[Frameworks] Frameworks Digest, Vol 6, Issue 6

[Lili White]

THANK YOU Scott Stark for all you have done for experimental cinema over
the years. Best Wishes for the FUTURE!
Lili White

On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 1:00 PM <frameworks-request at film-gallery.org> wrote:

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>    1. This Week in Avant Garde Cinema (sstark at hi-beam.net)
>    2. Re: This Week in Avant Garde Cinema (William Basquin)
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> From: "sstark at hi-beam.net" <sstark at hi-beam.net>
> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at film-gallery.org>
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> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 08:57:52 -0800
> Subject: [Frameworks] This Week in Avant Garde Cinema
> Hi all, someone asked me offline about the status of This Week in Avant
> Garde CInema, so I thought I’d post my response here.
>
> Since 1996 (25 years ago!) I’ve been producing or overseeing volunteers
> producing This Week in Avant Garde Cinema, a weekly listing of experimental
> film/video events around the world. I and a handful of volunteers initially
> entered the events manually every week, and in the early 2000s I converted
> it to a DIY system where venues and makers could enter their own listings.
> This worked well for a while, but as the ubiquity of social media grew,
> people started listing shows on other channels such as Facebook, and not
> TWIAGC. I developed some scripting to integrate those listings into TWIAGC,
> but it became a game of whack-a-mole keeping up with variations.
>
> When the pandemic hit last year and physical exhibitions stopped
> happening. I put the project on pause. (You can still see the last post
> here <http://www.hi-beam.net/whats.html>.) I considered continuing it
> with online shows, but as the number of those grew that too started to seem
> daunting. And frankly, though I still enjoyed seeing the weekly compendium
> of some of the amazing shows happening across the U.S. and elsewhere, after
> nearly 25 years I was a bit tired of maintaining and overseeing it.
>
> So at this point, even after physical shows start to come back, I will no
> longer be producing This Week in Avant Garde Cinema.
>
> That said, the data entered for the previous listings still exists. While
> not all events were always included, the listings do provide a rich
> historical snapshot of thousands of events taking place over the last 20+
> years.
>
> And if someone with a lot of energy wants to take this on again, I’d be
> happy to help them get started.
>
> Thanks for all the well-wishes and appreciation for this resource over the
> years. Stay safe and creative.
>
> Scott
>
> Scott Stark
> www.scottstark.com
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: William Basquin <billbasquin at earthlink.net>
> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at film-gallery.org>
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 09:34:49 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] This Week in Avant Garde Cinema
> Scott,
>
> Thank you for this email!
> That last listing was a good one and I wish I'd been able to get to the
> Jane Wodening screening/event at Los Angeles Filmforum.
> And, my own postponed world premiere screening would have been listed in
> the TWIAGC for March 23, 2020.
> Now, I am looking for an orchard and engineering something of a career
> shift.
>
> I hope you and Kathleen are well!
>
> -- Bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "sstark at hi-beam.net"
> Sent: Feb 21, 2021 8:57 AM
> To: Experimental Film Discussion List
> Subject: [Frameworks] This Week in Avant Garde Cinema
>
> Hi all, someone asked me offline about the status of This Week in Avant
> Garde CInema, so I thought I’d post my response here.
>
> Since 1996 (25 years ago!) I’ve been producing or overseeing volunteers
> producing This Week in Avant Garde Cinema, a weekly listing of experimental
> film/video events around the world. I and a handful of volunteers initially
> entered the events manually every week, and in the early 2000s I converted
> it to a DIY system where venues and makers could enter their own listings.
> This worked well for a while, but as the ubiquity of social media grew,
> people started listing shows on other channels such as Facebook, and not
> TWIAGC. I developed some scripting to integrate those listings into TWIAGC,
> but it became a game of whack-a-mole keeping up with variations.
>
> When the pandemic hit last year and physical exhibitions stopped
> happening. I put the project on pause. (You can still see the last post
> here <http://www.hi-beam.net/whats.html>.) I considered continuing it
> with online shows, but as the number of those grew that too started to seem
> daunting. And frankly, though I still enjoyed seeing the weekly compendium
> of some of the amazing shows happening across the U.S. and elsewhere, after
> nearly 25 years I was a bit tired of maintaining and overseeing it.
>
> So at this point, even after physical shows start to come back, I will no
> longer be producing This Week in Avant Garde Cinema.
>
> That said, the data entered for the previous listings still exists. While
> not all events were always included, the listings do provide a rich
> historical snapshot of thousands of events taking place over the last 20+
> years.
>
> And if someone with a lot of energy wants to take this on again, I’d be
> happy to help them get started.
>
> Thanks for all the well-wishes and appreciation for this resource over the
> years. Stay safe and creative.
>
> Scott
>
> Scott Stark
> www.scottstark.com
>
>
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