[Frameworks] Flicker Films

[Mark Toscano]

Neuron (Robert Russett, 1972)
Now That the Buffalo's Gone (Burton C. Gershfield, 1967)
Malanga (Keewatin Dewdney, 1967)
Evolution of the Red Star (Adam Beckett, 1973)
Internal System (Coleen Fitzgibbon, 1974)
Screen (Pat O'Neill, 1969)
Incantation (Peter Rose, 1968)

Mark T



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 From: Jonathan Walley <walleyj at denison.edu>
To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Flicker Films
 
LJ,

I'm leaving aside obvious ones like THE FLICKER and practically  
everything by Paul Sharits. As for pioneering works, I think of films  
like ARNULF RAINER, SCHWECATUR, and others by Peter Kubelka, REPORT by  
Bruce Conner (found footage but with an extended section of flicker in  
the middle), the Nervous System performances of Ken Jacobs (and more  
recently the Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which don't use  
film), the film environment FOUR SQUARE by Tony and Beverly Conrad,  
STRAIGHT AND NARROW by Conrad (and don't forget his FLICKER MATTE  
(1974), a square of interwoven black and clear leader not intended for  
projection), and RAINDANCE by Standish Lawder. Many of Takahiko  
Iimura's films involved flicker, too. I'm certainly forgetting some  
important ones, but I'm sure others will chime in.

As for recent work, some of Rober Beebe's films (including FLICKER  
PRIMER and TB TX DANCE) involve flicker, as do films by Peter  
Tscherkassky and Scott Stark, among many others (again, I'm hoping  
more folks will jump in here).

Many of the film-based projection performances of Sandra Gibson and  
Luis Recoder, Sally Golding, and Bruce McClure employ flicker loops.  
These are live works, so not available as prints, but this is an  
important body of work in which flicker is central (and much more  
aggressive than the flicker of many of the films listed above).

Hope this helps.
Best,
Jonathan

On Apr 24, 2012, at 12:13 PM, LJ Frezza wrote:

> Hello again gentlepeople,
> I'm looking to put together a survey of pioneering flicker films, as
> well as contemporary works, all preferrably on celluloid, and I was
> wondering if you guys were interested in throwing a few suggestions my
> way. I have a few ideas of my own, of course, but I always like to see
> what Frameworks thinks about these sorts of things
> -LJ
>
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Jonathan Walley
Associate Professor of Cinema
Denison University
walleyj at denison.edu

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