From: Brook Hinton (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Aug 19 2005 - 10:07:37 PDT
I find MIchael Snow's "Corpus Callosum" fall-on-the-floor hilarious,
but maybe I'm weird that way.
Matt McCormick's "Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal" is right on
that sublime border between hilarious and melancholy.
Erik Saks is another one to look at.
brook
On Aug 18, 2005, at 4:17 PM, Jason Livingston wrote:
> hello ben and friends and frameworkers
>
> not even close to a top 10 list. just a 4 list for now, aiming for
> new rather than old in the spirit of list building.
>
> some of torsten burns/darrin martin (and half-lifers) stuff is funny
> in that it can produce laughs and also engages with conventions/genre
> in some wink-wink-funny ways. (more general question - maybe the fun
> is had mostly by video?)
>
> also. craig baldwin! trib 99, just to name the big one, is sharp and
> hilarious at many points. does that count as new? not sure that it
> does.
>
> and martha colburn, of course, can get the house rolling. also.
> super early tom comerford is wickedly (dry) humorous.
>
> but mostly there's either experimental film sadness or experimental
> film melancholy or experimental film lingering modernism -- ahem, very
> serious -- or experimental film noodling or experimental film trite
> indie rock sentiment or.... well, you're right, not a lot of laughs,
> is it?
>
> and to return to an earlier quasi-thread/old funny matter. have you
> seen any george manupelli? i feel the world will be a better place
> if/when his prints are restored/transfered and then shown.
>
> yrs, in tears and giggles,
> JL
>
>
> On Aug 18, 2005, at 1:19 AM, 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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>>
>> http://www.magiclanterncinema.com
>>
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