[Frameworks] Herald-examiner

A question for Frameworkers in Los Angeles. At one time there were plans to have a restaurant in the old Herald-Examiner building downtown. I believe the University of Arizona occupies the building today. Was the restaurant ever opened at the corner of 11th and Broadway?

[Frameworks] Adriano Apra

Does anyone on this list know Adriano Apra in Rome, who used to be director of the Pesaro Film Festival? We were recently in an ongoing email conversation and all of a sudden he was silent. No response. We’ve been friends for decades. I fear the worst. Can anyone direct me to someone who might

Re: [Frameworks] movie scenes

rrots of Telegraph Hill documentary from 2003 byJudy Irving would have some footage you’re looking for.   It seems that Kanopy, a streaming service used by many public/college libraries, has it available. From: Gene Youngblood Sent: May 22, 2020 14:28 To: Experimental Film Discussion List Subjec

Re: [Frameworks] movie scenes

Thanks Dave, and everyone else. I apologize. I haven’t been communicating clearly because I didn’t want to explain what I now realize I must explain. It’s this: in at least half of his 232 diaries, George places his camera at some distance from himself outdoors (like 20-50 feet away) and

[Frameworks] walking through the world

Thanks, everyone, for the quick responses. I can see I need to be more specific.  First, the clip must be in a readily available film, which most likely means a narrative feature (but not necessarily). If it’s not a well known film, I need a link to it. Second, it will ideally have a “mythic”

[Frameworks] movie scenes

I got a lot of great responses the last time I did this, so here we go again: I’m looking for scenes or sequences in which the protagonist is shown walking through the world. It could be a big city or a spectacular countryside. Could be a wayfarer on some kind of journey. Sometimes done with

Re: [Frameworks] subscription

Thanks Adam. Gene & Jane Youngblood (505) 395-6370 home On May 7, 2020 at 7:32:59 PM, Adam Hyman (a...@lafilmforum.org) wrote: Look closely to see what list serve it is coming from. From: FrameWorks on behalf of Gene Youngblood Reply-To: "Experimental Film Discussion List "

[Frameworks] subscription

Almost every day for weeks I’ve been getting notifications that my subscription to Frameworks has been cancelled. I could renew by responding to the notification. But now that doesn’t work. Nothing in my inbox from Frameworks today. Can this be fixed?

[Frameworks] Quote of the Day

“Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind seeks but cannot find the precise place and hour. We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. We

[Frameworks] Thanks

Thanks, everyone, especially for reminding us about Senses of Cinema. We respect them. We’ll let you know. Gene & Jane  ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks

[Frameworks] film magazine

We want to publish the first article from our Kuchar study. It would have been in Film Comment, but they’re down, possibly never to return. Can anyone recommend a publication of similar high visibility that is still alive? It’s a lengthy piece, heavily illustrated. Maybe there’s a digital-only

Re: [Frameworks] white screen

ival in NYC... Stephen On Wed., Apr. 29, 2020, 4:49 p.m. Gene Youngblood, wrote: I’m drawing a blank on the title and maker of a film that begins all white and, after minutes of dark streaks, is revealed to be a cat drinking milk, shot from under the bowl. Gene & Jane Youngblood (505) 395-6

[Frameworks] white screen

I’m drawing a blank on the title and maker of a film that begins all white and, after minutes of dark streaks, is revealed to be a cat drinking milk, shot from under the bowl. Gene & Jane Youngblood (505) 395-6370 home___ FrameWorks mailing list

[Frameworks] Trump as our objective correlative 100 years ago

“As democracy is perfected, the office of the president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and a complete

[Frameworks] kuchar

Friends, some of you know my wife Jane and I have been working on a study of George Kuchar’s video diaries for more than ten years. We want to complete it by the end of this year, but we keep discovering new things in the seemingly bottomless depths of the 232 works. We seek the help of

[Frameworks] book club

, and will continue every Sunday through May 17. We’re using the book as a springboard to topics that range far beyond its pages.  Sign up for the book club: https://grayarea.org/event/expanded-cinema-book-club-with-gene-youngblood/  The readings archive is here: https://grayarea.org/event/expanded-cinema-book

