Re: [Frameworks] frameworks list migration
Thanks Pip, for the clear heads-up. John Porter On Tuesday, October 20, 2020, 02:38:00 p.m. UTC, FrameWorks Admin wrote: Dear FrameWorkers, The web host of the domain is closing operations and migrating to a new server that does not support mailing lists. Therefore, starting November 1st, this list will be renamed . Everything else will remain the same. I have duplicated your subscriptions including your personal options (digest, nomail, hidden, ack, etc). Please notify me if you want to change any of your options; otherwise please note the new address starting November 1st. I will send out a welcome message then, so you need only reply to it to continue conversations here. Happy frameworking Pip Chodorov, founder and administrator of FrameWorks (est’d November 1995) ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Beaulieu 4008ZM4 Super 8 silent camera
This camera's rechargeable battery pack is its Achilles heal. It's often the first part to fail, and then they're difficult to replace, and it doesn't have a AA batteries option. John Porter, Toronto, Canada On Friday, September 4, 2020, 07:43:07 p.m. UTC, Fred Camper wrote: I have one of these that I have not used in decades. Worked fine in the 1980s! Great camera. Anyway, it seems rather ecologically incorrect to just store it when someone else might use it, so I wnt to try to sell it. But first I need to make sure it runs OK. Obviously the batteries it came with no longer function. Does anyone have any experience with this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Beaulieu-4008-Replacement-Battery-Pack-with-Charger-Model-Mk-II/254624493578?hash=item3b48cd700a:g:FqEAAOSw7qdZ613N or have a better solution? My idea is to take a chance on buying a battery in the hope that the camera works, and then try to sell it -- or try to sell it for almost nothing even if it doesn't work, for display as a living room museum piece? Fred Camper Chicago ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] Upcoming super 8 screening & performance
Happy New Year All! I'm showing, on film as always, some of my 300 super 8 films, including doing some live film performance, next Tuesday, January 8, 12:45pm, at York University, Toronto, Canada. It's public, free, and family-friendly! http://www.super8porter.ca/UpcomingShows.htm John Porter, Toronto, Canada ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Screening: Still Life & ḤARĀM by Cynthia Madansky
Are those the projection formats listed? One film will be projected on an 8mm (not super 8) projector, and the other on a 16mm projector? Thanks, John Porter, Toronto On Wed, 3/28/18, Courtney Muller <muller...@gmail.com> wrote: Subject: [Frameworks] Screening: Still Life & ḤARĀM by Cynthia Madansky To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Received: Wednesday, March 28, 2018, 4:14 PM The FILM-MAKERS' COOP is pleased to present two films by Cynthia Madansky. Friday April 6, 2018 at 7 pm The Film-Makers' Cooperative475 Park Ave South, 6th FloorNew York, NY 10016 212-267-5665 Film-maker in person!Admission: $10 suggested. RSVP REQUIRED: i...@film-makerscoop.com PROGRAM: Still Life 8mm, 15 min. 2004. Still Life gazes unflinchingly at the violence of war, observing the eerie architecture of the West Bank and Gaza Strip collapsed under Israeli occupation. ḤARĀM 16mm, 47 min. 2017. ḤARĀM is an essay film portraying the urgent contemporary situation at the Haram Al Sharif/ Noble Sanctuary reflecting on the growing Temple Mount Faithful movement whose goal is to build the Third Temple on this holy Muslim site. The films by Cynthia Madansky integrate hybrid forms of cinematic traditions including autobiography, experimental methodologies, cinema vérité, scripted narrative, ethnographic observation as well as dance and performance. Her work engages with cultural and political themes, such as identity, nationalism, the transgression of borders, displacement, nuclear arms and war, foregrounding the human experience and personal testimony. Using 16mm, super 8 and video, her films portray the consequences of politics on the daily lives of individuals, interrogating the concept of personal responsibility and national accountability. A Q with Madansky will follow the screening. ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks -Inline Attachment Follows- ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] super8: braun nizo only shoots reverse
