[Frameworks] Travelogues

[nicky.hamlyn at talktalk.net]

It could well be. I don't know Monkey's Birthday well enough to say. It's only been screened about twice in the UK since it was made!

Nicky.

 

 

 

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From: Steve Polta <stevepolta at yahoo.com>
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Maybe I've got my Larcher confused but I think the footage you (Nicky) refer to is actually a citation from one (both?) of the earlier films (MARE'S TALE; MONKEY'S BIRTHDAY). 

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From: nicky.hamlyn at talktalk.net <nicky.hamlyn at talktalk.net>
Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Travelogues
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Date: Saturday, November 12, 2011, 8:38 AM


Larcher's EETC (1986) is also a kind of travelogue. At least, it was made on the road, and there are shots of his bus, plus him processing film in a Morse tank, walking about etc. It's a great example of film-video hybridity too,

Nicky Hamlyn.

 

 

 

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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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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

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From: Adam R. Levine <adamrl at gmail.com>
Subject: [Frameworks] Travelogues
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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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