[Frameworks] Seeking examples of film elegies

[Ekrem Serdar]

Three beautiful ones dedicated to, about Marion McMahon that I think would
be appropriate:
*Froglight* by Sarah Abbott
*Behind this Soft Eclipse* by Eve Heller
of course, *What these Ashes Wanted *by Philip Hoffman

Also, Abraham Ravett's *Tziporah*

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 2:31 PM Adam Hyman <adam at lafilmforum.org> wrote:

> Perhaps *Necrology* by Standish Lawder.  Does it work as elegy, for you
> to decide:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dadi7mw5gCs
>
> When we had a memorial screening for Brakhage, we included
> *Passage Through: A Ritual*  (1990, 16mm, color/ sound, 50min)
>
> And also Brakhage’s *Panels for the Walls of Heaven* is really lovely
> (2002, color, silent, 31 min.) Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
>
> And Kitch’s Last Meal, by Carolee Schneemann, (1976, 55 min.), perhaps.
> Hard to know what will work as consolation.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Adam Hyman
>
> From:  FrameWorks <frameworks-bounces at jonasmekasfilms.com> on behalf of
> Katherine T Model <ktm2000 at nyu.edu>
>
> Threnody—Nathaniel Dorsky
> The Dragon is the Frame—Mary Helena Clark
>
> Best,
> Katie Model
>
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 1:40 PM Gene Youngblood <atopia at comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>
> Alexander Sokurov’s trilogy, Elegy of a Voyage, Elegy of the Land and
> Moscow Elegy (lovely portrait of Kozintsev’s apartment).
>
> On August 28, 2018 at 9:05:14 AM, Sarah Bliss (bliss at sarahblissart.com)
> wrote:
>
>
> Greetings Frameworkers,
>
> I write from AgX in Boston, where we are making our way, in grief and with
> love, since the death of our beloved Rob
> Todd.  At AgX, we sometimes hold a salon for members. The theme of our
> next will be elegies.  What filmic examples of
> elegies do you know?
>
> The Poetry Foundation defines an elegy as: "In traditional English poetry,
> it is often a melancholy poem that laments its subject’s death but ends in
> consolation."
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sarah Bliss
> http://www.SarahBlissArt.com
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