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

[Peter Mudie]

Good on Jonas for pointing out the obvious. If you can’t view films at
festivals where can you?
Peter
Perth

On 28/04/2014 8:48 am, "Pip Chodorov" <frameworks at re-voir.com> wrote:

>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
>>out? 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,
>
>
>
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