Hi Stephanie, Your description is vague. Does the camera run continuously in reverse as long as you hold that Rewind button down, and only that button, or even after you stop holding it down? That's the dissolve button. It's supposed to rewind for just a few seconds automatically after you press the button for a second then let go. But I think you have to be running forward with the trigger when you press that button. That dissolve function is very complicated. You have to perform a few steps, including the run trigger, in the correct sequence, for the correct amount of time. It's like a dance. If you do it incorrectly, the whole camera can jam (one of the few design flaws of the otherwise fantastic Nizos). Maybe that's your problem. It's difficult to know without testing the camera in person. John Porter, Toronto On Tue, 7/25/17, Stefanie Weberhofer <steffiframewo...@gmx.at> wrote: Subject: [Frameworks] super8: braun nizo only shoots reverse To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Received: Tuesday, July 25, 2017, 4:43 PM Dear Frameworkers, I have a question about my new Braun Nizo 481 macro. It seems it only works in the reverse mode. I have to press the R Button on top, otherwise it won’t start filming. Has anyone experience with that? Is there anything I can do about it? Except from making experimental double exposed films? Thanks, Stefanie Weberhofer ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Kodak Super8 digital camera
It seems to be targeted at digital videomakers (including the Hollywood directors that Dave Tetzlaff named) who want that "super 8 look" including conspicuous crud in the gate. John Porter, Toronto, Canada On Thu, 7/13/17, Dave Tetzlaff <djte...@gmail.com> wrote: Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Kodak Super8 digital camera To: "Experimental Film Discussion List" <frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com> Received: Thursday, July 13, 2017, 9:05 PM > Mindless design. No optical viewfinder, just a flip out video screen. Plus, it is overpriced. The projected price of the initial "limited edition” version is $2000, with a less expensive “standard edition” supposedly to follow. It’s a film camera, so the real cost is in the stock and processing: > Filmmakers using the new Kodak camera can send the 50’ cartridge to Kodak for developing and for a $100 developing fee Kodak will mail back to the filmmaker the developed film on a reel as well post a scanned digital version of the 2.5 minute film in a password protected cloud file. I’d have to guess the concept and pricing reflect a similar approach to The Impossible Project’s new design Polaroid film camera, also very expensive. These things seem targeted at cost-no-object users in Hollywood and hipsterdom, who get off on having whatever tool – vintage or new-fangled – has been used by some cel;ebrity maker in some high-profile project. > Before the reborn Super 8 camera has even hit store, big Hollywood names such as directors Steve Spielberg, Christopher Nolam, and J.J. Abrams have endorsed the product. For reference, Pro8mm in Burbank sells rebuilt Beaulieu 4008’s for $2000. I’d expect folks who want to do experimental work in S8 to stick to old Canons and Nizos or whatever shows up in decent condition at the local thrift store or on eBay. Jeff: what’s the problem with having what amounts to video assist versus a dim optical finder? Isn’t the good news here for photochemical filmies that some sort of stock and processing options will remain available from Kodak a while longer now that they have this thing to support? There’s a 46 second test clip from a Kodak prototype on YT [http://tinyurl.com/yayv8yok] complete with plastic pressure-plate registration flutter, dust and scratch in the negative glitches, and a nice chunk of crud in the gate. Ahh, the memories... ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Brakhage films in Maine, May 5, 2016.
Fred, are you screening at both 11am and 6:30pm? Says so on your website. John Porter, Toronto On Sun, 5/1/16, Fred Camper <f...@fredcamper.com> wrote: Subject: [Frameworks] Brakhage films in Maine, May 5, 2016. To: "Experimental Film Discussion List" <frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com> Received: Sunday, May 1, 2016, 9:02 PM I am presenting a program of films by Stan Brakhage at Colby College, Waterville Maine, on May 5. These are 16mm prints rented from Canyon. The films are: The Wonder Ring Mothlight Sirius Remembered The Riddle of Lumen Sol Arabic 14 Chartres Series The Lion and the Zebra Make God’s Raw Jewels and there's more information at http://fredcamper.com/Brakhage/Colby.html These represent my idea of some of Brakhage's very greatest from various phases of his career. Sorry for the short notice -- I only received the final details a few days ago. Fred Camper ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Seeking Super 8mm projector to borrow or rent in the Hudson Valley
Kate, I'm not nearby, but will this be a public screening with lead-up publicity that we'll see? Thanks, John Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Where to get 8mm film?
Alan, I know you say "of any sort", but do you mean of 8mm film, or of super 8 film? The two types of cartridges and cameras are very different and incompatible. John Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Analogica 2016 // OPEN CALL for films + ANALOGICA Spring screenings
Thanks Vinz, I see your Selection 2015 touring program includes 16mm, super 8 and 35mm. Are those the projection formats at all three of the tour screenings? And what about at your November festival? Your Call for Submissions says what formats the works must be SHOT on, but I don't see anywhere what formats the works can or must be PROJECTED on. Thanks, John Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] Frameworks spam?
