[Frameworks] Experimental films on photography

[Eric Theise]

Hello Albert,

I've seen a film by or about the late Robert Frank containing a scene where
he drills a hole through a hefty stack of photographic prints. My memory is
that the audience was audibly shaken at the destruction while I thought it
was kind of a bullshit move. With all due respect, Robert Frank, I hope you
paid your printer, let's talk after you've drilled a hole through your
*negatives*.

It's possible that the film I'm remembering was "True Story".
https://www.mfah.org/films/robert-frank-collection/

Eric

P.S. The last entry on that MFAH page is "Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel
1984", finished 2017; have any Frameworkers seen that?


On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 3:06 AM Albert Alcoz <albertalcoz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I was making a list of experimental film practices on photography and I
> was wondering if you could suggest more titles.
>
> At first I wanted to focus just on movies where photographs are deleted
> (burned, destroyed) or denied but I only know *(nostalgia)* for Hollis
> Frampton and the project *Found Monochromes* by David Batchelor (slides).
> Does anyone know other films where the main purpose is the destruction or
> the invisibility of photographs?
>
> On the other hand I have started a list of films made from photographs.
> There are dozens of films (some of them animations) where the object of
> analysis are still images, from filmed Polaroids to appropriation of
> advertising images from magazines or the accumulation of digital images
> found on the internet:
>
> *Transformation by Holding Time* by Paul de Nooijer
> *Pasadena Freeway Stills* and *Hand Held Day* by Gary Beydler
> *Production Stills* by Morgan Fisher
> *Frank Film* by Frank Mouris
> *Boy Meets Girl* by Eugènia Balcells
> *Wall *by Takashi Ito
> *Photodiary *by Takashi Ito
> *Clandestine Porn Film* by Augustin Gimel
> *DIES IRAE* by Jean Gabriel Périot
> *The World as Will and Representation* de Roy Arden
>
> Do others come to mind?
>
> Thank you,
> Albert Alcoz
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