[Frameworks] Seeking examples of film elegies

[Eric Theise]

Robert Beavers' *The Suppliant* (2010)
https://expcinema.org/site/en/wiki/work/suppliant


On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 2:41 PM Ekrem Serdar <ekrem at squeaky.org> wrote:

> 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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