I keep getting these warnings, and I don't know if they're legit and if I should reply to them? confirm f28143006cc5d8ee78030c0d311c9f0dd2d3b79f frameworks-requ...@jonasmekasfilms.com Your membership in the mailing list FrameWorks has been disabled due to excessive bounces The last bounce received from you was dated 25-Aug-2014. You will not get any more messages from this list unt To Me Today at 6:38 PM Your membership in the mailing list FrameWorks has been disabled due to excessive bounces The last bounce received from you was dated 25-Aug-2014. You will not get any more messages from this list until you re-enable your membership. You will receive 3 more reminders like this before your membership in the list is deleted. To re-enable your membership, you can simply respond to this message (leaving the Subject: line intact), or visit the confirmation page at https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/confirm/frameworks/f28143006cc5d8ee78030c0d311c9f0dd2d3b79f You can also visit your membership page at https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/options/frameworks/super8porter%40yahoo.ca On your membership page, you can change various delivery options such as your email address and whether you get digests or not. As a reminder, your membership password is wubuotvu If you have any questions or problems, you can contact the list owner at frameworks-ow...@jonasmekasfilms.com John Porter, Toronto, Canada http://www.super8porter.ca/ super8por...@yahoo.ca___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] The UltraPan8 2.8 projector project
Another example that Toronto and Canada are world centres of small-format film. John Porter, Toronto, Canada http://www.super8porter.ca/ super8por...@yahoo.ca On Sat, 12/7/13, Nicholas Kovats nkov...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: [Frameworks] The UltraPan8 2.8 projector project To: Nicholas Kovats nkov...@gmail.com Received: Saturday, December 7, 2013, 11:47 PM Toronto filmmaker, James Gillespie, treated me to his wonderful work in progress - a very special modified 1950's Specto all metal projector specifically for the ultrawide UltraPan8 film format. Extra rollers, modified step down transformer, brighter 300w halogen bulb and blue LED fans! 8fest is in for a treat next year (Jan, 2014). Photos - http://www.flickr.com/photos/90929958@N00/sets/72157638461090136/ 8Fest - http://www.the8fest.com/ Cheers! Nicholas ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] 16mm 35mm feature film prints for sale!
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[Frameworks] 16mm 35mm feature film prints for sale!
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Re: [Frameworks] MILLENNIUM Film Workshop Open Screening 2/17
Thanks Stephanie, I've been posting Millennium's monthly Open Screenings on my home page: http://www.super8porter.ca/#nycfeb Open Screenings are the BEST screenings! And Millennium's have been more often and more enduring than anywhere else in the world! Bravo! I showed one of my super 8 films there in 1977. Howard Guttenplan was running it and he liked my film, which meant a lot to me. I didn't know him then, I only knew that he must've seen a lot of films. And Millennium's Open Screenings can show more film formats than most other places can. Bravo again! Can you really show standard 8? That's not mentioned on Millennium's website. Good luck tonight! John Porter, Toronto --- On Sun, 2/12/12, Stephanie Vevers svev...@gmail.com wrote: From: Stephanie Vevers svev...@gmail.com Subject: [Frameworks] MILLENNIUM Film Workshop / Open Screening for all, FRIDAY 2/17, 8:00pm / THURSDAY 2/16: Meeting; Optical Printer Workshop. To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Received: Sunday, February 12, 2012, 9:25 PM All are invited to bring a film or work-in-progress to a Millennium Open Screening for all, Friday Feb 17, starting 8:00pm; bring your own refreshments, we provide the projectors! (Super 8, standard 8, 16mm, DVD, miniDV, vhs) Also, THURSDAY, Feb 16, starting at 7:30, will be another Meeting open to all, to inform, discuss and plan for upcoming programming and outreach. An Optical Printer Workshop is coming up very soon, so please email cin...@millenniumfilm.org, or call Millennium (212) 637-0090 to reserve a spot! MillenniumFilm.org 66 East 4th Street, NY, NY 10003. ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] JEFF KEEN NYC
