From: Joost Rekveld (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Aug 31 2005 - 03:30:23 PDT
on 'despecialization' a must-read is Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's introduction
to his book 'Vision in Motion'.
and I seriously wonder what it would be to be 'just an experimental
filmmaker', and how that would exclude being 'a person'.
anyway,
Joost.
On 30 Aug 2005, at 22:27, Roger Beebe wrote:
> I can't remember the exact wording and I don't have the book before
> me, but there's an interesting passage in the Kubelka interview in the
> latest volume of A Critical Cinema where he talks about
> despecialization and wanting to be a person and not just an
> experimental filmmaker. (If memory serves, this was an explanation
> for why his experimental film output has been less than prodigious.)
>
> I don't think, however, that he mentions his skills as a martial
> artist.
>
> ...
> R.
>
> On Aug 30, 2005, at 12:56 PM, Tom B Whiteside wrote:
>
>>
>> The notion of de-specialization IS very interesting. ("Specialization
>> is for insects.") In addition to the cooking, didn't I hear Brakhage
>> comment a long time ago (late 70's) that Kubelka was also something
>> of a martial arts expert? This always intrigued me. Does anyone know
>> about this?
>>
>> - Whiteside
>>
>>
>>
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