[Frameworks] suggestions for experimental road movies

Sarah Bliss bliss at sarahblissart.com
Mon Jul 22 12:36:56 UTC 2019


Bryan,

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Sarah Bliss
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Unless You’re Living It.  08:22. 2019.  
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> Subject: [Frameworks] suggestions for experimental road movies and/or experimental films about automobility
> Date: July 22, 2019 at 6:50:12 AM EDT
> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com <mailto:frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>>
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> Hello all, I am in the process of building a program that looks at automobility and road movies from an experimental perspective... wondering if anyone has suggestions about artists' films that study this topic... Titles and links would be preferable and I am open to both historic and current works - if you have made something along these lines I would be happy to have the opportunity to view such films/videos as well.
> 
> thanks everyone
> Bryan Konefsky
> president, Basement Films
> founder/director, Experiments in Cinema
> 
> Great art has always gone to the masses, to their hopes and dreams, for that spark that kindled their souls. The rest, "the many, all too many" as Nietzsche called mediocrity, have been mere commodities that can be bought with money, cheap glory, or social position.
> - Emma Goldman
> 
> 
> 
> From: Albert Alcoz <albertalcoz at gmail.com <mailto:albertalcoz at gmail.com>>
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] suggestions for experimental road movies and/or experimental films about automobility
> Date: July 22, 2019 at 7:43:55 AM EDT
> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com <mailto:frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>>
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> 
> Some ideas:
> 
> Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965) by Kenneth Anger <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy5tJiRl7Sw>
> Harmonica (1971) by Larry Gottheim <http://film-makerscoop.com/catalogue/larry-gottheim-harmonica>
> Moment (1972) by Bill Brand <https://vimeo.com/73812647>
> Fresh Kill (1972) by Gordon Matta-Clark <https://www.eai.org/titles/fresh-kill> 
> Pasadena Freeway Stills (1974) by Gary Beydler <https://lightcone.org/en/film-135-pasadena-freeway-stills>
> States of America <https://mubi.com/films/the-united-states-of-america> (1975) by Bette Gordon and James Benning <https://mubi.com/films/the-united-states-of-america>
> Seeing in the Rain <http://www.chrisgallagher.ca/films/seeing_in_the_rain/index.html> (1981) by Chris Gallagher <http://www.chrisgallagher.ca/films/seeing_in_the_rain/index.html>
> Hringurinn (1985) by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson <https://vimeo.com/67694572>
> Undivided Attention (1987) by Chris Gallagher <http://www.chrisgallagher.ca/films/undivided_attention/index.html>
> Mohave Cruising (2000) by Lluis Escartín <https://vimeo.com/39261046>
> Cinnamon (2006) by Kevin Jerome Everson <https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0492945/>
> Make It new John (2009) by Duncan Campbell <https://lux.org.uk/work/make-it-new-john>
> Get Out of the Car (2010) by Thom Andersen <https://lux.org.uk/work/get-out-of-the-car>
> Dromosphäre (2010) <https://vimeo.com/8067013%C3%A7> by Thorsten Fleisch <https://vimeo.com/8067013>
> Chevelle <https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2036347/> (2012) by Kevin Jerome Everson <https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2036347/>
> Death Songs & Car Bombs (2013) Brendan & Jeremy Smith <https://vimeo.com/81776581>
> The Quiet Car (2013) by Ernie Gehr <https://mubi.com/films/the-quiet-car>
> C-LR: Coorow-Latham Road for Those Who Don’t Have the Time (2013) by Blake Williams <https://blakewilliams.net/c-lr-coorow-latham-road-for-those-who-dont-have-the-time-2013/>
> Small Roads (2017) by James Benning <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjiduRb4k0U>
> 
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 12:50 PM Bryan Konefsky <bkonefsky at gmail.com <mailto:bkonefsky at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hello all, I am in the process of building a program that looks at automobility and road movies from an experimental perspective... wondering if anyone has suggestions about artists' films that study this topic... Titles and links would be preferable and I am open to both historic and current works - if you have made something along these lines I would be happy to have the opportunity to view such films/videos as well.
> 
> thanks everyone
> Bryan Konefsky
> president, Basement Films
> founder/director, Experiments in Cinema
> 
> Great art has always gone to the masses, to their hopes and dreams, for that spark that kindled their souls. The rest, "the many, all too many" as Nietzsche called mediocrity, have been mere commodities that can be bought with money, cheap glory, or social position.
> - Emma Goldman
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