bear with me, much of my writing here is going to be of this form… semi-stream semi-conscious … sometimes I’ll explain how I got where I was going or why I started off in some direction. but I digress!
Earlier today a Peter Greenaway short film crossed my mind. I’ve wanted to play the film to the cybertel policy & community networking crowd for some time: Dear Phone (1977), thought it would be great to get it for an event. We’ll see.
Tonight TCM was playing Western Union… I only caught the second half. Western Union doesn’t do telegrams anymore and American Telephone and Telegraph is back on top as Ma Bell is re-merging. I was thinking about the history of telecom and the presentation of network-empire building on the silver screen. Maybe they’d enjoy the Greenaway short at AFI Silver Theater for the F2C happening the first few days of April? We’ll leave that to Mr. Isenberg to work out.
I LOVE Peter Greenaway. I haven’t seen this one though.
And I probably am more familiar with FC2 than F2C. Though I do have to say David Isenberg is awesome. Are you going to F2C? Give him a hug from me.
About 2 years ago the Gene Siskel Film Center featured Greenaway one month… It was something to get a strong dose of his short films. I understand that there is now a DVD release of his early shorts, available in the UK already and soon in the states. Another film that stood out for me was the Water Rackets.
As for F2C, it woudl be tight, travel-wise as that weekend is also the National Community Wireless Networking Summit … in St. Charles, Missouri. I think that event would be a good venue for Dear Phone.