Okay, enough talk about distribution. Back to film. So you’ve noticed that the JSF always includes a few experimental films in every volume. I think the publisher has an affirmative action policy or something. Well, here are some films that will NEVER make it into the JSF. To screen these experimental films in 1973, Annabel Nicolson ran the film through a sewing machine and then back into the projector. Check out some documentation on the event HERE.
Thanks to the Frameworks listserv folks who brought this up. (The discussion doesn’t seem archived yet, but might appear HERE soon.) Under the header “pathology of film,” they bantered about various film movements that have dealt with the fragile nature of film stock, deterioration as art, film as metaphor for biology, and etc.
Apparently, a piece from a sewing machine was used to build an early film projector. So maybe her films were just early guerrilla advertising for Singer.
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