Re: [Frameworks] Singularity and intentional incoherence

2013-01-26 Thread Fred Camper
Quoting Andy Ditzler a...@andyditzler.com: Hello, Consider the brief close-up appearance of the cockatoo around the last third of Citizen Kane. Cut to bird, loud bird shriek on soundtrack, then back to the story. Welles' purpose in this odd cutaway was to wake up the audience, exactly as

Re: [Frameworks] Singularity and intentional incoherence

2013-01-26 Thread Francisco Torres
The films of Raul Ruiz are full of weird 'out of the blue' events that are never explained. He talks about them in his Poetic of Cinema books. Ruiz favored the unexpected *'For years I watched so-called Greco-Latin films (toga flicks, with early Christians devoured by lions, emperors in love and

Re: [Frameworks] Singularity and intentional incoherence

2013-01-25 Thread Ittai Rosenbaum
:* Wednesday, January 23, 2013 2:37 AM *To:* frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com *Subject:* [Frameworks] Singularity and intentional incoherence Hi My name is Ittai Rosenbaum, I am a doctoral student at the music composition department at UCSC and in the process of defining my Qualification Exams

Re: [Frameworks] Singularity and intentional incoherence

2013-01-24 Thread Carl Lee
...@jonasmekasfilms.com mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com]*On Behalf Of*Ittai Rosenbaum *Sent:*Wednesday, January 23, 2013 2:37 AM *To:*frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com mailto:frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com *Subject:*[Frameworks] Singularity and intentional

Re: [Frameworks] Singularity and intentional incoherence

2013-01-23 Thread Tom Whiteside
Cinematheque From: frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com [mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] On Behalf Of Ittai Rosenbaum Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 2:37 AM To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Subject: [Frameworks] Singularity and intentional incoherence Hi My name is Ittai Rosenbaum, I

Re: [Frameworks] Singularity and intentional incoherence

2013-01-23 Thread Bryan McManus
Hi Ittai, Yours is an interesting pursuit! Much luck to you in your study. Your thoughts reminded me of an interview I heard with David Lynch (forgive me, I cannot remember where) where he spoke about the eye of the duck as being an element of his films. Interestingly, I think he was referring

Re: [Frameworks] Singularity and intentional incoherence

2013-01-23 Thread Ittai Rosenbaum
!*** * ** ** TomDurham Cinematheque ** ** *From:* frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com [mailto: frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] *On Behalf Of *Ittai Rosenbaum *Sent:* Wednesday, January 23, 2013 2:37 AM *To:* frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com *Subject:* [Frameworks] Singularity

[Frameworks] Singularity and intentional incoherence

2013-01-22 Thread Ittai Rosenbaum
Hi My name is Ittai Rosenbaum, I am a doctoral student at the music composition department at UCSC and in the process of defining my Qualification Exams topics. I wondered if anyone could perhaps have interesting knowledge or insights about a subject in film theory that might parallel one of my