From: Abina Manning (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Aug 16 2005 - 09:00:18 PDT
Dear Eric
Two more titles available here at the VDB:
eteam, 1.1 Acre Flat Screen, 45:00, 2004
They say: "a video about a year-long effort to improve a lot of 1.1
acres of desert land in Utah, which we purchased on September 4th
2002 on eBay. The video starts with ways of finding a lot in the
desert, using satellite images, topographical maps, a compass and
string. It displays ideas and plans on how to improve the land's
value and documents our preparations to face the unforgiving desert.
In August 2003 we finally went back to the lot and stayed there in
order to stop one of the trains that run nearby. Train stops have
often been the first sign of an infrastructural improvement in an
area and are also an option to make a living in the desert."
Igor Vamos & Melinda Stone, Suggested Photo Spots , 10:00, 1997
Strap on your seat belts and get comfortable for a 7,000 mile drive.
This documentary invites you to travel along with the Center for Land
Use Interpretation as they find Suggested Photo Spots across North
America. Journey from coast to coast, stopping long enough to take
snap shots of unusual or exemplary land use sites across North
America. You will even get to take a picture of Kodak's own waste
water treatment plant in Rochester, New York.
Best wishes
Abina
Video Data Bank
http://vdb.org
>Dear Frameworkers,
>
>I'd be interested to read your recommendations for experimental
>works that deal with maps and mapping. I do not mean to set too
>high a bar, but it would be helpful to know title and maker, a
>sentence or more as to why you're recommending it, and any info you
>have on who distributes the work (it could be film, video, DVD).
>
>I am interested in works that use (traditional or esoteric) maps
>as an organizing principle, such as Peter Greenaway's "A Walk through
>H", and works that are directional or informative in some way that
>has equivalence with what maps do.
>
>I am fine with works that play with notions of what a map might be,
>or of pattern that might be interpreted as a map, such as Scott
>Stark's "Hotel Cartograph".
>
>And I have a special fondness for works that *map*, by which I mean
>they 1) identify a domain, 2) perform some sort of data collection
>and data manipulation, then 3) display the results. I think of
>Chris Welsby's "Seven Days" as a tight example of this kind of
>work.
>
> http://www.sfu.ca/~welsby/7Daynote.htm
>
>if you don't know that piece.
>
>I'm also interested in filmic conventions that make use of maps,
>such as close ups of maps that indicate the travel of protagonists,
>etc.
>
>I'll try and post a summary, and many, many thanks in advance.
>
>--Eric
>
>
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