while Begone Dull Care is often credited to just Normal McLaren…. it was actually a collaborative work with Evelyn Lambart…
let’s not forget the ladies who worked on the films. > On Dec 1, 2017, at 5:36 PM, Gene Youngblood <[email protected]> wrote: > > It wasn’t expressionist, but McClaren’s “Begone Dull Care” (1949), set to > Oscar Peterson jazz, is a classic of the visual music genre, and deservedly > so. Interesting for someone who, as you point out, made mostly figure-based > work. > > > On December 1, 2017 at 1:22:03 PM, Myron Ort ([email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>) wrote: > >> Norman McLaren to my knowledge made mostly very “figure” based imagery >> (often cute). Len Lye was more to my liking, however he still was making >> figurative based gestures dancing around to music. I was narrowing my >> question down to (extended) “abstract expressionist” film painting, rather >> than the more general area of camerless filmmaking overall. Man Ray also >> pioneered some techniques in this realm but I was referring more to >> “expressionist” style film painting that would later become something Stan >> Brakhage explored extensively, however never without asserting that there >> was a correlative metaphoric quasi “narrative" involved. Later he would call >> it “moving visual thinking”. >> >> >> >> >>> On Dec 1, 2017, at 12:07 PM, Kit Basquin <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> Norman McLaren, who was from Scotland but worked for the Canadian Film >>> Board most of his life. >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Myron Ort <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >>> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> >>> Sent: Fri, Dec 1, 2017 3:05 pm >>> Subject: [Frameworks] Painting directly to film >>> >>> Can anyone site an example of “abstract expressionist” painting onto film >>> prior to 1968? (Hopefully with online viewing availability). >>> >>> >>> https://vimeo.com/220986135 <https://vimeo.com/220986135> >>> >>> >>> Myron Ort >>> www.zeno-okeanos,com <http://www.zeno-okeanos,com/> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> FrameWorks mailing list >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >>> <https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> FrameWorks mailing list >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >>> <https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks> >> >> Myron Ort >> www.zeno-okeanos,com >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >> <https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks> > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > <https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks>
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