Nancy Spero
2009 ::: offart
Becoming an Artist
A pioneer of feminist art, Nancy Spero's work since the 1960s is an unapologetic statement against the pervasive abuse of power, Western privilege, and male dominance. Executed with a raw intensity on paper and in ephemeral installations, her work often draws its imagery and subject matter from current and historical events such as the torture of women in Nicaragua, the Holocaust, and the atrocities of the Vietnam War.
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Daito Manabe
2009 ::: offart
Electric Stimulus to Face -Test4
Daito Manabe stimulates facial muscles with small electric pulses, synced to music.
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Yasushi Noguchi, Hideyuki Ando
2009 ::: offart
Watch Me!
Eye-responsive Installation 2009
Watch Me! is an experimental project dedicated to documenting social bind (defined below) by intervening in a public space. It watches the different behavior of peoples eyes using a robot bear as an unusual event. The project was finally presented as an installation.
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Gigi Gaston
2009 ::: movie
Je Suis Perdue
a film by Jean-Luc Goddard
Josh Gosfield Presents Gigi Gaston: The Black Flower Josh Gosfield has assembled the definitive archive devoted to the 1960s French pop star Gigi Gaston, consisting of record art, snapshots, magazines covers, songs and films detailing the rise and fall of this controversial and elusive chanteuse. The reason for Gigi's elusiveness: She never existed! Gosfield, a prodigiously talented painter, photographer, illustrator and videographer, created an entire audiovisual history of the singer who puts the "no-no" in yé-yé! Source: Gaylord on wfmu.
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a film by Jean-Luc Goddard
Josh Gosfield Presents Gigi Gaston: The Black Flower Josh Gosfield has assembled the definitive archive devoted to the 1960s French pop star Gigi Gaston, consisting of record art, snapshots, magazines covers, songs and films detailing the rise and fall of this controversial and elusive chanteuse. The reason for Gigi's elusiveness: She never existed! Gosfield, a prodigiously talented painter, photographer, illustrator and videographer, created an entire audiovisual history of the singer who puts the "no-no" in yé-yé! Source: Gaylord on wfmu.
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Elton and Betty White
2009 ::: camp
Folk stars of the fin de sie`cle
Elton and Betty White were an adorable music duo from Little Rock who played songs on ukuleles about sex, religion, sex, politics, local places and people of interest, and sex. They spent many years on the boardwalk of Venice, CA entertaining everyone!
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Elton and Betty White were an adorable music duo from Little Rock who played songs on ukuleles about sex, religion, sex, politics, local places and people of interest, and sex. They spent many years on the boardwalk of Venice, CA entertaining everyone!
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Wieden & Kennedy Amsterdam and Theo Watson
2009 ::: offart
Augmented Sand Sculpture 2009
Artist : Theo Watson
Introduction of the new Dutch Filmmuseum's building. Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam teamed up with acclaimed video artist Theo Watson and created a unique interactive sand sculpture. Gone are the days of blueprints and artists impressions as the event was to launch the beginning of construction for The Filmmuseums future premises, and the 6×5 meter sculpture replicated the new building, due to open in 2011.
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Martha Rosler
2009 ::: offart
Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975)
From A to Z, Rosler "shows and tells" the ingredients of the housewife's day, giving us a tour that names and mimics the ordinary with movements more samurai than suburban. Rosler's slashing gesture as she forms the letters of the alphabet in the air with a knife and fork, is a rebel gesture, punching through the "system of harnessed subjectivity" from the inside out.
"I was concerned with something like the notion of Ôlanguage speaking the subject,' and with the transformation of the woman herself into a sign in a system of signs that represent a system of food production, a system of harnessed subjectivity."
Martha Rosler
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Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T): Nine Evenings
2009 ::: offart
Robert Rauschenberg John Cage Deborah Hayes David Tudor Robert Whitman Oyvind Fhalstrom
Robert Rauschenberg
Theater-Festival, Armory Hall, New York: In the 1960s, what would later lead to the founding of the organization Experiments in Art and Technology, was first put into practice on a large scale by ten New York artists as a unique festival for electronic as well as interactive performances and demonstrations.
The idea of collaborating with technicians, not only initiated by Robert Rauschenberg and Billy Klüver but also organized and largely promoted by them, lead to the performances suggested by the festival title: Nine Evenings with performances by John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Merce Cunningham, Öyvind Fahlström, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor, and Robert Whitman.
Billy Klüver was again the driving force. The main technical element of the performances was the electronic modulation system TEEM, composed of portable, electronic units which functioned without cables by remote control. Cage used this system to activate and deactivate loud speakers that consistently reacted to movement by way of photo-cells.
For not always being technically and artistically successful, these performances exhausted for the first time the full range of the live-aspect of electronics, taking advantage of its artistic potential in all of its diversity. Seen in that light, the «9 Evenings» rank among the milestones of media art, even though today only a few filmed documents bear witness to the event.
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Robert Rauschenberg
Theater-Festival, Armory Hall, New York: In the 1960s, what would later lead to the founding of the organization Experiments in Art and Technology, was first put into practice on a large scale by ten New York artists as a unique festival for electronic as well as interactive performances and demonstrations.
The idea of collaborating with technicians, not only initiated by Robert Rauschenberg and Billy Klüver but also organized and largely promoted by them, lead to the performances suggested by the festival title: Nine Evenings with performances by John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Merce Cunningham, Öyvind Fahlström, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor, and Robert Whitman.
Billy Klüver was again the driving force. The main technical element of the performances was the electronic modulation system TEEM, composed of portable, electronic units which functioned without cables by remote control. Cage used this system to activate and deactivate loud speakers that consistently reacted to movement by way of photo-cells.
For not always being technically and artistically successful, these performances exhausted for the first time the full range of the live-aspect of electronics, taking advantage of its artistic potential in all of its diversity. Seen in that light, the «9 Evenings» rank among the milestones of media art, even though today only a few filmed documents bear witness to the event.
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Virgine Marchant
2009 ::: offart
FOODFUCK IN NEW YORK/NICE AND ROME
An excerpt from the fiction film : FOODFUCK IN NEW YORK/NICE AND ROME, filmed in 2002. Tommy Rogers is the principal actor, poet musician and a performer in the film.a film by Virginie Marchand
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Dinner With Henry (1979)
2009 ::: movie
Dinner With Henry (1979)
Director: Richard Young
Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company: A Henry Miller Blog
It's a classic question: Name a famous person, living or dead, you'd like to have dinner with. I imagine that a number of readers of this blog would say 'Henry Miller.' Indeed, he had a reputation for holding court at the dinner table, regaling his fellow eaters with opinions and reminiscences.
Dinner With Henry is a rare, 30-minute documentary about Henry Miller. It is exactly what the title implies: footage of Henry having dinner. With him at the table is the film crew, and actress/model Brenda Venus, to whom Henry was enamoured in the final years of life. Henry - at age 87 - spends the majority of his time speaking on a number of subjects, the most persistent of which is Blaise Cendrars. Occasionally, he complains about the food. That is all. It may not be of much interest to a general audience, but is a curious "slice of life" for any Miller fan who likes to imagine being at the table with him.
