Lutz Dammbeck, Das Netz
Mai ::: movie
"The Net" (Das Netz, 2003), an independent film directed by Lutz Dammbeck
EMAF Award 2004
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Can
Mai ::: music
Can on German TV 1971, fooling around, playing football, jamming, talking about politics. Taken from a 1999 Can documentary
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Adam Pertofsky
Mai ::: offart
The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306
This is a short film that is archived and presented at The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis Tennessee. It is a documentary on Rev. Samuel "Billy" Kyles, witness to Martin Luther King Jr's assassination.
It was nominated for a academy award in 2009 under the category of documentary short.
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This is a short film that is archived and presented at The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis Tennessee. It is a documentary on Rev. Samuel "Billy" Kyles, witness to Martin Luther King Jr's assassination.
It was nominated for a academy award in 2009 under the category of documentary short.
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Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
Apr ::: lyrics
King of the Beats
Documentary about the life of On the Road author Jack Kerouac. Kerouac coined the phrase Beat Generation and has been called the Father of the Hippies.
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Mark Lewis (b.1969)
Apr ::: offart
Listen in as UK-based artist Mark Lewis, Canada’s official representative at the 53rd Venice Biennale, discusses his films and plans for his installation with Barbara Fischer, commissioner of the Canadian pavilion. This talk was recorded as part of Canadian Art’s Room with a View program in Toronto, November 2008.
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Dinner With Henry (1979)
Dez ::: 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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Daido Moriyama
Nov ::: photography
Swinging London
Okt ::: 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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David Hockney
Okt ::: 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
Okt ::: 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
Okt ::: 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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Sidney D. Gamble (1890-1968)
Okt ::: 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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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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Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
Aug ::: movie
Sebastian Horsley (b.1962)
Aug ::: offart
Gilbert & George
Aug ::: 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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Andreas Gursky (b. 1955)
Aug ::: 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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Robert Mapplethorpe
Aug ::: 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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Horseplay
Jul ::: 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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Under Construction
Jul ::: movie
Animation meets politics
or Andrej Tarkowski meets Gameboy
what ever,- a story about an asian megacity where the people have to move away from there houses.
a kind of short docudrama where the high artificial animation asthetics seems to be overdone and to easy for this kind of problematic.
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Margueritte Duras (1914-1996)
Jan ::: movie
Les Mains Négatives 1978
Les Mains Négatives shows the travellings across the streets of Paris at daybreak of a voice speaking of love. This declaration is sent out to the ones who have been left behind. It speaks to immigrant workers, the homeless, the clandestine population in a Paris still asleep with its historical buildings and monuments as a backdrop for a love declaration outside of real time.
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Nico (1938-1988)
Jul ::: Interview
Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986)
Jul ::: 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
Jul ::: offart
EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH
Documentary, Interview`s about this legendary opera, sound and choreographie
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Balthus
Jul ::: 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
Jul ::: photography
William K. L. Dickson
Jun ::: 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
Jun ::: 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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Jenny Holzer
Jun ::: 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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Nancy Spero
Dez ::: 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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Cindy Sherman
Jun ::: 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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Romy Haag (b.1951)
Mrz ::: offart
Talks about her legendary Transvestiteclub in Berlin Schöneberg, the time during Berlin of the 70`s, her relationship to David Bowie.
Another famous club during that Berlin decade was the "Dschungel" in Nürnbergerstrasse near KaDW and "Andere Ufer" in Hauptstrasse one of the first gaybars at that time, close by Bowie`s flat.
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Another famous club during that Berlin decade was the "Dschungel" in Nürnbergerstrasse near KaDW and "Andere Ufer" in Hauptstrasse one of the first gaybars at that time, close by Bowie`s flat.
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