Curator

Curator

If I were to carefully examine my life I'd probably discover that I've been responsible for many curations. I'm fairly sure I've even listed some of them eslewhere on my voluminous websites but I'm not sure where at the moment. I've started this particular page because I've decided to make some of the movie curations available to select people on a Private basis via YouTube. The 1st one I'll be listing here is my 8 volume, 16 hour, compilation of animations that I put together for my friend etta cetera. This curation has never been presented publicly but I think it should be. People interested in checking out these curations can email me at idioideo at gmail dot com & try to convince me that you're worthy. - September 24, 2021 note from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE

ANIMATIONS

Sometime between 1999 & 2004 I compiled an 8 volume, 16 hour compilation of VHS tapes with animations that I selected from my multitudinous aRCHIVE. I did this for my dear friend etta cetera who'd expressed an interest. Admiitedly, the quality varies given that in some instances the film-to-video transfers were ones I did myself taking films from the library & projecting them with my cheap 16mm projector & reshooting them off the screen with an even more primitive video camera. Nonetheless, I think that the resultant collection is essentially one-of-a-kind - representing work from a broad variety of sources & styles, mixing together well-known & obscure animators. There is no other animation curation like this one. - tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE

"Animations - Volume 1 of 8"

- curated by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - 2:00:18

0:00:32: "Revenge of the Kinematograph Cameraman" - Ladislaw Starewicz - 1912 - 13:08

0:13:35: "Heute: Papageno" - Lotte Reiniger - 1931 - 10:50

0:24:22 "Boogie-Doodle" - Norman McLaren - 1940 - 2:44

0:27:10 "Early Abstraction 10" - Harry Smith - ? - 3:32

0:30:45 "The Nose" - Alexieieff / Parker - 1963 - 11:27

0:42:14 "Mothlight" - Stan Brakhage - 1963 - 2:59

0:45:17 "Renaissance" - Walerian Borowczyk - 1963 - 9:12

0:54:37 "Suspicious Circumstances" - Jim Blashfield - 1985 - 12:28

1:07:08 "Rehearsal for Extinct Anatomies" - Brothers Quay - 1988 - 14:26

1:21:39 "Re:Cycle" - Ken Doolittle - 1992 - 22:30

1:43:48 "Food" - Jan Svankmajer - 1993 - 16:20

Unfortunately, 3 copyright claims have been laid against my Private posting of this available to 2 people: myself & one friend. My inclusion of the Brothers Quay's "Rehearsal for Extinct Anatomies" has led to a blocking of the entire collection as has my inclusion of Harry Smith's "Early Abstraction 10". Strictly speaking, the presence of Tieji Ito's soundtrack for the latter is what's led to the copyright claim. Ironically, when Smith originally presented these films he just put records on as soundtrack - including, for example, The Beatles. If he were alive & were to do that on YouTube his entire work would be blocked. Most likely, the company 'owning' Ito's soundtrack placed it with the Smith film in order to create copyright control where they wouldn't've been able to otherwise. I've removed the Brothers Quay's "Rehearsal for Extinct Anatomies" & Ito's soundtrack for Harry Smith's "Early Abstraction 10". Even though I like Ito's work, its inclusion as soundtrack was superfluous. A claim was also made against the use of Norman McLaren's "Boogie-Doodle" but, since the work originated in Canada instead of the United States, the capitalism of the claim isn't so extreme. In this case the "Video cannot be monetized". Since none of the many hundreds of movies of my own that're on YouTube are monetized I had no intention of monetizing something by someone else either. Maybe the 'owners' of Norman McLaren's copyright were sensible that he's using a musical work by Albert Ammons, the copyright to which they may not 'own'. Let it be understood that my purpose in curating this work & making the curation available is to both show what I think is GREAT work & to show the greatness of my aRCHIVE. Unlike the businesses that're contesting my use of the material, it's not my intention to get rich off it. Of course, I still recommend the excluded work highly & assume that, thanks to the businesses, it's easily available commercially & through libraries.

"Animations - Volume 2 of 8"

- curated by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - 2:00:10

0:00:29: "Jerky Turkey" - Tex Avery - ? - 6:23

0:06:54: "Yantra" - James Whitney - 1955 - 6:45

0:13:38: "Bonnie Bonnell, Pretty Crazy" - Steve Estes

- 1979 - 8:00

0:21:40 "Little Songs of the Chief Officer of Hunar

Louse - or the Unnameable Little Broom"

- Brothers Quay - 1985 - 11:08

0:31:46 "You Haven't Heard the Record, You

Haven't Read the Book, NOW!