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Ludmila Terni
2009 ::: movie
Short film done by Ludmila Terni.
Music done by Luiz Henrique Bozzo.
There are two movie`s from Ludmila Terni i really adore.
The first movie seems to be a reminiscence on the novel, Histoire de l'oeil (Story of the Eye), 1928, by George Bataille. Somebody called this book the chamber music of pornographie. The visualls oscillate between surrealismus and neorealismus. There is a woman and a man, a boy and a girl. They are in a bathroom at defferent times. And there is an eye... . could be seen to much.
The second called Angela and shows an erotic cage of adolescene, with loads of symbols arised from paintings of Balthus.
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Music done by Luiz Henrique Bozzo.
There are two movie`s from Ludmila Terni i really adore.
The first movie seems to be a reminiscence on the novel, Histoire de l'oeil (Story of the Eye), 1928, by George Bataille. Somebody called this book the chamber music of pornographie. The visualls oscillate between surrealismus and neorealismus. There is a woman and a man, a boy and a girl. They are in a bathroom at defferent times. And there is an eye... . could be seen to much.
The second called Angela and shows an erotic cage of adolescene, with loads of symbols arised from paintings of Balthus.
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Frankie Teardrop
Song by Suicide
Video by Walter Robinson,
Edit DeAk & Paul Dougherty.
A film-video hybrid that combines superimposed projector manipulations and high-end video post-production, finished in 1978.
Included in MOMA permanent collection and Rolling Stone's "Book of Rock Video."
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Strange Fruit
2009 ::: preview
This film won 4th place at the 2006 National History Day. It is the story of Billie Holiday and Abel Meeropol in their quest to shed light on racial injustice, especially lynching, in America. A film directed and produced by Daniel Weidlein.
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Anaïs Nin (1903-1977)
2009 ::: lyrics
"Anaïs Nin Reads," in which Nin recounts conversations with Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell.
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Guardian Denis
2009 ::: photography
Photoproject about death by heroin
Models: Anna & Anton
Music: Placebo - A song to say goodbye
Photographer: Guardian Denis
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Models: Anna & Anton
Music: Placebo - A song to say goodbye
Photographer: Guardian Denis
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Malice in Wonderland
2009 ::: camp
Have you ever seen Bugs Bunny perform bizarre oral acts on himself? Have you ever seen Minnie Mouse ravage an array of huge phallic symbols? Alice does it.
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Ah Pook Is Here (1994
Directed by Philip Hunt
Writing credits
William S. Burroughs
Music from the album "William S. Burroughs - Dead City Radio"
Track 4 - "Ah Pook The Destroyer / Brion Gysin's All-Purpose Bedtime Story"
Music By, Performer - John Cale
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Writing credits
William S. Burroughs
Music from the album "William S. Burroughs - Dead City Radio"
Track 4 - "Ah Pook The Destroyer / Brion Gysin's All-Purpose Bedtime Story"
Music By, Performer - John Cale
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Shakespeare's Hamlet - 'To be or not to be...'
"To be or not to be..." A short edited to Kenneth Branagh's reading
of the big Act 3 Scene 1 soliloquy from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
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of the big Act 3 Scene 1 soliloquy from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
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Gun Club
2009 ::: camp
The Joy of Living with a Brain That Wouldn't Die
A woman with no body looks for a woman with no head. From the Prelinger Archives and Open Source Movies. Music by the Gun Club ("She's Like Heroin to Me")
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The Unfolding Opium Poppy
2009 ::: offart
Black and White silent film with music for Violin and Piano. Composed by David Soldier, performed by Rebecca Cherry, Film excerpts by Jennifer Reeves, Editing by Rebecca Cherry
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Charlie (Charley) Patton
2009 ::: music
Charlie (Charley) Patton sings 'ELDER GREENE'
'Founder of the Delta Blues' with Henry Lee Simms, Fiddle
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'Founder of the Delta Blues' with Henry Lee Simms, Fiddle
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Rolling Stones
2009 ::: music
'SISTER MORPHINE', alt. version (1968)
Marianne Faithfull as Lilith in Kenneth Anger's 'Lucifer Rising', with a cameo appearance by a very 'tired' Keith Richards from Robert Frank's film 'Cocksucker Blues'.
The song is great- not the perfect version that appears on 'Sticky Fingers' but on its own merits is a powerful experience.
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Jim Jarmusch
2009 ::: preview
Tom Waits & Iggy Pop in Coffee and Cigarettes
Coffee and Cigarettes is a 2003 independent film directed by Jim Jarmusch. The film consists of eleven short stories which share coffee and cigarettes as a common thread.
In this segment musicians Iggy Pop and Tom Waits pretend to play themselves, smoke cigarettes to celebrate that they quit smoking, drink some coffee and have an awkward conversation.
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Erich von Stroheim (1885-1957)
2009 ::: preview
Newsreel footage of Erich von Stroheim's crew making the trek to Death Valley to film the final sequence of 'Greed'.
(for my opinion, one of the best movie`s ever made)
Directed by Eric von Stronheim.
Running time approx. 4 hours.
Made in 1924.
The story of the making of the movie has become a Hollywood legend. Under the aegis of the Goldwyn studio, von Stroheim attempted to film a version of the book complete in every detail. To capture the authentic spirit of the story, he insisted on filming on location in San Francisco, the Sierra Nevada mountains, and Death Valley, despite harsh conditions.
The result was a final print of the film that was an astonishing ten hours in length, produced at a cost of over $500,000 — an unheard of sum at that time (though Stroheim's 1921 film Foolish Wives was publicized by MGM as costing over a million) [1]. After screening the full-length film once to meet contractual obligations [2], Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the studio that acquired Goldwyn during production, forced von Stroheim to edit the film to a more manageable length, and, with the assistance of fellow director Rex Ingram and editor Grant Whytock, he reluctantly trimmed the film to about four hours. The film was then removed from von Stroheim's control and cut further, despite his protests. Even key characters were removed from the final version so that it could be screened in a reasonable time frame. Existing prints of Greed run at about two hours and twenty minutes. The hours of cut film were destroyed by a janitor cleaning a vault who thought they were not important film rolls and threw them in an incinerator (although it appears that much of it survived until at least the late 1950s), and this film is known as one of the most famous "lost films" in cinema history. The released version of the film was a box-office failure, and was fiercely panned by critics. In later years, even in its shortened form, it was recognized as one of the great realistic films of its time. Rare behind-the-scenes footage of Greed can be seen in the Goldwyn Pictures film Souls for Sale.
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(for my opinion, one of the best movie`s ever made)
Greed
Directed by Eric von Stronheim.
Running time approx. 4 hours.
