[Frameworks] Avant-Garde cinema and war

[Albert Alcoz]

Thank you all so much for this overwhelming answer!
Many thanks also to the people who have sent personal emails on the subject.
Now it's time to collect and process all the information shared.

Here's a video that has not been mentioned but surely many of you know:
*A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945* by Isao Hashimoto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY

Best,
Albert

On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 2:12 AM Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com> wrote:

>
>
> Hi Esther,
>
> Thank you for this. I have about a yard of films on a shelf at the Coop -
> they're basically deadwood. I'm trying to get them to NYU - if they'll
> take them (they were made in the 70s for the most part and they have
> archives of my other work), and that seems stalled at the moment. They're
> all originals - i.e. I never made prints (never had the money for that and
> didn't receive grants for my filmwork, but for other things); the
> originals were shown. They were originally handled in San Francisco, but
> changed policy re: originals. Anyway, they'll probably disappear at this
> point; I have no money for dupes or transfers. Someone might be able to
> see them on a flatbed if they also had splicing tape. I'm not happy about
> this, but it's the situation. I was teaching media etc. at UCLA for two
> years and for the first, made a film (silent or sound, mostly 16mm) a
> week, following on my interest in the silent film studios. Ranged from 3
> min. to an hour. An interesting project, but the films might well be a
> wreck now and I have no money to revive them. I'll follow through on the
> urls you have below, really curious, and thank you!
>
> Best, Alan
>
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2022, Esther wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 20:18:34 +0000
> > From: Esther <esther at blanchepictures.com>
> > Reply-To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at film-gallery.org
> >
> > To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at film-gallery.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Avant-Garde cinema and war
> >
> > 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
> >
> > ?
> > Esther Johnson   artist ? filmmaker
> > https://linktr.ee/BlanchePictures
> > ?
> > DUST & METAL ? C?T B?I & KIM LO?I
> > ?
> >
> >       On 14 Nov 2022, at 20:06, Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com>
> >       wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >       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.
> >
> >       - Alan
> >
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