[Frameworks] Avant-Garde cinema and war

[Esther]

Alan, I’d be fascinated to see the films you made in relation to the war in Vietnam.
I premiered my new feature ‘Dust & Metal’ www.dustandmetal.com earlier this year at Sheffield DocFest which is a poetic/experimental doc incorporating much rare material from the Vietnam Film Institute. Although not directly about the war in Vietnam, the film touches on the fundamental importance of particularly bicycles to the Vietnamese during war. We’re hoping to tour the film in Vietnam and the UK next year, in addition to film fests.
I also collaborated on this short work focusing on US Military deserters from the war in Vietnam: https://blanchepictures.com/liberation-radio/
An earlier work of mine ‘Asunder’ focuses on WW1: http://asunder1916.uk

Warmest,
Esther

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Esther Johnson   artist · filmmaker
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DUST & METAL · CÁT BỤI & KIM LOẠI 
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> On 14 Nov 2022, at 20:06, Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com> wrote:
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> Fwiw, Back around the time of the Vietnam War, I made a series of in-camera 16mm sound films w/ Jerry Lewis' old auricons, about North Korean, Kim Il Sung, etc. I was teaching at UCLA. The films are probably sitting at the Coop. Later though I found a 16mm double-sprocketed reel, about 20 minutes, which was a reprint of a North Vietnamese film about the effects of Agent Orange. It was horrifying. The sprocket holes ran through the soundtrack. I had the film copies to single-sprocket mag stripe and added a new soundtrack (the old was destroyed) about the war, Nixon etc. That was also shown, I'm sure at Millennium (as were the others re: above) and is either sitting at the Coop or in my archives at NYU.
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