Made in 1924.
The story of the making of the movie has become a Hollywood legend. Under the aegis of the Goldwyn studio, von Stroheim attempted to film a version of the book complete in every detail. To capture the authentic spirit of the story, he insisted on filming on location in San Francisco, the Sierra Nevada mountains, and Death Valley, despite harsh conditions.
The result was a final print of the film that was an astonishing ten hours in length, produced at a cost of over $500,000 — an unheard of sum at that time (though Stroheim's 1921 film Foolish Wives was publicized by MGM as costing over a million) [1]. After screening the full-length film once to meet contractual obligations [2], Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the studio that acquired Goldwyn during production, forced von Stroheim to edit the film to a more manageable length, and, with the assistance of fellow director Rex Ingram and editor Grant Whytock, he reluctantly trimmed the film to about four hours. The film was then removed from von Stroheim's control and cut further, despite his protests. Even key characters were removed from the final version so that it could be screened in a reasonable time frame. Existing prints of Greed run at about two hours and twenty minutes. The hours of cut film were destroyed by a janitor cleaning a vault who thought they were not important film rolls and threw them in an incinerator (although it appears that much of it survived until at least the late 1950s), and this film is known as one of the most famous "lost films" in cinema history. The released version of the film was a box-office failure, and was fiercely panned by critics. In later years, even in its shortened form, it was recognized as one of the great realistic films of its time. Rare behind-the-scenes footage of Greed can be seen in the Goldwyn Pictures film Souls for Sale.
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Joseph Cornell
2009 ::: offart
At night by Torch and Spear (1940's)
Joseph Cornell's enigmatic collage By Night With Torch and Spear (1940s?) may have been unknown to anybody but the artist himself before it was discovered, years after his death, within a cache of artifacts bequeathed to Anthology film archives. it was given its title posthumously based on a card that flashes at its end. sound track provided by john zorn. During the first Surrealist exhibition in New York 1936 he premiered a film made from splicing together existing film stock he had found & collected. Salvador Dalí, present at its first screening, was outraged, claiming he had just had the same idea of applying collage to film. He remarked told he should stick to making boxes and stop making films. Traumatized, Cornell rarely showed his films there after.
Most of his art works were boxed assemblages created from found objects, simple boxes, glass-fronted, with arranged collections of photographs or Victorian bric-à-brac combining the austerity of Constructivism with the fantasy of Surrealism. Many boxes, are interactive and are meant to be handled. he would create poetry from the commonplace. In the 1950s and 1960s, He hired a series of young assistants, including Stan Brakhage, and Larry Jordan to help him organize his collection.
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Nagisa Ôshima (b.1932)
2009 ::: preview
In the Realm of the Sense (1976)
Originally released in 1976, Nagisa Oshima’s In the Realm of the Senses is still banned for obscenity in its director’s native country, Japan. Based on an infamous 1936 incident in which Sada Abe erotically strangled her lover, cut off his penis and testicles, and carried them around until her arrest, Oshima’s film does more than just attack the mores of Japanese society. It also breaks down notions of obscenity. Read More
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Daisies
2009 ::: preview
Sedmikrásky
DAISIES is an exercise in revolutionary modernism, anarch-dadaist in spirit and form.
Director: Vera Chytilová
Writers: Vera Chytilová, Ester Krumbachová
Starring: Jitka Cerhová, Ivana Karbanová
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Mike Kuchar
The Craven Sluck 1967
(formerly titled Madonna)No art form demands as much spontaneous, imaginative improvisation as low-budget filmmaking, and no American low-budget filmmakers are as imaginative as George Kuchar and his twin brother Mike. Major figures in the American Underground film movement of the ’sixties, they are the acknowledged pioneers of the camp/pop aesthetic that would influence practically all who came after them, from Warhol and Waters to Vadim and Lynch. That influence is still being felt. (Source by Jack Stevenson)
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Daido Moriyama
2009 ::: photography
Fashion Swimsuits 1952
2009 ::: offart
West Coast Knitting Mills is launched by Fred Cole in 1923 and changed it's name to Cole of California in 1941. In 1925, Fred Cole, a silent film actor, created a swimsuit line that set the bar for all others to follow. His suits were gorgeous yet modest, comfortable yet classy, and made any woman, regardless of her size, feel great in a swimsuit. Fred Coles designs lay claim to many of the firsts in swimwear, including the backless and strapless swimsuits, the short overskirt, the boy short, the first true tank suit, and the cover-up skirt. His suits gained such acclaim that super stars like Marilyn Monroe, Rene Russo and Farah Fawcett were photographed in them. Swimming beauty Esther Williams became the official face of the Cole of California advertising campaign. Christian Dior, the worlds most celebrated designer, even paired up with Fred Cole to create his one and only swimwear line in 1955. The company was purchased by Kayser Roth in the early 1960s. In 1982 Anne Cole begins to design a line which launches as the Anne Cole Collection. The company is sold a couple of more times and finally combines with Catalina in 1993 to form Catalina Cole.
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Orson Welles
2009 ::: Interview
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 October 10, 1985), best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, writer, actor and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio. Welles was also an accomplished magician, starring in troop variety spectacles in the war years. Noted for his innovative dramatic productions as well as his distinctive voice and personality, Welles is widely acknowledged as one of the most accomplished dramatic artists of the 20th century. His first two films with RKO: Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons, are widely considered two of the greatest ever made. His other films, including Touch of Evil and Chimes at Midnight, are also considered masterpieces. He was also well-known for a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds which, performed in the style of a news broadcast, reportedly caused widespread panic when listeners thought that an actual extraterrestrial invasion was in progress.
In 2002 he was voted as the greatest film director of all time in the British Film Institute's poll of Top Ten Directors.
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In 2002 he was voted as the greatest film director of all time in the British Film Institute's poll of Top Ten Directors.
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The Golden Palominos
2009 ::: music
The Stranglers
2009 ::: music
Golden Brown
a journey to the snowhills of egypt... doesn`t mater with or without a camel even on it. of course the colden brown on it it`s best .
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Can
2009 ::: music
Monstermovie - You Doo Right
It`s november, hanging around Bridges walking up on Roof`s smooking Cheminée looking around the city and watching the long lines of black crow`s coming from the east this day`s. Going home and listen to a mostly unknown record by Can. There debut album Monstermovie released 1969.
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David Sylvian
2009 ::: music
Red Guitar
Promo Video. The first single from David's debut album "Brilliant Trees", the video features legendary photographer Angus McBean (part of the video is based on one of his photographs) and was directed by Anton Corbijn.
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John Waters (b.1946)
2009 ::: Interview
“Free Speech” (Adult Contents)
The Baltimore Icon and celebrated film director, John Waters of “Hairspray” and “bad taste” fame, shared his views on the controversial issue of “Free Speech” in our society and its limits.