Re: [Frameworks] Bruce Baillie

Our loss of this great poetic soul is indeed sad, as is the fate that awaited him and so many other artists who lived outside of a cruel culture. On April 10, 2020 at 2:42:00 PM, Stephen Anker (san...@calarts.edu) wrote: Thanks for sharing this deeply sad news. A very great loss, as so many

Re: [Frameworks] book club

Have segments been re-written? R.Harris On Apr 3, 2020, at 1:06 PM, Gene Youngblood wrote: Frameworkers, The Gray Area Foundation in San Francisco is hosting a seven-week online "book club" reading of the 50th Anniversary Edition of Expanded cinema. It begins this Sunday, April 5, and cont

[Frameworks] book club

ringboards to topics beyond its pages. Something to do while we’re sequestered. They’re using Zoom. Sign up here:   grayarea.org/event/expanded-cinema-book-club-with-gene-youngblood/ ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mai

Re: [Frameworks] optical/mechanical v. digital

Mark and Scott, Thanks to both of you. It is indeed the technique I also find in Kuchar.  On March 29, 2020 at 2:14:05 PM, Scott Dorsey (klu...@panix.com) wrote: I think they are talking about using a digital simulation of the large shutter angle technique. --scott

Re: [Frameworks] Trump Virus

OK. Your arguments are valid. On March 28, 2020 at 6:15:01 PM, Scott MacDonald (smacd...@hamilton.edu) wrote: Agreed. The president would profit from this--it would just confirm his way of dealing with people, as Fred says. He is "successful" because he is great at drawing all attention to

[Frameworks] Trump Virus

Frameworkers, I think we should all start calling it the Trump Virus. By his actions he’s murdering thousands of people. Lets go viral with this.___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com

[Frameworks] EC-50 Intro

Frameworkers, The new Introduction I wrote for the 50th Anniversary Edition of Expanded Cinema is here on Google Books. Please feel free to distribute it: https://books.google.com/books?id=drHUDwAAQBAJ=editions%3AHY_Rc8KUHnEC=introduction#v=snippet=introduction=false   Gene & Jane Youngblood

Re: [Frameworks] Affect

t" as a noun. Here is what I take the be the relevant definition from the OED: "the outward display of emotion or mood, as manifested by facial expression, posture, gestures, tone of voice, etc." Fred Camper Chicago On 2/15/2020 8:37 PM, Gene Youngblood wrote: Academic Frameworkers: I li

[Frameworks] Affect

Academic Frameworkers: I like to keep abreast of trends in academic language, and I've noticed an increased use of the word “affect” in scholarly papers. It has become fashionable, but the spin being put on it isn’t clear to me. Could someone please tell me what “affect” means here for example: 

[Frameworks] EC-50

Friends, here’s the flyer for Expanded Cinema 50th https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823287413/expanded-cinema/ Please forward it to teachers who might want to assign the book in film history classes. Here’s another link to the 30-minute video in case Fordham removes it from their home page:

Re: [Frameworks] Woody Vasulka R.I.P.

ks everyone, I will dive into their site ! Mathew Galindo On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Gene Youngblood wrote: It’s all here http://www.vasulka.org/index.html . Go to “Site Map,” then “Kitchen.” On Mar 31, 2015, at 10:10 AM, Elizabeth McMahon wrote: I'd start with this. It is the def

[Frameworks] Vanderbeek

Does anyone know how I can reach Ruth Abraham (if that’s still her name) who was Stan Vanderbeek’s partner in the later years of his life? Gene Youngblood ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com

Re: [Frameworks] Peter Mays R.I.P.

