[Frameworks] John Writer

[Regina Longo]

I know John well. We were colleagues back in the 1990s in the bay area. He did indeed stop making films for ten years switching to large format paintings that incorporated the braile alphabet and that were phenomenal. In the past few years he has begun to work in video and has mounted a few shows of paintings and short videos in oakland and in la. For Mark and Jacob:  I can contact John to see if he would be willing to get in touch. As I told Jacob off list he tends to keep quite a low profile.
Regina Longo 
Dept of Film and Media Studies
UC Santa Barbara

On Fri Jun 4th, 2010 11:19 PM EDT Steve Polta wrote:

>Timoleon Wilkins definitely knew John Writer. When that screening I described was over and everyone just was all tense and exhaling, Tim broke the tension (sort of) by standing, silently shaking John's hand and exiting the room (for a cigarette I think——he came back in a minute).
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>Steve Polta
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>--- On Fri, 6/4/10, Mark Toscano <fiddybop at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> From: Mark Toscano <fiddybop at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] John Writer
>> To: "Experimental Film Discussion List" <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>
>> Date: Friday, June 4, 2010, 5:36 PM
>> Hmm, I've been wondering about John
>> Writer a bit.  I've never seen anything, but when
>> Brakhage's internegatives came to the Academy from MoMA in
>> about 2005-06, one of Writer's internegs was in there. 
>> Most likely, Western Cine labs had sent it by mistake to
>> MoMA back in 2002.  It's a film called HADES
>> TRINITY.  Can't help but think of THE DANTE QUARTET, of
>> course.  
>> 
>> I think at the time, maybe Timoleon Wilkins told me he had
>> known John, but I don't remember what he said.  I just
>> inventoried the interneg into our collection, so if someone
>> knows John, he might like to know we have it and perhaps
>> want it back.
>> 
>> Steve P - your description of that screening is
>> fascinating.  I wonder if he makes films anymore.
>> 
>> Mark Toscano
>> 
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>> --- On Fri, 6/4/10, gregg biermann <mubbazoo at optonline.net>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> From: gregg biermann <mubbazoo at optonline.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] John Writer
>> To: "Experimental Film Discussion List" <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>
>> Date: Friday, June 4, 2010, 7:49 AM
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>> Jacob,
>> 
>> I have a dim memory of him at SFAI in 1992 or 1993. A tall,
>> bearded
>> fellow with a floppy brimmed hat and sandals. He thoroughly
>> thrashed me
>> at chess without much effort. His one film that I recall
>> was called
>> something like 'I -- Venus, Dog of this Light". Reminded me
>> of
>> Brakhage's Arabics, Roman Numerals, Egyptians, etc. It was
>> soft-focus,
>> abstracted if not totally abstract and delicate. Some of
>> the graduate
>> students (harshly but affectionately) dubbed him "Stan the
>> younger".
>> 
>> G
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>> Jacob W. wrote:
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>> I was wondering if someone might be able to help me out
>> with any
>> information about John Writer (who he is, about his films,
>> anything
>> really)?  Brakhage mentions him in the interview with
>> Suranjan Ganguly,
>> but so far I've come up empty-handed.  Thanks.
>> 
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>> Jacob
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>> http://making-light-of-it.blogspot.com/
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