[Frameworks] My recent work

[Ж]

Thanks Fred!

And if there's a specific* listserv* for your new works, please add this
email.

Best,
Ж

 kkinema.com.br | textodecinema.com



Em sáb., 30 de set. de 2023 às 00:11, Fred Camper <f at fredcamper.com>
escreveu:

> 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
> --
> Frameworks mailing list
> Frameworks at film-gallery.org
> https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://film-gallery.org/pipermail/frameworks_film-gallery.org/attachments/20230930/9a8f243b/attachment.html>