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Liaisons Dangereuses
2009 ::: music
Germany's Liaisons Dangereuses was a group that pioneered industrial dance music with their lone self-titled 1981 album. Beate Bartel (founding member of Einstürzende Neubauten, Mania D and Matador) and Chrislo Haas (founding member of DAF, member of Minus Delta T and Crime & the City Solution) formed the group in 1981 with vocalist Krishna Goineau; the group recorded a series of four ten-minute cassettes and then formed their only album from them. The group made several live appearances throughout the remainder of 1981 and 1982 and were occasionally joined by Anita Lane (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds) and Hideto Sasaki. Liaisons Dangereuses was originally issued by Teldec Import Services and was picked up by a couple other labels shortly thereafter. Once copies of a 1985 reissue on Roadrunner dried up, the album became an extremely sought-after collector's item, thanks in no small part to the number of prominent DJs -- primarily from Chicago's house and Detroit's techno scenes -- who frequently spun the album's "Los Niños del Parque." Hit Thing reissued the album on CD again in early 2003.
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Los niños del parque
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Frieder Butzmann
2009 ::: offart
Frank Reitenspieß (b.1962)
2009 ::: movie
The Murder (1987)
Musik for this piece made by Harald Blüchel, formerly known as Cosmic Baby
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Parson Brown
2009 ::: music
"Mexican Standoff"
is a music video for the Dutch band Parson Brown. The story is about a 3-sided love affair that goes absolutely wrong, and the hearts that break along the way. The technique is pencil drawings on paper, which were then scanned and composited digitally.
Director: Bill Plympton
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The Shooter
2009 ::: movie
Philosophy through celluloid. An old oriental proverb "To will is human … To succeed is divine" is instilled into the mind of an Ex-Soviet Spy. As a drop off leads to a life and death encounter, he is lead to the realization that control is simply an illusion and that destiny is beyond our control.
Director: Michael L. Suan
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Director: Michael L. Suan
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Empty House
2009 ::: movie
'Empty House' is an experimental documentary that focuses on the residue of memories trapped in physical objects and the rooms in which we live.
Director: Sean Christensen
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Director: Sean Christensen
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Ghosts of the Civil Dead (1988)
2009 ::: movie
is the story of a modem Maximum Security Prison. It has been extensively researched and is firmly based on actual events that have occurred in prisons in America and Australia in recent years.
Directed by John Hillcoat
Written by Gene Conkie, Nick Cave, John Hillcoat, Hugo Race, Evan English
Cast: David Field, Make Bishop, Chris DeRose, Kevin Mackey, Dave Mason, Nick Cave
Sound: Nick Cave, Blixa Bargeld, Mick Harvey
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"I was 16 when they put me in prison. Emotionally I'm still 16. Prison is the only world I've ever known. All my dreams are dreams of violence."
Directed by John Hillcoat
Written by Gene Conkie, Nick Cave, John Hillcoat, Hugo Race, Evan English
Cast: David Field, Make Bishop, Chris DeRose, Kevin Mackey, Dave Mason, Nick Cave
Sound: Nick Cave, Blixa Bargeld, Mick Harvey
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Concrete TV
"Never hard enough"
Concrete TV is a NYC-based public access show by Ron Rocheleau that combines sex, violence and art.
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Catherine Renaud Baret
2009 ::: offart
dans les jupons (2006)
Under the petticoat the ties binding mother and child. The eternal drama about that relationship.
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Thorsten Fleisch (b.1972)
2009 ::: offart
Gestalt (2003)
DV, 5:20 minutesFour-dimensional quaternions (fractals) are visualized by projecting them into three-dimensional space. Instead of modeling objects of human imagination the realm of mathematics is explored. Only the variables of one formula (x[n+1]=x[n]^p-c) were changed. It took me about a year to get an idea of the transformations and shapes which could be expressed by this formula. Almost another year was needed to render the sequences which I decided to use.
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Swinging London
2009 ::: offart
It's so far out it's straight down
A look at embryonic counter culture capers in swinging London 1967
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Tim Wilde
2009 ::: music
POPCORN DOUBLE FEATURE
A classic song from 1968 by the rather obscure Tim Wilde, the song is an absolute corker that ticks all the right boxes, off kilter, other worldly, baroque, subversive, pop perfection. The song has had a handful of discerning cover versions over the years, including the Searchers and the Fall.
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David Hockney
2009 ::: photography
talks about how the camera just doesn't cut it, with Robert Hughes, on The New Shock of the New.
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William Eggleston
2009 ::: movie | photography
Stranded in Canton
In 1973, photographer William Eggleston picked up a Sony PortaPak and took to documenting the soul of Memphis and New Orleans.
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William Eggleston
2009 ::: photography
Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008
This candid interview with photographer William Eggleston was conducted by film director Michael Almereyda on the occasion of the opening of Eggleston's retrospective William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008 at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Chris Barr (b. 1980)
2009 ::: offart
17 Minutes is a performance and video blog project. It is estimated that someone commits suicide every 17 minutes. For each performance I spend 17 minutes standing outdoors next to a tree. At the end of this 17 minutes I fall to the earth. This ritual offers a place of reflection, the time between. It also deals with the specific circumstance of my own brother's suicide and as a reenactment aims to be reminder of the life with which I am engaged
Every 17 minutes, someone commits suicide in the United States. Every 43 seconds, someone attempts one.
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Every 17 minutes, someone commits suicide in the United States. Every 43 seconds, someone attempts one.
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Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
2009 ::: movie
A classic silent film dedicated to Berlin shot in 1927 by Walter Ruttmann.
(Berlin: die Sinfonie der Großstadt, 1927, 50 mins, B&W, silent)
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(Berlin: die Sinfonie der Großstadt, 1927, 50 mins, B&W, silent)
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Chicasblue
2009 ::: offart
Sidney D. Gamble (1890-1968)
2009 ::: offart
Pilgrimage to Miao Feng Shan
Between 1924-1927, Sidney D. Gamble made three trips to Miao Feng Shan (Marvelous Peak Mountain), a popular Daoist pilgrimage site.
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Duane Michals
2009 ::: photography
"The Dream" (1990), Norman Stone
2009 ::: movie
is a monologue concerning a utopian vision of heaven on earth and was adapted by Murray Watts from "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man", by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The story is about a man who dreams he has been transported to an unspoiled Garden of Eden where he finds solutions to the world's problems. Irons noted that he was taken with the role because "what that man goes through is momentous, as momentous as anything any of us could ever go through."
Director: Norman Stone
Staring: Jeremy Irons
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The story is about a man who dreams he has been transported to an unspoiled Garden of Eden where he finds solutions to the world's problems. Irons noted that he was taken with the role because "what that man goes through is momentous, as momentous as anything any of us could ever go through."
Director: Norman Stone
Staring: Jeremy Irons
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Robert Bresson
2009 ::: movie
Une femme douce
Robert Bresson's Une femme douce is a spare, elegant and poignant story of isolation, miscommunication, and emotional cruelty. An early transaction between the two characters foreshadows the tragedy of the film.
