[Frameworks] films for the anthropocene

Thu Jan 28 23:00:22 UTC 2016

''la jetée didn't do it to
me: it's a narrative about humans against a passive backdrop''

and yet what haunts me after all these years are the objects (the googles,
blindfolds etc) and the
observation deck itself.

2016-01-28 18:52 GMT-04:00 Marco Poloni <mar.poloni at gmail.com>:

> 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
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Marco Poloni
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