[Frameworks] Weapons and the military in avant-garde cinema?

[Christian Gosvig Olesen]

James T. Hong's "The Form of the Good" (2006):

http://www.ubu.com/film/hong_form.html

The very recent Light Cone screening of War/Military themed films (in
which Hong's film was also included) might also be worth checking out:

http://lightcone.org/fr/news-319-scratch-nous-ne-sommes-pas-les-derniers


2014-01-29, Gawthrop, Rob <Rob.Gawthrop at falmouth.ac.uk>:
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> Rob
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> On 28/01/2014 20:49, "John McAndrew" <jj.mcandrew at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> For a little under a year my main source of income has come through
>> working
>> as a gallery warden in a historical museum specializing in arms and
>> armour
>> (it's a questionable place to work in admittedly, but anyway...).
>> Recently
>> the museum's cinema space has become freely available to staff members to
>> use on evenings whenever it's available and given both the digital and
>> potential film projection facilities available, and the cinema itself
>> being
>> housed in quite a unique location, I've been pondering over the idea of
>> independently programming a selection of
>> experimental/underground/artists'
>> films and videos that ties together the "avant-garde" as we commonly know
>> it with its original military terminology. Either way, it would make a
>> refreshing change to the current programming decisions of showing
>> Hollywood
>> war and action films that everyone has seen a hundred times over...
>>
>> Can anyone on FrameWorks offer any suggestions for moving image works -
>> both new or old, landmark or obscure, abstract or representative - that
>> may
>> explore such vanguard themes? Or know of any existing curated screenings
>> or
>> written texts that have also explored this connection? I'm open to
>> hearing
>> any and all suggestions for works involving the military and armed
>> forces,
>> weapon technology (firearms, explosives, swords etc), armour, combat
>> and self-defence, historical battles or wars (maybe even fictional ones
>> too), appropriated war/training films, critiques of the armed forces,
>> militias, laws involving the right to keep and bear arms, etc etc etc...
>>
>> Many thanks for reading!
>>
>> Best,
>> John
>>
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