[Frameworks] projector-less film loops

[Sasha Janerus]

A good place to look would be the recent book Exhibiting Cinema in
Contemporary Art by Erika Balsom.


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Mary Stark <marystark at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Rebecca,
>
> I have been working with 16mm film as installation using loops, fresnel
> lenses and film as a sculptural material. If you are interested please look
> at my website and blog
> http://www.marystark.co.uk/
> http://interwovenpractices.co.uk/
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Mary Stark
>
> Tel: 07828450979
>
>
> On 17 Dec 2013, at 20:27, Jonathan Walley <walleyj at denison.edu> wrote:
>
> > Rebecca, et. al.,
> >
> > After re-reading your post, and reading Scott's response, it strikes me
> that you may have been looking for information about early (e.g. silent,
> "primitive?") film systems that involved viewing 16mm film without lens or
> projector. Your use of the term "installation" made me assume expanded
> cinema, film installation, etc., but then there's your reference to the
> zoetrope, which suggests that you're looking for something further back in
> history. Of course, the zoetrope did not use film of any kind. What's more,
> 16mm film wasn't invented until 1923, by which time projection - with
> lenses - was, of course, standard practice in film exhibition. I'm not
> aware of any viewing systems for 16mm that don't employ at least lenses:
> flatbed editors don't quite "project" the images, at least not in the same
> way a projector does, and devices like Moviolas and Moviscopes don't
> involve projection - the film image is simply magnified into a viewer, not
> unlike the Kinetsoscope. But these systems are used to edit film reels, not
> to show loops. And they all use lenses.
> >
> > Specifying your research project would be helpful - can we have a little
> more detail?
> > Jonathan
> >
> > Dr. Jonathan Walley
> > Associate Professor
> > Department of Cinema
> > Denison University
> > walleyj at denison.edu
> >
> >
> > On Dec 17, 2013, at 12:44 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> >
> >> Well, the first loop system was the Edison Kinetoscope but that was
> 35mm..
> >> --scott
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