From: Rob Gawthrop (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Aug 18 2005 - 10:50:24 PDT
Most work by John Smith, Owen Land, mid period Warhol, Andrew Kotting.
. And Peter Gidal of course! Also a lot of recent derivative
(particularly so called brit-art) stuff is quite laughable. There's
also other stuff from the 70's that's been forgotton......
Rob
On 18 Aug 2005, at 06:19, ben russell wrote:
> frameworkers
>
> good evening
> i was talking to some friends about humor and experimental film
> and we were collectively stymied in trying to come up with a list
> of contemporary 16mm works that were, for lack of a better word, funny
>
> it seems like economies of 16mm production
> and the current cultural climate
> might have something to do with the apparent drop-off
> in experimental humor (as it were)
> but that seems too easy
> especially since there is certainly a precedent for a-g comedy
> established by folks such as nelson, kuchar, land(ow) and the like
> and there's a wealth of past/present videowork out there
> that dabbles in the funny
>
> so i thought i'd open up the question to your collective selves
> to see what you titles you could come up with -
> i'm hoping for a top 10 list
> of both the old and the new
> but
> here's my new list to start:
>
> dogs by stephanie barber
> grass by naomi uman
> the bats by jim trainor
> the moschops by jim trainor
> sissy boy slap party by guy maddin (video?)
> what goes up by robert breer
>
> and so it begins...
>
> -ben russell
>
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