Thank you everyone for these suggestions, lots of good works to follow on,
thanks again for sharing.
Kelly
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Kate Dollenmayer wrote:
> "Fear of Blushing" by Jennifer Reeves
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Chuck Kleinhans <
> chuck...@northwestern.edu> wrote:
"Fear of Blushing" by Jennifer Reeves
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Chuck Kleinhans
wrote:
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> On Oct 8, 2013, at 11:26 AM, Steve Polta wrote:
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>
> *Seeking the Monkey* *King* by Ken Jacobs is entirely abstract visually
> but uses textual intertitles to specifically comment on capitalism,
On Oct 8, 2013, at 11:26 AM, Steve Polta wrote:
Seeking the Monkey King by Ken Jacobs is entirely abstract visually but uses
textual intertitles to specifically comment on capitalism, the current economy,
the Occupy movement, etc.
I agree this is a particularly apt example.
While not quite
In 2012, as part of its CROSSROADS film festival, San Francisco
Cinematheque presented a program which was deliberately focused on recent
films that used abstraction to address political issues. See:
http://www.sfcinematheque.org/crossroads2012_p2/
*Seeking the Monkey* *King* by Ken Jacobs is enti
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von Kelly Sears
Gesendet: Montag, 7. Oktober 2013 05:00
An: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com
Betreff: [Frameworks] abstraction and politics
Dear frameworkers,
I would love to
Thank you everyone for your responses. These are satisfying the itch
behind this question. I very much agree, the terms 'political' and
'abstract' both have so much grey area around them. I'm interested in
exploring these varying degrees of grey behind this question.
Brakhage's production as a
Of course, Brakhage, and of course, "23rd Psalm Branch." I have also
argued, for example in my liner notes for the Criterion DVD, that his
work as a whole constitutes an argument against our object-oriented,
commodified, static, consumerist culture. This to me is arguably a
profounder stat
Kelly,
This is an interesting question, and it demands a complicated answer. First, I
think it's important to note that abstraction is not an absolute but that
there's a large gray area between abstraction and representation. I'd argue
that many if not most experimental films inhabit that gra
While they probably wouldn't normally be considered political, some
Stan Brakhage films are short, abstract works that can be seen, at
least in part, as meditations on certain cultural histories. For
examples: "Unconscious London Strata," "In Consideration of Pompeii,"
"b Series" (contain
Films and writings of (and about) Paul Sharits, Peter Gidal, Malcolm
LeGrice
Fred Camper
Chicago
Quoting Kelly Sears :
Dear frameworkers,
I would love to pick your collective brain about some film/videos that use
abstraction to address political, social, or cultural histories. I would
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