[Frameworks] Films about painting as action/gesture

[LBurchill]

someone else mentioned Sam Francis by Jeffrey Perkins. He took 16 years or
more to make the film and has a lot of amazing footage of Francis painting


On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Stephen Broomer <
stephen_broomer at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Herb,
>
> A couple of examples from Canada:
>
> Jack Chambers' R-34 (1967). This is Chambers' film of the neo-Dada
> collagist and painter Greg Curnoe, which mixes footage of Curnoe at work in
> his studio with scenes from his daily life and his community in London,
> Ontario; Chambers' editing mirrors Curnoe's collage aesthetics.
> http://www.cfmdc.org/node/1126
>
> Jaimz Asmundson's The Magus (2011), about his father C. Graham Asmundson,
> very much concerned with the action of painting -
> https://vimeo.com/18862721
>
> SB
>
> On 2014-03-11, at 11:32 AM, Anna Swanson <annaswanson17 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Kim Beom, *Yellow Scream*! It's fantastic, and sounds like it's exactly
> what you're looking for -- it is predicated on gesture (vocal as well as
> physical). Saw it at the Walker a year or so ago!
>
>
> http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2012/12/06/now-streaming-kim-beoms-yellow-scream-2012/
>
>
> Best,
> Anna
>
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> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:38:38 +0000
> Subject: [Frameworks] Films about painting as action/gesture
>
> Hello all,
>
>
>
> Here is something I've been thinking about lately: films/videos that show
> the action of someone painting. For my project, I'm not really interested
> in docs about painters discussing their work and their philosophies, but
> rather films or documentation of artists in the act of putting "paint" to
> "canvas", no matter how unconventional or abstract. Some mixture of
> discussion and activity is fine, but the emphasis should be on the action.
>
>
>
> I'm thinking about things like the film documentation of Yves Klein's
> Anthropometries painting-performances or John Baldessari's Six Colorful
> Inside Jobs, for example.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
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