>From: Ali Vatansever <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Film-Philosophy Salon <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: atomic bomb / experimental film / apocalyptic visions >Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 02:47:01 -0800 > >Experimental filmmakers are mostly self-oriented, like the genre in itself. >Stan Vanderbeek has some works with political content. Especially his anti-war film "Breathdeath", which he dedicated to Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton can match your topic. You can buy Stan Vanderbeek's "Visibles" (contains Breathdeath) at http://www.re-voir.com. > >If you count German Caligarist films as experimental (as I did), most of post-war (and also pre-war) German films are about post(pre)-war anxiety. Especially try to watch: >"Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari" >"Golem" >"Berlin-Symphonie of a Great City" (pre-war Berlin's documentary) > >if we name experimental films as avant-gardist approaches, Rosselini's "Rome Open City" can also be count as an experimental film because of its camera usage. > > > Ali Vatansever > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Quemadmodum possums scire utrum vere simus an solum sentiamus nos esse? >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > >--- Matthew Hodgins <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > >atomic bomb, apocalyptic visions, post-war anxiety, the end of History, > >experimental film > > > >these expressions circumscribe the topos of a paper that i'm trying to write > >for a course in experimental film. this project has been sitting on the > >corner of my desk for several months and it's high time to get working on > >it, but i'd like to save myself the trouble of renting stacks of tapes in > >search of mushroom clouds. can anyone name some experimental films that > >might be interesting within the above-mentioned context? recommended > >readings would also be appreciated. ultimately, it would be nice to develop > >a thesis linking essential aspects of the genre itself to the same > >widespread social anxieties. i mean, is it just me? does not the image of > >the mushroom cloud seem particularly well-suited to the experimental genre? > >why is this? > > > >thanks in advance, > > > >matthew hodgins > >montréal, québec > >_____________________________________________________________ >Get your own Nepali E-mail address for free ---> http://www.nepalimail.com > >_____________________________________________________________ >Select your own custom email address for FREE! Get [log in to unmask] w/No Ads, 6MB, POP & more! http://www.everyone.net/selectmail?campaign=tag