A Place For Film editor Barbara Ann O’Leary chatted this week with experimental filmmaker Matt Lutz, whose work will screen Saturday at IU Cinema during the 2017 Iris Film Festival. BOL: You have two films in the 2017 Iris Film Festival: Thunderstorm (0:30) and Western Segment (7:19). Can you share a little about the films and… Read more »
Guest contributor Joshua Byron shares about the process of bringing Richard Fung to campus for Interrogating Beauty: Richard Fung’s Pure Sea/Queer Dirt scheduled to take place at CAHI and The Media School as part of Themester at Indiana University. I never thought that I was going to curate. And I certainly didn’t think I would be… Read more »
Since the earliest days of avant-garde cinema, experimental filmmakers have interrogated vision. They have defied or ignored norms of cinematography to create images that appear distorted, abstract, fantastical, or visually confusing. Historically, the reasons why individual filmmakers distort the image have been diverse. Some seek a “pure” cinema akin to classical music. Others feel… Read more »
Cinematic detritus: bits of unused film from projects years ago, with scratches and dust, out of focus, overexposed. Found footage with faded color. The mic catching wind. A man singing to us as these disparate images flitter past. In 2006, experimental filmmaker Jonas Mekas made forty films for his newly launched website in order to… Read more »
I’ve been a student here at IU for going on three years now, and I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know Russell Sheaffer as a fellow Communication and Culture (CMCL) PhD student. It didn’t take long for me to discover how willing Russell is to help others experiment with media and explore interesting issues using it…. Read more »
Daisies (Sedmikrásky; Věra Chytilová, 1966) celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, somewhat older and wiser now than its unruly protagonists. And although the sociopolitical context of Daisies‘ audience has changed over the years, its themes continually resonate, and the film’s inventive style retains its vigor. In this video essay, I examine collage as an organizing… Read more »