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Abstract: A key theme throughout Framework 63 1&2 (Spring & Fall 2022) is interconnection—as both a method and a perception. In the two dossiers, "Exquisite Historiography: Experimental and Collaborative Film Histories" and "The New American Cinema Group in Europe: The 1960s Grand Tour and Its Afterlife," there is a sense of weaving and interconnecting, allowing for open spaces and an inventive, perhaps kaleidoscopic, perspective on the past, present, and future. This interconnection continues in the only entry that is not part of a dossier, Olivia Landry's essay, "Exil and the Cinematic Mood of Racism." With its analysis of Albanian Kosovar Visar Morina's film Exil/Exile (DE/XK, 2020), Landry brings into focus the ... Read More PubDate: 2023-01-06T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Comrades together-apart/Camarades junts-i-a-banda was made by two academics working at distance, one in Catalonia, one in Scotland. The film was shot and edited during the Covid-19 lockdown when we were forced to stay within our borders and, at times, within our own homes. The film combines footage of contemporary political protests and movements in our respective countries and reflects on actually existing colonial processes both within and outwith the higher education system. Using a poor audiovisual aesthetic, the film combines newly shot phone footage of everyday life during this moment. The film takes inspiration from the thinking of Karen Barad, in particular her notion of "cutting together-apart," in ... Read More PubDate: 2023-01-06T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Swallow Life (燕子生命) is an online collaborative platform in Hong Kong that aims to cultivate bonds of community and provide entertainment to political prisoners who participated in the pro-democracy protests. In 2019 and 2020, the largest waves of protests in Hong Kong responded to increasing forms of authoritarian control exercised by mainland China in the city. More than 10,000 protesters were arrested and around 3,000 individuals were prosecuted for offenses related to the protest. In view of this, an anonymous group of local Hong Kongers established an online platform, Swallow Life, to consolidate resources to help improve the lives of the imprisoned protesters. On their website, Swallow Life hosts a wide range ... Read More PubDate: 2023-01-06T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Video: Traffic in KissesThis video is available at https://youtu.be/cJ0G40YZwPs.And then I had a sudden image: a dog lying somewhere very still, and a child, first looking at it, and then, compulsively, nudging it. Why' to see whether it was alive; because if it moves, if it can move, it lives. This most primitive, this most instinctive of all gestures: to make it move to make it live. So I had always been doing with my camera …We were curious about what would happen. In early cinema there is a genre known as the kiss film or kissing films, and the genre's emergence indicates already that certain shared expectations are forming about what might happen. Typically two figures, conventionally legible as a man and a ... Read More PubDate: 2023-01-06T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: One day, out of the blue, Marina proposed to Isabel to write something together about two Latin American feminist documentaries, Woman's World (Original title: El mundo de la mujer, 15') and Miss Universe in Peru (Original title: Miss Universo en el Perú, 39'). Marina thought both works share epochal (thematic, political, and formal) similarities. Isabel felt the same to such a degree that, serendipitously, not long before receiving Marina's proposal, she had asked Alejandro Legaspi if he was influenced by Woman's World when he edited Miss Universe in Peru. Isabel thought that Legaspi could have had the chance of watching the short documentary in Montevideo or Buenos Aires before fleeing to Peru due to the ... Read More PubDate: 2023-01-06T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The Punjab Civil Secretariat Library is housed in one of the many narrow back alleys near the Walled City in Lahore. It contains governmental records dating from the colonial era to the contemporary moment. Though the records pre-date the Partition of India and Pakistani Independence, they can only be accessed with Pakistani governmental approval: the archive, too, remains bound by state borders. From previous archival work in the region, I knew that material regarding the origins of the 1947 Partition form a fragmented, dismembered corpus. At the Punjab Civil Secretariat Library, I asked a librarian for all records pre-dating 1947. Some records I had seen before—the Indian Cinematograph Committee report from 1918 ... Read More PubDate: 2023-01-06T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Imagine what new histories could emerge from a commitment to doing more with less.By accident I reached Chicago. … What was I to do in this big Windy City'William Foster is a frustrating figure for the film historian. One of the first African American film producers—quite possibly the first—Foster made short comedies and actualities in Chicago in the 1910s, including his celebrated one-reel farce The Railroad Porter (US, 1913). He was also a prolific author for newspapers and other publications, writing extensively about Black vaudeville and musical theater, the film industry, and opportunities for Black entrepreneurship, and serving as a highly respected authority on African American sports and entertainment in ... Read More PubDate: 2023-01-06T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In the early months of 1956, French director Alain Resnais completed work on Nuit et Brouillard/Night and Fog (FR), his now classic meditation on the concentration camps and their afterlife. The film struck audiences then, as it does now, with its mix of brightly rendered Eastmancolor footage of the remains of camps with archival footage and photographs from all around Europe depicting deportations to, and the machinery of, the camp system. While historians of post-war French cinema often hold up Resnais's film as the first concerted effort to make a film about the camps, it was not the first film to make use of this burgeoning archive of visual materials. Two years earlier, Yannick Bellon—Resnais's erstwhile film ... Read More PubDate: 2023-01-06T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Collage of 3 mm, 8 mm, 8.75 mm, 9.5 mm, 16 mm, 17.5 mm, 22 mm, 35 mm, 65 mm, and 70 mm. Arranged and photographed by Dino Everett, HMH Foundation Archivist, University of Southern California.If the history of film is a history of creative expression and experimentation, it is also a history of technical innovations, standards, and practices. Of these, the width, or gauge, of film is one of the most critical, if often neglected. While film gauges were—by and large, and with important exceptions—standardized very early in an effort to make film an interoperable, international technology, producers and equipment manufacturers continued to experiment with film gauge, making films wider and narrower to achieve various ... Read More PubDate: 