[Frameworks] meditative films?

Christian LEBRAT lebrat at christian-lebrat.net
Thu Dec 12 16:38:35 UTC 2019


Most of Brakhage films...

Le 12/12/2019 à 17:26, Francisco Torres a écrit :
> most of Ken Jacobs films...
>
> 2019-12-12 12:15 GMT-04:00, Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com>:
>> First of all, this is a metafilm, some hollywood propaganda, and it is
>> not meditative at all, but it is a thing that students should see in any
>> introduction to film class:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhhnFP1GWHI
>>
>> The youtube version looks terrible, if anyone knows of a better one I would
>> love to see it.
>>
>> I guess I think of Jordan Belson's _Cycles_ as the kind of thing you are
>> looking for.  Pennebaker's _Daybreak Express_ is a cool and beautiful film
>> that starts slow, then becomes very upbeat and exciting, but then becomes
>> slow and quiet again at the end.
>>
>> McLaren's _A Chairy Tale_ is kind of weird and might be a bit long for
>> keeping students attention, but I think it makes a point about being
>> loved and appreciated.
>>
>> Keaton's _The Railrodder_ is on youtube and it is in many ways a kind of
>> slow and contemplative film.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYmcN12M97o
>> May require some explanation about swimming the atlantic and so forth.
>>
>> So many of the abstract films I can think of are anything but slow and
>> contemplative...
>> --scott
>>
>>
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