First off, I was dissapointed to see that there were not experimental film makers on the panel. Second, the panel was framed from an exclusively modernist point of view in that they kept dealing with oppositions that appear to me to be of little use when considering contemporary experimental films. A-G was defined in modern formalist terms. A-G is to participate in nostalgia. I found this shocking.
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I ask this because of the film makers who work in isolation and secondly because of the rather pedistrian understanding of experimentation desplayed at sundance. At different times people on this list have suggeted a frameworks exhibition or traveling show type thing which I think is the kind of thing that is so very necessary in that it would give us the chance to put the work out there and to open up a much broader dialogue on expermientation. This, of course, has not yet happened.