[Frameworks] Travelogues

[Michael Zryd]

Philip Hoffman's The Road Ended At the Beach (1983) and Somewhere Between Jalostotitlan and Encarnacion (1984) are strong films and his Passing Through/Torn Formations (1988) might be appropriate. 

Also Hollis Frampton's Ordinary Matter (1972) is a kind of metaphysical travelogue that spans the Brooklyn Bridge and Stonehenge.
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Michael Zryd
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On 2011-11-10, at 1:48 PM, Steve Polta wrote:

> Rumored to be the ultimate in long-form ruminative experimental travelogues are MARE'S TALE (1969, 160 min.) and/or THE MONKEY'S BIRTHDAY (1975, 360 min.), both by David Larcher.
> a piece of writing:
> http://making-light-of-it.blogspot.com/2010/07/mares-tailmonkeys-birthday.html
> one of 'em screened in Leeds this year it seems:
> http://www.directorsnotes.com/2010/11/11/liff2010-mares-tail/
> 
> Good luck...
> 
> Steve Polta
> 
> --- On Thu, 11/10/11, Adam R. Levine <adamrl at gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: Adam R. Levine <adamrl at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Frameworks] Travelogues
> To: "Experimental Film Discussion List" <FrameWorks at jonasmekasfilms.com>
> Date: Thursday, November 10, 2011, 9:41 AM
> 
> Hello you,
> 
> I am trying to pull together a list of experimental films that either fall directly under the category of "travelogue" or bear witness to travel and distance from a point of origin on the part of the filmmaker. These would not be so much ethnographic works which are part of a sustained cultural exchange, but films made as a result of the filmmaker "passing through" and acknowledging the looming spectre/problem/pleasure of "the tourist film". Warren Sonbert, perhaps John Smith's "The Hotel Diaries"? I'm sure there are others...but can you name them?
> 
> Thanks/Grazie/Kiitos!
> 
> ARL
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