[Frameworks] Re earlier inquiry about film leaders

[Mark Toscano]

I had thought the initial request was not just about leader in general, but had some more specific focus, but maybe I misunderstood.  Here are some more films that deal with leader as a foregrounded subject or device of sorts:

"Leader", "Cross Cut - A Blue Movie" and "Red Stockings" by Robert Huot
"Colorfilm" by Standish Lawder
"Report" and "Ten Second Film" by Bruce Conner
"Standard Gauge" and "Cue Rolls" by Morgan Fisher

Plenty of filmmakers have used bits of leaders here and there in there films as formal devices, or for some other effect.  Pat O'Neill has a bit in some of his films, like Runs Good.  Brakhage did it a ton, but not really for a leader-as-leader effect, rather he used clear and color leaders for their specific color properties.  Scenes From Under Childhood is loaded with colored plastic leader.  Robert Nelson did it a lot, but no one of his films really focuses on leader itself as the subject.  I'd probably say leaders have their most significant use in his film Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1.


"Girls on Film" by Julie and Karin is also a 35mm short film, deriving from the photo exhibit they created.


Genevieve Yue has been researching china girls, and has put together a program of china girl related films at Anthology for sometime this Fall.  I could list some of them, but you'd have a more definitive list when her program is printed, presumably soon.

Mark Toscano






________________________________
 From: Matt Soar <mattsoar at gmail.com>
To: frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com 
Sent: Sunday, September 9, 2012 10:33 AM
Subject: [Frameworks] Re earlier inquiry about film leaders
 
Hi folks,

A few months back I posted a request for references to makers working
with, and writers writing about, film leaders. I got a few replies,
and have also followed up on some of my own leads. Anyway, here's what
I've got so far; paltry I know, but there ya go. (Thanks to Ken for
the reminder.)

Best,

Matt


- Technical writing

'Your Film and The Lab'
L.Bernard Happe. Focal Press 'Media Manual' series

- Films

'At the Academy' (1974) Guy Sherwin
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/sherwin-at-the-academy-t12986

'Rohfilm' (1968) Birgit and Wilhelm Hein
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-jrN_MVmnM

'Material Film' (1976, 35min) Birgit and Wilhelm Hein

'Lost Leaders #1' (2012, 50secs) Matt Soar and Jackie Gallant
http://vimeo.com/36546876

'Unstable Grounds' (2011, 7' 30") Alexandra Navratil
http://www.alexandranavratil.com/projects/Unstable-Grounds

- On china girls

Roth, Lorna (2009) 'Looking at Shirley, the Ultimate Norm: Colour
Balance, Image Technologies, and Cognitive Equity' Canadian Journal of
Communication 34(1).
http://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/issue/view/126/showToc

Girls on Film (Harvard U, 2005) curated by Karin Segal and Julie Buck
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2005/07.21/00-girls.html

Doane, Mary Ann (2011). 'Screening the Avant-Garde Face'. In Judith
Butler and Elizabeth Weed (Eds.) Questions of Gender. Indiana U Press.



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Matt Soar

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