[Frameworks] What are the 3 Essential Films that you would show Artists on their first foray into the Moving Image Realm ?

2015-03-27 Thread Donal OCeilleachair
Dear Frameworkers: I am working on a new film project with the Ealaíontóirí Mhuscraí (that's Irish for the Muskerry Region Artists Group) Part of the project will involve film / video making workshops where I will show them works from experimental film, creative documentary and artists' moving im

Re: [Frameworks] What are the 3 Essential Films that you would show Artists on their first foray into the Moving Image Realm ?

2015-03-27 Thread Gene Youngblood
Three is a severe limitation, but if you insist, one way to get at it is to start not with films but with major traditions since mid-century and select exemplary works within them. So for example abstract (Brakhage), minimalist (Warhol, Wavelength), essayistic (Marker, Farocki, Forgacs). I inclu

Re: [Frameworks] What are the 3 Essential Films that you would show Artists on their first foray into the Moving Image Realm ?

2015-03-27 Thread William Wees, Dr.
There are dozens, no, hundreds of “essential” films for artists to see. But here are three I might use: Stan Brakhage, “Dog Star Man,” Robert Breer, “A Man and his Dog Out for Air,” Phil Solomon, “The Secret Garden.” --Bill Wees From: FrameWorks [mailto:frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com]

Re: [Frameworks] What are the 3 Essential Films that you would show Artists on their first foray into the Moving Image Realm ?

2015-03-27 Thread Vicky Smith5
Maya Deren has to be in there... Vicky Smith From: FrameWorks [frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com] on behalf of William Wees, Dr. [william.w...@mcgill.ca] Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 7:45 PM To: Experimental Film Discussion List Subject: Re: [Frameworks] What

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2015-03-27 Thread Francisco Torres
Yes, Meshes of the Afternoon. And Un Chien Andalou for sure. The third, for me, would be A Movie by Conner. 2015-03-27 16:02 GMT-04:00 Vicky Smith5 : > Maya Deren has to be in there... > > Vicky Smith > -- > *From:* FrameWorks [frameworks-boun...@jonasmekasfilms.com

Re: [Frameworks] What are the 3 Essential Films that you would show Artists on their first foray into the Moving Image Realm ?

2015-03-27 Thread Bernard Roddy
I taught an introductory course in which I framed things under the terms "underground," "avant-garde," "studio-art video," "video as technology," "documentary," and a concluding section called "film culture" (histories of organizing, concluding with Cashmere's Incite issue devoted to exhibition).

Re: [Frameworks] What are the 3 Essential Films that you would show Artists on their first foray into the Moving Image Realm ?

2015-03-27 Thread Peter Mudie
Wavelength (Snow, 1967); Zorns Lemma (Frampton, 1970); Arnulf Rainer (Kubelka, 1960) - in that order. Peter (Perth) On 28/03/2015 9:47 am, "Bernard Roddy" wrote: >I taught an introductory course in which I framed things under the >terms "underground," "avant-garde," "studio-art video," "video as