Poignant news. In my memoir-in-progress, I remember Peter rehearsing with Single Wing at Sam Francis’ studio On Ashland Street in Ocean Park, using his hands as projection masks. And being on the mezzanine with him for Single Wing's spectacular shows for Pinnacle concerts at Shrine Exposition

Re: [Frameworks] Expanded cinema and experimental music

Yes, it was Stan Vanderbeek. He also coined, in 1965, the term “Culture Intercom” — planetarium-like domes with multiple projections of live satellite feeds from around the world. His dome in upstate New York was finished in 1967 just after Sputnik was launched, but of course had to simulate

Re: [Frameworks] Films about darkness

Derek Jarman’s “Blue." On November 22, 2018 at 10:12:16 AM, Dave Tetzlaff (djte...@gmail.com) wrote: The End, Christopher Maclaine Lots of ‘dark’ narration over black leader. ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com

[Frameworks] Goodbye To Language

Maybe someone can educate me about this. I just got around to purchasing "Goodbye to Language," only to discover you can’t watch it with glasses. You need both a 3D Blu-ray player and a 3D TV. I’m at a loss to explain this. Why on earth would they restrict their market to such a tiny niche of

Re: [Frameworks] Entertaining the film

Does Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo qualify in some way? I haven’t seen it for more than a decade.  Gene & Jane Youngblood (505) 395-6370 home On July 21, 2018 at 11:00:55 AM, Stephen Anker (san...@calarts.edu) wrote: Ladislas Starevich - The Cameraman's Revenge, 1912 On Thu, Jul 19,

Re: [Frameworks] Voice over

Hollis Frampton, Nostalgia Gene & Jane Youngblood (505) 395-6370 home On April 8, 2018 at 12:47:54 PM, Surbhi Goel (surbh...@gmail.com) wrote: Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog, 2007) not exactly voice over in traditional sense but, Tarkovsky's father reciting his poetry in

Re: [Frameworks] Voice over

Chris Marker, especially Sans Soliel  Gene & Jane Youngblood (505) 395-6370 home On April 8, 2018 at 10:50:23 AM, Aman Wadhan (amanwad...@gmail.com) wrote: Patrick Keiller ('London', 'Robinson in Space', 'Robinson in Ruins'). And not to forget some of the most haunting voice-over performances

Re: [Frameworks] FrameWorks Digest, Vol 94, Issue 20

Gregory Markopolous, “Galaxie." On March 27, 2018 at 3:04:18 AM, Lindsay McIntyre (email.li...@gmail.com) wrote: Hi Katherine, I don't usually volunteer my own work but almost all my films are portraits of different forms. I did a thesis on portraiture. None of these are nearly as well-known

Re: [Frameworks] Long takes and still images/ photography in experimental films

Warhol and Michael Snow Gene & Jane Youngblood (505) 395-6370 home On March 8, 2018 at 4:55:15 PM, jimmyschaus1 . (jimmysch...@gmail.com) wrote: Singling out long takes in a forum dedicated to experimental film is shooting fish in a barrel!  So I'll dive in with the more idiosyncratic part of

Re: [Frameworks] old LA movie theater

uess, but could it be? best Christian From: FrameWorks <frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com> on behalf of Gene Youngblood <ato...@comcast.net> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2018 10:53 AM To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Subject: [Frameworks] old LA movie theater   Older Frameworker

[Frameworks] old LA movie theater

Older Frameworkers in Los Angeles, does anyone remember the name of a small movie theater on Wilshire Boulevard near downtown that, in the 1960s, had a mural of the Odessa Steps sequence from Potemkin? ___ FrameWorks mailing list

[Frameworks] John Stehura

Does anyone have contacts for John, or know where he lives? ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks

[Frameworks] Seeking Part Two

To clarify, I’m not necessarily looking for an “accented" voice, I’m just saying it’s a possibility. Tone and inflection are most important, and age is a factor too. She shouldn’t sound youthful. Thanks.  ___ FrameWorks mailing list

[Frameworks] Seeking

While the female voice over topic is current, I thought I’d let everyone know I’m seeking distinctive female voices for a couple of projects. “Distinctive" can include an accent, and she must be skilled at, or have an aptitude for, reading scripts. Please contact me offline.

Re: [Frameworks] experimental/feminist films with a woman's voice-over narration?

Cecelia Condit and Vanalyne Green On November 10, 2017 at 3:05:47 PM, mary billyou (mbill...@gmail.com) wrote: my movie "The Wonder of It All" and "ours be the tossing" PS I love "Crowdog" by Vanessa Renwick and "Dirty Fingernails" by Sarah Kennedy and "Hair Piece" by Ayoka Chenzira. 

