[Frameworks] Liberty: a curated show

[KJ Mohr]

Dara Greenwald & Bettina Escauriza - Love It or Leave It

On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 2:37 PM Adam Hyman <adam at lafilmforum.org> wrote:

> Ken Jacobs, Star Spangled to Death
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> Joyce Wieland, Rat Life and Diet in North America
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> Jim FInn,  Encounters with Your inner Trotsky Child, perhaps
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> Some films included in these programs might be of interest:
> https://www.lafilmforum.org/archive/summer-2018/1968-actions-and-reactions/
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> https://www.lafilmforum.org/archive/spring-2018/1968-visions-of-new-possibilities-part-1-black-panthers-and-black-power/
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> https://www.lafilmforum.org/archive/winter-2017/resistance-isn-t-futile-films-on-the-occasion-of-a-presidential-inauguration/
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> 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
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> 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
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> On 06 Jul 2020, at 13:40, Bernard Roddy <roddybp0 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Jodie Mack:
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> 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?
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> 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?
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> 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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