From: john porter (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Aug 08 2006 - 17:13:20 PDT
Thanks Mark,
For anyone:
Are these all prints "restored" from OLD 35mm
internegatives, or are they NEW blow-ups? It's not
clear here, in fact there's no mention of the films'
original formats - 16mm!
And what does this mean: "presenting the
cinematography's original image orientation for the
first time"? Isn't the originals' aspect ratio
different than on 35mm? Is "image orientation"
different? I'm not familiar with the term.
John.
--- Mark Toscano <email suppressed> wrote:
> Howdy all -
>
> Ross Lipman asked me to forward this to Frameworks -
>
> mark t
>
> p.s. was at the show myself, and the prints look
> excellent
>
> *
>
> The UCLA Film & Television Archive announces the
> availability of newly restored works of Kenneth
> Anger
> in pristine 35mm prints. The restoration premiere
> occurred on Saturday, August 5, 2006, at the James
> Bridges Theater with Kenneth Anger in person
> interviewed by preservationist Ross Lipman.
>
> The evening included UCLA's new version of RABBIT'S
> MOON, reconstructed from the original 35mm camera
> negative, presenting the cinematography's original
> image orientation for the first time, and also the
> rare Anger voiceover prologue to FIREWORKS, shown at
> its full original release length.
>
> The newly restored 35mm prints of SCORPIO RISING,
> KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS, FIREWORKS, and RABBIT'S MOON
> are
> available to cinematheques and festivals capable of
> archival quality 35mm film projection. For
> information on print bookings contact Todd Wiener of
> UCLA at (address suppressed) (The archive hopes to
> preserve more of Anger's films in the future,
> although
> no specific
> plans are in place yet.)
>
> FILMS OF KENNETH ANGER
> Kenneth Anger is one of the giants of American
> underground and experimental filmmaking. His films
> draw on pop iconography, from commedia dell'arte to
> Hollywood and a wide variety of 20th century
> subcultures: the worlds of bikers, occultists, and
> queers. This iconography is presented in a variety
> of ways, from documentary footage to elaborate mise
> en
> scene to Eisensteinian montage, but always the
> result
> is an eruption of the primal into the modern. Music
> videos and queer cinema would not be what they are
> without his influence, which has also touched
> filmmakers from Martin Scorsese to Olivier Assayas.
> The Archive is proud to present new 35mm prints of
> four of Anger's most famous films.
>
> FIREWORKS
> 1947 35mm, 15 min.
> Preservation funded by The Film Foundation
>
> RABBIT'S MOON
> 1971 35mm, 16 min.
> Preserved through the Avant-Garde Masters program
> funded by The Film
> Foundation and administered by the National Film
> Preservation Foundation
>
> SCORPIO RISING
> 1963 35mm, 29 min.
> Preservation funded by The Film Foundation
>
> KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS
> 1965 35mm, 3 min.
> Preservation funded by The Film Foundation
>
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