From: Cari Machet (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Sep 22 2006 - 17:40:19 PDT
speaking of fluxus
seen these?
http://www.ubu.com/film/fluxfilm.html
c
On 9/22/06, Cari Machet <email suppressed> wrote:
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> On 9/22/06, James Kreul <email suppressed> wrote:
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> > > However, I am more annoyed the practice of not noting on-screen or in
> > > voiceover that the footage is in fact a work by the artist (or in some
> > cases
> > > another artist like Jonas Mekas or Marie Mencken) until the final
> > credits,
> > > if at all. In these cases, viewers don't even know they are seeing a
> > clip
> > > from an artist's work instead of say, a home movie from the period, or
> > 16mm
> > > news footage. All these different sources tend to be equalized by the
> > > documentary editing process, and I find this to be more insulting and
> > > misleading than the cropping itself. They should be given equal weight
> > to
> > > any other artwork shown in a documentary that is ostensibly about art
> > -- if
> > > paintings and sculptures are noted as such, so should an artist's
> > films.
> > >
> > > Ed H.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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