[Frameworks] Tony Conrad video ID

Wed Jun 1 13:08:56 UTC 2016

Hi Mark,

He is also represented by Green Naftali Gallery in New York. They might be
able to help as well.
http://www.greenenaftaligallery.com/gallery

Meg

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http://sightunseenbaltimore.com/

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>    1. Experimental Films from London at Visual Studies  Workshop
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>    2. Tony Conrad video ID (Mark Toscano)
>    3. Re: Tony Conrad video ID (Laura McGough)
>    4. Re: sseing and hearing Ebook (Francisco Torres)
>    5. Re: Tony Conrad video ID (Mark Toscano)
>    6. Re: Tony Conrad video ID (Kolberg, Sarah)
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Tara Nelson <brendamerenda at gmail.com>
> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>
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> Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 10:38:27 -0400
> Subject: [Frameworks] Experimental Films from London at Visual Studies
> Workshop
> Dear Friends,
>
> I hope you can join us for *Experimental Films from London,* Saturday,
> June 4th at 8 pm at Visual Studies Workshop.  This program offers a
> selection of films produced in London and rarely screened in Rochester,
> curated by Gordon Nelson, co-founder of Pittsburgh's experimental
> micro-cinema, *Jefferson Presents*.
>
> This will be the final screening of the Spring 2016 VSW Film Series, and
> it would be wonderful to see you there!
>
> Facebook invitation:  https://www.facebook.com/events/106379083115416/
>
>
> **Please note this screening had to be rescheduled from May 28th.  Our
> apologies for any inconvenience.*
>
>
> Tara Merenda Nelson
> Curator of Moving Image Collections
> Visual Studies Workshop
> 31 Prince Street
> Rochester, NY  14607
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>
>
> *Program:*
> Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (1972, 30 min)
> by Stephen Dwoskin
> with music by Gavin Bryars
> A man walks towards the camera down the end of a street. The swing of his
> body is barely perceptible because of a slow-motion effect produced by the
> high-speed camera, evoking an analytical decomposition. Bordering on a
> freeze frame shot, the crossing of space in its depth amplifies the tension
> between the impression of repetition and the passing of time, while a
> sample of a homeless person's religious chanting, taken from an Alan Power
> documentary, is looped and then amplified in Gavin Bryars’ score.
>
> Musical Stairs (1977, 10 min)
> by Guy Sherwin
> One of a series of films that uses soundtracks generated directly from
> their own imagery. I shot the images of a staircase specifically for the
> range of sounds they would produce. I used a fixed lens to film from a
> fixed position at the bottom of the stairs. Tilting the camera up increases
> the number of steps that are included in the frame. The more steps that are
> included the higher the pitch of sound. A simple procedure gave rise to a
> musical scale (in eleven steps which is based on the laws of visual
> perspective. A range of volume is introduced by varying the exposure. The
> darker the image the louder the sound (it can be the other way round, but
> Musical Stairs uses a soundtrack made from the negative of the image.) The
> fact that the staircase is neither a synthetic image, nor a particularly
> clean one (there happened to be leaves on the stairs when I shot the film)
> means that the sound is not pure, but dense with strange harmonics. - G.S.
>
> The Black Tower (1985-87, 24 min)
> by John Smith
> "In 'The Black Tower' we enter the world of a man haunted by a tower
> which, he believes, is following him around London. While the character of
> the central protagonist is indicated only by a narrative voice-over which
> takes us from unease to breakdown to mysterious death, the images,
> meticulously controlled and articulated, deliver a series of colour coded
> puzzles, jokes and puns which pull the viewer into a mind-teasing
> engagement. Smith's assurance and skill as a filmmaker undercuts the notion
> of the avant-garde as dry, unprofessional and dull and in "The Black Tower"
> we have an example of a film which plays with the emotions as well as the
> language of film." -Nik Houghton, Independent Media.
>
> All films projected in 16mm
> Prints rented through Canyon Cinema
>
> *This program is funded in part by Livingston Arts and the New York State
> Council of the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New
> York State Legislature.*
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Mark Toscano <mrktosc at gmail.com>
> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>
> Cc:
> Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 10:03:15 -0700
> Subject: [Frameworks] Tony Conrad video ID
> Hi all -
>
> Does anyone know the name (if it has one) of the very short video piece
> Tony Conrad made in which he inserted himself into some kind of rough porno
> with his shirt off (maybe even holding a drink?), saying something to the
> effect of, 'Whoah, I didn't know it was THIS kind of party...!'  - my
> memory could be somewhat off on the details, but if you've seen it, you'd
> remember it.  He showed it at LA Filmforum maybe ten years ago, and I was
> hoping to screen it in an upcoming program if it's obtainable somehow.
>
> thanks all,
>
> Mark Toscano
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Laura McGough <lmcgough at buffalo.edu>
> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>
> Cc:
> Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 13:15:14 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Tony Conrad video ID
