[Frameworks] Travelogues

[marilyn brakhage]

George Kuchar's "Wild Night in El Reno" is a great one.

. . . And there are the four "Visions in Meditation" by Brakhage,  
also; road trips through the States and eastern Canada.


Marilyn Brakhage

On 11-Nov-11, at 12:52 PM, Andy Ditzler wrote:

> 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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