Recently added articles from Millennium Film Journal:
MARY HALLOCK-GREENEWALT'S "ABSTRACT FILMS"
Oct 01, 2006; ... While the oldest surviving abstract films were produced in Germany by Walther Ruttman, Hans Richter, Viking Eggling, and Oskar Fischinger in the 1920s, earlier films were produced by Italian Futurists Bruno Corra and Alberto Ginna circa 1909 by directly painting on clear film. An American named ...
SCREEN DREAM: THE AUDIO-VISUAL JOURNEYS OF GLEN FOGEL
Oct 01, 2006; ......can there exist a visual analogy ofthat quality found in a complex aural tone, the mixture of a fundamental tone with its overtones? One can think of paintings which by various meansresonation between color-shapes, echoing forms, etc.-create such a sense.. .a series of single frames of ...
RENEWING THE ERL KING
Oct 01, 2006; ... 1. INTRODUCTION Artists often utilize new representational and expressive media and new technologies to produce innovative artistic effects and experiences. In recent decades, audio and visual technology including photography, cinema, and video recording have enabled artists to create ...
FIFTY FEET OF STRING: INTERVIEW WITH LEIGHTON PIERCE
Oct 01, 2006; ... One year ago, I viewed Leighton Pierce's 1995 film, 50 Feet of String. As a student studying architecture, and a newcomer to film, I was initially enamored with the film's abstract representational quality and its construction of domestic space beyond the recognizable and mundanely ...
MOVING-IMAGE - RESISTING TAXONOMY: DIALOGUE WITH MALCOLM LEGRICE
Oct 01, 2006; ... This is an extract of a four hour interview with Malcolm LeGrice conducted in March 2005 for the research project REWIND: Artists' Video in the '70s and '80s, University of Dundee, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain. REWIND aims for a wider understanding of the ...
VJ DIARY
Oct 01, 2006; ... The spectacle is not a collection of images; rather, it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images. - Guy Debord Usually, attending a motion picture alone means a retreat into myself. There, surrounded by any number of people, once the lights go down, I'm ...
AFTER EFFECTS OR THE VELVET REVOLUTION
Oct 01, 2006; ... During the heyday of post-modern debates, at least one critic in America noticed the connection between post-modern pastiche and computerization. In his book After the Great Divide (1986), Andréas Huyssen writes: "All modern and avantgardist techniques, forms and images are now stored for ...
TO MOCK A KILLINGBIRD: MARTIN ARNOLD'S PASSAGE À L'ACTE AND THE DISSYMMETRIES OF CULTURAL EXCHANGE
Oct 01, 2006; ... Although film remakes and cinematic adaptations have occurred consistently since the inception of the medium, it seems contemporary cinema is experiencing an unprecedented wave of remakes. Along with the big-budget, blockbuster franchise film, the remake has become a regular component of popular ...
MAKE THE MEDICINE GO DOWN: STEVEN MATHESON'S APPLE GROWN IN WIND TUNNEL
Oct 01, 2006; ... In Steven Matheson's Apple Grown in Wind Tunnel, the unseen protagonists make do with what's immediately at hand, and the video deploys means that are as bare as those of its characters. It follows the trail blazed by such films as Jules Dassin's The Naked City (1948) and Jean-Luc Godard's ...
TO TOUCH IS TO SEE: NANOMANDALA AND COITUS RESERVATUS
Oct 01, 2006; ... Many recent cinematic works can best be described as hybrid, in that their use of the moving image is one element of a complex, compacted unit. A compelling aspect of these works is that their relationship to broad, abstract issues is more visceral than intellectual, more perceptual than ...
OUR METHOD IS OUR MADNESS DOHTEM RUO SI SSENDAM RUO: TWO VIDEOS BY GARY HILL
Oct 01, 2006; ... Let us not mince words. I have a problem with European theory. For some time, I have subscribed to the belief that by propagating and losing two world wars over the last century, Europe lost the right to artistic, economic, moral and philosophical leadership. The history of Europe is ...
FOUR INSTALLATIONS
Oct 01, 2006; ... waterfall A single channel video installation The visual material for Waterfall is a continuous take of a large waterfall. The falling water, as it cascades down a sheer craggy rock face, crashing over huge boulders on its way, fills the entire video frame. Thousands of tons of ...
FORGET YOUR DESIRE: THE CINEMA OF GUY MADDIN
Oct 01, 2006; ... Out-of-synch audio, incongruous lines of sight and awkward match-on-action editing undermine the structuring melodramatic narrative of Guy Maddin's cinema. Dialogue is rerecorded in every picture, Vaseline is smeared on the camera lens for distortion, and Maddin regularly utilizes-or replicates ...
EXPANDED CINEMA IN LOS ANGELES: THE SINGLE WING TURQUOISE BIRD
Jul 01, 2005; ... During the last years of the 1960s and the first of the 1970s-the twilight of the psychedelic era-the premier light show in Los Angeles was the Single Wing Turquoise Bird.1 Long before this period, the city had seen several projects involving the projection of abstract light, "color organs" and ...
INTRODUCTION: LIVE CINEMA
Jul 01, 2005; ... At the beginning of film history, the boundaries separating what appeared on movie screens and what surrounded, alternated with, or accompanied projected images in their immediate viewing environments were, to say the least, highly permeable. From the Rale's Tour photographic vistas shown in ...
IS THIS PENNY ANTE OR A HIGH STAKES GAME? AN INTERVENTIONIST APPROACH TO EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKING
Jul 01, 2005; ... John Cage wrote 4'33" a half century ago, in 1952; Rauschenberg's White Paintings were done around the same time. So when I was making my first film, The Flicker, more than a decade later in 1965, the least of my fascinations was with the fact that it had no pictures. Yet as with the minimal ...
PAINTED AIR: THE JOYS AND SORROWS OF EVANESCENT CINEMA
Jul 01, 2005; ... A Depression-era summer camp allowed me to stay for the summer rather than the two weeks given other slum kids. This I figure was why I got the lead in Jack And The Beanstalk, a shadowplay presented against a stretched bedsheet: I was there long enough to learn the part. The giant was a camper ...
DR. TUBE AND MR. SNOW
Jul 01, 2005; ... REVIEW DR. TUBE AND MR. SNOW I think we tend to talk interchangeably, and not very usefully, about film and cinema, as if they were the same thing. Cinema is a social institution, while film is a medium. And I think while the medium may change, the institution will be just fine ....
"THERE WILL BE PROJECTIONS IN ALL DIMENSIONS..."
Jul 01, 2005; ... Private Investigator "I'm just interested in exploring the apparatus I'm being threaded through ..." -Robert Smithson The primary motivation for an artist's paracinema is the profound desire to investigate the properties of the medium-by that I mean, the materials, the ...
IMPROVISED NOTES ON FRENCH EXPANDED CINEMA
Jul 01, 2005; ... An earlier version of this talk was presented at the Museum Of Modern Art in Vienna, February 27, 2004, in conjunction with the exhibit "X-Screen: Film Installations and Actions in the 1960s and 1970s."-eds. But let us not adopt these exclusive Entertainments which close up a small ...