[Frameworks] doc/exp sports film suggestions

[Adam Hyman]

“Successive Approximations to the Goal” by Beth Block (2015, 1080p digital, 14 min.)

Here’s part of her note on it.  We had the premiere of it at Filmforum in 2015, and I think it’s a masterpiece.

 

“Successive Approximations to the Goal is a term that is used in applied behavior analysis.   It refers to the series of slight behavioral changes or subsets that are reinforced because they are increasingly more similar to the ultimate objective. 

            For many years I have been driven by the desire to spatially portray the passage of time, in a perpetually disappointing search for a way to counteract the injustice of being able to perceive time only in singular fleeting moments.  In this experiment, I wanted to film many people interacting with each other in a confined space.  I filmed an LA Galaxy/Vancouver Whitecaps soccer game and then combined the images to portray the motion over time of the players, the refs and the ball. 

As the different pieces emerged, I was struck by the inevitability and futility of what I was seeing, which triggered in me thoughts of rats in cages, endlessly pushing rocks up mountains, video games that you always lose and the paradox of the movement of electrons.   The sound interprets, in many different ways, the possible explanations for such strange human behavior.- BB

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Slow Motion (Relentis) by William Klein
Athletes appear onscreen floating through space in slow motion in William Klein’s dreamlike vision of their athletic movements. 1984, 35mm, silent, 20 min

 

Also...

 

Men's Hockey by Steve Wetzel 

2004, 55 minutes

 

 

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 7:14 AM Elena Duque <elenaduque at gmail.com> wrote:

I like very much this Croatian film by Ana Husman:

https://vimeo.com/28365381

 

 

El jue, 29 jul 2021 a las 10:23, Albert Alcoz (<albertalcoz at gmail.com>) escribió:

At the end of the previously cited INCITE magazine is a listing of 160 films, sorted by sports, compiled by Brett Kashmere and Astria Suparak. "A Selective Guide to Sports in Experimental Media" is the title of it. Of all of them I think I prefer Ladislav Galeta's "TV Ping Pong". I just checked that "Muzné hry" (Virile Games, 1988) by Jan Svankmajer is missing, for example. Anyway, it is an incredible list of references. 

 

Albert Alcoz

 

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 1:32 AM Brandon Walley <brand500 at gmail.com> wrote:

Not really about sport, in the conventional sense...

 

If the War Continues, Jonathan Schwartz (rip)

https://canyoncinema.com/catalog/film/?i=5056


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On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 3:54 PM Todd Eacrett <hellbox at antimatter.ca> wrote:

 

Jørgen Leth's cycling films A Sunday in Hell, Stars and Watercarriers, and The Impossible Hour.

 

 

On Wed, Jul 28, 2021, at 7:30 AM, jjmartinod wrote:

Hello frameworkers,

Working on something new and am looking for references of documentary/experimental short films on sports. 

Would any have links/references to anything close to the topic? 

Deeply appreciated. 

salud,

j-j

 

 

 

 

 

 

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