[Frameworks] Long takes and still images/ photography in experimental films

[Gene Youngblood]

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On March 8, 2018 at 4:55:15 PM, jimmyschaus1 . (jimmyschaus at gmail.com) wrote:

Singling out long takes in a forum dedicated to experimental film is shooting fish in a barrel!  So I'll dive in with the more idiosyncratic part of the inquiry, photography/still images.  Two wonderful things I've seen recently entirely comprised of still photographic images "moving", and directly engage a sense of bemusement in finding the line between stasis and motion, are Abbas Kiarostami's 24 Frames and Jon Jost's Mountains as Mountains, which you can watch here.  

shamelessly, my video Rocking Horses  (password=rocking, clever I know)

stasis classics: Chris Marker's La Jetee and Raul Ruiz's Dogs Dialog.  

Apitchatpong Weerasathakul is a master of long takes, and in Uncle Boonme... you get two-for-one, as, if I recall, there's a lovely sequence of still photographs of Thai soldiers around the halfway mark. 

Pedro Costa's films are filled with long takes, and the opening of Horse Money is an incredible procession of Jacob Riis depression-era photos.  

Tsai Ming-Liang, and if you're really looking for parts that emphasize stillness and the weight of time, there's a 20 minute uninterrupted shot towards the end of Stray Dogs that's really something else.  


And yeah, James Benning, Sharon Lockhart, and some Ben Russell on the more experimental/non-narrative side of things.  



On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 4:51 PM, Adam Hyman <adam at lafilmforum.org> wrote:
Virtually every James Benning film.

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Subject: [Frameworks] Long takes and still images/ photography in experimental films


Dear Frameworkers,
I'm beginning a research about the presence of long takes and still images/photography as expressive resources in the production of experimental films.
If anyone has in mind films that work with these procedures and can share with me some titles, I will appreciate a lot. 
Best, 
Sebastian 

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