From: a Suparak (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Feb 18 2004 - 21:50:13 PST
There isn't a huge chasm between curator and artist as the email below
suggests.
Many of the New York film venues named in this thread are primarily run by
and curated by artists: Ocularis, Robert/a Beck Memorial Cinema, Anthology
Film Archives, Rooftop Films and most of the film festivals. The venues
where the curators are exclusively curators by profession and not
filmmakers do not ask for submission fees (Whitney, MoMA, etc).
Ocularis and other venues of the like probably receive 7-20 hours of
submissions a week. The viewing time as well as the time it takes to
respond to some of the makers is a substantial amount of work (along with
holding a job or two or three, and creating your own work).
At 11:33 PM 2/18/2004, you wrote:
>The recipient of income (curator) is elevated to a higher status by
virtue of the fee extracted from the lowly artist, the assumption being
that the filmmaker has vast reserves of surplus cash to bestow upon the
saintly institution whose functionaries have the sole right to determine
what an audience will see. Not only will the non-artist collect the
funds, he will have the right to reject inclusion of the work, without
refunding the collected money.
[...]
Why, in the realm of film exhibition should the worker have money taken
from him by curators who are already paid by an organization with money
coming in from ticket sales paid by customers?
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