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

[Jaime Cleeland]

https://archive.org/details/DistantShores_201802

Starts with a 3min long take. The short also uses still images.

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> On 9 Mar 2018, at 16:23, Albert Alcoz <albertalcoz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> John Woodman's landscape films on super 8 use long shots, well 3'20'' at 18 fps.
> https://lux.org.uk/writing/new-dvd-landscape-films-1977-1982-john-woodman
> 
> What about I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like and Hatsu-Yume by Bill Viola?
> 
> Béla Tarr usually filmed long takes for works like Sátántangó, for example.
> 
> Andy Warhol is the first artist that comes to mind concerning long takes, though.
> 
> Concerning still images there are several filmmakers in Japan around the late seventies and eighties that could be useful:
> Spacey by Takashi Ito, Engram by Matsumoto Toshio.
> 
> Here are some links to some videos: http://www.visionaryfilm.net/2013/05/japanese-experimental-films-cinema.html
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>> On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 1:55 AM, Gene Youngblood <atopia at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Warhol and Michael Snow
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>>> On March 8, 2018 at 4:55:15 PM, jimmyschaus1 . (jimmyschaus at gmail.com) wrote:
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>>> 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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>>>> From: FrameWorks <frameworks-bounces at jonasmekasfilms.com> on behalf of Sebastian Wiedemann <wiedemann.sebastian at gmail.com>
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>>>> Date: Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 12:48 PM
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>>>> Subject: [Frameworks] Long takes and still images/ photography in experimental films
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>>>> 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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