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

[John Knecht]

John,

Dan Reeves "Smothering Dreams" video and my 16mm film "Aspects of a Certain
History" both deal with the war in Vietnam as experimental media works.
Also Brakhage's  "23 Psalm".   If you would like a dvd copy of my film, I
would be glad to send you one.

John Knecht


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:49 PM, 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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John Knecht, Russell Colgate Distinguished
 University Professor of Art and Art History
 and Film and Media Studies
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