[Frameworks] Films about remediation

[Beebe, Roger W.]

In a similar vein to the list that Andy offers here, Hollis Frampton’s Hapax Legomena 1 (nostalgia) makes cinema out of still photos (made cinematic by burning them on a hot plate).

And closer to the titles in your original list, Josh (J.B.) Mabe’s “Pastoral” reshoots on 16mm a YouTube video of Stan Brakhage’s “Stellar,” which of course was made on 16mm film.

And if you’re interested in digital remediation of analogue tape, Evan Meaney’s “We Things at Play” turns a VHS tape from 1987 into a digital glitch fest.  Many of his videos might actually fit this call, including the final installment of his Ceibas Cycle, “The Well of Representation,” a digital remake of Hollis Frampton’s “Gloria!” as an NES-era video game with a spectral, glitched-out ending.

…
Roger

On Apr 2, 2014, at 10:43 AM, Andy Ditzler <andy at andyditzler.com<mailto:andy at andyditzler.com>> wrote:

Common examples of film containing/being contained by still photography would include (spoiler alert) Wavelength's reduction of film to a still photograph in its final minutes (mirroring the still images on the film strip), and Morgan Fisher's Production Stills, which photo-documents its own making. Also check David MacDougall's Photo-Wallahs. Malcolm LeGrice's performance of After Leonardo 73-13 at Eyebeam last November centered on multiple (live) video reproductions of a magazine reproduction of the Mona Lisa. Warhol's Screen Tests are filmic meditations on an (ostensibly) unmoving subject per still photography portraiture. Scott Stark's Angel Beach and Posers, as well. Too many others to mention!

Warhol's Outer and Inner Space is a classic film/video merger.

Many of Yoko Ono's film scripts cannot necessarily be realized as films and must be performed rather than filmed.

A recent Contraband Cinema show here in Atlanta presented some newer VCR-derived digital work:
http://contrabandcinema.com/400/broken-beauty-a-show-on-glitch-march-22-2014.html


Andy Ditzler
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Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University


On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 4:16 AM, Kim Knowles <kim.knowles at edfilmfest.org.uk<mailto:kim.knowles at edfilmfest.org.uk>> wrote:

Dear Frameworkers,


Does anyone have any suggestions of films that involve remediation of some sort? I'm thinking the fusion of analogue-digital (which I've posted about before so I have some titles already - Shambhavi Kaul's Scene 32, Thorsten Fleisch's Wound Footage, Jurgen Reble, Dietmar Brehm), but I'm also interested in earlier examples of one medium/format being contained within or reworked by another medium, for example Martine Rousset's Chants or Malcolm Le Grice's Little Dog For Roger. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!


Many thanks

Kim

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