[Frameworks] Flicker Films

[Steve Polta]

Also relevant to this is Brakhage's "Passage Through: A Ritual" (1990) a rare (for Brakhage) sound film and for my money one of the very most interesting uses of sound around. Fairly long—50 minutes and split onto two reels—the film is "synced" to a score by Phillip Corner—a piano improvisation with long portions of minimal repetition. Against this the film presents single frames and short passages of solid color and occasional imagery that sometimes sync with the punctuation of the image and sometimes precede or follow this punctuation in a completely unpredictable way, creating a very interesting experience in viewing of anticipation and surprise. It is very tempting  to see this amazing work as created in dialog with the works of the "flicker filmmakers," notably Sharits and Kubelka, each with their strong ideas regarding sound/image synchrony.

Steve Polta

--- On Tue, 4/24/12, Fred Camper <f at fredcamper.com> wrote:

From: Fred Camper <f at fredcamper.com>
Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Flicker Films
To: "Mark Toscano" <fiddybop at yahoo.com>, "Experimental Film Discussion List" <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>
Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 11:18 AM

Oh, and Stan Brakhage's "The Process," combining fragments of photographed
images with solid-color frames that are rapidly edited.

Fred Camper
Chicago

_______________________________________________
FrameWorks mailing list
FrameWorks at jonasmekasfilms.com
https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/pipermail/frameworks/attachments/20120424/fb44df8c/attachment.html