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Ken Jacobs (b. 1933)
2009 ::: offart
Celestial Subway Lines / Salvaging Noise Ch.3
released on tzadik 2004 the nervous magic lantern is a late optical invention, technically possible long before film or even photography, for projection of images that move through impossible changes in a vast illusionary depth, visible to even a single eye. music: john zorn(&ikue mori)
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Kenneth Anger
2009 ::: movie
Scorpio Rising (1963), Lucifer Rising (1970), Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome (1966)
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Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005)
Johnny Depp reading the letters he received from Hunter S. Thompson during his work on the Fear and Loathing Movie.
Actor Gary Busey shares his thoughts on Hunter S. Thompson, art, life, death, and just how Johnny Depp played Hunter so well.
John Cusack learned the hard way: steal Don Henley's car then drink and play shotgun golf.
Tom Wolfe on Hunter S. Thompson
1978 BBC DOCUMENTARY: Fear & Loathing in Gonzovision (On The Road To Hollywood)
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Actor Gary Busey shares his thoughts on Hunter S. Thompson, art, life, death, and just how Johnny Depp played Hunter so well.
John Cusack learned the hard way: steal Don Henley's car then drink and play shotgun golf.
Tom Wolfe on Hunter S. Thompson
1978 BBC DOCUMENTARY: Fear & Loathing in Gonzovision (On The Road To Hollywood)
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Babette Mangolte (b. 1941)
2009 ::: offart
Watermotor (1978)
Babette Mangolte
(b. 1941 Montmorot, France; lives New York City)
Water Motor, 1978
16mm black-and-white film, 7:55 minutes, silent
In 1978, Babette Mangolte made a film of famed choreographer Trisha Brown dancing a hyperkinetic solo called Water Motor. The first portion was filmed in "real time," at 24 frames per second, and the second at half-speed, or 48 frames per second. ...
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Fred Astaire (1899-1987)
2009 ::: offart
Bojangles of Harlem from Swing Time (1936)
The dancing in Swing Time is some of the best of all the Astaire/Rogers pairings, and Astaire's homage to Bill "Bojangles" Robinson is divine. ...
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Olafur Eliasson (b.1967)
2009 ::: offart
Playing with space and light
In the spectacular large-scale projects he's famous for (such as "Waterfalls" in New York harbor), Olafur Eliasson creates art from a palette of space, distance, color and light. This idea-packed talk begins with an experiment in the nature of perception.
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Hilary Harris (1929-1999)
2009 ::: offart
Nine Variations on a Dance Theme (1966)
13 min, color, sound
This prize-winning film captures dancer Bettie de Jong, a longtime member of the Paul Taylor Company, as she performs a single dance theme numerous times. ...
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Oliver Herring (b. 1964)
2009 ::: offart
Nathan (Hotel Room CT) (2007)
5:30, color, sound
The subject of Nathan answered an ad to join Oliver Herring for some spontaneous art making sessions, a mode of working adopted by the artist in 2001. Nathan is by definition a solo, but it's also a pas de deux between dancer and camera.
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Christopher Walken
2009 ::: movie
Weapon of Choice (2001)
Christopher Walken performs a swing-from-the-rafters solo in an empty hotel lobby...
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Kembra Pfahler
2009 ::: offart
Cornella; The Story of a Burning Bush(1985)
Film-as-performance from actress, artist, filmmaker, and co-founder of rock band Kembra Pfahler, The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Blac
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Mary Ellen Bute (1906-1983)
was a pioneer film animator who did much of her work in visual music. She was one of the first female experimental filmmakers in the U.S. From 1934 until 1953, she made 14 short, musical abstract films, working in New York. Many of these were seen in regular U.S. movie theaters, such as Radio City Music Hall, often before a prestigious film. Several of her films were also called "Seeing Sound" films
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"1895" by Priit Pärn
2009 ::: movie
The amazing true story of the invention of cinema, and the subsequent delay of all other inventions. Estonian animator Priit Pärn made this film in 1995, the 100th birthday of the cinematographe.
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Joni Mitchell
2009 ::: music
Big Yellow Taxi
One of the best "online recordings" from Joni Mitchell i`ve seen so far.
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Joachim Koester
2009 ::: offart
Three Dots & Sandra of the Tulip House or How To Live in a Free State (2001)
Matthew Buckingham and Joachim Koester's video installation Sandra of the Tuliphouse or How to Live in a Free State, 2001, is a ruminative work inspired by the complex history of Christiania, a famous anarchistic community established in Copenhagen in 1971. Divided between large freestanding screens--each accompanied by its own unidirectional speaker to minimize the discordant buildup of sound--Sandra of the Tuliphouse comprises five independent twelve-to-twenty-minute video loops that may be watched in any order, in part or (by the more determined visitor) from beginning to end. Making its belated New York debut at the Kitchen, Buckingham and Koester's project feels oddly removed from real time, its ostensible subject an anachronistic curiosity repositioned as a locus for open-ended reflection.
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Intolerance by D.W. Griffith
2009 ::: movie
Director D.W. Griffith's expensive, most ambitious silent film masterpiece Intolerance (1916) is one of the milestones and landmarks in cinematic history.
Many reviewers and film historians consider it the greatest film of the silent era.
The mammoth film was also subtitled: "A Sun-Play of the Ages" and "Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages." Griffith was inspired to make this film after watching the revolutionary Italian silent film epic Cabiria (1914) by director Giovanni Pastrone.
Intolerance was a colossal undertaking filled with monumental sets, lavish period costumes, and more than 3,000 extras.
The film consisted of four distinct but parallel stories that demonstrated mankind's intolerance during four different ages in world history.
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Dagie Brundert
2009 ::: movie
The Palm Tree Song Line
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"I walk through Los Angeles. I see palm trees everywhere, those long tall skinny ones, I love them. And I start to sing".
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PARADISO ORATORIO
2009 ::: music
Based on Dante's DIVINE COMEDY
Dutch composer Jacob ter Veldhuis's PARADISO ORATORIO welds contemporary classical and club visuals on musical journey in search of beauty to counteract the trend of "doom and damnation" that he sees as pervasive in contemporary art. Visuals by Studio Drupsteen with soprano Clare McFadden, tenor Thomas Allen, and the North Netherlands Concert Choir and Orchestra.
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Dutch composer Jacob ter Veldhuis's PARADISO ORATORIO welds contemporary classical and club visuals on musical journey in search of beauty to counteract the trend of "doom and damnation" that he sees as pervasive in contemporary art. Visuals by Studio Drupsteen with soprano Clare McFadden, tenor Thomas Allen, and the North Netherlands Concert Choir and Orchestra.
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Kathleen Supové
2009 ::: music
A fluid rush of pianistic virtuousity brought to visual life by images of clouds projected onto the grand piano lid.
