People are not renting films or going to the theater in numbers that will help
sustain these organizations, and i don't think we can turn back the tide.Don't
mean to be so down, but i think we all know this.
Matt
http://www.youtube.com/user/oscarthepug1234
http://www.youtube.com/user/matthelme007
From: David Tetzlaff djte...@gmail.com
To: Experimental Film Discussion List frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2012 12:00 PM
Subject: [Frameworks] What is to be done? was canyon in the news
I genuinely hope we can have a discussion, starting with the question of 'what
really matters?' I have my own thoughts, but I want to hear what other people
think and see if maybe some new ideas might emerge, you know, in dialogue.
Why is 'experimental film' important? Why does 'the world' need it? What does
it do? How are these OUTCOMES special and not served by other art forms? Who
comprises the potential audience, the people who might appreciate, love, need
this work?
Chuck has already mentioned that cinema screenings are significant social
experiences. I was thinking more about the cultural properties of 'the texts,'
but of course exhibition matters as well. So what social functions or
experiences are attendant to experimental screenings that are different from
screenings of commercial cinema, or even documentary/art-house fare for that
matter?
My working assumption is that we have conflated physical forms with the value
of the cultural material they have carried, and unwisely focused on the
preservation of the former, rather than the preservation and _further
dissemination_ of the latter. Even if you think the physical media and the
cultural value are inseperable, IMHO it remains a worthwhile exercise, if only
in an art historical sense, to clarify why this work matters, what it adds to
the world.
FWIW, I do not think such a discussion will proceed productively in the typical
email mode of jotting off quick, one-line rejoinders. I suggest the signs of
the times merit more considered replies. (I mean really, Kodak declares
bankruptcy, Canyon declares they might go under, and there's another crisis at
Millenium all within the space of a month or so?)
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