From: 40 Frames (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Nov 03 2005 - 18:31:14 PST
> Hi John,
>
> My apologies. My note was rude, and I could have found a better tone and
> said it more productively. It's a good dream, and within the realm of the
> possible.
>
> What we are trying to do on the LA Filmforum web page (under Links) is
> link
> to what appear to be web pages for various artists. I don't expect ours
> will ever be complete; all of the others that you mention are more likely
> to
> have a greater list of artists.
>
> I think the key would be supporting a real home page with bio &
> filmography
> for each artist. Such a page would only need to be done once. Each of
> the
> distributor sites could then link to that same page. This already happens
> to some degree, with several different sites linking to one home page. It
> just would require more time to enter the links, the existence of
> up-to-date
> home pages for the artists, active links. It is just labor (plus
> creativity
> for the web site designs), but it is certainly plausible.
>
> There are some people of course who aren't online, to the best of my
> knowledge (Kenneth Anger for example). So someone would have to keep a
> site
> for each of these people. E.g., Fred Camper's Brakhage pages.
>
> There was a site that was trying to be an encyclopedia of experimental
> film
> artists.
> Ah, here's one:
> http://cinovid.org/
>
> No time right now to see its currency, but that's the idea.
>
> Again, my apologies.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Adam
John, Adam, et al,
In developing 40 Frames Directory (scheduled to appear Feb 2006) one
section of the site was going to have links to artists who distribute work
directly (that is, not through co-op or other commercial distributors).
I would like to continue to work on this portion of the site, however I
felt there were some issues with artists who hold their own prints, and
rent directly, while distributing the same titles through distributors.
I'd like to address this conflict but haven't quite see clearly how.
I rent prints from distributors and I rent them directly from the artist,
and to be completely honest I try to track down what the artist feels is
the best available print (if they happen to have an opinion on the
matter), and that print is often one which they artist has in their
possession.
I'd love to hear from thoughts from people regarding this conflict, esp
Canyon, FMC, LUX, etc., or if folks even see this as being a conflict
between artist direct and distributors (mainly, the co-ops).
Alain LeTourneau
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