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Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
2009 ::: movie
Werner Herzog (b.1942)
2009 ::: preview
Herz aus Glas (Deutschland 1976)
Script: Herbert Achternbusch
A "mystik" movie by Werner Herzog. Based on the story about a bavarian prophet from the 18th century, who lived on the german site of bohemia, called Mühlhiasl. Some of the actor`s performe mostly under hypnosis.
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Fritz Lang (1890-1976)
2009 ::: movie
Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (1931)
A masterpiece with a great performance by Peter Lorre.
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Liquid Sky (1982)
by Slava Tsukerman
The eclectic site of New York`s 80`s. A low budged production in tradition of Midnight Movies about the glamoures people around St.Marks Place together in a weird sophistic, "every one is a star", scene. Seems like a visual reminiscence to Klaus Nomi and Ziggi Sturdust playing Doctor Schiwago behind the forbidden door of warhol`s factory just a minute before aids become the main focus for the next years.
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Sebastian Horsley (b.1962)
2009 ::: offart
Die Tödliche Doris
2009 ::: offart
Über-Mutti, Konzert 1983
Käthe Kruse (b.1958)
Wolfgang Müller (b.1957)
Nikolaus Utermöhlen (1958-1996)
Founded in West Berlin, Die Tödliche Doris one of the most influential creators of conceptual, avant-garde music and performance art in the 1980s.
The Deadly Doris (translated) were central to the new atonal music scene in 1980s West Berlin. In 1981 they performed at the Festival of Ingenious Dilletantes. Attempting to ignore the division between high art and subculture, amateurism and dilettantism were celebrated as democratic forces against both the capitalist system and GDR socialism.
The group created records, tapes, films, performances, and exhibited their work widely including at documenta 8 in Kassel.
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Poemfield No. 2
2009 ::: offart
Poemfield No. 2 1966, 5:40 min, color, sound
Computer animation by Stan VanDerBeek and Kenneth Knowlton, made at Bell Laboratories in 1966.
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Portofino (2009)
2009 ::: music
Tod Browning (1882-1962)
2009 ::: movie
Directed by Tod Browning (1882-1962)
Written by Willis Goldbeck & Leon Gordon based on the story “Spurs” by Tod Robbins
Starring Wallace Ford (Phroso the Clown), Leila Hyams (Venus), Olga Baclanova (Cleopatra), Henry Victor (Hercules), Harry Earles (Hans)
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Written by Willis Goldbeck & Leon Gordon based on the story “Spurs” by Tod Robbins
Starring Wallace Ford (Phroso the Clown), Leila Hyams (Venus), Olga Baclanova (Cleopatra), Henry Victor (Hercules), Harry Earles (Hans)
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Dagie Brundert (b.1962)
2009 ::: offart
Nightligh
Dagie Brundert, a german filmmaker realised a wide ranche of super 8 movie`s over the last 20 years. Based on narrative simplicity, she weave`s a complex visual pattern into a state of permanent, playful irritation.
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Dagie Brundert, a german filmmaker realised a wide ranche of super 8 movie`s over the last 20 years. Based on narrative simplicity, she weave`s a complex visual pattern into a state of permanent, playful irritation.
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Peter Fischli and David Weiss
2009 ::: offart
The Way Things Go (1987)
Inside a warehouse, artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss build an enormous, precarious structure 100 feet long made out of common household items. Using fire, water, gravity, and chemistry they create a mind-blowing chain reaction of physical and chemical interactions and precisely crafted chaos.
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Banksy
2009 ::: offart
The Punking of Paris Hilton (2006)
Hundreds of Paris Hilton albums have been tampered with in the latest stunt by "guerrilla artist" Banksy. Banksy has replaced Hilton's CD with his own remixes and given them titles such as Why am I Famous?, What Have I Done? and What Am I For? He has also changed pictures of her on the CD sleeve to show the US socialite topless and with a dog's head. A spokeswoman for Banksy said he had doctored 500 copies of her debut album Paris in 48 record shops across the UK. She told the BBC News website: "He switched the CDs in store, so he took the old ones out and put his version in."
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Harun Farocki (b.1944)
2009 ::: preview
Holger Meins (1941-1974)
Oskar Langenfeld (1967)Film by Holger Meins about a tuberculosis-afflicted homeless
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Gilbert & George
2009 ::: movie
No Surrender, 8th May 2007
"All the hidden remarks - 'the curiously besuited couple', 'the tedious twosome' - that's all coded language for 'I'd prefer not to have two poofs exhibiting in this gallery'," Gilbert and George declare over tea with Alan Yentob in their favourite East End café.
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"All the hidden remarks - 'the curiously besuited couple', 'the tedious twosome' - that's all coded language for 'I'd prefer not to have two poofs exhibiting in this gallery'," Gilbert and George declare over tea with Alan Yentob in their favourite East End café.
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Zubi Zuva
2009 ::: offart
X Suite Europe Live undated
Zubi Zuva is a freewheeling a cappella vocal trio, running the gamut from Gregorian Chant and Buddhist Shomyo to doo-wop, hardcore and looney tunes -- of course, as usual, all in a language of Yoshida's invention. Essential listening for those interested in the outer limits of weirdness." Features Yoshida Tatsuya (alto voice), Shibasaki Yukifumi (tenor voice) & Takahashi Hideki (baritone voice).
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Zubi Zuva is a freewheeling a cappella vocal trio, running the gamut from Gregorian Chant and Buddhist Shomyo to doo-wop, hardcore and looney tunes -- of course, as usual, all in a language of Yoshida's invention. Essential listening for those interested in the outer limits of weirdness." Features Yoshida Tatsuya (alto voice), Shibasaki Yukifumi (tenor voice) & Takahashi Hideki (baritone voice).
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Kammerflimmer Kollektief
2009 ::: music
There is no official video from this german experimental electronic band.
the visuals are from Rômulo Michaelsen
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the visuals are from Rômulo Michaelsen
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Patrick Watson
2009 ::: music
The Great Escape
I really wonder why Patrick Watson isn't more well known. This video from Secret City Records, 2007. By Alex Produkt and Kathleen Weldon
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Pulp
2009 ::: music
Welcome to the old fashioned dandyclub. Included a great choreographie and costumes. Still one of my favorit`s... from the middle of the 90`s.
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last day`s of an innocent dream
2009 ::: music
A Long Time Gone Woodstock 1969... watch the build-up of Woodstock's stages while Grosby, Stills, Nash and Young are playing on the background.
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Mad World
2009 ::: music
The original video of Gary Jules' and Michael Andrews' cover version of Mad World, directed by Michel Gondry. The song was featured in the movie Donnie Darko.
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Andreas Gursky (b. 1955)
2009 ::: photography
Gursky World (2002)
In the first programme of a major new arts strand, Ben Lewis's amusing odyssey delves into the world of the planet's most influential photographer, Andreas Gursky.
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In the first programme of a major new arts strand, Ben Lewis's amusing odyssey delves into the world of the planet's most influential photographer, Andreas Gursky.