[Frameworks] Oona Nelson

Does anyone have contacts for Oona? ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks

[Frameworks] Steve Anker

If anyone has Steve Anker’s phone and/or email please contact me offlist. Thanks. ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks

Re: [Frameworks] Vegetable films?

Pat O’Neill, Last Of The Persimmons On September 14, 2017 at 5:00:28 AM, lagonaboba (lagonab...@gmail.com) wrote: as we continue to answer the vegetable question with fruits, Robert Nelson’s  Oh dem watermelons On Sep 13, 2017, at 10:03 PM, Chuck Kleinhans

Re: [Frameworks] Looking for scenes with bus shelter / bus stop

Jim Jarmusch, Paterson Martin Ritt, Hud Matt Ross, Captain Fantastic On July 19, 2017 at 12:03:57 PM, Jessica Arseneau (jessarsen...@gmail.com) wrote: Thank you so much that's great. Some of them mentionned I knew of course, but some I didn't know and that's definitely helping for the

Re: [Frameworks] Christopher MacLaine

Q collective: www.johnq.org On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 10:02 AM, Gene Youngblood <ato...@comcast.net> wrote: Frameworkers, a friend of mine is researching the literary life of Christopher MacLaine. He sent this yesterday:  "You may know that [MacLaine] was also a poet and editor. (Jo

[Frameworks] Christopher MacLaine

Frameworkers, a friend of mine is researching the literary life of Christopher MacLaine. He sent this yesterday:  "You may know that [MacLaine] was also a poet and editor. (Jordan Belson was the art editor for the first issue of Contour Quarterly, the magazine that MacLaine and his wife Norma

[Frameworks] video playback mystery

Friends, I have a file of video clips that I want to play and pause during a lecture. For convenience I prefer to store the file on my laptop’s internal hard drive rather than bringing an external drive, but the file stutters periodically when playing from the laptop  whereas it runs smoothly

[Frameworks] e-textbooks for film

For those of you who teach, are there film courses these days based only on e-books with links to motion clips that illustrate the text? This is for my book on George Kuchar’s video diaries. Reply offlist if you wish. Thanks.  ___ FrameWorks mailing

Re: [Frameworks] 4K FCP

would avoid FinalCut if possible and use either Premiere or Avid.  FinalCut is not Pro anymore. Jana Sent from +1 (415) 202 31 93 On Mar 28, 2017, at 7:07 AM, Gene Youngblood <ato...@comcast.net> wrote: Friends, I’m about to do an interview that will be shot in 4K. We intend to edit wth

[Frameworks] 4K FCP

Friends, I’m about to do an interview that will be shot in 4K. We intend to edit wth FCP X. Will there be any problem with that? ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks

Re: [Frameworks] mental problems

urney ends with a psychedelic trip through a uterus to end in an explosion and a fetus... -Pip At 10:41 -0600 22/03/17, Gene Youngblood wrote: >Friends, I¹m seeking recommendations of feature >films with scenes that attempt to visualize >inner states of mind such as bre

[Frameworks] mental problems

Friends, I’m seeking recommendations of feature films with scenes that attempt to visualize inner states of mind such as breakdowns (Vertigo), nightmares (Spellbound), acid trips (Easy Rider) or any other kind of hallucination (Altered States). Ecstatic or horrific doesn’t matter. Thanks.

[Frameworks] Sudden spam

Hi Pip, All of a sudden my email program is treating Frameworks as spam because it identifies the individual user as the sender and  Frameworks as the subject. Have you made any changes that would account for this? (Maybe you should not reply to this but use your personal email address to

[Frameworks] computer graphics for Kuchar

I’m seeking a CGI artist to create 3D animations of a book and DVD box set for a crowdfunding campaign to complete my project on George Kuchar’s video diaries, including finding a publisher. Here’s a six-minute explanation: https://vimeo.com/179663010 I can’t afford standard commercial fees, so

Re: [Frameworks] "Husbands" and "Wives"

