[Frameworks] Painting directly to film

[Myron Ort]

I would say that the most of Brakhage’s extensive painting on film was inspired by the socalled Abstract Expressionist painters, I believe he said as much.

Brakhage was certainly not painting or scratching (“cute”) little animated figures or the same tiresome (easy/lazy) cliches as most practitioners end up doing.







> On Dec 4, 2017, at 3:48 PM, Robert Withers <withersr at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> I am bemused by this topic since the questioner specifically referred to "abstract expressionist" painting on film There have been a lot of painters on film including myself, and kids I taught in film class.
> But I've never been aware of a painter on film who wasn't inspired specifically by the traditions and techniques of experimental or animated film, and the very technology of motion picture film itself.
> 
> Abstract expressionists were very self-conscious of their specific practice (I don't remember who named the style). With the big expressionistic body-gestures it seems to have little to do with the careful, miniaturistic practices of painters on film, no matter how free the projected image looked. I fondly remember Brakhage's Persian Series which he created with a lightbox and painting kit on the tables of a Colorado Cafe. 
> 
> Maybe art historians of the future will link all free abstract images as "abstract expressionism" but I don't think so.
> 
> Cheers,
> Robert
> 
> 
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> On Dec 3, 2017, at 7:00 AM, frameworks-request at jonasmekasfilms.com <mailto:frameworks-request at jonasmekasfilms.com> wrote:
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>>  Re: Painting directly to film 
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Myron Ort
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