[Frameworks] films on film-making/unfinished films

Sun Dec 14 15:26:27 UTC 2014

in 2003-2006 I tried to recompose an unfinished (experimental) film left by one of my student/
Here is the beginning of the film

OUT OF (k)NOWHERE : A FILM BY ANNE PRAT (2003-2006)

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DV, bw/color, sound, 24 min.

« Ouverture »

Very little was left of the film by Anne Prat, a brilliant student who studied cinema with me at the University of Paris in the 1970s.

Anne Prat was not just any student. She would usually arrive twenty minutes before the end of class – something that I found rather annoying – and only to see the screening of the avant-garde films that concluded each lesson. Three weeks before summer break in 1976, even though she had not taken part in any of practical lessons, she presented a short film, shot in the Brakhage style, which surprised all of us with its technical mastery. She informed me she was going to stop studying and go to Australia, and that her film was just the beginning of a larger and more complicated cinematographic work.

Two years later, I found out that Anne Prat, after returning to Paris, had found work in a film lab for the sole reason of being able to develop for free the numerous reels she had shot and to duplicate, on the sly and for herself, some classic films she particularly liked. All this in order to realize her ambitious film project, on which she worked tirelessly, which consisted of a large composition for two film projectors, and various sound fragments. She described certain passages to me, speaking of «images and sounds that come out of nowhere, as if in a daydream» and revealed the film’s definitive title: Out of (k)nowhere.

A few weeks later, Anne Prat left a message on my answering machine, informing me that she was returning to Australia. She told me that she had left the material for her film at the university, in a big box, and asked me to pick it up. At that time, I had no idea I would never going to see her again.

In November of 2002, while creating an inventory of my films, I rediscovered that big box. I thought back on Anne Prat’s project, and remembered her story and what she had told me twenty years earlier.

So I started viewing the film and listening to the sound recordings, one after another, in the designated numerical order. In the box, I only found one rough scenario that indicated that the film was to be two hours long overall and divided into a number of parts, separated from each other by silence, darkness and the songs of exotic birds. There was a cassette attached to the notes, of the bird songs, recorded by Australian ornithologist John N. Hutchinson.

Using my memory as the starting point, and the material left by Anne Prat, I have tried to reconstruct that which Out of (k)nowhere could have been.

The film begins with the short, silent Brakhage-style work, meant for only one screen. Later, where it was possible, I reconstructed the dual-screen projection according to the directions in the outline.  

C. L., Paris, 7 May 2003 

This film is not on line.

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Christian Lebrat

F-Paris

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De : "Adam Sekuler" <asekuler0228 at gmail.com>
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Date : 10/12/2014 15:38:08 CET

Raya Martin and Mark Peranson's  La última película

On Dec 10, 2014, at 7:11 AM, christopher nigel <christophernigel64 at gmail.com> wrote:

The last movie  By Dennis Hopper , Hopper was in many ways! way head !

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Adam Hyman <adam at lafilmforum.org> wrote:

More documentaries about:

Jodorowsky’s Dune (2014)
http://jodorowskysdune.com/

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (2009):
http://www.flickeralley.com/catalog/item/inferno/hardgood

On 12/6/14 3:10 AM, "Freya" <freya128 at yahoo.com> wrote:

In the realm of unfinished films I'm surprised nobody mentioned Lost in La Mancha (2002)

On Friday, October 10, 2014 6:54 PM, Gene Youngblood <atopia at comcast.net> wrote:

in the unfinished films category has anyone mentioned Wim wenders' The State 
of Things?

-----Original Message----- 
From: Amanda Christie
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014 11:39 AM
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my film Off Route 2 begins with myself hanging upside down in a car, but 
then the camera pulls back and reveals the film crew as i get out of the car 
and switch from the roll of victim to the roll of the director. I explain 
the next shot to the assistant director, then call cut, but the next shot 
that was discussed on camera is never actually filmed or shown on screen.

http://www.amandadawnchristie.ca/off-route-2/

the password to view any of the preview videos on my website is: previewonly

Amanda Dawn Christie
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www.amandadawnchristie.ca
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On 2014-10-09, at 12:40 PM, Buck Bito - Movette wrote:

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> On Wed, October 8, 2014 11:41 pm, Suyash Barve wrote:
>> hello all,
>>
>> i am looking for reference titles that fall within the genre of films 
>> made
>> on unfinished films/films coming apart/film that is being shot or in
>> prodcution. ...
>>
>> thank you for your time and effort to read through this notice. looking
>> forward to getting some responses!
>>
>> S

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