Hi, To refer to documentation of Jeff Keen and screening times of the film program, please visit our new website at www.elizabethdee.com I tried that w/o luck. The website's difficult to navigate and I couldn't find any mention of the screenings. Thanks, John. John Porter, Toronto, Canada http://www.super8porter.ca/ super8por...@yahoo.ca From: Jack Sargeant j...@jacktext.net Subject: [Frameworks] JEFF KEEN NYC To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Received: Monday, January 2, 2012, 3:53 PM For everybody in New York, the underground filmmaker Jeff Keen is having a major retrospective of paintings and films. Check it out. Jack JEFF KEEN Works from the 1960s + 1970s January 12 – February 11, 2012 Opening Thursday, January 12, 6-8PM Elizabeth Dee Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition at the gallery and United States debut of paintings and films by Jeff Keen [b. 1923, UK]. This important first exhibition in New York will explore in depth Keen's most influential and fundamental period of work, the 1960s and 1970s, during which he established a prolific visual practice extending to five decades of drawing, painting, experimental film, concrete poetry and performance. Keen is primarily known as a legendary underground filmmaker whose work and activities coincided with the emergence of expanded cinema. He was one of the original participants in the 60s at the London Filmmakers Co-op. The BFI and later the British Arts Council supported and enabled Keen to make films and devise a multitude of drawings and paintings. During this period, Keen maintained jobs as a landscaper in the Parks and Recreation department of his hometown, Brighton, and sometimes as a postal worker delivering mail. The artist made movies primarily on weekends with his family and friends in an ensemble cast and his painting and drawing studio was for 40 years a repository of props and art that accumulated to extraordinary effect that has been fully documented. Embracing the increasingly available technology of 8mm, 16mm and prevelance of American Pop imagery and Comics [and later Punk], Keen employed modes of popular media, technology and music in painting, drawing and collage using a stop frame animation process and in camera editing, resulting in active and evocative films. Utilizing a frequency of speed not found in work of the period, Keen, through the possibilities of the medium, brought new life to the significance of radical visual media. Keen was able to merge Surrealist and Dadaist ideology with a social-political critique of American consumerism with the spontaneity of the Beat and 60s era. These works are avid responses to an overwhelming sense of increasingly proliferating media and commodification during the decade. He often explored his experiences surviving World War II in this material, focusing on monuments of power and the ever-present war within the artist as individual. This took the form of invented characters or corporations [i.e. Rayday Films] with brands, personas or protagonists in a fractured narrative style. Performative and reminiscent of Surrealism's influence on his formative period in the 1950s, Keen additionally drew from English Romanticism and his love of language to devise a novel method of working in a newly evolving medium. Keen's work can be viewed today as prescient to modes of film and video that began to take cultural references into an exploration of our own larger social portraiture. His enthusiastic embrace of alternative modes of discourse in a pre-internet age is astoundingly fresh today, and the diversity of his practice calls to mind both painters, film and video artists who succeeded him, from such figures as Derek Jarman, Richard Hamilton and Linder, to American artists such as Jack Smith, Ryan Trecartin and Peter Saul. Jeff Keen very rarely exhibited his drawings and paintings. He first showed Rayday Film [1968 - 1970] in the First International Underground Film Festival at the National Film Theatre in 1970. Upcoming 2012 exhibitions include a retrospective at the Brighton and Hove Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, London and Tate Modern, London. In conjunction with the Jeff Keen exhibition, we are pleased to announce a special initiative for 2012, the first of an ongoing series of collaborations with galleries who share common philosophies and interests. Anke Kempkis of BROADWAY1602 will be our first collaborator to inaugurate the series with the related exhibition, Façade is Cracking: Jeff Keen Drawings from the 1950s. This exhibition will include film related assemblages and documentation along with rare works on paper at her gallery, located at 1181 Broadway [3rd Floor] in conjunction with the solo exhibition, Anna Molska Glasshouses. The exhibitions open on January 14 and extend to February 28, 2012 with an afternoon
Re: [Frameworks] 2012 Revelation call for entries
Thanks Jack, Call For Entries: Entry Form SCREENING FORMAT: (35mm, Digital Betacam, DVCam, DVD etc) In other words, no 16mm, 8mm or super 8 film? John. From: Jack Sargeant j...@jacktext.net Subject: [Frameworks] 2012 Revelation call for entries To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Received: Tuesday, October 11, 2011, 7:34 AM Hi Just to let everybody know that our call for entries for Revelation Perth International Film Festival 2012 has gone live. http://www.revelationfilmfest.org/go/films/call-for-entries cheers Jack ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