Don't See the Movie!!" - tENTATIVELY,

a cONVENIENCE - 1988 - 27:45

0:59:34 "Shracticlat" - Skizz P. Cyzyk - 1991 - 1:00

1:00:39 "Film Ist." - Gutsav Deutch - 1998 - 59:22

Unfortunately, 4 copyright claims have been laid against my Private posting of this available to 2 people: myself & one friend. My inclusion of the Brothers Quay's "Little Songs of the Chief Officer of Hunar Louse - or the Unnameable Little Broom" has led to a blocking of the entire collection. Hence, I've removed the Brothers Quay work entirely. Because of 3 audio pieces this curation is also marked as "Video cannot be monetized". The 3 pieces are "Date with Disaster" by The C*nts (actual name The Cunts), "The End" by the Doors, & Henk Badings's "Cain and Abel". As I recall, a member of The Cunts sent me a copy of this single in the 1980s in trade for something of mine. In my film, I show the single & play some of the record to accompany the visual. Given that my film is a mostly single-frame-shot + continual dissolves 27:45 super-8 film, this inclusion of The Cunts is a very small part of the overall project. As for "The End" & "Cain and Abel"? Well, I don't remember which movies use these pieces, I don't think I used them in my film. I'm informed that "Copyright claim found. The copyright owner is allowing you to use the claimed content and will run ads on your video." Since none of the many hundreds of movies of my own that're on YouTube are monetized I have no intention of monetizing something by someone else either. If the people claiming copyright actually run ads at any point throught this collection I'll try removing the claimed material - starting with the brief Cunts section. I hope I don't have to resort to doing that. Let it be understood that my purpose in curating this work & making the curation available is to both show what I think is GREAT work & to show the greatness of my aRCHIVE. Unlike the businesses that're contesting my use of the material, it's not my intention to get rich off it. Of course, I still recommend the excluded work highly & assume that, thanks to the businesses, it's easily available commercially & through libraries.

"Animations - Volume 3 of 8"

- curated by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - 2:01:35

0:00:29: "Anémic Cinéma" - Rrose Sélavy - 1926

- 7:00

0:07:45: "Motion Painting" - Oskar Fischinger - 1947

- 10:40

0:18:27: "Science Friction" - Stan Vanderbeek

- 1959 - 9:45

0:28:18: "LMNO" - Robert Breer - 1978 - 9:11

0:37:31: "Fish Story" Dork Brothers - Early 1980s?

- 5:00

0:42:35: "Bloody Stump" - brought to you by

Directart Ltd. - mid 1980s? - 13:29

0:56:02: "The Exploration of Mars" - Benchmark

Films - 1986 - 14:46

1:10:52: "Reproduction Cycle" - Doug Smith

- 1976? - 11:10

1:22:02: "Day of the SubGenius" - Chris

Hopewell - 2011 - 7:08

1:29:13: "Lisa's Room: - Alan Price - 1991

- 8:15

1:37:32: "Theropods" - Mike Jeffries - 1992

- 5:30

1:43:05: "Slimmetry's Sacro-Sinc" - Michael

Johnson - 1990s? - :14

1:43:23: "Hiding in America" - Lee Boot - 1991

- 7:45

1:51:40: "Sign" - Nobukazu Takemura /

Katsura Moschino - 2001 - 9:45

Fortunately, only one company, Thrill Jockey Records, made a copyright claim on any of the above: namely, the Takemura / Moschino work. They wanted to run ads on the collection because of this so I removed the work instead. I don't want any ads spoiling the overall quality & this last work is one of the least important ones to me. Since none of the many hundreds of movies of my own that're on YouTube are monetized I had no intention of monetizing something by someone else either. Let it be understood that my purpose in curating this work & making the curation available is to both show what I think is GREAT work & to show the greatness of my aRCHIVE. Unlike the businesses that're contesting my use of the material, it's not my intention to get rich off it. Of course, I still recommend the excluded work highly & assume that, thanks to the businesses, it's easily available commercially & through libraries.

"Animations - Volume 4 of 8"

- curated by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - 1:57:14

0:00:29: "Symphonie Diagonale" - Viking Eggelung - 1924 - 6:38

0:07:11: "Song for the Birds" - Max & Dave Fleischer - 1940s?

