Re: [Frameworks] New Norwegian Super 8 camera to debut in 2014

2013-11-23 Thread Florian Cramer
We have an article on filmkorn.org up on the Logmar and all its technical details. Although the English translation of this article is only 50% complete at this point, I hope that it's still of interest to the Frameworks community:

[Frameworks] Interview with Pip Chodorov

2013-08-20 Thread Florian Cramer
Dear frameworkers, My interview with Pip, conducted in late 2011 at WORM in Rotterdam, was supposed to appear in the German-language magazine Schmalfilm. Schmalfilm's editor first had to delay it, and then the magazine went out of business. So here it is in its full length (5000 words) glory:

Re: [Frameworks] The $3, 000 open source multi-format 8/16/35 scanner project called Kinograph

2013-07-17 Thread Florian Cramer
I do have some questions: - The construction is not fundamentally different from other frame-by-frame scanners such Müller HM73, Moviestuff or Richard Tuohy's $1000-$3000 DIY telecine machine. - The use of a digital SLR camera instead of an industrial video camera will produce better image

Re: [Frameworks] Alternative to sulphuric acid in b/w reversal film developing!

2013-07-01 Thread Florian Cramer
I reblogged it on the German filmkorn blog: http://www.filmkorn.org/saurefreie-umkehrentwicklung-von-schwarzweissfilm/ But as you write in your original posting, people should be aware of the health risks of Potassium dichromate which according to Wikipedia is one of the most common causes of

Re: [Frameworks] a question about negative film stock for s-8mm

2013-05-25 Thread Florian Cramer
Hello, The colorist said that my material was not excellent, but well within the normal-to-good range for S8mm. He said I should have worked with reversal film, because Super-8 cameras were never designed and calibrated for negative stock and cannot thus yield good results on negative

[Frameworks] R.I.P. Jess Franco

2013-04-02 Thread Florian Cramer
Not the typical filmmaker to be discussed on Frameworks - although in the genre of b,c, and z exploitation movies, he was a one-of-a-kind artist: obsessive, erotomanic, with his films constituting their own particular, surreal universe with many cross-references and recurring characters. Next to

[Frameworks] David Rimmer screening at WORM, Rotterdam, NL, March 27th

2013-03-22 Thread Florian Cramer
[The following is an event organized by filmwerkplaats, a DIY film lab collective at the artist-run venue WORM in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, http://filmwerkplaats.hotglue.me Feel free to spread this item on other mailing list, blogs and social media!] # Fifty years of experimental filmmaking #

Re: [Frameworks] downloading videos from youtube

2012-01-03 Thread Florian Cramer
Check youtube-dl, an Open Source command line utility that is highly versatile and configurable: http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl If you want to download a whole batch of YouTube videos, write each URL as one line of a plain text file 'videos.txt' and simply run, on the Unix/Linux/Mac OS X

[Frameworks] Pip Chodorov on film lab aesthetic

2011-11-28 Thread Florian Cramer
Perhaps of interest to readers of this list - a short, improvised, lo-fi interview with Pip Chodorov in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, on the question of whether there is a film lab aesthetic: http://vimeo.com/32744471 Florian -- blog: http://en.pleintekst.nl

Re: [Frameworks] Lomo Super 35mm movie maker

2011-11-11 Thread Florian Cramer
It's a tiny viewer, not a projector. Florian On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Francisco Torres fjtorre...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 2:49 AM, Myron Ort z...@sonic.net wrote: How are you all projecting these 35mm films? Myron Ort They sell a projector bundled with the

[Frameworks] Lomography introduces new 90 EUR 35mm movie camera viewer

2011-11-03 Thread Florian Cramer
It's a plastic gadget like all Lomography cameras, but this is great news for experimental filmmakers: http://shop.lomography.com/lomokinoscopepackage Florian -- blog: http://en.pleintekst.nl ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com

Re: [Frameworks] Mario Montez

2011-09-26 Thread Florian Cramer
Contact Arsenal in Berlin, Germany www.arsenal-berlin.de. They have invited him repeatedly and hosted his birthday celebration this summer. Florian On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 6:26 AM, Andy Ditzler a...@andyditzler.com wrote: Hi, Does anyone have contact information for Mario Montez? Thanks,