[Frameworks] Liberty: a curated show

[Adam Hyman]

Ken Jacobs, Star Spangled to Death

Joyce Wieland, Rat Life and Diet in North America

Jim FInn,  Encounters with Your inner Trotsky Child, perhaps

Some films included in these programs might be of interest:
https://www.lafilmforum.org/archive/summer-2018/1968-actions-and-reactions/

https://www.lafilmforum.org/archive/spring-2018/1968-visions-of-new-possibil
ities-part-1-black-panthers-and-black-power/

https://www.lafilmforum.org/archive/winter-2017/resistance-isn-t-futile-film
s-on-the-occasion-of-a-presidential-inauguration/

From:  FrameWorks <frameworks-bounces at jonasmekasfilms.com> on behalf of
Cynthia Madansky <cynthia.madansky at gmail.com>
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Date:  Monday, July 6, 2020 at 10:48 AM
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Subject:  Re: [Frameworks] Liberty: a curated show

Hi Jodie,
Maybe show them Oh Say Can you See, part of the PSA Project 1-15
http://www.madansky.com/film-video/the-psa-project-1-15/
Cynthia


> On 06 Jul 2020, at 13:40, Bernard Roddy <roddybp0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Jodie Mack:
> 
> It's a nice course title, "Curating and Microcinema: Make your own culture."
> 
> It raises many fine questions. For one, what is the role of "curating" in
> these microcinemas today? Does the term function in anything like the way it
> is intended to for budgeted, wall-hung exhibitions?
> 
> The word "liberty" is also a striking choice for an exhibition theme. If you
> read the news like I have, you'll likely bring to mind a president in front of
> the Mount Rushmore or a debate concerning a Lincoln monument that has the
> famous president standing with a nude black slave before him. (An 1876
> document was just unearthed by emancipation leader, Frederick Douglass,
> objecting to the sculpture's design: "The negro here, though rising, is still
> on his knees and nude. What I want to see before I die is a monument
> representing the negro, not couchant on his knees like a four-footed animal,
> but erect on his feet like a man." From the Wall Street Journal today)
> 
> I very much like the whole project - or task! - now before your students. What
> should be screened? And what can be said about the very procedures that go
> into deciding? Should there be a call for new work? What if you can't get
> permission to screen something?
> 
> Last year I responded to a call entitled What Remains that was held here in
> Chicago and organized by Joseph Ravens and ieke Trinks. It was a complicated
> concept, to use the term artists like to employ, a term for approaching new
> work. But isn't an exhibition, or the way in which it is conceived, also a
> creative work, and first off a concept?
> 
> Bernie
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