2018-11-01 Thread Eric Theise
and would jibe with the > military surplus origin. One of the samples I have (and some others I’ve > seen) has a small hole/divot dead centre in the front element. Definitely > factory-drilled, and I’m guessing to provide a reference or alignment mark > on the footage. > > > On

[Frameworks] tonight's opening of "tony conrad: a retrospective" in cambridge mass

2018-10-17 Thread Eric Theise
The retrospective of Tony Conrad's work that was on view in Buffalo earlier this year, and that will travel to Philadelphia's ICA next February, opens tonight at both MIT's List Center and Harvard's Carpenter Center. I timed the beginning of an extended East Coast trip so that I could attend, and

[Frameworks] experimental & expanded animation. book & conference

2018-09-28 Thread Eric Theise
I've been curious about Vicky Smith & Nicky Hamlyn's new "Experimental and Expanded Animation: Current Perspectives & New Directions" published by Palgrave Macmillan. Today's email brings news of a call for papers and a conference on the subject to be held in Feb 2019. Their boilerplate makes

Re: [Frameworks] articles, books, reflections on filmmaking cooperatives?

2018-09-24 Thread Eric Theise
This topic reminds me that back at the beginning of 2015 I set up an Experimental Cinema Group on Zotero.org. Zotero is an open source "personal research assistant", meaning that it's a database for books, articles, and other types of research material (a small sampling of item types include "blog

Re: [Frameworks] Seeking examples of film elegies

2018-08-28 Thread Eric Theise
Also, Margaret Rorison started a thread on this subject in March 2017 that you could review at https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/pipermail/frameworks/2017-March/thread.html On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 2:47 PM Eric Theise wrote: > Robert Beavers' *The Suppliant* (2010) > https://expcine

Re: [Frameworks] Seeking examples of film elegies

2018-08-28 Thread Eric Theise
Robert Beavers' *The Suppliant* (2010) https://expcinema.org/site/en/wiki/work/suppliant On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 2:41 PM Ekrem Serdar wrote: > Three beautiful ones dedicated to, about Marion McMahon that I think would > be appropriate: > *Froglight* by Sarah Abbott > *Behind this Soft Eclipse*

Re: [Frameworks] Anthony McCall's films

2018-08-18 Thread Eric Theise
Canyon #4 (1976), #5 (1982), #6 (1988), #7 (1992), #8 (2000): Light Describing a Cone is the only work available. I've also checked the supplements from 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995. McCall is not even in the Film-makers' Coop catalog #7 (1989). On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 7:58 AM Ken

Re: [Frameworks] Film/video transfer grant?

2018-06-11 Thread Eric Theise
LightPress Grants, administered by Interbay Cinema Society? http://interbaycinemasociety.org/lightpress-grants/ Eric On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 12:14 PM Nicole Baker wrote: > Hey List, > back in the spring we were alerted to a grant for something like $900 in > 4k film transferring. I cannot

Re: [Frameworks] "A Roll for Peter" at ATA Sat April 1 !!!!!!

2017-03-30 Thread Eric Theise
0) Jennifer Reeves, "We Are Going Home" (1998) Mark Street, "Sweep" (1998) Eric Theise, "To No End Gathered" (2012) Everything on 16mm. My film, normally silent, will feature live accompaniment by composer/saxophonist John Ingle of sfSound and other projects. The

Re: [Frameworks] pageant arc projectors

2017-02-28 Thread Eric Theise
Fred, Re:Voir has released Rameau's Nephew, etc., on DVD. http://re-voir.com/shop/en/michael-snow/70-micheal-snow-rameau-s-nephew-by-diderot-thanx-to-dennis-young-by-wilma-schoen-3493551100393.html Eric On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 4:49 PM, Fred Camper wrote: > Since I've

Re: [Frameworks] pageant arc projectors

2017-02-28 Thread Eric Theise
LOVE to get these things working! > > take care, > Warren > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Eric Theise <ericthe...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello frameworkers. >> >> I'm using the double projection movement of A Roll for Peter as an excuse >> to liberate

[Frameworks] pageant arc projectors

2017-02-28 Thread Eric Theise
Hello frameworkers. I'm using the double projection movement of A Roll for Peter as an excuse to liberate a pair of Pageant Arc projectors from my storage unit. These worked so well when I had a studio that I never gave them a second thought but that was long ago. Running some tests in the

Re: [Frameworks] touring "A Roll for Peter"

2017-01-24 Thread Eric Theise
ot;so lovely… I wish I could see those films again! Such a great opportunity to see such an ephemeral program", for the former, simply, "f*cking killer". Thanks! Eric On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Eric Theise <ericthe...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm pleased to let you all

