In the absence of good experimental material in DV I'd turn to rather experimental movies by Dogme 95 (Lars Von Trier, Vinterberg) that only reached a more "mainstream" status due to the geniality of the directors... "Dancer in the Dark" (Von Trier, shot woth 1000 DV cameras) and "The Celebration" (Vinterberg, shot 100% on a hand-held digital video camera) are cases in point. Ana ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lang Thompson" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 9:38 PM Subject: Re: No Experimental Films on DVD? > >Re:Voir has released over 40 VHS cassettes of experimental films > >(http://re-voir.com), but have no plans to release DVD due to poor > >quality. The problem with MPEG compression, designed for natural and > > But this would only apply to certain kinds of experimental films and > usually the ones that suffer from any kind of translation to video, not > just DVD specifically. I'd imagine a good bit of experimental maybe even > the majority would work just fine on DVD. But the claims in Pip's > statement have also been debated recently because some of this testing > appears to have been done a couple of years ago before many technicians had > learned to handle the medium fully, sort of the same situation as the very > earliest CDs which often had a harsh sound. More careful transfers and > planning can alleviate many of the compression problems (one example would > be the higher bitrates used on the Suspiria DVD to handle the film's use of > color, which limited the amount of extras that could be included). Not > that this will solve all the problems because some experimental work will > always be problematic by nature. As an example of the change in attitude > is the double-DVD set from anti-video ranter Stan Brakhage. > > ---- > To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L > in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite