[Frameworks] Revelations

[Bernard Roddy]

Hi John:

Dominic had posted a program including a work of his own, Revelations
(Subject: Film PRogram). I clicked on a link a the bottom of his message:

https://ultradogme.com/2020/06/27/udvff-12/

On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 9:18 PM John Knecht <jknecht at colgate.edu> wrote:

> 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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