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

Sat Mar 28 18:20:22 UTC 2015

3 films could be he first, middle and last of a 99 film list. At least 99
are needed. Shame on me for not including Kubelka in my previous post.
PS-
Something i find strange-Most people here do not mention anything pre
1950...

2015-03-28 13:50 GMT-04:00 Beebe, Roger W. <beebe.77 at osu.edu>:

>  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 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> 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> 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)
>>  ------------------------------
>> *From:* FrameWorks <frameworks-bounces at jonasmekasfilms.com> on behalf of
>> Gene Youngblood <atopia at comcast.net>
>> *Sent:* Friday, March 27, 2015 6:56 PM
>> *To:* Frameworks Listserv
>> *Subject:* Re: [Frameworks] What are the 3 Essential Films that you
>> would show Artists on their first foray into the Moving Image Realm ?
>>
>>   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>
>> 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)
>>  --
>>  Dónal Ó'Céilleachair
>> www.anupictures.com
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