Re: Video AGAIN (was Frameworks Decade and Beyond)

From: Joost Rekveld (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Jan 24 2007 - 16:15:05 PST


i don't remember ever seeing a discussion on frameworks being
'censored' because it was too much about video. I don't actually
remember any discussion here being 'censored', or is my memory too
selective ?

friendly,

Joost.

On Jan 24, 2007, at 9:28 , Brook Hinton wrote:

> At this late stage, if video is not treated as just another
> cinematic tool on this list, then this list is about a format (or
> rather group of formats), not about an approach to making cinema.
> That will chase away many who might actually have something to
> contribute to discussions on, say, 16mm film preservation or hand-
> processing techniques. While such areas are important and will of
> course remain a crucial part of Frameworks regardless, a format
> limited discussion of avant-garde cinema that excludes video is by
> definition, in 2007, a discussion that censors half of its subject,
> destroying its relevance and worthiness.

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