Re: [Frameworks] New filmmaker

2014-05-05 Thread Lady Snowblood
Hey Eleni - Figure out a way of planning that works for you. Keeping a notebook or sketchbook, using post-it notes or index cards, researching - these activities often support the filmmaker through the making process . . . You can write with pencil on paper or with a computer. Short/simple

Re: [Frameworks] Martin Arnold Animated Gifs

2014-05-09 Thread Lady Snowblood
Nick wrote - Are animated gifs the appropriate contemporary format for this line of inquiry ( this = Arnold's work ) or is the gif-ification a perversion ( in the negative sense ) +/or compromise? I don’t see any of those negative evaluations (perversion in the negative sense) - I see

Re: [Frameworks] Muybridge and moving image art

2014-05-16 Thread Lady Snowblood
1. Scott Blake created a digital process of aping Chuck Close’s paintings, the ‘chuck close filter'. At Chuck Close’s request, he squashed the project. However, an animated .gif he made using Muybridge as a starting point (and the whole weird story) is visible at hyperallergic -

Re: [Frameworks] Fibonacci Sequence

2014-08-06 Thread Lady Snowblood
beautiful/strange https://vimeo.com/7656765 a 3-minute animation made in a 72-hour filmmaking ‘challenge weekend’ in 2006. Fibonnacci in relationship to time. Thanks! Jessica http://www.drawclose.com On Aug 6, 2014, at 2:25 PM, c b bigmuddy2...@hotmail.com wrote: Yes I'm looking for a

Re: [Frameworks] Glitch video artists

2014-09-22 Thread Lady Snowblood
um, this is kindof awkward ~ I make screen glitch video. I love talking about datamoshing and other codec alteration processes work; it is unlike any analog film process, though analogies abound. I used to do 16mm hand-altered film, that’s part of why I’m on this list, it’s the tradition I

Re: [Frameworks] os x workflow for the web

2014-11-02 Thread Lady Snowblood
Hello Eric - You can use Compressor to create .mp4 files that are small enough to meet your needs. I can provide you with a click-through for creating a custom setting that you can re-use in the future. What version of Compressor and OS X are you using? Also we can keep this off-list unless

Re: [Frameworks] 16mm/Super8 Screening Panel Discussion @ NYPL Jefferson Market Library

2014-11-11 Thread Lady Snowblood
Matt, this is a fantastic document . . . This is thought to simultaneously relax the brain and increase active engagement as the mind “fills the gaps” between each shutter interruption. In this way, the brain constructs perception of movement from distinct still frames. Its interesting to me

Re: [Frameworks] Self distribution situation

2015-02-02 Thread Lady Snowblood
The opening sets up -- first, a tension between the actual experience of life as a series of sychronicities via singular point of view (the narrator finds only fragments) and the very real need for a cohesive story for the psyche to hang on to (the narrator I was looking for a story

Re: [Frameworks] Write-up on Morrison's Decasia

2015-01-15 Thread Lady Snowblood
Thanks for sharing this. I have certain obsession with film stock itself as memory to be made public, 'decay as forgetting' is important to me - Jessica * * * http://drawclose.com On Jan 15, 2015, at 6:40 AM, Michael Betancourt hinterland.mov...@gmail.com wrote: I have a short write-up

Re: [Frameworks] Matrix

2015-04-20 Thread Lady Snowblood
All the Agent Smiths? Or camouflaging “the good guys”? On Apr 20, 2015, at 4:37 PM, Gene Youngblood ato...@comcast.net wrote: Friends, Which one of the Matrix movies has a scene where a crowd of people are dressed exactly the same, so that the one being targeted can’t be identified?

Re: [Frameworks] looking for copy/animation stand (or tips on making one)

2015-05-25 Thread Lady Snowblood
I made the “Amanda Bonaiuto” model last year, using the directions found on this page (scroll down) : http://smfaanimation.blogspot.com/p/animation-workspaces.html http://smfaanimation.blogspot.com/p/animation-workspaces.html Its kindof gigantic, but I made it so that I could fit a set of

Re: [Frameworks] Canon Camera Problem

2016-02-22 Thread Lady Snowblood
Hey Ken IDK if you’ve found a solution, but I was curious about your issue. I love timelapse but the process can be hard on digital camera bodies depending on how the machine is built to execute the task. This kind of programming decision was added to DSLRs later - a tertiary feature - as

Re: [Frameworks] experimental MTV idents

2017-06-13 Thread lady snowblood
Off the top of my head, The Brothers Quay did one, as did Robert Longo. If I think of other resources or references for you, I will pass that along. * * * * * Jessica Fenlon artist : poet : experimental http://station-number-six.com flickr : vimeo : instagram > On Jun 13, 2017, at 11:18

Re: [Frameworks] Asking for a friend

2017-11-26 Thread lady snowblood
Thank you for your observations on the role of scholarship in creating centered spaces for auteurs Evan. When female filmmakers voices are centered, when I as a woman don’t have to decrypt and explain what is perfectly clear to me — I was raised literate in a male visual vocabulary (as is

Re: [Frameworks] experimental/feminist films with a woman's voice-over narration?

2017-11-05 Thread lady snowblood
I.thou is an experimental film (datamosh, so explicitly digital media) deconstructing deadgirl narratives in American media culture. I made it to unpack watching a lifetime of media made my men putting female characters in violent/life-threatening situations as entertainment. The soundtrack is

Re: [Frameworks] Closed captioning for experimental film?

2018-01-28 Thread lady snowblood
Hi there Caryn - I really love this question. I think the answers are complicated. I have not seen closed captioning or subtitling *successfully* applied to experimental work, to communicate sound design. I say that in part because of watching Twin Peaks: The Return last year and occasionally

Re: [Frameworks] Long takes and still images/ photography in experimental films

2018-03-11 Thread lady snowblood
I know it’s “television” but ... Twin Peaks : The Return is, in its entirety, astonishingly slow. Certain scenes are given the padding of ‘not turning away’ from really uncomfortable moments (especially couples fighting). One episode ends with a 3.5 minute shot of a bartender sweeping up peanut

Re: [Frameworks] Forwarded from Massart Faculty

2018-04-13 Thread lady snowblood
I’ve been observing this situation and reflecting on the need for competing skills inside one person: - adherence to personal vision in the studio - the flexibility of ego to collaborate well with colleagues and students in the educational environment. I’ve seen behavior like this in art