[NetBehaviour] Lost, on top of being lost— how fucking lost is that

Tue Sep 8 21:07:05 CEST 2020

There are definitely parallels with the videos I think, I like the
appearance of the body even when it's absented; even the drawings appear
like bodies.
I think your editing and sound brings them home. There's also something
about gritty b&w - years ago I was teaching at UCLA and for a year I made a
film a week in 16mm, mostly sound; these remind me of the feeling, the
materiality. I used Auricon news cameras with sound-on-film and did all my
editing in-camera, running the film at times several times through the
camera, adding to the sound etc.

Best, Alan, thanks-

On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 2:57 PM Simon Mclennan via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:

> Thanks Alan!
> Well I do tend to get lost on top of being lost etc.. ha ha and lose the
> compass.
>
> I was interested in the visceral and obsessive nature of my drawing work
> from 90 through to around 96, when I
> was chalking the beetle motifs on pavements with Heath and then Ray
> Baskerville a butoh performer, for a while, then it led to the little super
> 8 film.. after moving
> onto paper with charcoal.
> After a while I felt a bit better.
> mental health seemed a factor - albeit disguised as “art” ha ha
> each motif was given a name for a made-up mental disorder, a bit like the
> doctors do every year. They
> have a junket and make new ones up - to sell the pharma products I think.
> Names were like Sad Hat Dentia and Cornea Jettison Syndrome.
> So each drawing was a new in-that-moment-of-being diagram or sigil or
> signpost, with a new name, for the catalogue of human disorders.
> It was real, but was presented as a parody or satire.
>
> I might get back to that animation thing again I guess… after your show of
> interest Alan!
>
> Do we have some parrallels in our work do you think? Marc thought so for
> Prometheus. Good on you Marc!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Simon
>
>
>
>
> On 8 Sep 2020, at 19:22, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour <
> netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>
> Really like all of this greatly! I'm surprised - are you still working in
> this direction? They're wonderful, they transcend their medium!
>
> Thank you! - Alan
>
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 10:54 AM Simon Mclennan via NetBehaviour <
> netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>
>> Mmm, yes often it is slow, however there are no real boundaries from what
>> I’ve seen and those
>> dancers I have worked with.
>>
>> Atsushi Takenouchi performed in Hove Park near my house a few years ago.
>> We attended. He moved at many different speeds.
>>
>> Following are some films I made after my experience of seeing butoh and
>> attending workshops in London and Brighton
>> and being married at the time to a butoh dancer/teacher - Carolina Diaz.
>>
>> The workshops allowed me to feel my body in a rather immediate and
>> powerful sense, while becoming aware of how
>> I wanted to move my body. Like an unfolding of myself in time and space!
>> In a small way I began to feel myself in
>> the moment so to speak. It felt like a very powerful practice.
>>
>> I think it appeared in Japan around the same time as the Gutai
>> expressionist movement (1950s), which I see as possibly related indirectly.
>>
>> Caveo Vestri Mens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTSG8cHANSA
>>
>> Glass Flesh Kiss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUwsKgLh1HE
>>
>> The drawings I made in Glass Flesh Kiss were a decade prior to this film.
>> They are around 300 A4 charcoal drawings in negative,
>> filmed on B&W reversal super8 film, scanned and reversed.
>> The soundtrack I made using piano, guitar and reversed human voice
>> recordings, written to accompany the completed
>> visual material of that film.
>>
>> Thanks Alan for the interest!
>>
>> Simon
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8 Sep 2020, at 14:52, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour <
>> netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>>
>> quite like this. the Butoh seems 'fast' in comparison to other I have
>> seen.
>> have you done more work like this? Best, Alan
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 5:02 AM Simon Mclennan via NetBehaviour <
>> netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>>
>>> https://youtu.be/W3MyDDc1SVY
>>> Thought this could be aired again - from 2015.
>>>
>>> Filmed performance of The Advocates of Dereliction.
>>> Featuring
>>> Carolina Diaz - butoh dance, choreography, costume.
>>> Mark Anthony Whiteford -Saxophone, voice, tapes, percussion, texts.
>>> Simon Mclennan - camera, editing.
>>>
>>> 2015 - Portslade, Sussex.
>>>
>>> From a single long improvisation.
>>> The sub-section titles concept in the film are from Carolina Diaz.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Simon
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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