- 7:27

0:14:45: "Do It Yourself Cartoon Kit" - Keith Learner - 1961 - 5:12

0:20:00: "Actes sans Paroles" - (Samuel Beckett)

- Bruno & Guido Bettiol - 1964 - 10:19

0:30:21: "Astralis" - Rudolph Borosak - 1972 - 3:30

0:33:53: "Frank Film" - Frank Mouris - 1973 - 8:36

0:42:32: "Euclidean Illusions" - Stan Vanderbeek - Early 1980s?

- 9:05

0:51:42: "Transparent Smile: Monty Cantsin performing

with White Colours" - Monty Cantsin - 1985 - 16:50

1:08:35: "Nite School" - Bruce Bickford / Frank Zappa - 1987

- 4:45

1:13:24: "Manual Labor" - Mark Nugent - 1987 - 16:24

[1:29:49: "The Early Worm" - Jonathan Lyons - 1988 - 3:01

I removed this from the digital version because of glitching,

there's probably tape damage]

1:29:49: "Satrapy" - Scott Stark - 1988 - 13:33

1:43:18: Boredoms - 1998? - 13:45

As is now typical as I try to put these animation collections online, there're copyright claims: 2 from Frank Zappa, both, presumably, for "Nite School" although that's a little unclear to me, & one from Bruce Gilbert for his song entitled "Work For Do You Me? I Did (1 & 2)". I have no idea who Bruce Gilbert is or which movie that piece is in. It's threatened that they'll run ads. I don't want any ads spoiling the overall quality but I'm curious to see how this plays out. If they actually run ads the 1 or 2 times anyone looks at this, I may remove "Nite School" altogether. I'm not sure what to do about the Gilbert, whatever it is. Since none of the many hundreds of movies of my own that're on YouTube are monetized I have no intention of monetizing something by someone else either. Let it be understood that my purpose in curating this work & making the curation available is to both show what I think is GREAT work & to show the greatness of my aRCHIVE. Unlike the businesses that're contesting my use of the material, it's not my intention to get rich off it. If I do end up removing anything, I still recommend the excluded work highly & assume that, thanks to the businesses, it's easily available commercially & through libraries.

"Animations - Volume 5 of 8"

- curated by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - 1:55:05

0:00:27: "Jasper in the Haunted House" - George Pal - 1942 - 6:59

0:07:31: "Labyrinth" - Jan Lenica - 1963 - 14:48

0:22:28: "Enter Hamlet" - Fred Mogubgub - 1970 - 3:00

0:25:37: "Object Conversation" - Paul Glabicki - 1985 - 9:55

0:35:37: "Sky Heart" - Dennis Pics - 1988 - 2:12

0:37:53: "The Story of Pi" - California Institute of Technology - 1989 - 22:36

1:00:32: "the Death of Stalinism in Bohemia" - Jan Svankmajer

- 1990 - 9:27

1:10:03: "Brave New World" - Michael Boydstun - 1992 - 3:34

1:13:45: "Rote Movie" - Dirk DeBruyn - 1994 - 11:29

1:25:19: "...For a Moment...Only" - Steve Estes - 1997 - 21:39

1:47:02: "Whyspers" - Lindsay Cox - 1999 - 7:45

As is now typical as I try to put these animation collections online, there're copyright claims: EIGHT TOTAL: 7 of them are for songs used, 1 is for Jan Lenica's "Labirynt". All say that the "Video cannot be monetized", which is fine with me since I have no intention of monetizing it anyway. If there's a threat of ads running I haven't seen it. If anyone watching this compilation, at this point only one person other than myself, sees ads please let me know & I'll try to get rid of them. Since none of the many hundreds of movies of my own that're on YouTube are monetized I have no intention of monetizing something by someone else either. Let it be understood that my purpose in curating this work & making the curation available is to both show what I think is GREAT work & to show the greatness of my aRCHIVE. Unlike the businesses that're contesting my use of the material, it's not my intention to get rich off it. If I do end up removing anything, I still recommend the excluded work highly & assume that, thanks to the businesses, it's easily available commercially & through libraries.