Re: [Frameworks] touring "A Roll for Peter"

2017-01-03 Thread Eric Theise
I'm pleased to let you all know that the tour of A Roll for Peter, the Peter Hutton tribute film organized by Jennifer Reeves & Mark Street, has eight confirmed dates as we head into 2017, commencing with Friday the 13th of January at the UNEXPOSED Microcinema in Durham, NC. For those of you who

Re: [Frameworks] touring "A Roll for Peter"

2016-11-28 Thread Eric Theise
Several people have asked for clarification: there is no rental fee. No one has yet asked but: there is no preview copy available. On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Eric Theise <ericthe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Frameworkers, > > You may be aware that Jennifer Reeve

Re: [Frameworks] touring "A Roll for Peter"

2016-11-28 Thread Eric Theise
Hi Esperanza, On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Esperanza Collado < esperanzacolla...@gmail.com> wrote: > I wonder, what was the audience reaction to "A Roll For Peter". Is this > film the result of a selection or anyone who shot a roll got in? > I'll start with a disclaimer. Not only have I

[Frameworks] touring "A Roll for Peter"

2016-11-28 Thread Eric Theise
Hello Frameworkers, You may be aware that Jennifer Reeves & Mark Street, as a tribute to the late Peter Hutton, put out a call for submissions of 100 foot rolls of 16mm black and white shot with Peter in mind. The compilation, "A Roll for Peter", screened at Bard College on 22 October and had a

Re: [Frameworks] optically printed film on people swimming laps in a pool

2016-03-12 Thread Eric Theise
Even if it's not Will Hindle's Watersmith, I'm glad to be reminded of it. On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 3:29 AM, Pip Chodorov wrote: > You mean Water Pulu by Ladislav Galeta? > > > At 18:26 -0800 12/03/16, vanessa renwick wrote: > >> I am trying to remember who made this

Re: [Frameworks] experimental films involving minerals

2016-02-25 Thread Eric Theise
Richard Serra, Hand Catching Lead, 1968 http://artforum.com/video/mode=large=25373 On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Gene Youngblood wrote: > If sand qualifies as a mineral, see Nathaniel Dorsky’s Alaya. > > > On Feb 25, 2016, at 1:40 PM, Peggy McShine

Re: [Frameworks] historical question

2015-04-03 Thread Eric Theise
Michael, I noticed that on page 281 of http://monoskop.org/images/9/9a/Foster_Stephen_C_Hans_Richter_Activism_Modernism_and_the_Avant-Garde.pdf , as part of the section called Books, Pamphlets, there's a mention of Film and Progress. Not published in full; published in part in the Neue Zu¨rcher

Re: [Frameworks] Derivés and City Symphonies

2015-03-01 Thread Eric Theise
James Benning’s 9/1/75? P.S. Having made this mistake myself, the correct spelling is dérive, not derivé, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9rive On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Carl E Bogner crlel...@uwm.edu wrote: ​ Matt McCormick’s _Subconscious Art of Graffitt Removal_, perhaps?

[Frameworks] paul sharits: birthday, retrospective, artforum review

2015-02-07 Thread Eric Theise
Paul Sharits would have been 72 today. There's a review by Marc Siegel in February's Artforum of “Paul Sharits: A Retrospective”, on view through 22 Feb at the Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany. https://artforum.com/inprint/issue=201502id=49790

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

2015-01-30 Thread Eric Theise
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Adam Hyman a...@lafilmforum.org wrote: Off to meandering nit-picking: What is the correct bibliography format for a reader? Shouldn’t it still really be under Kuchar’s name (or Markopolous’s)? Been too long since college MLA Standards... Looking it up...

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

2015-01-29 Thread Eric Theise
I want to thank Michael for kicking off this discussion, and for posting his list before asking for others to contribute; good form! I've suggested this before, but I'm putting my suggestion into action with this thread. I've created a shared bibliography using Zotero:

Re: [Frameworks] Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980 book coming soon

2015-01-25 Thread Eric Theise
Hi Adam, On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 7:43 PM, Adam Hyman a...@lafilmforum.org wrote: Coming out soon: *http://www.amazon.com/Alternative-Projections-Experimental-Angeles-1945-1980/dp/0861967151 http://www.amazon.com/Alternative-Projections-Experimental-Angeles-1945-1980/dp/0861967151*

Re: [Frameworks] Turner and Film

2014-12-24 Thread Eric Theise
I was reviewing some of the frameworks threads I highlighted this year and wondered what became of the Tate Etc. Magazine article mentioned in this one. It appeared as http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/light and provoked http://www.timcawkwell.co.uk/brakhage-and-turner

Re: [Frameworks] Fwd: Your membership in the mailing list FrameWorks has been disabled