> I believe that would be Hello Happiness from 2001.
>
> Best,
>
> Laura
>
>
>
> > On May 31, 2016, at 1:03 PM, Mark Toscano <mrktosc at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all -
> >
> > Does anyone know the name (if it has one) of the very short video piece
> Tony Conrad made in which he inserted himself into some kind of rough porno
> with his shirt off (maybe even holding a drink?), saying something to the
> effect of, 'Whoah, I didn't know it was THIS kind of party...!'  - my
> memory could be somewhat off on the details, but if you've seen it, you'd
> remember it.  He showed it at LA Filmforum maybe ten years ago, and I was
> hoping to screen it in an upcoming program if it's obtainable somehow.
> >
> > thanks all,
> >
> > Mark Toscano
> >
> >
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Francisco Torres <fjtorrespr at gmail.com>
> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>
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> Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 15:16:19 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] sseing and hearing Ebook
> Gracias.
>
> 2016-05-30 16:07 GMT-04:00 Eugeni Bonet <eugenibonet at gmail.com>:
>
>> For those who can read Spanish, and for collectors of bibliography on
>> experimental cinema, video art and related matters, here you can find my
>> book "Escritos de vista y oído". Published in print by MACBA (Museu d'Art
>> Contemporani de Barcelona), two years ago, it is an anthology of my
>> writings from 1975 up to the publishing date of 2014, and now is freely
>> available and downloadable in electronic form.
>>
>> http://macba.cat/en/publi-eugeni-bonet
>>
>> http://issuu.com/macba_publicacions/docs/eugeni_bonet_pdf/11?e=1649618/35995082
>>
>> For a larger web-compilation of my ruminations, see also
>> http://www.macba.cat/eugenibonet/
>>
>> And, concerning the exhibition that motivated all these publications –a
>> group show rather than a "solo"–, here you can find some information and
>> documents:
>> http://macba.cat/en/exhibition-eugeni-bonet
>>
>> all best to frameworkers
>> from Catalonia, not Spain
>>
>> salut ... saludos ... regards!
>>
>> Eugeni Bonet
>> http://boneteria.mydocumenta.com/
>> https://vimeo.com/boneteria
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Mark Toscano <mrktosc at gmail.com>
> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>
> Cc:
> Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 19:30:28 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Tony Conrad video ID
> Thank you Laura!  And the inevitable next question for you, or anybody,
> is: how would one now go about renting that (or any) piece of Tony's?
>
> thanks much,
>
> Mark T
>
> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Laura McGough <lmcgough at buffalo.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> I believe that would be Hello Happiness from 2001.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Laura
>>
>>
>>
>> > On May 31, 2016, at 1:03 PM, Mark Toscano <mrktosc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi all -
>> >
>> > Does anyone know the name (if it has one) of the very short video piece
>> Tony Conrad made in which he inserted himself into some kind of rough porno
>> with his shirt off (maybe even holding a drink?), saying something to the
>> effect of, 'Whoah, I didn't know it was THIS kind of party...!'  - my
>> memory could be somewhat off on the details, but if you've seen it, you'd
>> remember it.  He showed it at LA Filmforum maybe ten years ago, and I was
>> hoping to screen it in an upcoming program if it's obtainable somehow.
>> >
>> > thanks all,
>> >
>> > Mark Toscano
>> >
>> >
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Kolberg, Sarah" <skolberg at buffalo.edu>
> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>
> Cc:
> Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 02:33:57 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Tony Conrad video ID
>
> Hi Mark -
>
>
>
> not sure who exactly has control of the rights to various works, but you
> might just reach out to his widow, Paige Sarlin - paigesar at buffalo.edu
>
>
>
> best,
>
>
>
>   ~ sarah
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* FrameWorks <frameworks-bounces at jonasmekasfilms.com> on behalf of
> Mark Toscano <mrktosc at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 31, 2016 10:30 PM
> *To:* Experimental Film Discussion List
> *Subject:* Re: [Frameworks] Tony Conrad video ID
>
> Thank you Laura!  And the inevitable next question for you, or anybody,
> is: how would one now go about renting that (or any) piece of Tony's?
>
> thanks much,
>
> Mark T
>
> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Laura McGough <lmcgough at buffalo.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> I believe that would be Hello Happiness from 2001.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Laura
>>
>>
>>
>> > On May 31, 2016, at 1:03 PM, Mark Toscano <mrktosc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi all -
>> >
>> > Does anyone know the name (if it has one) of the very short video piece
>> Tony Conrad made in which he inserted himself into some kind of rough porno
>> with his shirt off (maybe even holding a drink?), saying something to the
>> effect of, 'Whoah, I didn't know it was THIS kind of party...!'  - my
>> memory could be somewhat off on the details, but if you've seen it, you'd
>> remember it.  He showed it at LA Filmforum maybe ten years ago, and I was
>> hoping to screen it in an upcoming program if it's obtainable somehow.
>> >
>> > thanks all,
>> >
>> > Mark Toscano
>> >
>> >
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