[Frameworks] Readings on alternative spaces for cinema?

[Jonathan Walley]

I highly recommend Brian Frye’s account of the Robert Beck (free download):
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/law_facpub/322/ <https://uknowledge.uky.edu/law_facpub/322/>

And I find this utterly engrossing. Get ready to go down the rabbit hole:
https://archive.org/details/TheRobertBeckMemorialCinemaVolumeIMay1998-october1999/page/n3 <https://archive.org/details/TheRobertBeckMemorialCinemaVolumeIMay1998-october1999/page/n3>

Kathryn Ramey’s very cool book addresses microcinemas indirectly, but deals quite a lot with DIY practices: 
https://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9780240823966/ <https://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9780240823966/>. 

Ramey has also done some fascinating scholarship on experimental film from an anthropological perspective, which extends to the spaces in which experimental films are shown and the communities that develop in and around these spaces. See:http://rameyfilms.com/writings.html <http://rameyfilms.com/writings.html>. In particular:
https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc52.2010/rameyExperimentalFilm/index.html <https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc52.2010/rameyExperimentalFilm/index.html>.

I heartily second Alain’s recommendation of INCITE #4.

And (apologies up front) my forthcoming book on expanded cinema spends a chunk of time talking about how recent/contemporary expanded cinema and the microcinema are formally parallel and sprung from similar historical sources - pressures might be the better word. It comes out this summer, so you’ll have to be in suspense for awhile, but it is on the topic you raise. [Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia, Oxford U. Press. At no bookstores near anyone, summer 2020.]

JW

Dr. Jonathan Walley
Associate Professor
Department of Cinema
Denison University
https://denison.edu/people/jonathan-walley




> On Dec 16, 2019, at 10:23 AM, mary billyou <mbillyou at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello, 
> I've written three articles for The Brooklyn Rail on this subject, called Mixed Use:
> 
> http://marybillyou.com/blog4/writing/ <http://marybillyou.com/blog4/writing/>
> 
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 9:44 PM Eric Theise <erictheise at gmail.com <mailto:erictheise at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> Some time ago Benjamin Taylor added three references tagged "microcinema" to the Zotero library on experimental cinema.
> 
>   https://www.zotero.org/groups/122679/experimental_cinema/items/q/microcinema <https://www.zotero.org/groups/122679/experimental_cinema/items/q/microcinema>
> 
> Weirdly there's one newer title tagged "microcinema" that shows up when searching my personal copy of the library but not via the website and that is
> 
>     https://www.archivebooks.org/2018/12/20/film-in-the-present-tensewhy-cant-we-stop-talking-about-analogue-film/ <https://www.archivebooks.org/2018/12/20/film-in-the-present-tensewhy-cant-we-stop-talking-about-analogue-film/>
> 
> I'd encourage you (and others) to contribute additional readings you find to that library.
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 6:05 PM 16mm Directory <info at 16mmdirectory.org <mailto:info at 16mmdirectory.org>> wrote:
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> 
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 5:51 PM Chris Freeman <christopherbriggsfreeman at gmail.com <mailto:christopherbriggsfreeman at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hello Frameworkers, I am looking for some help finding readings about alternative spaces for cinema, microcinemas, artist-run spaces, warehouse spaces, explorations of small DIY art communities, or maybe something about how experimental art forms coexist with experimental spaces.
> 
> 
> Incite Journal of Experimental Media
> Issue #4: Exhibition Guide
> Fall 2013
> 
> -Alain
> 
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