[Frameworks] 1970s French short film

[Mark Toscano]

I want to thank whoever it was (sorry, I'm forgetting) who posted the link to David Haxton's website, even if it ended up not being the correct artist/film.  I had seen a couple of David's films many years ago, and had remembered them fondly, but forgotten his name as well as the film titles.  Thanks to that post here the other day, I'm in touch with David and he's in the process of getting his films together to deposit at the Academy Film Archive (where I work) so I can evaluate them for preservation/restoration work.  This is particularly timely, since his originals were all lost by a lab ages ago and he had begun selling his remaining extant prints!

thanks again,

Mark Toscano



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 From: Michael Lee <maaronlee at gmail.com>
To: peter at redrice.net; Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com> 
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 2:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Frameworks] 1970s French short film
 

Ah yes!  Thank you.  That's it.  Funny how "Paper Landscape" and "Man with Mirror" were sort of conflated in my mind as one thing.

Mike


On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:33 PM, peter snowdon <peter at redrice.net> wrote:

Hi Michael,
>What you describe sounds very like Guy Sherwin's Paper Landscape:
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6RZi_Nzyho
>It's not a French film, tho this documentation was taken in Paris...
>Peter
> 
>On Mon, May 14, 2012, at 12:08 PM, Michael Lee wrote:
>Thanks, Gene.  Just watched "Around Perception".  Wow!
>>
>>
>>On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Gene Youngblood <atopia at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>Pierre Hebert combined live action and painting in some of his films, and he was kind of a trickster, but this sounds more sophisticated than what I remember of his work. You might check him out in any case. 
>>>From: Michael Lee
>>>Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 11:36 AM
>>>To: frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com
>>>Subject: [Frameworks] 1970s French short film
>>>  Hi All,
>>>
>>>I saw a clip on YouTube a year ago or more of a performance piece involving film and "painting".  I believe the artist was French--I'm almost positive it was from the mid 1970s.  I could not find it.  Does the following scenario ring a bell?
>>>
>>>On the screen a man is strolling in a rural landscape.  From what I recall, the action on screen is actually a film of that film.  The filmmaker is painting himself "in" or "out" using black or white paint against the screen (?).  It somehow ends with the living, breathing filmmaker busting through the paper screen on which his image is seen walking towards the original filmed image of himself.  A parlor trick, for sure, but pretty amazing!
>>>
>>>Any leads would be greatly appreciated. 
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Mike
>>> 
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