[Frameworks] films/videos using/made up of text

[L G THOMAS]

Oliver Harrison

http://www.animateprojects.org/films/by_date/2012/apocalypse_rhyme



> On 15 Nov 2013, at 06:56, Warren Cockerham <warrencockerham at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Run Wrake's Rabbit (2005)    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw3XyOyl47Q
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>> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Steve Polta <steve.polta at gmail.com> wrote:
>> About a month ago, San Francisco Cinematheque (in association with Litquake [a "literary arts" festival] and the Canyon Cinema Foundation) presented a screening (curated by me) of works on this very topic—"Films on the Visualization of Text." I paste the promo text below and also offer this link to our website: http://www.sfcinematheque.org/screenings/the-word-my-dear-is-piecemeal-films-on-the-visualization-of-text/
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>> Notably, Stephanie Barber has done a lot a lot of film/video work using visualized text, including many of the works in her series Jhanna and the Rats of James Olds. Nearly the entire filmography of David Gatten deals with text as image and with the process of reading. Joyce Weiland is also a good call that has been made. Jesse Malmed's recent work is also (in a way) very much about visualized language and concrete poetry. See the link below; a lot of his work is online.
>> Best,
>> Steve Polta
>> San Francisco Cinematheque
>> 
>> Presented as part of Litquake 2013, San Francisco Cinematheque presents a screening of film/video works in which written text is visualized and plasticized, explored and displayed. Battering, caressing and seducing viewers/readers while exploring syntactical forms (including poetic lyric, introspective essay,, journal, harangue, laundry list, love letter and song), the seven film/video works on this program form a thumbnail catalog of the diverse expressive potentialities of language’s graphic notation displayed as light moving in time. Screening: Jeanne Liotta’s Dark Enough (2011), a celestial contemplation, “a virtual proscenium stage for the poetry to play itself upon,” a collaboration with poet Lisa Gill; Stan Brakhage’s I… Dreaming (1988), a sound film visualizing the lyrics of Stephen Foster; Word Movie (1966) by Paul Sharits, a radically flickering, optical/conceptual sound/text conflation, a three-and-a-half minute word; Stephanie Barber’s letters, notes (2000) a melancholy compendium of lost correspondence and found photography; David Gatten’s silent love letter How to Conduct a Love Affair (2007); Su Friedrich’s harrowing dream journal Gently Down the Stream, Jesse Malmed’s sound/image/data morass Supernym (2013) and a very rare screening of Michael Snow’s 1982 epic monolithic film/text essay So Is This, a direct confrontation/repudiation of the very notion of cinematic language itself.
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>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Jacob <waltmanjacob at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> This might be of some interest: http://making-light-of-it.blogspot.com/2010/02/text-of-sight.html (made several years ago, needs a major update)...
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>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Jacob
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