[Frameworks] Found Soundtrack Films

[Elena Duque]

It's not from the 70s, but Ricky, by Janie Geiser, is made with a found
record of a recorded letter from a father to a son.
http://www.fandor.com/films/ricky


2013/11/25 Tara Nelson <brendamerenda at gmail.com>

> SHELLY WINTERS by Luther Price
>
> (from an interview in Big Red & Shiny)
>
> *TN* *In your film SHELLY WINTERS, there is no image at all, just white
> leader and a soundtrack We hear the voices of both victims and perpetrators
> of domestic violence, telling their stories, but there is no image.*
>
> *LP* That’s a very sad film. It’s a struggle for survival. I get
> emotional about that one. And that film was made in Quincy, so we know the
> accent, there is an indigenous thing about that film. One of her only
> escapes was to go to Dunkin Donuts. Dunkin Donuts has been part of my life
> for as long as I can remember. So you feel closer to her pain because she
> feels almost like a relative, or like your neighbor.
> In that film, the absence of image creates an emptiness, a vastness. It
> becomes its own vast ocean of emptiness. It almost becomes a metaphor
> within the image itself… for her pain… that she is alone in this ocean of
> emptiness, and the fact that we are left with no color, no movement, no
> image, everything is left in the solitude of your own self. You start to
> understand how pain can look like nothing. Pain can be a vast hole of space
> that is just there. -
> See more at:
> http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/BRS.cgi?article=2012-09-13-060119619840570338&issue=136
> §ion=av#sthash.ZM8bsslF.dpuf
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Mark Toscano <fiddybop at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I think what Albert's asking for are films that utilize a more or less
>> intact found soundtrack, rather than a collaged soundtrack that includes
>> found sound segments.
>>
>> Lipsett, Pat O'Neill, and plenty of other artists have made some exciting
>> use of collaged found elements, but I'd also love to hear some other
>> examples of what Albert's looking for.
>>
>> mark t
>>
>> PS Maybe it's just delayed, but I didn't see my response come in to the
>> listserv. I had thought of James Benning's UTOPIA, John Smith's LOST SOUND,
>> and Chris Langdon's PICASSO. I think there's at least one Mark LaPore film
>> that makes extensive use of a pre-existing soundtrack, but can't recall
>> which one at the moment...
>>
>> On Nov 25, 2013, at 9:13 AM, "William Wees, Dr." <william.wees at mcgill.ca>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Arthur Lipsett’s films are composed almost entirely of “found sound.”
>>
>>
>>
>> --Bill Wees
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* FrameWorks [mailto:frameworks-bounces at jonasmekasfilms.com<frameworks-bounces at jonasmekasfilms.com>]
>> *On Behalf Of *Albert Alcoz
>> *Sent:* November 24, 2013 3:56 PM
>> *To:* frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com
>> *Subject:* [Frameworks] Found Soundtrack Films
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> *Institutional Quality* by George Landow was created from a found
>> soundtrack, in this case a tape recorder about an instructional test.
>>
>>
>>
>> Does anyone know other examples that uses found soundtracks for
>> experimental films, especially from the sixties and seventies?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> Albert
>>
>> http://www.visionaryfilm.net/
>>
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