[Frameworks] High-definition frame grabs

[Pip Chodorov]

Hi Chuck,
In practice however, and to be very fair, when 
someone comes to Re:Voir or Light Cone or 
Collectif Jeune Cinéma, or Canyon, or Lux, or 
CFMDC, or Arsenale or etc, looking for high 
quality images of avant-garde films that they 
distribute, these archives and the passionate 
people who work there are only too happy to help 
and (only sometimes) charge a modest access fee 
which goes to the filmmaker.
It's really the obvious best way and street legal 
and insures that the photos are of the highest 
quality, taken directly from film positive or 
negative, and that the artist knows where his or 
her images are being printed. Sometimes 
filmmakers are happy to know about things like 
that.
And it's really disheartening to open a book on 
film to find lousy photos grabbed from interlaced 
or compressed video. We should always encourage 
stills and reproductions to be of the highest 
quality.
These are not opinions, this is just the way the world works.
Pip



At 3:58 +0000 1/10/15, Chuck Kleinhans wrote:
>you don't have to spend much time in the 
>experimental film community to run into artists 
>who have a vastly inflated opinion of 
>themselves, incredible insecurities, and just 
>plain nuttiness.  They may never answer you, 
>insist on reviewing everything you are saying 
>about them for pre-approval, or want to gouge 
>you.  (I am speaking from personal experience 
>with some of these folks.)