"Animations - Volume 6 of 8"

- curated by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - 1:58:59

0:00:28: "The Talking Magpies" - Paul Terry - 1940s? - 6:30

0:07:01: "Substitute" - Dusan Vurotic - 1961 - 9:49

0:16:51: "Les Jeur dés Anges (The Game of the Angels)"

- Walerian Borowczyk (w/ music by Bernard

Parmegiani) - 1964 - 11:55

0:28:53: "Moha (The Fly)" - Zagreb Film - 1966 - 8:20

0:37:17: "Worek" - Tadeuz Wilkosz - 1967 - 8:30

0:45:53: "Manhattan Dinner" - Cybulaki / Tintori - 1984 - 8:42

0:54:40: "Metal Dogs of India" - Chel White - 1985 - 3:10

0:57:51: "Arcada Brain Closet" - Steve Vander Meer

- 1988 - 9:00

1:06:55: "Blau Milch Kanal Morphs & Such" - Ugzel Yazmen

& tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - 1994 - 1:56

1:08:54: "Pop goes my Eyeball" - Michael Catley - 1999? /

2000? - 4:14

1:13:13: "Wave Twisters" - DJ Qbert etc.. - 2001 - 45:25

As is now typical as I try to put these animation collections online, there're copyright claims, fortunately, only 2, both for songs used: one by a band called "Process Blue" in "Metal Dogs of India" & one by a band called "Men Withour Hats" for a song called "Pop goes the World". Both say that the "Video cannot be monetized", which is fine with me since I have no intention of monetizing it anyway. If there's a threat of ads running I haven't seen it. If anyone watching this compilation, at this point only one person other than myself, sees ads please let me know & I'll try to get rid of them. Since none of the many hundreds of movies of my own that're on YouTube are monetized I have no intention of monetizing something by someone else either. Let it be understood that my purpose in curating this work & making the curation available is to both show what I think is GREAT work & to show the greatness of my aRCHIVE. Unlike the businesses that're contesting my use of the material, it's not my intention to get rich off it. If I do end up removing anything, I still recommend the excluded work highly & assume that, thanks to the businesses, it's easily available commercially & through libraries.

"Animations - Volume 7 of 8"

- curated by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE

- from the Jim Lingo collection of short films - 2:00:43

0:00:28: "Princess Nicotine or The Smoke Fairy" - Vitagraph Co.

- 1909 - 5:28

0:05:58: "Man Ray talking about "Le Retour de la Raison"

with an excerpt from the same" - ? - ? - 1:46

0:07:48: "We Drivers" (excerpt) - ? - 1936 - :37

0:08:29: "Precisely So" (excerpt) - ? - 1937 - 2:16

0:10:50: "'Round and 'Round" - ? - 1939 - 5:56

0:16:51: "News Sketches" (excerpt) - Max Fleischer - 1944-1945

- 1:01

0:17:57: "Meet Joe King" (excerpts) - 1949 - 3:43

0:21:43: "Le Dents du Singe" (The Monkey's Teeth)

- René Laloux & the Inmates of La Clinique de Corps-

Cheverny - 1960 - 13:49

0:35:37: "Les Escagots" (The Snails) - René Laloux &

Roland Topor - 1965 - 11:14

0:46:54: "My Green Crocodile" - Vadim Karjanovsky - 1968

- 8:46

0:55:46: "Glass Harmonica" - Vadim Karjanovsky - 1968 - 19:47

1:15:36: "Ball of Wool" - Nikolai Serebryakov - 1968 - 9:32

1:25:14: "The Singing Teacher" - Anatoly Petrov - 1968 - 3:07

1:28:26: "Special Delivery" - John Weldon / Eunice Macaulay

- 1979 - 6:59

1:35:25: "The Fly" - Ferene Rofuscz - 1980 - 3:09

1:38:40: "Tango" - Zbigniew Rybczynski - 1982 - 8:11

1:46:55: "The Great Cognito" - Will Vinton Productions - 1982 - 4:09

1:51:08: "Balance" - Christoph & Wolfgang Lauenstein - 1989 - 7:39

1:58:50: "Gigalopolis" - Yoichiro Kawaguchi - ? - 1:40

As is now typical as I try to put these animation collections online, there're copyright claims, so far only 3, but the checking process is taking an extraordinarily long time to complete. [After something like 24 hours it seems to've settled at 3.] There's a claim on a movie the name of which is unspecified - I imagine that's a glitch of sorts. Then there're claims on "Special Delivery" & "Glass Harmonica". All 3 say that the "Video cannot be monetized", which is fine with me since I have no intention of monetizing it anyway. If there's a threat of ads running I haven't seen it. If anyone watching this compilation, at this point only one person other than myself, sees ads please let me know & I'll try to get rid of them. Since none of the many hundreds of movies of my own that're on YouTube are monetized I have no intention of monetizing something by someone else either. Let it be understood that my purpose in curating this work & making the curation available is to both show what I think is GREAT work & to show the greatness of my aRCHIVE. Unlike the businesses that're contesting my use of the material, it's not my intention to get rich off it. If I do end up removing anything, I still recommend the excluded work highly & assume that, thanks to the businesses, it's easily available commercially & through libraries.