2023-01-06T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: From May 12 to 22, 1967, the Unione Culturale, a leftist cultural organization in Torino, Italy, hosted a festival of experimental film screenings from the New American Cinema Group. The festival was organized by Italian drama critic and vice-president of the Unione Culturale Edoardo Fadini, curated by filmmaker and critic Jonas Mekas, and funded in large part by filmmaker and philanthropist Jerome Hill, the leading patron of the New York experimental film scene in the 1960s. The ten-day program featured 63 films, including work by Stan Brakhage, Andy Warhol, Hill, Mekas, and many other important filmmakers in the New York City underground. Along with the screenings, there was a final round table discussion ... Read More PubDate: 2023-01-06T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: At the end of a letter to Jonas Mekas written from Italy in 1964, young film critic P. Adams Sitney produces a collage of a photograph of his own head adorned with another one of the Vatican's buildings. A handwritten comic-strip-like speech bubble makes Sitney say "caio" [sic] to the receiver.1 That whimsical letter ornament presenting the author as a self-crowned pope of a new kind, and the wrongly spelled "ciao," is one of many traces of a transnational history of New American Cinema (NAC) and the New American Cinema Group (NACG) in the 1960s that I am researching.If NAC has been chiefly situated by film historians in a North American context, I argue that it came to play a central role in the historiographical ... Read More PubDate: 2023-01-06T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Experimental filmmaker, critic, curator, archivist, and advocate Jonas Mekas acknowledged the importance of filmmaker Jerome Hill's patronage to the New York avant-garde cinema, emphatically stating—quoting him—"I have to tell you frankly that without Jerome, Film Culture magazine would have closed by 1960. Without Jerome, neither the Film-Makers Cooperative nor the Film Makers Cinematheque would have survived. Without Jerome there would be no Anthology Film Archives."1 Both Mekas and playwright Jack Gelber, who wrote The Living Theater's first major success, The Connection (1959), used the word "angel" as a label for the philanthropist Jerome Hill and his financial support of the experimental underground;2 as ... Read More PubDate: 2023-01-06T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The topic of this essay is the retrospective of New American Cinema works organized in Turin, Italy, in May 1967, at the Unione Culturale, a left-wing cultural organization, very active at the time (as well as today).1 I researched the papers regarding this retrospective, held by the archive of the Unione Culturale, along with some papers held by Susanna Fadini, the daughter of late Edoardo Fadini, a man who plays a very important role in the story I am about to tell. Moreover, I also interviewed a few people who attended the retrospective—experimental filmmaker Tonino De Bernardi; painter and sculptor Ugo Nespolo, who also made several experimental films; and Paolo Bertetto, who at the time was a young film critic ... Read More PubDate: 2023-01-06T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The aim of this paper is to offer you a guided tour through the presence of New American Cinema (from now on NAC) in the archives of Unione culturale "Franco Antonicelli," the cultural association in Turin (Italy) that organized a whole NAC showcase in May 1967 and a second one in June 1968. These archives1 preserve several typologies of materials: letters, telegrams, programs, posters, pictures, recordings, and various other documents testifying to the extent of the association's cultural activity ranging from music to literature to cinema, with relevant guests both on the national and on the international level.After reconstructing the process that led to the organization of the first NAC exposition in Italy by ... Read More PubDate: 2023-01-06T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This article is born out of the finding of the program poster of "The Western American Experimental Film" tours in Stockholm (Fig. 1). We found the poster in the archive of Moderna Museet, Stockholm's Museum of Modern Art, when researching the New American Cinema screenings in Europe. Not having ever heard of this program before, we began to trace its origins and history. Somehow, we were confronted by an object, an event, and a past, which had not been written about and had left no trace in the narratives about the presence of US experimental cinema in Europe in the 1960s. Later on, when trying to revisit the program for "'The Gatekeepers exist to be overthrown.' Amos Vogel—Reprisen und Repliken (II)," a film ... Read More PubDate: 2023-01-06T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In 1962 experimental filmmaker Jonas Mekas established the New American Cinema Group and The Filmmakers' Cooperative in New York, while in 1963 two significant events took place from an artistic point of view, but above all geographically. In one event, Nam June Paik, a South Korean musician who was experimenting with electronic music and the first electronic image production systems in the studios of the WDR radio broadcaster in Cologne (where he met composers Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage, the artist Joseph Beuys, and the architect George Maciunas, who had recently founded the Neo-Dadaist art movement Fluxus), inaugurated the exhibition Exposition of Music—Electronic Television (DE) at the Parnass Gallery ... Read More PubDate: 2023-01-06T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In her book After Uniqueness: A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation, Erika Balsom investigates the effect that the digital revolution has had on the perception of authenticity of various works of moving image art: How can we perceive as unique, and therefore authentic, an object that can be endlessly reproduced'1 As she explains, the tension between optimism and skepticism as concerns the potentialities of perfect reproducibility has always been central to the work of several experimental filmmakers, as reflected in both their art and their dissemination strategies. Anxieties towards issues of originality therefore pre-date the advent of digital technology, though I would argue that it is because of the ... Read More PubDate: 2023-01-06T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience.How can cinema recreate the experience of everyday racism' This is the question that motivates this essay, and one that goes beyond mere narrative content. Racism and racist acts have long been portrayed in many different films. This is rather a question about how racism is experienced by those it targets and how this experience translates into the language of cinema, from genre and aesthetics to expression and affective attunement. What is the cinematic mood of racism'Jordan Peele's American horror film Get Out (US, 2017) has received much praise for its allegorical recreation of the experience of racism in liberal white society, specifically ... Read More PubDate: 2023-01-06T00:00:00-05:00
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