Re: Perfect Films

From: Myron Ort (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Jul 28 2008 - 09:53:52 PDT


Note there are 8 clips in this series:

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?p=r&user=egsvideo&page=16

somewhere in there I believe Morgan Fisher says he thinks of his
films as ready-mades and explains why.

mo

The filmmaker Morgan Fisher has stated that he came to realize his
films were actually ready-mades. It makes sense to me.

If I didn't see this discussed in Macdonald's "A Critical Cinema",
then maybe it was something Fisher says in the series of riveting
online clips in which he presents his films:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjXcvTPLULM

Myron Ort

On Jul 28, 2008, at 6:54 AM, Thomas Beard wrote:

> Hello Frameworkians,
>
> I'm finishing up some research right now on ready-mades in
> experimental
> cinema--works like Ken Jacobs's Perfect Film, Hollis Frampton's
> Work and
> Days, Brian Frye's Anatomy of Melancholy, etc.--and wanted to check
> in with
> the list for suggestions about related films.
>
> Best,
> Thomas
>
>
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