Please tell me what "Revelations" film you are referring to and where can I see it. Thank you
John Knecht. On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 5:29 PM Bernard Roddy <[email protected]> wrote: > Dominic: > > Thank you. I just watched Revelations. Although I passed over a few of > your remarks at the festival site, I was most intent on figuring out how to > play whatever it was you were posting. > > And it made me think of Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera. It's > Vertov's apocalyptic edit. We have lost the celebration of labor and > industry. And the effects of Vertov's film here seem to be degraded into > something more tragic, like the spots on the lens that are admitted, or the > double exposure that transforms what it was supposed to mean to work for a > purpose. > > I used to show Vertov's film to classes on a VHS dub. Once I tried to > substitute our improved transfer version, which was on a DVD from across > campus, but discovered the film now appeared with orchestral music (I want > to actually call it flatout opera). This disaster was never again > permitted. And your Revelations has the sound it deserves. > > It actually occurred to me that Man with a Movie Camera could be construed > as early music video, not just early documentary, as I used to hear it > called. > > Really awesome. There's no need for any of the other work in that > festival. And there remains the additional tragedy of the film's current > exhibition conditions. > > Bernie > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > -- John Knecht, Russell Colgate Distinguished University Professor of Art and Art History and Film and Media Studies. Emeritus.
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