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

2017-11-13 Thread John McAndrew
Has anyone mentioned Paula Gladstone's 1980 film 'The Dancing Soul Of The Walking People' yet? I seem to recall Duke Ellington, Alice Coltrane, Anthony Braxton, The Art Ensemble of Chicago and some others featuring on the soundtrack. Incidentally, I would LOVE to see this film be released on

[Frameworks] Contact email for Sarah Markgraf? / Paul Sharits book

2017-04-28 Thread John McAndrew
Hello all, Could someone possibly forward me a contact email address for Sarah Markgraf who edited the recent 'I Was a Flawed Modernist' book of Paul Sharits' writings? The Film-Makers Cooperative published this limited edition book earlier this year, but almost two weeks later they still

Re: [Frameworks] mental problems

2017-03-25 Thread John McAndrew
I highly recommend the freak out scene/s in the 1978 film Death Drug - it's a clusterfuck of slowed down video, overlaid synth effects (both visual and audio), cheesy hallucinations and completely over the top acting from Miami Vice's Philip Michael Thomas - has to be seen to be believed! The full

Re: [Frameworks] Introductory books on experimental cinema

2017-01-07 Thread John McAndrew
I'd say just start with books that are easily available and cheap to pick up, like A.L. Rees' A History of Experimental Film and Video, published by the British Film Institute (either edition is fine). I don't think bombarding someone with a list of 30 or so books as an "introduction" is a good

Re: [Frameworks] 40 years of VHS - short video recommendations?

2016-09-14 Thread John McAndrew
Hi Richard, For a screening of abstract video/digital works I programmed at Leeds International Film Festival in 2011 called "Destructural Video", I screened an excerpt from Neil Gravander's video "Improvisations for Hand-Spun Video Springer"; the artist modified a VCR so that tapes could be

Re: [Frameworks] Women filmmaker autobiographies

2015-09-16 Thread John McAndrew
It's not necessarily about filmmaking specifically, but 'Video Days; And What We Saw Through The Viewfinder' by Nancy Cain could be considered. John ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com

[Frameworks] For sale: William C. Wees' Recycled Images and other film/video related books

2015-04-14 Thread John McAndrew
Hello all, I've been having a major clear out of my book collection and realised I've got a duplicate copy of this apparently OOP book published by Anthology Film Archives in 1993 which I'm happy to sell. It's in excellent condition with no damage to the covers and clean unmarked pages. I'm not

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

2015-01-31 Thread John McAndrew
Sorry, replace some mentions of Parts with Volumes - it's all very confusing! On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 1:30 PM, John McAndrew jj.mcand...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I noticed a few Maya Deren books in this excellent compiled list (of which I own around half of the 60 titles, the rest

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

2015-01-31 Thread John McAndrew
Hello, I noticed a few Maya Deren books in this excellent compiled list (of which I own around half of the 60 titles, the rest will be seeked out!) and it made me think - were the remaining two volumes of VèVè Clark, Millicent Hodson and Catrina Neiman's three volume biography and collected works

Re: [Frameworks] Films that utilize the zoom lens?

2013-01-05 Thread John McAndrew
The recent mainstream film Limitless uses an infinite zoom in effect in the opening credits sequence and during a montage or two. On a similar note, check out the educational film Powers of Ten: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0 John ___