Carolee Schneeman and James Tenney. On February 10, 2017 at 4:34:45 PM, Els van Riel (m...@elsvanriel.be) wrote: Anja Dornieden & Juan David Gonzalez Monroy On 10 Feb 2017, at 22:18, Jonathan Walley wrote: Anthony McCall & Carolee Scheemann Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder

Re: [Frameworks] "Husbands" and "Wives"

Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi James Broughton and Joel Singer Matthias Muller and Christoph Giradet (I don’t know if they’re a couple) The number of couples making post-analog video is probably infinite, for obvious reasons (social, cultural, economic), but Steina and Woody Vasulka

Re: [Frameworks] Werner Nekes Travels

One of my fondest memories is an afternoon and evening in 1982 that Woody Vasulka, Alphonse Schilling, Peter Weibel and I spent with Werner and Dore, getting a tour of his pre-, proto- and para-cinematic collection. Truly astonishing. The conversation that followed over dinner and into the wee

Re: [Frameworks] portrayals of "the future" in animation and experimental film?

Some uninvited comments and observations, for what they’re worth:  1. Probably more than 99% of all “future” narratives are either unimaginative dystopias (the author has no vision of how things might be better) or they are uncritical New Age utopias.  2. The phrase “unimaginative dystopia” is

[Frameworks] Amsterdam video pioneers

I’m looking for these people who worked with Jack Moore and The Videoheads in building the Milky Way nightclub in Amsterdam in the early 1970s: Yos Schloffler Cor Schlosser Billy Canell Kirke Wilson Dan Foster Any leads, including people who might have known them, will be greatly appreciated. 

[Frameworks] scanned text

Friends, I’m collecting into a book the 150 articles I wrote for the Los Angeles Free Press 1967-1970. They include the original articles that became the basis for Expanded Cinema. I also want to use the scans as B-roll for a documentary. That means zooming in and out, panning across the pages

[Frameworks] Davidson Gigliotti

Does anyone have Davidson’s current email? Or know someone who might have it? Gene Youngblood ato...@comcast.net (505) 395-6370 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks

Re: [Frameworks] Experimental farming films

> ___ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks Gene Youngblood ato...@comcast.net (505) 395-6370 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks

Re: [Frameworks] Experimental Christmas films

__ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks Gene Youngblood ato...@comcast.net (505) 395-6370 ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks

Re: [Frameworks] video restoration

ated just outside NYC > in Glen Head, NY. As far as I can tell they're the closest vendor to NYC > currently offering the services you've requested (3/4" U-Matic tape cleaning, > tape incubation, etc.). > > Best, > > Erik > > On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Gen

[Frameworks] video restoration

I may have asked this before. Can someone recommend a post house in NYC that can restore and digitize 3/4” videotapes at reasonable cost? The restoration (cleaning) is most important. These are important historical documents. ___ FrameWorks mailing

[Frameworks] Facing Southeast

I have a Spanish language (no subtitles) DVD of Eliseo Subiela’s “Man Facing Southeast” that I will give to whoever wants it, preferably a school awake enough to know what it is, with students undamaged enough to enjoy it. The disc is a commercial pressing (not minus-R). Contact me off list.

Re: [Frameworks] telescope

> > I’m not sure I understand, it is not on youtube. at least i cnnnot find it > there. > > 2016-09-17 16:25 GMT-04:00 Gene Youngblood <ato...@comcast.net>: > can’t resist a bad pun that it floored George too.. > > > On Sep 17, 2016, at 2:19 PM, Craig Baldwin &

Re: [Frameworks] telescope

o, CA 94110 > > www.othercinema.com > > > > On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Francisco Torres <fjtorre...@gmail.com> > wrote: > is that an actual telescope he is posing next to? Desk size or another kind? > > 2016-09-17 11:02 GMT-04:00 Gene Youngblood <at

Re: [Frameworks] telescope

; > 2016-09-17 11:02 GMT-04:00 Gene Youngblood <ato...@comcast.net>: > > For my project on George Kuchar’s video diaries, I need someone who can > identify Jacques Vallee's telescope shown in the 1993 diary “ Tower of the > Astro- Cyclops.” Vallee is uncooperative.

