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

[Piibe Kolka]

Hi Adam,

i made an experimental doc '540 nanometers' on the topic in 2012.
https://vimeo.com/41938289
ps. thanks for starting the thread - so many good recommendations for this
particular interest.

Piibe

On 14 September 2016 at 19:42, Rob Gawthrop <rob at robgawthrop.co.uk> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
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> Los Angeles Filmforum
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> http://www.lafilmforum.org
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