2014-12-16 Thread Eric Theise
Application of anti-spam measures that don't comply with Internet protocols are causing problems for mailman, the software that runs this list. Pip, maybe you can contact tech support at webfaction and ask them if they can set the from_is_list option discussed in this thread

Re: [Frameworks] films on film-making/unfinished films

2014-12-16 Thread Eric Theise
I've been keeping an eye on this thread, and every time a new message comes across, it makes me think of these two examples, possibly too tangential to the original poster's intent. Two Films I Never Made (1973), by Herbert Jean de Grasse. It's just 4 minutes of black leader where the filmmaker

Re: [Frameworks] Process Advice

2014-11-06 Thread Eric Theise
Hi Vail, Not sure if you're just looking at the chemistry aspects of this, but there's a long tradition of rayographs in experimental film, Man Ray's own Return to Reason (1923) being an early example, https://archive.org/details/returnToReasonleRetourLaRaison1923 . Len Lye used it in Color Cry

[Frameworks] os x workflow for the web

2014-11-02 Thread Eric Theise
Hello frameworkers, tl;dr: I want to generate html5-friendly videos from DVD clips that stay below 50Mb. I give talks, and use reveal.js (http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/) as my presentation framework. I occasionally want to include excerpts of films ripped from DVDs. As reveal.js is an html5

[Frameworks] breer's floats in london

2014-10-19 Thread Eric Theise
Sort of interesting to read that Robert Breer's Floats (1970) are being resurrected and were on display at the London Frieze Art Fair over the weekend. http://www.artspace.com/magazine/news_events/best-art-of-frieze-2014 Artspace tips their cards with While his films grew in acclaim, Breer

Re: [Frameworks] Earth Day/environmental film series

2014-10-16 Thread Eric Theise
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Jesse Pires jessepire...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm looking for recommendations of short films that address environmentalism and ecological themes. I'm especially interested in work from the 1960s and 70s as the environmental movement was taking shape. Peter

Re: [Frameworks] need to recycle tape stock

2014-09-12 Thread Eric Theise
Hi Valerie, GreenCitizen accepts Tape based media (VHS/cassettes, floppy disks) at their 2nd and Howard location in San Francisco (http://www.greencitizen.com/electronics-recycling-san-francisco/). I've taken a number of old computers and peripherals there in recent years with the hope that

[Frameworks] Fwd: Film as Film: The Collected Writings of Gregory J. Markopoulos. Now available for pre-order.

2014-08-05 Thread Eric Theise
Some of you may have already seen this, as it came across The Temenos' mailing list a few days ago, but I thought I'd forward it along for those who weren't aware. The Visible Press is pleased to announce its first publication.View this email in your browser

[Frameworks] Fwd: LUX DVD Launch: Guy Sherwin / Nicky Hamlyn - Cafe OTO 2nd July, 7pm

2014-06-25 Thread Eric Theise
Just received an email from LUX, which prompts me to send a public note of congratulations to frameworker Nicky Hamlyn re: http://www.lux.org.uk/whats-on/events/dvd-launch-guy-sherwin-nicky-hamlyn-cafe-oto-2nd-july-7pm Is any US distribution of these discs planned? Eric LUX DVD Launch: Guy

Re: [Frameworks] CBS goes Underground

2014-06-01 Thread Eric Theise
Time. 4/3/1964, Vol. 83 Issue 14, p98. 3p. No one has heard much about movies like Breath-Death, Cosmic Ray, and Stone Sonata, but now the Ford Foundation has begun pouring tuns of gold on the happy heads of the people who made them. The foundation has decided to encourage the art of film as

Re: [Frameworks] Muybridge and moving image art

2014-05-15 Thread Eric Theise
Hi Jesse, As one example, Paul Glabicki animates Muybridge images throughout Object Conversation. Apart from that example, I'll say that I've not found the use or animation of Muybridge stills to be an indicator of top notch work. Eric On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Jesse Pires

Re: [Frameworks] Looking for films about the radio and on air diffusion

2014-05-08 Thread Eric Theise
Not sure if this is within the bounds of what the original poster had in mind, but this discussion is making me think of the injection of live radio broadcasts into one section of Ken Jacobs' Blonde Cobra. On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Mike Kartje mkar...@siu.edu wrote: Guy Maddin's Brand on

Re: [Frameworks] animals and human-animal relationships on film

2014-04-23 Thread Eric Theise
Dream of the Wild Horses / Le songe des chevaux sauvages (1960), Denys Colomb Daunant Rat Life and Diet in North America (1968), Joyce Wieland On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Sonya Mladenova sonya.mladen...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Sarah, Quick thoughts: Grizzly man! Turin horse... Cave of

Re: [Frameworks] frameworks confirmation message?

