[Frameworks] What are the 3 Essential Films that you would show Artists on their first foray into the Moving Image Realm ?

Sat Mar 28 17:50:32 UTC 2015

In a talk I heard P. Adams Sitney give in Berlin a few years ago, it sounded like he was doing some revisionist history to credit Marie Menken’s “Arabesque for Kenneth Anger” with being the film that broke from the psychodrama tradition.  If that’s the case—and why not?—then that seems a MAJOR mile marker of a-g film history.

(Still not going to pretend it makes any sense to name just 3 films.)
Roger

On Mar 28, 2015, at 10:22 AM, owen at thenowcorporation.com<mailto:owen at thenowcorporation.com> wrote:

I AM a feminist, and
here are three essential films, that answer the question"
'What are the 3 Essential Films that you would show Artists on their first foray into the Moving Image Realm ?'
Maya Deren
Meshes of the Afternoon
Mary Ellen Bute
Polka Graph
Shirley Clarke
Bridges Go-Round

Owen's iphone

On Mar 28, 2015, at 9:01 AM, Cari Machet <carimachet at gmail.com<mailto:carimachet at gmail.com>> wrote:

no no only white men make important work

why is a very old work of a woman the only woman filmmaker being hailed here

peggy ahwesh anyone? https://vimeo.com/user2889626

and there are tons of euro ones fuck do we need a comprehensive list of woman filmmakers posted somewhere on the net to point to when this shit happens? wikipedia?

i am no feminist but this seems really bad

On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Kim Knowles <kim.knowles at edfilmfest.org.uk<mailto:kim.knowles at edfilmfest.org.uk>> wrote:

The problem with this list, as is often the case, is that women filmmakers are written out of the 'canon'. Please include Maya Deren! (as per Vicky Smith's post)

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Three is a severe limitation, but if you insist, one way to get at it is to start not with films but with major traditions since mid-century and select exemplary works within them. So for example abstract (Brakhage), minimalist (Warhol, Wavelength), essayistic (Marker, Farocki, Forgacs). I include Brakhage’s lens-captured films in the problematic “abstract."

On Mar 27, 2015, at 11:43 AM, Donal OCeilleachair <donaloc42 at gmail.com<mailto:donaloc42 at gmail.com>> wrote:

Dear Frameworkers:

I am working on a new film project with the Ealaíontóirí Mhuscraí
(that's Irish for the Muskerry Region Artists Group)

Part of the project will involve film / video making workshops where I will show
them works from experimental film, creative documentary and artists' moving image works
as a point of reference and inspiration for their own initial explorations
into the realm of the moving image

I am compiling a short-list of 'Essential' works to show them during these workshops
and I would appreciate responses to the question:
'What are the 3 Essential Films that you would show Artists
on their first foray into the Moving Image Realm ?'

I look forward to hearing any suggestions

Le míle buíochas (with many thanks)
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