[Frameworks] films for the anthropocene

Mon Feb 1 12:06:51 UTC 2016

Hello Bernie, apologies for my late reply. I took a weekend off, which
once in a while happens.
Your comments I think are to the point. One of my students reacted in
a similar way, stating that what I screened was in a way a curatorial
choice. Which in this case was a difficult process because there is
already a lot of theoretical material on the concept (the
anthropocene), which resulted in reading assignments for the students,
but very little visual material (films, art pieces, ...) that engages
the issues we discussed in a direct way.
Marco

On 29 January 2016 at 21:15, Bernard Roddy <tactilecorpus at gmail.com> wrote:
> Marco, we don't know one another.  But the question posed here is
> appropriate for the list, in my opinion.  This is because film is, in my
> opinion, just an element of a larger project, of which we are a part.  For
> my part, the films will be shown as film.  I can say that about work I make.
> But it's far from all I will think about or do.  And then, assuming these
> questions about art and exhibition are ironed out, we can get onto the
> substantive project, if I may call it that.  Where to turn?  Your list of
> titles reminded me of an artist who presented a website he built under the
> theme, "nothing."  He had such diverse works under the heading that it
> struck me as a kind of designer-project that raises questions about the
> value of design.  I very much appreciate the reservations such a list and
> such a talk provoke for me.  But it means I begin to think about, not film,
> not formats, but art . . in an expanded sense, in a curatorial sense, in a
> sense that is timely . . may I say, interesting?  Matthew Fuller's Media
> Ecologies gets me there.
>
> Bernie
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 4:52 PM, Marco Poloni <mar.poloni at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Bernie,
>> Maybe we should have this conversation off list. As I just wrote it's
>> an itemized list that I shared on request of some members of
>> frameworks to comunicate what selection of films my idea brought me
>> to.
>> To answer specifically, yes they were shown digitally (including my
>> work, shot on film). I'd be happy to hear of a school of art that has
>> the budget to rent a 16mm and a 35mm projector for an audience of 12
>> students. So the choice is to share knowledge with the means available
>> to you, or to keep it to yourself.
>> Marco
>>
>> On 28 January 2016 at 22:02, Bernard Roddy <tactilecorpus at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > This may be a bit academic, but there are conventions of citation within
>> > publishing, as well as a body of thought about "best practices" bearing
>> > on
>> > digital uses.  I was remarking on the fact that all of the titles are
>> > written in lower case, and this seems unlikely to be how they were all
>> > titled.  Your list doesn't identify format, either in production or
>> > exhibition.  There might be an interesting conversation you are having
>> > in
>> > your programming and with your audience members, but from my experience,
>> > the
>> > odds are growing that a film will be shown WITHOUT the artist's consent,
>> > that it will be shown DIGITALLY, and that it will be listed, of course,
>> > in a
>> > way that misrepresents the artist's intentions.
>> >
>> > Bernie
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Marco Poloni <mar.poloni at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hey Bernard,
>> >> I am not sure I get your point about higher and lower case. What I
>> >> sent you is a copy paste of one of my work documents. The films were
>> >> organized in groups according to thematic lines and some conceptual
>> >> affinities amongst them, and properly introduced.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 28 January 2016 at 21:09, Bernard Roddy <tactilecorpus at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Hi Marco:
>> >> >
>> >> > I wasn't watchng when you posted the request, but I have to wonder
>> >> > how
>> >> > these
>> >> > works were shown, given that everything has been forced into lower
>> >> > case
>> >> > titles.
>> >> >
>> >> > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Marco Poloni <mar.poloni at gmail.com>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Hello all,
>> >> >> I just finished screening a number of films at the University of the
>> >> >> Arts of Helsinki, in the context of a workshop for graduate students
>> >> >> about filmmaking at the anthropocene.
>> >> >> Some of you helped me identify suitable movies, and I am very
>> >> >> thankful
>> >> >> to you. I had promised, in return, to share my final selection. Here
>> >> >> it is.
>> >> >> Very best,
>> >> >> Marco
>> >> >>
>> >> >> susan schuppli, can the sun lie?, 2011 (?)
>> >> >> michael snow, la region centrale, 1971
>> >> >> carlos reygadas, silent light, 2007
>> >> >> bruce conner, crossroads, 1975
>> >> >> steven osazaki, white light, black rain, 2007
>> >> >> robert smithson, spiral jetty, 1970
>> >> >> james benning, casting a glance, 2007
>> >> >> marco poloni, the analogue dam, 2010
>> >> >> thomas campbell, the present, 2009
>> >> >> jean  painlevé, the love life of the octopus, 1967
>> >> >> walon green, the secret life of plants, 1978
>> >> >> ramin bahrani, the plastic bag, 2009
>> >> >> chris welsby, wind vane, 1972 (not projected, could not find a copy
>> >> >> in
>> >> >> time)
>> >> >> and, along the lines of an animistic turn:
>> >> >> jean rouch, les maîtres-fous, 1955
>> >> >> alfred clah, intrepid shadows, 1966
>> >> >> lucien castaing-taylor & véréna paravel, leviathan, 2012
>> >> >>
>> >> >> --
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
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