[Frameworks] telescope

For my project on George Kuchar’s video diaries, I need someone who can identify Jacques Vallee's telescope shown in the 1993 diary “Tower of the Astro-Cyclops.” Vallee is uncooperative. So can anyone point me to an amateur astronomer’s club, or to an individual or university department

Re: [Frameworks] Download Helper

Thanks, Francisco! > On Sep 13, 2016, at 12:02 PM, Francisco Torres <fjtorre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Book TV has a youtube ch., perchance those programs can be downloaded as most > youtube content can.. > https://www.youtube.com/user/BookTV > > 2016-09-13 11:0

[Frameworks] Download Helper

Friends, I need to download Book TV programs on C-Span 2. Does anyone know if Download Helper for Firefox can do that? I’m having difficulty. C-Span has its own clipping feature, but they keep them ___ FrameWorks mailing list

Re: [Frameworks] Docs With Expressive Dramatizations

Ken, Do you require that the “expressive dramatizations” come from the maker of the documentary? That’s important. There’s a doc about the history of class struggle in America that Link TV has been showing in the past few months which is illustrated entirely with clips from feature films, but

[Frameworks] Kuchar Project

Friends, Here’s a six-minute summary/update of my project on George Kuchar’s video diaries. Please distribute. https://vimeo.com/179663010?utm_source=email_medium=vimeo-cliptranscode-201504_campaign=29220 ___ FrameWorks mailing list

[Frameworks] A Memory

Friends, I don’t know why I have the urge to post this, but in any case a one-page fragment from my memoirs, a childhood scene, is here: http://www.art-in-society.de/AS16/ASissue16.html Scroll down to “Writings,

Re: [Frameworks] leads for research on USIA and avant-garde film?

Alexander Hammid worked for a well-known studio (I’m forgetting the man’s name) that produced those kinds of films, often multiscreen. > On Jul 30, 2016, at 3:15 PM, Chuck Kleinhans > wrote: > > Given your interest in the Eames, you might consider as roughly

Re: [Frameworks] Peter Hutton

I carry this indelible image of Peter: we were walking down a street on a blustery day here in Santa Fe, deep in passionate discussion, when we came upon a huge Cottonwood tree swaying majestically in the wind, as if in slow motion. It was an arresting sight. We paused for a while then walked

Re: [Frameworks] texts on interlacing

Woody Vasulka pioneered these kinds of investigations vasulka.org > On Jun 26, 2016, at 6:18 AM, Laura McGough wrote: > > Richard Dienst talks a bit about scanning as an aesthetic in "Still Life in > Real Time: Theory After Television" > > Best,

[Frameworks] Mary Ellen Bute Bio

I’m forwarding to the list this email, below, from a lady who has written a biography of Mary Ellen Bute and is seeking recommendations about getting it published. If you want to help her, please don’t reply to this, contact her directly. It seems like a worthy contribution to the historical

Re: [Frameworks] codecs

gt; Because you have the same program in both codecs, you can tell that it was > not a super high quality H.264 encoding simply because it is less than > 1/25 the size of the Prores. > > -Sincerely, > --Buck Bito - Movette Film Transfer > > On Wed, May 4, 2016 5:56 pm, Gene You

[Frameworks] codecs

Friends, I have on a hard drive two different encodings of a program I downloaded from Link TV. One codec is Apple ProRes 422 (100 GB), the other is H.264 (3.52 GB). I don’t remember why we did that, but my question is: which version is best as b-roll for a doc I’m making?

[Frameworks] Conrad and Kuchar

For Frameworkers in general, an interview with Tony Conrad in Artforum: http://www.filmcomment.com/blog/loose-ends-an-interview-with-tony-conrad/?utm_source=wordfly_medium=email_campaign=FC04-15-16_content=version_A

[Frameworks] I'm a revolutionary

Frameworkers, I recently saw on Democracy Now (I think; the source really doesn’t matter) an interstitial showing a protest demonstration with a call-and-response where the speaker said “I am a revolutionary” over and over, and the crowd repeated it with him over and over. I vaguely recall it

