[Frameworks] experiments in cinema

[nfonoroff at aol.com]

Bernard,


I agree! And what you say about these screenings, down to the ability to experience annoyance and frustration in the very midst delight and inspiration (in a world that insists on not allowing us to risk even a second of our time), goes, I think, to the heart of what happened this week.


So congratulations, and SO many thanks to Bryan Konefsky, Michelle Mellor, and all my colleagues and students, who worked so hard to bring this experience to our lives.


Nina Fonoroff
Albuquerque, New Mexico




-----Original Message-----
From: Bernard Roddy <roddybp at yahoo.com>
To: frameworks <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>
Sent: Mon, Apr 22, 2013 7:12 pm
Subject: [Frameworks] experiments in cinema



Bryan, that was amazing.  If it appeared at one time that the meaning of a film screening were being lost, Experiments in Cinema is correcting the impression.  I don't understand how there could be so many people in a cinema theater, night after night, in the middle of the week as well as on Saturday, and for experimental work - new work!  No classics of the avant-garde here.  On Sunday at noon?  For work devoted to "collaborations with the earth"?  In Albuquerque?  What is going on!  It has been a very long time since I waited in anticipation for a screening like I did last week - again and again.  It's not the academic careers sustained by such a program, or the educational value of such an experience to people in town: I keep thinking about what it must've been like early on, sitting up there in the front row during the screenings of particularly demanding works, at a time when film . . even video . . the whole theatrical experience, really, has seemed an anachronism.  Sitting up there, then, after listing the sponsors.  And how could such an event draw such sponsorship?  I don't understand.  I don't need to understand.  The work in video from Turkey that Ekrem Serder showed renewed my interest in abstraction.  Again and again a film was shown with an optical sound track, an experiment, really.  I didn't even see it all.  I could afford to be annoyed.  I could afford to walk out of a show early.  I could afford to be an asshole.



Bernie


 
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