tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post8269831377602875586..comments2023-11-05T04:31:48.615-05:00Comments on Elusive Lucidity: To and FroZChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211734319629732065noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-30016927874851808862007-11-04T10:39:00.000-05:002007-11-04T10:39:00.000-05:00Jen, indeed. Let me know if you just in case have...Jen, indeed. Let me know if you just in case have problems tracking down <I>Circle of Confusion</I>, I can help you out there.<BR/><BR/>RE, it is an interesting cinema experience. In NYC at MoMA it was able to draw a big crowd--it's an avant-garde classic (included in the National Film Registry, even) screened at a big institution with the filmmaker present. But this is one of the unfortunate plagues of much experimental cinema, especially if it's stuff that really can't/shouldn't be seen on video. You have to be in a nice metropolitan community with modern art museums, or the like, to have a good chance of seeing the film. This necessarily engenders a small and perhaps elite viewership, especially as actual <I>film</I> screenings seem to be on the wane. But I think that this is something that should be more carefully put to the a-g (film) world, whose works frequently aren't elitist in spirit, are not engineered for the small urban elite that comprises their de facto audience. This relates to my points in this post & below, and gets into the political dimension of my defense or advocacy for alternative types of cinema and potential, which I probably shouldn't try to go into too deeply here ... yet.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for dropping by!ZChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10211734319629732065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-3298108810663737332007-11-04T03:49:00.000-05:002007-11-04T03:49:00.000-05:00"Serene Velocity" seems like an interesting cinema..."Serene Velocity" seems like an interesting cinema experience. When you consider how hard it's to sell a movie, with an unhappy ending, think about trying to show something like that.<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>Regards.Frank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-3427305266471824382007-11-03T23:08:00.000-04:002007-11-03T23:08:00.000-04:00Thank you so much for this excerpt from Annette Mi...Thank you so much for this excerpt from Annette Michelson on WAVELENGTH:<BR/><BR/>"Why was it that differences of taste and of theoretical orientation were so promptly reconciled on the appearance of this work?"<BR/><BR/>I think that one of the reasons I'm on the blogosphere is to try to find an answer to a general, wider version of this question. And OMG, I am beginning to feel that this is a philosophical subject that is so complex and perhaps undefinable . . . not even with the scientific method! :)<BR/><BR/>Thanks also for the reminder to check out Hollis Frampton's writing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com