RULES was Re: FramWorks, Obama, Satantango, politics, etc.

From: Jack Sargeant (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Sep 08 2008 - 04:07:39 PDT

Rules?
If we are going to follow rules (absurd) then surely "subversive" would
cover at least some political statements.

But surely 'rules' 'from above' are antithetical to experimental film.

Jack

> There are supposed to be rules about this list -
> http://www.hi-beam.net/fw.html
>
> Frameworks is "an international forum on experimental film, avant-garde
> film, film as art, film as film, or film as visual poetry; film's
> expressive qualities, aside from or in addition to its storytelling
> capacity. Any genre of experimental film, such as film diary, found
> footage, abstract, flicker, lyric, subversive, expanded, etc., can be
> discussed, as well as those films which fall into the cracks between the
> genres, or those not covered by other lists.
>

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