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

[Adam Hyman]

Thank you.  
I'll send a summary email in a couple of days.

Best,

Adam

From:  Piibe Kolka <piibe.kolka at gmail.com>
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Date:  Wed, 14 Sep 2016 22:07:33 +0300
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Subject:  Re: [Frameworks] Experimental films using Astronomy & Satellite
imagery - recommendations

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
>> 
>> -- 
>> Adam Hyman
>> Los Angeles Filmforum
>> adam at lafilmforum.org
>> http://www.lafilmforum.org
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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