[Frameworks] film undone series

[Jonathan Walley]

Joan,

The film that immediately came to my mind is Robert Nelson's Bleu Shut ('71). It begins by announcing that it will be exactly 30 minutes long, putting a clock in the corner of the screen that stays there for the duration. It actually runs to about 34 minutes; in the final scene, Nelson, in negative, speaks into the camera about his intentions for making the film, but has difficulty articulating his thoughts, in part because he claims to keep hearing a strange noise from the camera. In the midst of Nelson trying to deal with this, the film ends unexpectedly. Hilarious and brilliant film, and certainly lacking a logical ending.

Hope to get to Bloomington to see this!
Best,
Jonathan

Dr. Jonathan Walley
Associate Professor
Department of Cinema
Denison University
walleyj at denison.edu


On Jun 1, 2014, at 11:07 AM, Joan Hawkins wrote:

> HI all- we're in the middle of planning our ongoing  experimental series for next year.
> One of the programs has the working title of "cinema undone" and the idea for it was roughly films that 
> don't observe the usual boundaries-- so films that don't necessarily have a logical end and one of the pieces we
> wanted to show (or at least show excerpts from) was Nan Goldin's "Ballad of Sexual Dependency."
> We're having trouble locating Nan or getting permission to use the slides-- so my first question
> is that-- does anyone know how to contact her or her representative?
> 
> The second question is do you have ideas for other pieces (we have Warhol's screen-tests; we showed Decasia last year
> but might revisit parts of it). thanks-- Joan
> 
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