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Robert Mapplethorpe
2009 ::: preview
Black White and Gray
In their many years together as artist and collector, model and mentor, wealthy curator Sam Wagstaff and bête noire photographer Robert Mapplethorpe had many dual portraits taken. But even though these photographs are clear and intelligible, the relationship between these two talented and influential men never has been.
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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2009 ::: preview
Jack Smith is simultaneously hailed as the godfather of performance art, a groundbreaking photographer and the 'William Blake of film'. His utopian ideals, artistic processes and bejeweled artworks became essential influences to contemporary art superstars like Andy Warhol, Federico Fellini and Matthew Barney.
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Survival Research Laboratories
2009 ::: offart
Virtues of Negative Fascination (1985-86)
Runtime: 75mins
"Virtues of Negative Fascination" is a documentary covering the performance activities of Survival Research Laboratories, Mark Pauline, Matt Heckert and Eric Werner, from 1985-1986.
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Horseplay
2009 ::: movie
Horseplay
Is a short 16mm documentary about the New Zealand painter Philip Trusttum. The film presents a brief snap-shot of the artist and his surroundings at his farm in Waimate. The approach of the documentary makes no attempt to disguise the role of the filmmaker. In this way it pays homage to the Direct Cinema tradition. The film uses hand-held camera, voyeuristic shots and off-camera audio. The film was made in 1990 by: Peter Bannan; Vivienne Stone; Peter Evans; Robert Sarkies; Michael Brown; Simon Perkins; Philip Trusttum; Lee Trusttum; Peter Leech; James Wallace.
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Simon Perkins, Paul Swadel
2009 ::: movie
A Little Death
is a 16mm short film drama jointly created by Simon Perkins and Paul Swadel (and crew), produced by James Wallace Productions. The film explores spatial problems through character and camera choreography. The film has been shown extensively throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand as well being screened at the Hamburg Short Film Festival. The film was an evolution of the 'Into The Void' project.
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Bill Karn
2009 ::: movie
Five Minutes To Live (1961)
Johnny Cash gives a surprising performance as a guitar playing, sadistic psycho-killer.
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Nicolas Provost
2009 ::: offart
By subjecting fragments from the Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon to a mirror effect, Provost creates a hallucinatory scene of a woman's reverse chrysalis into an imploding butterfly. This physical audiovisual experience produces skewed reflections upon Love, its lyrical monstrosities, and a wounded act of disappearance.
"My field of interest is to analyze and question the phenomenon of cinema, its various elements, its influence and conventional rules. My work is a reflection on the grammar of cinema and the relation between visual art and the cinematic experience. That said, it's all about love."
—Nicolas Provost
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"My field of interest is to analyze and question the phenomenon of cinema, its various elements, its influence and conventional rules. My work is a reflection on the grammar of cinema and the relation between visual art and the cinematic experience. That said, it's all about love."
—Nicolas Provost
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Peter Liechti (b.1951)
2009 ::: offart
Scene from a movie by Peter Liechti about voice crack,
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the Swiss Noise and Experimental Pioneers.
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Ken Jacobs, John Zorn, Ikue Mori
2009 ::: offart
Celestial Subway Lines / Salvaging Noise Ch.3
Released on Tzadik 2004
The nervous magic lantern is a late optical invention, technically possible long before film or even photography, for projection of images that move through impossible changes in a vast illusionary depth, visible to even a single eye.
Music: John Zorn & Ikue Mori
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George Landow
2009 ::: movie
Film In Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc (1965-66)
The 'imperfections' of filmmaking, which are normally suppressed, are at the core of a work that uses a brief loop made from a Kodak colour test.
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Peter Kubelka
2009 ::: offart
Unsere Afrikareise
Österreich, 1966. Regie: Peter Kubelka. Schnitt: Peter Kubelka. Farbe. 13 Min.
“UNSERE AFRIKAREISE is about the richest, most articulate, and most compressed film I have ever seen. I have seen it four times and I am going to see it many, many times more, and the more I see it, the more I see in it. Kubelka’s film is one of cinema’s few masterpieces and a work of such great perfection that it forces one to re-evaluate everything that one knew about cinema. The incredible artistry of this man, his incredible patience. (He worked on UNSERE AFRIKAREISE for five years; the film is 12 and a half minutes long.) His methods of working (he learned by heart 14 hours of tapes and three hours of film, frame by frame), and the beauty of his accomplishment makes the rest of us look like amateurs.” – Jonas Mekas
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Nico (1938-1988)
2009 ::: Interview
Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986)
2009 ::: Interview
Interview`s with Andrei Tarkovsky
"The pressure Rublev is subject to, is not an exception. An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn`t exist, for the artist doesn`t live in a vacuum.
Some pressure must exist: the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn`t look for harmony but would simply live in it.
Rt is born out of an ill designed world. This is the issue in "Rublev": the search for harmonic relationships among men between art and life, between time and history. That`s what my film is all about.
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Philip Glass and Robert Wilson
2009 ::: offart
EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH
Documentary, Interview`s about this legendary opera, sound and choreographie
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Balthus
2009 ::: offart
Balthasar Kłossowski de Rola
Documentary
A wonderful poetic documentation about one of the greatest painters of the last century.
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Diane Arbus (1923-1971)
2009 ::: photography
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
2009 ::: lyrics
Alan Watts (1915-1973)
2009 ::: lyrics
A Conversation with Myself
A 1971 television recording with Alan Watts walking in the mountains and talking about the limitations of technology and the problem of trying to keep track of an infinite universe with a single tracked mind.
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A 1971 television recording with Alan Watts walking in the mountains and talking about the limitations of technology and the problem of trying to keep track of an infinite universe with a single tracked mind.
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Edie Sedgwick
2009 ::: movie
Ciao Manhattan
(1972)
Filmed Easter Sunday 1967 - 1970 Directors: David Weisman, John Palmer Cast includes: Edie Sedgwick, Isabel Jewell, Paul America, Baby Jane Holzer, Viva, Jean Margouleff, Pat Hartley, Brigid Berlin
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(1972)
Filmed Easter Sunday 1967 - 1970 Directors: David Weisman, John Palmer Cast includes: Edie Sedgwick, Isabel Jewell, Paul America, Baby Jane Holzer, Viva, Jean Margouleff, Pat Hartley, Brigid Berlin
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William K. L. Dickson
2009 ::: offart
The earliest extant sound film. William K.L. Dickson stands in the background next to a huge sound pickup horn connected to a Thomas Edison phonograph recorder. As he plays a violin, two men dance in the foreground. This film was made to demonstrate a new Thomas Edison machine, the Kinetophone. These machines were Kinetoscope peepshow viewers mated with Thomas Edison wax cylinder phonographs. But the Kinetophone never caught on and this film was never released. The film still exists, but the phonograph soundtrack has been lost.
