Re: [Frameworks] Experimental Trailers

From: Ekrem Serdar (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Feb 15 2011 - 11:48:34 PST


Not trailers per se, but I remember reading Bruce Conner (and others too I
think) saying how he loved movie trailers, how they affected him more then
the movies they advertised, how that affected him... perhaps a fun way to
think about his films, the films implied within his...

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Roger Deutsch <email suppressed> wrote:

> The trailer for Bela Tarr's new film is interesting.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWYoqi4Kpw4
>
>
> On Feb 15, 2011, at 2:14 PM, Mark Toscano wrote:
>
> > Sorry, just remembered that Ben Van Meter also made a trailer for his
> feature Naked Zodiac (ca.1969-70), but it's lost (as is the majority of the
> feature).
> >
> > Mark Toscano
> >
> >
> > --- On Tue, 2/15/11, Mark Toscano <email suppressed> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Mark Toscano <email suppressed>
> >> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Experimental Trailers
> >> To: "Experimental Film Discussion List" <email suppressed
> >
> >> Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 11:04 AM
> >> Robert Nelson and William Wiley made
> >> a trailer for The Great Blondino, called The Great Blondino
> >> Preview. It's about 2.5 minutes and features a few
> >> bits and pieces from the film, plus an extended sequence
> >> introducing the cast and crew who all appear on screen
> >> wearing the Blondino outfit. I think it hasn't been
> >> seen since 1967 or so, for the most part. I was able
> >> to restore it a couple of years ago, but it hasn't really
> >> shown anywhere.
> >>
> >> Ben Van Meter made a trailer for Marijuana Hell, which was
> >> a feature film project he was doing with The Congress of
> >> Wonders group. But only one or two sequences ever got
> >> done, so the trailer and a film called Interrogation (From
> >> Psyche Patrol) are the only things that got released.
> >> This would've been about 1968-69.
> >>
> >> In about 1975, Chris Langdon took an aborted film project
> >> called Love Hospital and edited the little film that had
> >> been shot into a standalone trailer for a film that never
> >> got made. The resulting piece is called Love Hospital
> >> Trailer.
> >>
> >> But for me, most significantly, Chris Langdon also made
> >> about 8-10 trailers for her experimental shorts, all between
> >> 1973-74. She was at that time in school at Cal Arts,
> >> producing some of the most incredible and hilarious short
> >> experimental works, and was fairly prodigious in her
> >> output. Because she made so much stuff, she hit upon
> >> the idea of making trailers for the films, as a way of
> >> showing more to her advisory committee at school.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --- On Tue, 2/15/11, graeme hogg <email suppressed>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> From: graeme hogg <email suppressed>
> >>> Subject: [Frameworks] Experimental Trailers
> >>> To: "Experimental Film Discussion List" <
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> >>> Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 4:34 AM
> >>>
> >>> Do people know of any examples of experimental
> >> trailers, ie
> >>> trailers
> >>> for experimental films. Trailers are typically a
> >> marketing
> >>> tool used
> >>> to help pre-sell commercial features, I know but they
> >> are a
> >>> 'form'
> >>> nevertheless and I wondered if anyone had explored
> >> them on
> >>> this basis?
> >>>
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-ekrem serdar
austin, tx

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