[Frameworks] Modern 16mm features, distributed on film

[Mark Toscano]

Some of Kevin's films are finished on 16mm, but not all, and possibly not any of the features.

Thom Andersen did indeed finish Get Out of the Car on 16mm.

Madison Brookshire's Color Series is a quite unique 16mm feature-length work.

Did anyone yet mention Els Van Riel's Gradual Speed or Matthew Buckingham's work?  Or Brigid McCaffrey and Danielle Lombardi's Lay Down Tracks?

Cauleen Smith's Drylongso, though over a decade old now, is a feature 16mm experimental narrative.

Was there a 16mm finish of Luke Fowler's The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott?

Mark T


> On Jul 18, 2014, at 10:06 PM, "Beebe, Roger W." <beebe.77 at osu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Kevin Everson doesn’t finish to film, at least as far as I know.  I saw a Q&A with him after a screening of Erie (at Images, I think), and he said the reason he doesn’t finish to film is that he “has so many films that [he] wants to make.”  I assumed he was talking about both the time and money required to finish on film.  It’s too bad though, because I’d love to see that swimming B&W film grain on a print one of these days.  (Hell, how about projecting the camera original?)
> 
> Dan Eisenberg, when screening Something More Than Night at the Harn Museum in Gainesville, talked about it being his last 16mm film.  I remember he said something about pushing the film to the maximum duration that could fit on a single reel on a classroom projector.  (It was true too.  I was in the booth terrified that the last feet of the film weren’t going to make it on the take-up reel.)
> 
> …
> R.
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> 
>> On Jul 18, 2014, at 9:42 PM, 40 Frames <info at 40FRAMES.ORG> wrote:
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>> 
>> Hi John, 
>> 
>> "Feature" is a somewhat broad term, and speaks more to run time than form/content, but given your examples, I would assume you are asking about experimental features?? 
>> 
>> The exact run time of a "feature" also seems to be dictated by market/venue. Some say 40 minutes, some 60, and the industry 
>> state side usually says/said 70+ minutes. 
>> 
>> There was a surf film (Hangs Upon Nothing) that was shot on 16mm and distributed as a 16mm print during the last couple years (2013-2014). This is obviously pretty rare. Shooting on 16mm is not uncommon for ski, snowboard, skate and surf films, but in recent years even shooting on 16mm has become less common, coinciding with the appearance of RED and GoPro cameras. 
>> 
>> I'm glad to see Charlotte mentioned Betzy's recent work (Voluptuous Sleep I have yet to see), as well as Amanda's mention of Barbara Sternberg (In The Nature of Things, 44 minutes) whose longer form work, I feel, is some of her best. 
>> 
>> On the shorter side of features, there is Thom Anderson's Get Out of the Car (2010, 34 minutes), which I believe exists as a 16mm print? 
>> 
>> Has any of Kevin Jerome Everson's recent work (Quality Control, The Island of St Mathews) been distributed as 16mm?
>> 
>> In addition to Molussia, maybe Pip has other examples of recent European work?    
>> 
>> Adam Sekuler watched a lot of films come through NWFF in recent years (before his departure), and might also have 
>> some additional examples. 
>> 
>> 
>> Alain
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>>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:50 PM, John Woods <jawoods01 at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>>> Differently, Molussia (2012) and Empty Quarter (2011) are the only feature length films that I am aware of that were distributed on 16mm film in the past few years. Does anyone else know of any others? Thank you!
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