[Frameworks] Suggestions for mid-lenght films?

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Hello there!

Nice discussion, Dave. The paradox of time/length or duration/intensity
emerge in your words.

But also the Festival limitations and the programmer intentions when
arranging films, not always considering the potency of the works by
themselves...

I would anyways suggest José Rodriguez-Soltero, *Lupe(50'). *And and also
yann beauvais' *Luchando (62') *rarely seen.

All the best,
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Em qua., 3 de abr. de 2024 às 21:58, Dave Tetzlaff <djtet53 at gmail.com>
escreveu:

> Christina:
> Please define mid-length in a range of minutes.
> Long and short can be subjective and vary by norms of the form. E.g. a 45'
> experimental films would probably feel 'long', but a 45' narrative (either
> fiction or non-fiction, including 'cult/camp') would be considered only
> 'mid-length', as the standard 'regular' length is presumed to be a feature.
>
> Those narrative presumptions govern most festivals, where programmers
> consider length as a more or less defined range of minutes. They either
> want to fill their slots with one feature length piece or a collection of
> shorts, typically 15' or under. They don't like to program mid-length
> pieces (~ 25' - 55') as putting two if those in a slot lacks the
> identity/gravity of a feature, and by devoting the non-feature slots to 4-5
> gets more makers into the festival and more viewers into the session by
> having one piece a range of different folks will want to see.
>
> The upshot of this is that good films in this mid-range are often bereft
> of screenings, so you have a cool factor for featuring them as that's so
> seldom done.
>
> Just in case these fit your concept of mid-length: I'd say the starting
> point for mid-cult-camp is Mike Kuchar's Sins of the Fleshapoids (42'). For
> mid-cult (not really camp) Christopher MacLaines brilliant The End (35').
> Two wonderful quirky Werner Herzog 'documentaries' La Soufrierre (30') and
> The Great Ecstacy of the Sculptor Steiner (45')...
>
>
>
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