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

[Chuck Kleinhans]

I taught a class a few years ago: Word, Screen, Motion (2005) that ranged from crawling text on screen (e.g. Bloomberg TV; news crawls on CNN, etc.) through commercials to film poetry, etc.

In setting it up I queried Frameworks, and got lots of responses.  Here's some of what I screened:


Takahiko Iimura, White Calligraphy  (1967, 16mm, b&w/si, 15 min) [Canyon]

Bruce Baillie, Castro Street (16mm film)

Su Friedrich, Gently Down the Stream (16mm film, 1981, b&w/si, 14 min) [Canyon]

Simon Tarr, Crescent Time,(16mm, 2000, color/sou, 4 min.) [Canyon]

Peter Rose, Secondary Currents  1982, 16mm, b&w/so, 18m [Canyon


Titles sampler 

Psycho
Vertigo
Dr Strangelove
Se7en
Trainspotting


Hollis Frampton, Poetic Justice ( 1972 16mm b&w/si, 31 min). [NYFMC]

David Gatten, Hardwood Process (1966, 16mm, color/si, 14 min.) [Canyon]

Helen Mirrra Shlafbau, (video, 14.30 min 1995) [VDB] (video data bank)

Jem Cohen, Lost Book Found 


Rick Hancox, Waterworx (A Clear Day and No Memories)  1982, 16mm, color/so, 6 min  [Canyon]

Hancox, Landfall (1983, 16mm, color/so, 11 min.) [Canyon]

Hancox, Beach Events (1984, 16mm, color/so, 8.5 min) [Canyon]


Janis Crystal Lipson, Visible Inventory Six: Motel Dissolve (1978, 16mm, color/so, 15 min) [Canyon]

Mona Hatoum, Measures of Distance, (video, 1988, 15 min color) [Women Make Movies]

Su Friedrich, Sink or Swim (1990, 16mm, b&w/so, 48 min) 

Hollis Frampton, Zorns Lemma (1970 16mm  co/so, 60 min)  NYFMC

Jonn Lindell, Put Your Lips around Yes (Video, b&w, cound, 1991, 5 min.  (VDB)

Antonio Muntadas, Slogans (video, 9 min, 1991) (VDB)

Tony Cokes, Ad Vice (video, 1999, 6.36 min) [VDB]

Rebecca Bollinger, Alphabetically Sorted (video, 5.18, 1994) [VDB]

Les LeVeque, A song From the Cultural Revolution (video, 5 min, 1998) [VDB]

Paul Glabicki, Under the Sea (16mm, color/sound, 22 m 1989)  [Canyon]

Joyce Weiland, Pierre Vallieres (1972,16mm, 30 min, so, co) [CFMDC]

Morgan Fisher, Standard Gauge (16mm, 1984, 35 min) [NYFC]

Peter Greenaway, Prospero’s Books  [RTF]



SOME SITES:  (from 2005, some might be gone now)


http://www.fiftiesweb.com/burma.htm

http://artengine.ca/chungyan/imprint/

 http://www.creamyorange.com/#

 http://www.transom.org/video/shows/2004/vidlit/craziest2.swf

 http://www.hypereye.tv/SAMPLES.htm

 http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/

 http://www.poemsthatgo.com/


 http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2005/02/words-in-motion.html


 http://dbqp.blogspot.com/


http://www.id.iit.edu/visiblelanguage/Directory.html

	great publication…old issues are a treasure trove




Some readings:


The book I used (actually more of a booklet) is Edward R. Tufte, The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint.  This might seem a little spendy but it is excellently produced in color and well worth the cover price.  Tufte is a brilliant thinker and innovator in the field of information graphics and design presentation, so you might look at his other books too.



There are various books on "motion graphics" which especially cover TV, advertising, commercials, Jumbotron displays, informtdion and communication uses, etc. easily found on Amazon.com
 Interesting book;

SUBTITLES: On the foreignness of film, edited by Atom Egoyan and Ian Balfour.



and there's that great movie on the typeface HELVETICA



Chuck Kleinhans
chuckkle at northwestern.edu