Re:Voir
- zedz
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Re: Re:Voir
This is what I have on BluRay from Re:Voir.
Patrick Bokanowski:
Courts-metrages
L'Ange
Un Reve solaire
Stan Brakhage:
Anticipation of the Night
Siegfried A. Fruhauf:
Nature and Abstractions
Philippe Garrel:
Marie pour memoire
Les Hautes Solitudes
L'Enfant secret
La Cicatrice intérieure
Elle a passe tant d'heures sous les sunlights
Robert Kramer:
In the Country
The Edge / Ice
Route One / USA
Guns
Maurice Lemaitre:
Le Film est deja commence?
Jonas Mekas:
Diaries, Notes and Sketches Vol. 1-8
Gunvor Nelson:
Call to Mind
Jacques Perconte:
Paysages
Joost Rekveld:
11 Films
Michael Snow:
Presents
Patrick Bokanowski:
Courts-metrages
L'Ange
Un Reve solaire
Stan Brakhage:
Anticipation of the Night
Siegfried A. Fruhauf:
Nature and Abstractions
Philippe Garrel:
Marie pour memoire
Les Hautes Solitudes
L'Enfant secret
La Cicatrice intérieure
Elle a passe tant d'heures sous les sunlights
Robert Kramer:
In the Country
The Edge / Ice
Route One / USA
Guns
Maurice Lemaitre:
Le Film est deja commence?
Jonas Mekas:
Diaries, Notes and Sketches Vol. 1-8
Gunvor Nelson:
Call to Mind
Jacques Perconte:
Paysages
Joost Rekveld:
11 Films
Michael Snow:
Presents
- therewillbeblus
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Re: Re:Voir
It's worth noting that if you're only looking for blu-ray, you'll miss out on a lot of great releases from them. Re:Voir is the only label from which I still regularly purchase DVDs, since they continue to produce discs that will likely not be upgraded with great stuff on them and in very good quality. Sometimes it's hard to tell if a disc is DVD or blu-ray from them. Having said that, zedz' point that Siegfried A. Fruhauf's Nature and Abstractions benefited from HD in his initial writeup is spot-on, and it's one of my very favorite discs I own. If you don't have it yet, that's an easy blind buyWhat A Disgrace wrote: ↑Sat Mar 25, 2023 2:35 pmIt sure is difficult to navigate their site and find out what, exactly, is on Blu-ray! Is there a regularly updated master list of their Blu-ray releases? I'm pleased at the discs I've bought - all save the Jonas Mekas set were blind purchases - but it sure is a hassle to figure out what to look for.
- swo17
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- Peacock
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Re: Re:Voir
Blu-ray.com could be your best bet.What A Disgrace wrote: ↑Sat Mar 25, 2023 2:35 pmIs there a regularly updated master list of their Blu-ray releases?
- tenia
- Ask Me About My Bassoon
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Re: Re:Voir
There is also a Marie Losier set : https://re-voir.com/shop/fr/marie-losie ... rland.html
This one at least is.
- zedz
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Re: Re:Voir
Re:Voir is advertising a 20% off sale this month.
- therewillbeblus
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Any particularly worthwhile releases that've dropped in the last year (since the last big group buy)?
- zedz
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Their blog doesn't seem to have been updated since the Vanderbeek release in March, so I'm just going by their website slideshow. 2023 releases seem to be:therewillbeblus wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 12:25 pmAny particularly worthwhile releases that've dropped in the last year (since the last big group buy)?
Klonaris / Thomadaki - Double Labyrinth
Stan Vanderbeek - Visibles (3 disc box set)
Su Friedrich - Cinexperimentaux 12 (documentary + some shorts)
Helga Fanderl - Constellations
Robert Kramer - Work Vol. 8: Doc's Kingdom / Scenes from the Class Struggle in Portugal
Bill Morrison - Footprints
- swo17
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I'm definitely interested in the Vanderbeek set.
The Friedrich release includes two shorts that weren't on any of those Outcast Films DVDs.
