[Frameworks] Andrew Noren

[Dominic Angerame]

I had the pleasure of meeting Andrew many years ago at a film exhibition
where we both showed work. This is sad indeed, I enjoyed his work very much
and we had some great conversations.

Dominic Angerame

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 3:47 AM, Chuck Kleinhans <chuckkle at northwestern.edu>
wrote:

>
>  On May 26, 2015, at 1:24 AM, Steve Polta <steve.polta at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Yes Noren was indeed considered an expert on 20th Century news footage
> and certainly knew his way around an archive. There is also a story however
> of him dropping by Anthology Film Archives, sometime well into the 21st
> century I think, to inspect his films—which were permanently archived
> there—and, when the archivist was out of the room, physically removing
> specific shots with scissors and pocketing this material. Noren's early
> films (mid-'60s–mid-'70s, roughly)—the making of which were the direct
> inspiration for the film *David Holzman's Diary*—were attempts to
> document "every aspect" of the filmmaker's life, which, in his case, meant
> that they documented Noren's quite active sex life. I don't know the
> reason—his own privacy or his partners' perhaps?—but it was these scenes
> that Noren reportedly liberated. Good story and yes I believe it's true...
>
>  Steve Polta
>
>
>
>  Interesting story: tape or cement splices?
>
>  I do remember one woman filmmaker active in that era describing Noren's
> early autobiographical films as “a long list of all the women that he’s
> f****d.”
>
>  Chuck Kleinhans
>
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