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1998-10-15 05:54Sam Frank (idm) Man With A Movie Camera
1998-10-15 06:36Gonzi Merchan Re: (idm) Man With A Movie Camera
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1998-10-15 05:54Sam FrankOff-topic, yes, but I figured this is relevant to the occasional threads about Out of Sigh
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Thu, 15 Oct 1998 01:54:39 -0400
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(idm) Man With A Movie Camera
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Off-topic, yes, but I figured this is relevant to the occasional threads about Out of Sight and Pi and whatever else... If you're looking for a great movie with an IDM-relevant score, andhave access to a decent old-movie library, check out Man With a Movie Camera by Vertoz. The movie itself would appeal to many listmembers--there's so much technological festishization, and implicit commentary on the artistic process(it's a silent Sovet montage that seems like a documentary trip thru Russia, only to be intercut with shots filming the cameraman. Sometimesthe farmes grind to a halt and the action goes to the production studio, only for the still frames to start back up again. Weird stuff, and never boring. Almost completely non-linear. And some amazing shots of old machines). And the music... Pierre Henry, doing something amazingly funky for so far back in the day, with the occasional electronic bleep. Don't know if it qualifies as musique concrete, but it incorporates train noises and all sortsof other stuff... If you're in the mood for an old movie that has nothing to do with hollywoo! d, d ig this out. Sam The new Black Star LP is great, I've written up a long review and don't want to clog the list. Just buy it.
1998-10-15 06:36Gonzi Merchan>If you're looking for a great movie with an IDM-relevant score, andhave access to a decen
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Gonzi Merchan
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Sam Frank ,
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Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:36:41 -0700
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Re: (idm) Man With A Movie Camera
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quoted 2 lines If you're looking for a great movie with an IDM-relevant score, andhave access to a d>If you're looking for a great movie with an IDM-relevant score, andhave access to a decent old-movie >library, check out Man With a Movie Camera by Vertoz.
This is actually a film by Dziga Vertov, a crazy fuck of a Russian filmaker who did some amazing films that really messed around with visual perception and filmaking conventions. Jean Luc Godard was so taken with him that he joined a film collective named after Vertov in the seventies and did some really strange, political experimental stuff. Anne Marie Melville was another member of the group, she directed the first segment of Hail Mary and did some other really cool documentaries and things with Godard. If you are really interested in Vertov there is a book of his writings called Kino-Eye that's really fascinating reading for film people. Gonzi|Fresh|Merchan Orange Fax Orange County, CA PO Box 253 (714)993-9248 USA Atwood, CA 92811