[Frameworks] Collage and political narrative

[Francisco Torres]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HSeWdK5zRA

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2016-02-29 11:05 GMT-04:00 Gene Youngblood <atopia at comcast.net>:

> Andy, your search brings up the possibility of contrasting collaged and
> non-collaged parallel narratives. An example of the latter could be
> Sympathy for the Devil, which pairs the building of two revolutions,
> musical and political.
>
>
> On Feb 29, 2016, at 4:52 AM, Albert Alcoz <albertalcoz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Abigail Child's films​
>
> *Now* (Santiago Álvarez, 1965)
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ6c5n1ycoE
>
> *Tribulations 99* (Craig Baldwin, 1992)
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-So8ncddSBY
> ​
>
> Well, maybe, those films are not "entirely shot by the filmmakers..."​
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Elena Duque <elenaduque at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> It for Others, by Duncan Campbell may be one:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z6SCDeh4_A
>>
>>
>>
>> 2016-02-29 5:17 GMT+01:00 Andy Ditzler <andy at andyditzler.com>:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I would appreciate any suggestions of films and videos using collage
>>> structure in the context of political work. I'm thinking of a great
>>> video by the Brazilian artist Tadeu Jungle, Herois da Decadensia (1987),
>>> which incorporates parallel tracks of political documentary,
>>> street performance art, Surrealist-inspired imagery, and other items.
>>> Though its elements are wildly divergent, it coheres into a kind of
>>> "collage narrative." It struck me that Makaveyev's WR: Mysteries of the
>>> Organism and Sweet Movie both work in this fashion, as does Rivette's Out
>>> 1, with its parallel conspiracy narrative and documentary footage of
>>> theater groups in rehearsal.
>>>
>>> Can anyone think of other work in this mode? Works that cut between
>>> divergent events and sections, to create a whole? I'm especially interested
>>> in knowing of short works, but anything that comes to mind would be useful.
>>> I've always been fascinated by this kind of work.
>>>
>>> I'm thinking of this "genre" as distinct from the found footage collage
>>> tradition exemplified by Bruce Conner's A MOVIE, since the above works were
>>> all shot by the filmmakers. Nevertheless, suggestions that frustrate this
>>> divide are also welcome. Many thanks.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Andy Ditzler
>>> Founder and curator, Film Love: www.filmlove.org
>>> Co-founder, John Q collective: www.johnq.org
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>> Andy Ditzler
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>>> Co-founder, John Q collective: www.johnq.org
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