"Animations - Volume 8 of 8"

- curated by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE

- approximately half from the Jim Lingo collection of short films - 1:59:09

0:00:28: "Boy Meets Dog" - Gene Byrnes / Walter Lantz - 1945 - 9:12

0:09:42: "The Friendly Ghost" - Famous Studios - 1945 - 8:45

0:19:05: "Samadhi & other films" - Jordan Belson - 1964-1987 - 22:13

0:40:49: "Gonzales Tamales" - ? - ? - 3:57

0:44:53: "Stone Circles" - Barbara Hammer - 1983 - 11:01

0:55:59: "The Frog, The Dog, and The Devil" - Bob Stenhouse - 1986 - 7:02

1:03:09: "The Coiling Prankster" - Garri Bardon - 1987 - 10:11

1:13:25: "The Bedroom" - Maarten Koopman - ? - 1:06

1:14:38: "Your Face" - Bill Plympton - 1987 - 3:06

1:17:50: "Candy Jam" - Various - 1988 - 6:51

1:24:35: "When Bats are Quiet" - Fabio Lignini - 1988 - 4:20

1:29:36: "78 Tours" - Georges Schwizgebel - 1988 - 3:51

1:33:33: "Lights Before Dawn" - Sandor Bekesi - 1988 - 4:36

1:38:13: "Pas a Deux" - Monique Renault & Gerrit van Dijk - 1988 - 5:39

1:44:01: "Animated Self Portraits" - Jan Svankmajer, Jiri Barta, Nikola Majdek - 1989 - 1:24

1:45:18: "Star Fruits Surf Rider" - Cornelius - ? - 4:20

1:49:37: "Darkness, Light, Darkness" - Jan Svankmajer - 1989 - 7:30

1:57:11: "Background Movies for Home Music: Light Motion [Hurry]" - tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - 1997 - 1:41

As is now typical as I try to put these animation collections online, there're copyright claims, in this case a whopping EIGHT, no, make that NINE, 3 of them of the blocking type. It seems that these claims are representative of what I call Artificial Unintelligence: poorly functioning algorithms. E.G.: Eith Piaf's "N'y va pas Manuel (2012 Remastered)" is obviously incorrect because I would've assembled this compilation no later than 2004 which means that the 2012 remastering would not apply. Piaf is used in "Lights Before Dawn". It's my ongoing impression that these copyright claimaints are simply grasping for whatever monetary opportunity they can create, without much concern, certainly, for the person who originally created the work, many of whom are long-since dead. The 3 that prevent any witnessing of the entire thing I'll just trim out: "Karussell" by Wolf Maahn, which I don't even see on the above list so I'm not even sure what that is [the section to be trimmed is from 1:30:05 to 1:32:52 - that's the middle of "78 Tours" but I'll just trim it anyway - although in the "trim preview" the section to be removed is the end of "78 Tours" & the beginning of "Lights Before Dawn" which makes even less sense - "78 Tours" seems to've had the beginning cut off but "Lights Before Dawn" seems complete]; Bill Plympton's "Your Face" (this is the main one I expected b/c Plympton was pushed so hard for awhile - once again, though, the trim offered is during the piece before it from "The Bedroom" - I just use their automatic trim function but I don't know whether it works or not & whether the 2 instances that I've cited will malfunction & destroy afjacent pieces), The Looney Tunes's "Gonzales Tamales". 5 of the remaining 6 claims are for music; the other claim is for an entire movie: "Vykrytasi" which I find translated from Slovak to English as "Uncovered". Perhaps that's one of the sections of "Animated Self Portraits" since Svankmajer is a Czech filmmaker. I'm not sure. All 6 say that the "Video cannot be monetized", which is fine with me since I have no intention of monetizing it anyway. If there's a threat of ads running I haven't seen it. If anyone watching this compilation, at this point only one person other than myself, sees ads please let me know & I'll try to get rid of them. Since none of the many hundreds of movies of my own that're on YouTube are monetized I have no intention of monetizing something by someone else either. Let it be understood that my purpose in curating this work & making the curation available is to both show what I think is GREAT work & to show the greatness of my aRCHIVE. Unlike the businesses that're contesting my use of the material, it's not my intention to get rich off it. If I do end up removing anything, I still recommend the excluded work highly.

[I had to cut off "& assume that, thanks to the businesses, it's easily available commercially & through libraries" from the last sentence b/c I exceeded the text limit.]

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