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Yves Klein
2009 ::: offart
Anthropometries of the Blue Period and Fire Paintings
Filmed in 1960, Anthropometries of the Blue Period and Fire Paintings consists of two art performances. Musicians play music as Yves Klein directs young women to imprint their blue-painted-bodies onto canvas. The second performance involves the women helping to create an outline of themselves before a torch is used to scorch the canvas.
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Derek Jarman (1942-1994)
2009 ::: offart
Art of Mirrors
Director Derek Jarman explores his alchemical fascination with the themes of light and reflection in this short film from 1973.
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Bill Viola (b.1951)
2009 ::: offart
The Reflecting Pool
The American video artist Bill Viola focuses here on a pool and a man frozen mid-air above it.
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Megwin and the Land of Neverwill
2009 ::: camp
Jenny Holzer
2009 ::: offart
Jenny Holzer discusses her difficult relationship to writing during the installation of the exhibition "PROTECT PROTECT" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Featured works include "Red Yellow Looming" (2004), "Lustmord" (2007), "Protect Protect deep purple" (2007), and "For Chicago" (2008), among others. The exhibition remains on view in Chicago through February 1st, and will travel to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York in March.
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Featured works include "Red Yellow Looming" (2004), "Lustmord" (2007), "Protect Protect deep purple" (2007), and "For Chicago" (2008), among others. The exhibition remains on view in Chicago through February 1st, and will travel to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York in March.
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Robert Rauschenberg
2009 ::: offart
Elegy for Robert Rauschenberg is an homage to an artist who was my personal hero, and my nemesis, in my student years. He was my hero because of the infallibility of his touch, and the constancy of his ability to invent and re-invent the potency and power of visual art — to push the boundaries of what art could be. He was my nemesis because I saw him as pure genius and his every gesture as perfection — conditions that were not, I thought, possible for others to attain. But my joy and delight in his work continued and my pleasure in talking with him from time to time over the years was enormous.
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Rachel Whiteread (b.1963)
2009 ::: offart
In this video profile Rachel Whiteread speaks about the ideas that prompted a number of her best-known sculptures, including Ghost, her first cast of the space inside a complete room, and Monument, which established a shimmering presence in London's Trafalgar Square during the summer of 2001. She also outlines the complexities of creating her often technically challenging works, and reflects on the controversies that they have sometimes set off.
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Cindy Sherman
2009 ::: photography
In her studio in 1986
This video is an excerpt of an episode of State of the Art, a series of documentaries about the visual arts in the 1980s. Filmed in Europe, the United States, and Australia in 1985-6, the six programs feature many key artists including Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Antony Gormley, Hans Haacke, Eric Fischl, and Joseph Beuys.
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Markus Heltschl (b.1952)
2009 ::: preview
Kazuo Ohno
2009 ::: offart
Installation + Performance Concept.
Virginie Marchand dances with Kazuo Ohno for his 99th birthday at his home in Yokohama, Japan
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Virginie Marchand dances with Kazuo Ohno for his 99th birthday at his home in Yokohama, Japan
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Yasuchika Konno
2009 ::: offart
A performance by Yasuchika Konno held at Tokyo Gallery on February 29th, 2007, for the opening of Riichi Yamaguchi's solo exhibition "A sense of de-tach-ment"
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JENNIFER WEST
2009 ::: offart
Rainbow Party on 70MM Film
JENNIFER WEST Rainbow Party on 70MM Film (70MM film leader kissed with lipstick & impressed with teeth marks by Jwest and her former students: Mariah Csepanyi, Maggie Romano & Roxana Eslemiah),2008, 39 seconds
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The Velvet Underground
2009 ::: offart
Chris Burden
2009 ::: offart
Shoot
Chris Burden's conceptual performance from the early 1970s. Shot on Super-8, 16mm film, and half-inch video. Guided by the artist's comments on both the works and the documentative process.«In this instant 1 was a sculpture.» Chris Burden means the moment his arm was pierced by a bullet from a (copperjacket) 22 long rifle. Actually, when a friend pulled the trigger on November 19, 1971 at a distance of 13 feet, the intent was only to graze the artist's arm. «Shoot» was considered one of the most spectacular performances of the seventies, provoking journalists to ask, «Will he survive 30?» Such remarks turned Burden into a living myth but they also delineated the controversy that has always attended his work. The controversy surrounding «Shoot» was fuelled by the fantasies and fears triggered by shooting and gunshot wounds. Films like «Full Metal Jacket» or «Bultets over Broadway» indicate an enduring interest in the folkloric tradition of westerns, war and gangster movies. With the escalation of the Vietnam War, the subject matter penetrated the minds of the American public no longer as fiction but as fact in the shape of body bags, invalids and veterans from Vietnam. This exerted a significant influence on the daring of Burden's experimental piece.
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Smashing Pumpkins
2009 ::: music
Tonight, Tonight
From their album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Inspired by Georges Méliès's silent film A Trip to the Moon. It is still considered one of the greatest music videos of all time.
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Johnny Cash (1932-2003)
2009 ::: music
"Hurt" was written by Trent Reznor as a description of the pain caused by heroin addiction that appeared on Nine Inch Nail`s 1994 Downward Spiral.
He also offered this comment on the first time he witnessed the remaking of his song. "We were in the studio, getting ready to work ,- and I popped it in," Reznor says. "By the end I was really on the verge of tears. I'm working with Zach de la Rocha, and I told him to take a look. At the end of it, there was just dead silence. There was, like, this moist clearing of our throats and then, 'Uh, OK, let's get some coffee.''
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He also offered this comment on the first time he witnessed the remaking of his song. "We were in the studio, getting ready to work ,- and I popped it in," Reznor says. "By the end I was really on the verge of tears. I'm working with Zach de la Rocha, and I told him to take a look. At the end of it, there was just dead silence. There was, like, this moist clearing of our throats and then, 'Uh, OK, let's get some coffee.''
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David Bowie & Bing Crosby
2009 ::: camp
“Little Drummer Boy”
The sight of Bing Crosby accompanied by David Bowie for a Christmas medley is one of the most bizarre clips ever.
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Hildegard Knef (1925-2002)
2009 ::: music
Pirate Jenny - live
The original german version by Berthold Brecht / Music : Kurt Weill
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A Mini-Epic
Chamber of Perverse Torture
Sarah and Yumi are top-secret sex slaves for a high-ranking government official. They spend their days in a bizarre play-pen/torture chamber/slave-labor station, where they produce pro-war polo shirts by hand and live in constant fear. Yumi, having lived in the cell the longest, is almost completely brainwashed and paralyzed, but Sarah still possesses enough spunk to try to escape. Her impulsive scheme is thwarted by a few terrifying obstacles... will Sarah's inner courage be enough to save the day? Written by Anonymous at imdb
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José Mojica Marins (1936)
2009 ::: camp
Mushroomhead Flattened
Tarantula Scene from 'This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse‘, (1967)
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