From: john porter (email suppressed)
Date: Fri May 11 2007 - 10:05:10 PDT
But he hasn't answered my first request for details.
Bill Brown, are you for real? What's the clue?
John.
> Maybe "Bill Brown" can answer that for you!
> Nicky.
>
> > where's the clue that it's all a joke?
> > Is there a Bill Brown? Do you know him?
> > John.
> >
> > Nicholas Hamlyn wrote:
> >> That's cos he's "joking".
> >>
> >> john porter wrote:
> >> > Thanks Bill,
> >> > Any deatails online? I couldn't find Thin Air
> >> Films.
> >> >
> >> > --- Bill Brown <email suppressed> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> To coincide with the publication of David
> >> Curtis’s A
> >> >> History of Artist Film & Video in Britain, TAF
> >> (Thin
> >> >> Air Films) will be staging a one-day
> conference
> >> and
> >> >> associated screening. The conference will
> examine
> >> >> the
> >> >> trajectory of post war funding for artist
> >> >> experimental
> >> >> film & video in the UK and in particular will
> >> look
> >> >> at
> >> >> Arts Council funding under the direction of
> David
> >> >> Curtis and how through careful stage
> management
> >> >> funds
> >> >> were restricted to a small number of
> filmmakers
> >> and
> >> >> denied to many more. Key speakers will examine
> >> how
> >> >> following the setting up of the London Film
> >> makers
> >> >> Co-op and London Video Arts, the funding,
> making
> >> and
> >> >> distribution of avant-garde films and videos
> in
> >> the
> >> >> UK
> >> >> was effectively controlled for a generation by
> a
> >> >> small
> >> >> London based group of men. How this same group
> >> >> dominated experimental film & video in the UK
> for
> >> >> the
> >> >> next 40 years both by denying funding and
> access
> >> to
> >> >> anyone outside the group (through overt and
> >> covert
> >> >> censorship) but also through controlling non
> >> >> mainstream film education at institutions such
> as
> >> >> the
> >> >> Royal College. The conference will also
> examine
> >> how
> >> >> written debate and discourse on experimental
> film
> >> &
> >> >> video in publications such as Undercut was
> >> >> restricted
> >> >> to the same small group and finally how this
> >> group
> >> >> as
> >> >> it nears retirement now seeks to enshrine its
> >> >> position
> >> >> for posterity by the publication of numerous
> >> >> histories
> >> >> of experimental film & video.
> >> >>
> >> >> The screening entitled All The Films That Were
> >> Never
> >> >> Funded will not include seminal works by Peter
> >> >> Gidal,
> >> >> Malcolm LeGrice, Guy Sherwin. John Smith or
> any
> >> of
> >> >> the
> >> >> other filmmakers whose work has been funded
> and
> >> >> promoted by Curtis but will feature instead a
> >> blank
> >> >> screen lit by a single bulb in honour of all
> that
> >> >> films that were never funded and all the
> >> creativity
> >> >> that was suppressed.
> >> >>
> >> >> Conference to be held at the North Bank Centre
> on
> >> >> May
> >> >> the 16th 2007.
> >
> > John Porter, Toronto, Canada
> > http://www.super8porter.ca/
> > email suppressed
> >
> >
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>
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>
John Porter, Toronto, Canada
http://www.super8porter.ca/
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