[Frameworks] Revelations

[John Knecht]

Please tell me what "Revelations" film you are referring to and where can I
see it. Thank you

John Knecht.

On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 5:29 PM Bernard Roddy <roddybp0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dominic:
>
> Thank you. I just watched Revelations. Although I passed over a few of
> your remarks at the festival site, I was most intent on figuring out how to
> play whatever it was you were posting.
>
> And it made me think of Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera. It's
> Vertov's apocalyptic edit. We have lost the celebration of labor and
> industry. And the effects of Vertov's film here seem to be degraded into
> something more tragic, like the spots on the lens that are admitted, or the
> double exposure that transforms what it was supposed to mean to work for a
> purpose.
>
> I used to show Vertov's film to classes on a VHS dub. Once I tried to
> substitute our improved transfer version, which was on a DVD from across
> campus, but discovered the film now appeared with orchestral music (I want
> to actually call it flatout opera). This disaster was never again
> permitted. And your Revelations has the sound it deserves.
>
> It actually occurred to me that Man with a Movie Camera could be construed
> as early music video, not just early documentary, as I used to hear it
> called.
>
> Really awesome. There's no need for any of the other work in that
> festival. And there remains the additional tragedy of the film's current
> exhibition conditions.
>
> Bernie
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-- 
John Knecht, Russell Colgate Distinguished
 University Professor of Art and Art History
 and Film and Media Studies. Emeritus.
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