[Frameworks] My recent work

[Fred Camper]

I have gradually been constructing a mailing list which I will use to 
send out news of my own art and writing. It is taking a while; I have 
just now sent out the first group of emails. So while I would prefer to 
give preference to those on the list, I am posting the bulk of that 
email announcement here and on Facebook now, and it is my intention to 
do so with future emails, which I am going to try to limit to three or 
four a year.

Please note that in addition to an announcement of an upcoming Chicago 
screening of my earliest films, the sixth paragraph, which begins 
“Fourth,” contains news of, and links to, the “films” I started making 
on video earlier this year. Were it not for those, I probably would not 
be posting this to FrameWorks.

Fred Camper
Chicago

__________________________________

This message offers five announcements.

First, I have written a long jeremiad, titled “Our Flattening Culture,” 
<https://logosjournal.com/2023/our-flattening-culture/> on the current 
state of the world, how our descent into near-apocalyptic consumerism 
aided by the Internet has been making us more superficial and more 
stupid, seeking mindless pleasures. I attempt to contrast such 
shallowness with my ideas of what the greatest art can offer. I probably 
care about this the most of anything I have written. It has just been 
published in an excellent online journal, /Logos/.

Second, some works from my largest art project, /Weeks and Months/, 
<https://www.fredcamper.com/A/WeeksandMonths/> which started with my 
taking a group of photographs of a different subject each day for 22 
months, are now on my site. Much more will be posted, and some of these 
prints are also hanging in my studio building 
<https://www.bridgeportart.com/>.

Third, on October 6 the Chicago Film Society 
<https://www.chicagofilmsociety.org/> will present a program of my five 
early 16mm films 
<https://www.chicagofilmsociety.org/preservation/fred-camper/>, made 
between 1967 and 1969,  which they are wholly responsible for 
preserving. I will introduce them and answer questions.

Fourth, just as I was finishing photographing for /Weeks and Months/ at 
the end of 2022, I found myself thinking ever more urgently about 
something that had obsessed me for decades,the possibility of making 
films again, this time using video 
<http://www.fredcamper.com/A/Interactions/>. So far that is all I have 
been making this year, and expect to continue and to add many more as 
they are completed. I certainly believe in them. These are rather 
different, and less flashy or evidently “innovative” than most 
“experimental” filmmaking. I believe they can repay multiple viewings. 
After some months of encouraging a few friends to see them, I am now 
making them publicly available. Please respect my copyright and post 
only links to the page on my site, rather than copying and posting them 
elsewhere.

Finally, I will have a one person show at a small St. Louis gallery, 
opening February 10, 2024. This may also be accompanied by a screening 
of my films. More information on this will appear in my second mailing, 
some months from now.

Thank you for reading this!

Yours,
Fred
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