[Frameworks] Advice with screening format for festival. Help!

[Pip Chodorov]

Films when scanned may "look" like film but for 
some films it is more important what they "are" 
than what they "look" like.

I just thought I would forward this recent 
message from Jonas Mekas to a film festival who 
asked to show his film works digitally rather 
than on film:

At 14:49 -0400 26/04/14, Jonas Mekas wrote:
>Dear Alessandro,
>I feel very honored that The Filmmaker Festival 
>of Milano is considering holding my 
>retrospective at the Milano Cinematheque. 
>However,under the technical conditions that you 
>are considering to present my films, I have to 
>decline this honor.
>
>I find it totally unacceptable, that a  festival 
>which  proclaims its purpose as a "filmmakers" 
>festival, presents film-makers' works -- films 
>-- on video. Anybody anywhere can see our films 
>on video, who needs festivals for that! But 
>there are fewer and fewer of places where films 
>can be seen as films, and that's where the 
>festivals could come in. But you  are bailing 
>outŠ You cite as an excuse technical 
>"problems... But who doesn't have technical 
>problems! I always had them. But I never gave 
>up.Subtitles? Problems with subtitles? OK, 
>screen films without subtitles!  But screen them 
>as films!
>
>Sorry to say no to your proposition as it stands now.
>
>Jonas Mekas


At 12:55 -0700 27/04/14, David Tetzlaff wrote:
>That's the safest route. The projection of 
>digital transfers never looks the same as 16mm 
>projection, but on a good video projector (e.g. 
>3 chip DLP) it will look good. And digital scans 
>of film always look "like film" - as opposed to 
>looking like they were shot with any kind of 
>video camera - regardless of the resolution of 
>codec.
>
>I would guess a good scan of the film is 
>something you'll want to get anyway, as some 
>venues just don't do 16mm projection anymore,