[Frameworks] opera

[Kerry Laitala]

How about Jeanne Liotta's film "Loretta" and Scott Stark's film "I'll walk with 
God"??
k





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From: Steve Polta <stevepolta at yahoo.com>
To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>
Sent: Sat, November 20, 2010 12:46:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Frameworks] opera


I like that someone mentioned Harry Smith's MAHAGONNY. Not his best film of 
course but a nice call.

Warren Sonbert (1947-1995) was a San Francisco-based filmmaker who worked (I 
believe) as a professional opera critic if you can believe it and traveled the 
world reviewing operas—can you believe such a thing? Many of this film works are 
silent but several use operatic music as soundtracks, including SHORT FUSE. See: 
canyoncinema.com/catalog/film/?i=2163 Other films by him use opera on their 
tracks—possibly FRIENDLY WITNESS and WHIPLASH?—but I'm not as familiar with his 
work as I could be so I can't say exactly. Films available from Canyon Cinema. 
canyoncinema.com/catalog/filmmaker/?i=292

Lewis Klahr's LULU (1996) was intended (I believe) to participate in a 
production of Berg's opera of the same title. 
http://canyoncinema.com/catalog/film/?i=3352

I'm also surprised that no one has yet mentioned ARIA (1987) which was/is a 
feature length compendium of "music video" type things set to operatic arias by 
the likes of JG Godard, N. Roeg, R. Altman, K. Russel, et al. ARIA is a pretty 
interesting artifact to be sure...

Steve Polta

--- On Fri, 11/19/10, margaret jamieson <mvjamieson at gmail.com> wrote:


>From: margaret jamieson <mvjamieson at gmail.com>
>Subject: [Frameworks] opera
>To: frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com
>Date: Friday, November 19, 2010, 2:03 AM
>
>
>Dear Frameworks:
>
>I'm wondering what you might turn up on the idea of opera; the group I'm doing a 
>program for is basing a two day screening and discussion  around it; with Mark 
>Dornfor-May's U-Carmen as a feature  within it. They are very happy to consider 
>the topic broadly, so I'd love to include some experimental work. I've thought 
>of things from Potter's Thriller to K. Resetartis' Aegypten. I'm interested in 
>hearing about pieces which are not just opera in subject but in form or feel.
>
>thanks so much--Meg
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