[Frameworks] Films made with Canon Scoopic 16mm camera

[adeena.mey at unil.ch]

Thanks everyone, will check LaPore's work!
Best,
Adeena


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> Objet: Re: [Frameworks] Films made with Canon Scoopic 16mm camera
> De: r e <roeenney at gmail.com>
> À: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>
> Date: mercredi, 19/02/2014 18:48:29
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> I second this! I saw Mark LaPore speak about his work at Anthology a 
> few years back. It was both intimate and great.
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> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Steve Polta <steve.polta at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
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>> Mark LaPore was a stalwart advocate of the Canon Scoopic and sang its 
>> praises to me one day long ago, describing it as basically a pumped up 
>> Super-8 camera (specifically a pumped up Canon 814-XLS): basically the 
>> thing is—unlike e.g. the Bolex and other 16mm cameras) a portable 
>> self-contained unit—automatic in-the-camera light metering, 
>> permanently attached zoom/macro lens and—best of all for LaPore (and 
>> for me) battery powered and thereby capable of long takes, up to the 
>> length of the 16mm roll (a little over three minutes). It's my 
>> understanding that most if not all of Mark LaPore's 16mm films were 
>> shot using this camera including A Depression in the Bay of Bengal, 
>> The Five Bad Elements, The Glass System, The Sleepers, Kolkata. Many 
>> (well, three) of these are available from Canyon Cinema: 
>> http://canyoncinema.com/catalog/filmmaker/?i=188
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>> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 6:13 AM, <adeena.mey at unil.ch> wrote:
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>>> Hi everyone,
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>>> I'm trying to find examples of important films, or considered seminal 
>>> works in the history of experimental cinema, made using a Canon 
>>> Scoopic 16mm camera.
>>> Thanks for your help!
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Adeena
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