[Frameworks] Lying as a theme

[Dorothea Braemer]

Mitch Block,  No  Lies.

From:  FrameWorks <frameworks-bounces at jonasmekasfilms.com> on behalf of
Francisco Torres <fjtorrespr at gmail.com>
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Date:  Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at 6:14 PM
To:  Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>
Subject:  Re: [Frameworks] Lying as a theme

''Charade staring Archibald Leach...''  he he....
Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant", Grant
is said to have replied, "So would I."

2017-02-22 19:01 GMT-04:00 Salise Hughes <salise.hughes at gmail.com>:
> I agree, all films lie. Charade staring Archibald Leach.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Jeff Kreines <jeff at kinetta.com> wrote:
>> David Holzman¹s Diary
>> 
>>> On Feb 22, 2017, at 4:30 PM, Francisco Torres <fjtorrespr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> it may be that all films lie. that is what make them such fun.
>>> 
>>> 2017-02-22 14:31 GMT-04:00 lagonaboba <lagonaboba at gmail.com>:
>>>> from the Filmmaker¹s Coop Catalog: (description seems laden with
>>>> Coyote-esque obfuscation, and I wrote itŠ)
>>>> Robert Harris 
>>>> <http://film-makerscoop.com/rentals-sales/search-results?fmc_author=1035>
>>>> COYOTE  (1997 
>>>> <http://film-makerscoop.com/rentals-sales/search-results?fmc_year=1997> )
>>>> DVD NTSC, color, 17:07 min
>>>> Genre: Documentary
>>>> <http://film-makerscoop.com/rentals-sales/search-results?fmc_genre=genre_do
>>>> cumentary> , Experimental
>>>> <http://film-makerscoop.com/rentals-sales/search-results?fmc_genre=genre_ex
>>>> perimental> 
>>>> Keywords: Ethnic/Multicultural
>>>> <http://film-makerscoop.com/rentals-sales/search-results?fmc_keyw=key_ethni
>>>> c_multicultural>
>>>> COYOTE is an invocation of the many shady, shifting forms of Coyote, wide
>>>> dog, Trickster, and smuggler, told in a style that mimics his multifarious
>>>> shape. COYOTE abandons unified visual style. The narrative is fractured, a
>>>> blend of documentary and fiction, contradictory voices, myths, and lies.
>>>> Through a discontinuity between images, between image and text, between
>>>> textual voices; through a clash of human and non-human voices, fixed
>>>> meaning is undermined. Contradiction, displacement and disruption force the
>>>> viewer's participation. Text and image drift in and out of moments of
>>>> relative, subjective synchronicity. A reading ascribed to a given image
>>>> will dissolve with the change of accompanying text. As meaning becomes
>>>> contingent on viewer and context, authorship shifts from video-maker to
>>>> collective process. COYOTE is an accumulated cacophony of evidence
>>>> fragments where meanings coagulate in the resonant harmonics of the various
>>>> voices.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Feb 21, 2017, at 8:49 PM, Morgan Hoyle-Combs <mhoylecombs at yahoo.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hello
>>>>> 
>>>>> Does anyone know of any film (essay/diary/doc) where lying is a theme or
>>>>> the main focus? I wondered if there was anything that ran among these
>>>>> lines: 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 1. The audience is well aware that the narrator/filmmaker is lying to them
>>>>> 
>>>>> 2. The audience does not know whether or not the narrator/filmmaker lying
>>>>> to them. It's left ambiguous.
>>>>> 
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>> Jeff Kreines
>> Kinetta
>> jeff at kinetta.com
>> kinetta.com <http://kinetta.com>
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> Artist, Filmmaker, Armchair Anthropologist
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