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

[Elizabeth McMahon]

Dear Cindy,

Your distinction is well taken. However, I see "Spook Sport" so infused
with the witticism and singularity of each of them! I think it is
rightfully recognized as a brilliant tour de force of two of cinema's most
fecund experimental filmmaking minds.

I really appreciate the preliminary information on the memorial tribute for
Cecille, one of the most under-appreciated seminal forces in driving
experimental/avant garde filmmaking, with a particular spotlight on yeoman
women filmmakers.

I had learned privately of Aram's passage, and thank you for announcing it.
It is important for people to recognize how essential each were to the
other, as intimate partners, and partnered artists. I'd like to talk to you
privately, if you don't mind emailing, regarding Cecille. I have been an
admirer for many years, and always wanted to invite you for a program.
Maybe one of these days!

Best,
Elizabeth

On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 6:06 PM, C Keefer <keefco1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just a note to follow up on Elizabeth's great post. The Cecile Starr
> Memorial Tribute in NY is October 1, separate announcement to follow. Also,
> sorry to report Cecile's widow Aram Boyajian had been quite ill, and passed
> recently this month.
>
> "Spook Sport" is a film by Mary Ellen Bute, in which she hired Norman
> McLaren to do the animation.  It is not a film by Norman McLaren, despite
> the NFBC's attempt to 'reclaim' this film as McLaren's. Papers in Cecile
> Starr's Bute collection clearly prove this is a film by director Mary Ellen
> Bute
>
> best regards,
> Cindy Keefer
> Center for Visual Music
> www.centerforvisualmusic.org
> CVM email is cvmaccess (at) gmail.com
>
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Elizabeth McMahon <elizmcmahon at gmail.com>
>> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>
>> Cc:
>> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 18:29:04 -0400
>> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] What are the 3 Essential Films that you would
>> show Artists on their first foray into the Moving Image Realm ?
>> RIP Cecile Starr. She championed so many experimental filmmakers,
>> especially those who were women, and yes, it, gender, it is an important
>> distinction. Few would know about Mary Ellen Bute (and Ted Nemeth), or
>> (Alexander Alexeieff and) Claire Parker (or Starr and her husband, recently
>> newly widowed husband, partner is celluloid crime Aram Boyajian) who, without
>> her intense and incisive scholarship, advocacy, and distribution of
>> experimental, avant garde, and animation of each type, we would all be so
>> diminished in our understanding of film history.  Dennis is right about
>> McClaren as so brilliant as to be included in the top of essentials, but I
>> won't play this silly 3 films limit nonsense. All you need is the
>> filmography from Anthology Film Archives ongoing, infamous "Essential
>> CInema" series, a stalwart primer in basic film knowledge, to know what to
>> program for your students or friends. Gary Handman, nee of UCLA, happily
>> retired albeit available if you seek him out, is a librarian after just
>> about everyone's heart, his syllabi in film studies over the years he
>> worked and taught are essential, too, if what to see and know about in film
>> history and studies. Perfect distillations with no BS.
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>> But, yeah, for each of the 3 chosen, I would program McLaren. "Neigbours"
>> and "Spook Sport" are my two faves. Geez, Oskar Fischinger is my favorite,
>> anything just anything, and good golly, Lotte Reineger, anyone? See, I
>> succumbed and fell in to this nonsense. This is just absurd.
>>
>> Elizabeth
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