2014-04-23 Thread Eric Theise
bounced means that the frameworks mail server couldn't deliver list messages to you. Both of you are using older Microsoft domain names, are they force-migrating you to something newer? On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Jon Behrens bolex...@msn.com wrote: I got one too Sent from my iPhone

Re: [Frameworks] banned films?

2014-03-29 Thread Eric Theise
Did anyone on this list attend Anthology's recent (Mar 9) screening of Otto Muehl's Materialaktionsfilme (1970)? http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=listmonth=03year=2013#showing-40493 I'm curious about the contemporary reaction to that film. I don't know if it

[Frameworks] serene velocity

2014-03-21 Thread Eric Theise
Hello frameworkers, Two questions re: Ernie Gehr's Serene Velocity. anyone out there--researchers/preservationists--undertaken the mundane task of doing frame counts? are there any titles or credits on the film? Thanks in advance. I haven't had the pleasure of seeing the film in the past

Re: [Frameworks] sound track collaboration

2014-02-18 Thread Eric Theise
Michael, oops, it's public now. On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 7:22 AM, Michael Betancourt hinterland.mov...@gmail.com wrote: I saw you email to Frameworks; perhaps you can help me with something. I have a movie that is currently in need of a soundtrack. Do you have something already done that you

Re: [Frameworks] films/videos using/made up of text

2013-11-14 Thread Eric Theise
Peter Rose's Secondary Currents. On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:09 AM, mike rice bacnhe...@gmail.com wrote: Hollis Frampton has some great works revolving around the use of text. Some that come immediately to mind: Gloria, Zorns Lemma, and Poetic Justice. As far as works made by women, the first

[Frameworks] james broughton exhibit @ san francisco public library

2013-11-07 Thread Eric Theise
I was just checking the hours of my local branch when I noticed this exhibit at the San Francisco Main Public Library, Hymns To Hermes: The Poetics of James Broughton: http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1014710001 I see there was an event last night celebrating the centenary of his birth

Re: [Frameworks] Ronald Nameth's Exploding Plastic Inevitable

2013-09-07 Thread Eric Theise
Hi Stefan, I spent a few days at the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh about a year ago. My recollection is of Greg Pierce telling me that Nameth had pulled all exhibition prints of EPI, and that he was planning a fundamentally new, drastically recut project. This was in the context of offering to show

Re: [Frameworks] Oxberry Master Series Animation Stand 16/35mm

2013-06-13 Thread Eric Theise
Jeff's mention of the animation stand coming available in San Diego made me go looking for this thread from back in February. Did this stand get saved, did it actually make the trip from Halifax to the SF Bay Area? --Eric On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 8:26 PM, sibling projects r...@siblingprojects.com

Re: [Frameworks] Oxberry Master Series Animation Stand 16/35mm

2013-06-13 Thread Eric Theise
has been at UCSD since 1971. Sherman On Jun 13, 2013, at 1:04 PM, Eric Theise wrote: Jeff's mention of the animation stand coming available in San Diego made me go looking for this thread from back in February. Did this stand get saved, did it actually make the trip from Halifax to the SF

[Frameworks] fwd: Longtime LES Resident And Warhol Star, Taylor Mead, Dies At 88

2013-05-09 Thread Eric Theise
Sad news. Still, 88 is a ripe old age, especially for a Superstar. http://gothamist.com/2013/05/09/taylor_mead.php#photo-6 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks

Re: [Frameworks] Red fleeting strokes on celluloid

2012-05-08 Thread Eric Theise
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:18 AM, Esperanza Collado esperanzacolla...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if you could help me find the best material to create red undefined and sharp (angular) stains on celluloid, like fleeting strokes (hope that makes some sense to you). Have you tried with red ink? I

Re: [Frameworks] Andy Warhol's SLEEP / Providence, RI / Feb 18 / Magic Lantern + RK Projects

2012-02-13 Thread Eric Theise
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Myron Ort z...@sonic.net wrote: How and why do stories like that get started anyway? That particular story got started because Jonas Mekas told it. It continues to be told because it's a good story, and it's lodged in the collective memory due to the

Re: [Frameworks] {Disarmed} Re: Andy Warhol's SLEEP / Providence, RI / Feb 18 / Magic Lantern + RK Projects

2012-02-12 Thread Eric Theise
Hi Fred, In Edie (Stein w/Plimpton, pp 234-235), George Plimpton recounts riding in a freight elevator with Warhol and mentioning the Carnegie Hall concert organized by Cage. I mentioned it to Andy only because I thought he might be vaguely interested--he was doing these eight-hour films of