[Frameworks] Travelogues

[Andy Ditzler]

Hi Adam,

George Kuchar's Weather Diaries might fit this. George is often cast as an
outsider in these, though he did sustain his relationship to this project
for several decades. Many of his diary videos, like 500 Millibars to
Ecstasy and The Celluloid Cavalcade, document cinema-motivated travels to
different cities.

Rosa von Praunheim's "Army of Lovers" is a late-1970s travelogue of the
U.S. from the perspective of queer activism.

Not experimental (and not very self-reflective), but perhaps interesting
alongside that formulation, would be the travel films made in the teens and
1920s by such filmmakers as Burton Holmes. Also the films of Martin and Osa
Johnson (which Ken Jacobs later used for Star Spangled to Death). In a
similar vein is Merian Cooper et al's "Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life."

Andy Ditzler


On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Adam R. Levine <adamrl at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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