"...Oddly enough Brakhage had spoken about the relationship between sound, silence and the cinema. Silence, he said, is never silent. If I don’t put a soundtrack on my films, he said, this allows the film to exist in the sound-space of the room. He mentioned John Cage. He talked about the rhythmic sound of a running projector and its connection to the visual rhythm of his images. Then he told us to move when we were uncomfortable, to cough when we needed to, that sound was not a disruption during a screening..."
...In reading about the "scandal" that was EXPRMNTL3 in the Casino of Knokke-le-Zoute, a seaside town in Belguim...
...because Broodthaers screened a film there in 1958, when it was held in conjunction with the World Exposition in Brussels....
...I came across this recollection by a Brian Crane...
...next to the article...
....about dark-cellar-films in a ghost town...
I liked the articles.
If only I might be so lucky to find such venues...again..in Belgium......this summer......
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