The Morrison apparently can't be sold to North America until next year (and to the UK at all?) It has these films that weren't included in the BFI set (mostly because they were made since then):
Footprints
The Dockworker's Dream
The Letter (on SR's Dawson City)
Wild Girl
Let Me Come In
Her Violet Kiss
I wonder if any of these might appear on Second Run's just announced Morrison release
The Friedrich release includes two shorts that weren't on any of those Outcast Films DVDs.
The Morrison apparently can't be sold to North America until next year (and to the UK at all?) It has these films that weren't included in the BFI set (mostly because they were made since then):
Footprints
The Dockworker's Dream
The Letter (on SR's Dawson City)
Wild Girl
Let Me Come In
Her Violet Kiss
I wonder if any of these might appear on Second Run's just announced Morrison release
- therewillbeblus
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Thank you - Can anyone speak to any of the releases?
- swo17
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I sampled a couple more of these. Klonaris/Thomadaki can be had at a further discount if paired with an earlier release. This duo focuses on the female form, whether in a confrontational feminist way, through surrealist tableau, or in psychedelic freakout mode. I was reminded at times of the musician Klein. There were moments here and there I quite liked (with Pulsar being my favorite) but some of this may not be for everyone.
Fanderl looks perhaps more accessible, with random footage of various things from nature. Hard to say without seeing more where 2 hours of this would all fall on the scale of pleasant enough to great. I think I'm leaning toward picking all of these releases up though, in addition to the ones I mentioned above.
I guess I would probably also place an order from Re:voir first thing next week (along with the order I want to place from Lux) so anyone interested in a group buy, let me know. (There's the same deal here where shipping is pricy but is a better cost per item the larger the order is.)
I should also mention that despite what I said above, it looks like Re:voir's site will let me order the Morrison set
Fanderl looks perhaps more accessible, with random footage of various things from nature. Hard to say without seeing more where 2 hours of this would all fall on the scale of pleasant enough to great. I think I'm leaning toward picking all of these releases up though, in addition to the ones I mentioned above.
I guess I would probably also place an order from Re:voir first thing next week (along with the order I want to place from Lux) so anyone interested in a group buy, let me know. (There's the same deal here where shipping is pricy but is a better cost per item the larger the order is.)
I should also mention that despite what I said above, it looks like Re:voir's site will let me order the Morrison set
- swo17
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One 2023 release zedz failed to notice is Robert Cahen: Entrevoir, which is quite good! He's a French video artist working with degraded source material that makes for some trippy catnip. Something like Juste le temps reminds me a little of Jacques Perconte's distorted landscapes, but then other times there are creepy clowns or John Zorn screaming in your ear. It looks like you can actually stream all of these films on the director's website. Here's a good starting point: L'Entr'aperçu
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Perhaps a silly question, but are their releases region A or region-free? I searched this thread, their site, and Googled but couldn't seem to find an answer.
- swo17
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I think they're generally region-free but DVDs are in PAL format
- zedz
- Joined: Sun Nov 07, 2004 7:24 pm
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First watch from the 2023 bunch was Klonaris / Thomadaki's Double Labyrinthe.
It starts out and gets its name from one of those incredibly annoying ball bearing games (get all the balls into the centre of the maze, but do two at the same time), but the meat of the film is fairly trad serial Actionist antics. I don't have a lot of time for "Look at me! I'm covered in flour!" cinema - though it's definitely preferable to "Look at Me! I'm covered in excrement!" cinema - and these actions are positively genteel compared to Kurt Kren or Otto Muhl. The female body is inevitably more semiotically charged, however, so swings and roundabouts. I wouldn't recommend this disc for non-aficionados of Actionism.
It starts out and gets its name from one of those incredibly annoying ball bearing games (get all the balls into the centre of the maze, but do two at the same time), but the meat of the film is fairly trad serial Actionist antics. I don't have a lot of time for "Look at me! I'm covered in flour!" cinema - though it's definitely preferable to "Look at Me! I'm covered in excrement!" cinema - and these actions are positively genteel compared to Kurt Kren or Otto Muhl. The female body is inevitably more semiotically charged, however, so swings and roundabouts. I wouldn't recommend this disc for non-aficionados of Actionism.