[Frameworks] Experimental films using Astronomy & Satellite imagery - recommendations

[Rob Gawthrop]

Erth John Latham UK 1971
"A journey from outer space to the centre of the world, in which consciousness itself is revealed as a form sedimented history. With distant views of the approaching Earth punctuated by black and silence, light years are compressed into a cosmic imaginary.” Lux

Moon 69 Scott Bartlett 1969
"Moon 1969 is a beautiful, eerie, haunting film, all the more wonderful for the fact we do not once see the moon: only the manifestation of its powers here on earth, the ebb and flow of the waters.. fiery rainbows into a cloudy sky... men and rockets transformed into shattering crystals... creating a picture if the cosmos in continual transformation."-- Gene Youngblood


Rob


On 13 Sep 2016, at 18:28, Adam Hyman <adam at lafilmforum.org> wrote:

> I'm working on programming a series around a theme of earth satellites &
> astronomy, for a museum that is doing an exhibition linked to JPL (Jet
> Propulsion Lab - the people behind our space probes, etc)
> 
> This is supposed to be a more mainstream series, and there will be some
> Hollywood sci-fi features as part of it, so we're not going too far out
> (so to speak).
> 
> But I'm looking for recommendations of experimental films that somehow
> involve/invoke astronomical imagery, or, perhaps even better, imagery of
> earth-orbiting satellites, and views of earth from satellites.  I hope to
> run one in front of each feature, or have one evening of them.
> 
> I am thinking of:
> Films by Semiconductor ­ Brilliant Noise; Black Rain
> Films by Jeanne Liotta
> Films by Jordan Belson ­ Allures; Samadhi (1967); Cosmos (1969); World
> (1970)
> 
> 
> I have already been through Robert Haller's booklet on his series
> "Universe" but I think I am not going to stretch this series to include
> his time or other science-based films.  We're sticking with astronomy and
> satellites.
> 
> Additional suggestions, please?
> 
> Thank you for your help.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Adam
> 
> -- 
> Adam Hyman
> Los Angeles Filmforum
> adam at lafilmforum.org
> http://www.lafilmforum.org
> 
> 
> 
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