Re: [Frameworks] Tony Conrad

I taught summer session in Gerry O’Grady’s media program at SUNY Buffalo for two summers, 1974 & 1975, with Tony, Paul Sharits, Hollis Frampton, the Vasulkas and others. I saw Tony every day those two summers, and we talked a lot, at his home and elsewhere. He played violin for me one day;

Re: [Frameworks] Films around the domestic interior and group study

Peter Tscherkassky, “Outer Space” (1999). > On Apr 3, 2016, at 5:07 PM, T. Siddle wrote: > > "House Fuck" by Lyra Hill > > On Apr 3, 2016 2:56 PM, "JS Shokrian" > wrote: > Frameworkers, > > Can you think of any

Re: [Frameworks] EIC party

Hi Bryan, We’re coming to your party Saturday April 9, as we do every year. This time not only to join you, but also to meet with Scott Stark, who will give us the key to his house in San Francisco. We’ll bring the DVDs we’re donating to Basement Films. We can drop them off at your house, or

Re: [Frameworks] Camera obscura films

If one wanted sort of “introductory” or otherwise contextualizing shots, there’s an external view of the San Francisco camera obscura in one of Nick Dorsky’s earlier films, and maybe also at the end of “Flower Thief.” Then there’s an interior in Bertolucci’s “Before the Revolution” where the

Re: [Frameworks] two more

It counts indeed. Thanks! > On Mar 17, 2016, at 11:33 AM, Salise Hughes <salise.hug...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Does a TV series count? The Twilight Zone: Where is Everybody? > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Gene Youngblood <ato...@comcast.net > <mailto:ato...@

Re: [Frameworks] two more

<http://www.filmlove.org/> > Co-founder, John Q collective: www.johnq.org <http://www.johnq.org/> > > > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Gene Youngblood <ato...@comcast.net > <mailto:ato...@comcast.net>> wrote: > Friends, in the last couple of we

[Frameworks] Chocolate Mountains

Pat O’Neill’s new film, Where the Chocolate Mountains, premieres tonight at Redcat in Los Angeles. Here’s a review in Artforumhttp://artforum.com/film/ ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com

[Frameworks] two more

Friends, in the last couple of weeks you have generously assisted me in finding films with certain content, like shadows, swings, and 360-degree camera moves. They’re for two presentations I’m giving in San Francisco late April, which I’ll tell you more about as the time approaches. Meanwhile,

Re: [Frameworks] 360 degrees

On Feb 24, 2016, at 9:55 PM, Gene Youngblood <ato...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> Thanks again, all, for these suggestions. It seems the subject is of >> interest to Frameworkers. We saw Peter Greenaway’s “Eisenstein in >> Guanajuato” today. It’s a mess overall, but it does

Re: [Frameworks] Collage and political narrative

Andy, your search brings up the possibility of contrasting collaged and non-collaged parallel narratives. An example of the latter could be Sympathy for the Devil, which pairs the building of two revolutions, musical and political. > On Feb 29, 2016, at 4:52 AM, Albert Alcoz

[Frameworks] A to D

Friends, I want to digitize analog audio to edit in FCP. How do I do that? There must be more or less “standard” software that most people use (that I might even have without knowing it). I realize the source doesn’t matter, but FYI, it’s quarter-inch open reel playing back on a Nagra. A

Re: [Frameworks] Big Shadows

ith a handheld camera at night, followed by someone > carrying a bright light, the result is his own shadow walking eerily through > the woods. I can't find the title now but I think it fits right in. > Pip > > > > > At 8:24 -0700 25/02/16, Gene Youngblood wrote: >&

Re: [Frameworks] experimental films involving minerals

If sand qualifies as a mineral, see Nathaniel Dorsky’s Alaya. > On Feb 25, 2016, at 1:40 PM, Peggy McShine wrote: > > Hello Frameworkers, > > I'm looking for experimental films involving minerals. Any examples? > > Thanks a lot, > > Peggy >

[Frameworks] Big Shadows

Friends, following the success of my 360-degree query, here’s one more: films with Expressionist-style large shadows, such as the sewer in the Third Man or Noirs like The Big Combo. I need shadows of whole human figures as well as hands (as in Nosferatu).

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