Re: world war I ? Re: The Magic Lantern Gazette

Dear Stef and all,

Maybe you should consider coming to the Pordenone silent film festival
this year and in future years? Okay, this festival is about film and not
magic lantern, but there are people there who are interested in both
media. And I'd guess that WW1 would be among the themes that experts
know about.

By the way, I'd like to acknowledge your fine book about the Boxer
Rebellion, "To Dazzle the Eye and Stir the Heart", where you quoted from
my own work on the subject. This book is a great example of
"intermedial" studies.

And finally... I keep finding useful references on the visual-media
site. There is simply no other site like it where you can find so much
info on the history of visual media (and it helps me get out of the
ghetto of early film studies!).

Stephen B


On Wed, Jul 24, 2013, at 20:32, David Woods wrote:
> Dear David Blair,
>
> I have attempted to send you a message from maxweb (I think) but felt it
> may
> not have "gone".
> I wanted to express high praise, appreciation and thanks for the work,
> and
> in particular Room 1 channel 4 THE TELEPATHIC AUDIENCE.
> Watching it (twice now) I find it has begun the process of releasing a
> block
> which has frustrated the completion of a film the soundtrack of which has
> sat completed and awaiting an image partner for some six years.
> Now, your digital 'treatment' of materials seems to me to capture the
> plastic and melancholic condition which W.G.Sebald explores in all his
> work
> with memory, the archive and place.
>
> I would like to know something of your procedures, if you were willing to
> spare a little time. For my part I can guarantee appropriate
> acknowledgement (as you may define) in the credits, and I'd be happy to
> send
> you a copy of the soundtrack (it's 10 minutes in length) so that you
> could
> see / hear some reflection of my seriousness.
>
> My first film was in 1960; all have been in 16mm; my last will be the
> first
> THE film in the history of cinema (and quite possibly the only one) as I
> suspect I share something akin to Muybridge's faith in zoopraxinography
> in
> my love of "The Holcus Effect (THE)
> In which 2D archive footage is transformed to 3D with no change at all to
> the original material; indeed, paradoxically, the viewer looks only at
> the
> original footage, yet now sees it in 3D, essentially exactly as the
> originating cameraperson would have seen the view being captured
> (assuming
> she had both eyes open at the moment of shooting). I have built a
> digital
> optical printer to transfer archive shots I've been collecting since the
> 1960's, (8mm, 16mm, 35mm incl. Nitrate) and have received elements for
> the
> soundtrack, kindly given by various piano artists, including Michael
> Snow.
> This is in pre-production, waiting for a novel to be finished (and now,
> hopefully, the film which was "stuck", to also make the light in some
> dark
> space..
>
> Cordially
>
> David
> Dr. David Woods M.B.K.S.
> Holcus Ltd.*
> 16 John Street
> Kingston Square
> Hull
> East Yorkshire
> UK
> tel 44 (0)1482 580290
> cel 0781259 1772
> dwoods@holcus.karoo.co.uk
>
> *Home of: The Holcus Effect (THE)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: visual-media@googlegroups.com
> [mailto:visual-media@googlegroups.com]
> On Behalf Of David Blair
> Sent: 14 July 2013 13:36
> To: visual-media@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: world war I ? Re: The Magic Lantern Gazette
>
> hi Stef,
>
> in case you are interested, here is preliminary documentation for the
> show @
> MuHKA,
>
> https://vimeo.com/channels/thetelepathicplace
>
> best,
> David Blair
>
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