Castor & Pollux
Aug ::: photography | movie
Castor & Pollux Lookbook Spring Summer 09/10
Photographer and Director: Ben Briand
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Mary Last Seen by Sean Durkin
Aug ::: preview
A young woman embarks on a road trip with her boyfriend to a place he promises will be beautiful and peaceful.
But a series of strange events occur on their journey, and it becomes clear that their relationship is not
what she thinks and their destination is not what was promised.
Director: Sean Durkin Cinematographer: Drew Innis Producers: Josh Mond & Antonio Campos Starring: Brady Corbet & Alexia Rasmussen
Short film premieres at 2010 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL.
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Director: Sean Durkin Cinematographer: Drew Innis Producers: Josh Mond & Antonio Campos Starring: Brady Corbet & Alexia Rasmussen
Short film premieres at 2010 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL.
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OPRÉ / Twenty120 by Justin Harder
Aug ::: movie
In the age of opulence,
I lay a choppy lake.
Poisonous mistakes will over take this current I make,
drifting,....
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I lay a choppy lake.
Poisonous mistakes will over take this current I make,
drifting,....
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Cyanide Breathmint by Walter A. Bell
Aug ::: movie
... We shot Cyanide Breathmint at the National Black Theatre in Harlem, New York on an empty floor in their studios on world-renown W.125 St.
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Born That Way by Tony McNeal
Aug ::: movie
When ex-con and hard-as-nails, Jake Green, finally gets a chance to see his daughter after six months, he takes her out for a quick bite only to wind up in the middle of an armored car heist.
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Black Cab, by Andy Guest
Aug ::: movie
The black cab moves slowly through the dark streets of the capital city, trawling the pavements, awaiting his next customer. He pulls up at a popular celebrity haunt to pick up a famous passenger and take him on a fateful journey through London....
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Turbo, by Jarrett Lee Conaway
Aug ::: movie
TURBO is a high adrenaline short film in the tradition of The Karate Kid and Tron. It tells the story of Hugo Park (Justin Chon, Twilight) a troubled youth whose only outlet for angst is a 4D fighting videogame called “Super Turbo Arena”.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg
Aug ::: preview
The Cement Garden
Excerpt from the 1993 movie "The Cement Garden" in which Charlotte Gainsbourg utters the quotation later used in Madonna's song "What It Feels Like For a Girl". The movie's screenplay is an adaptation of the eponymous book by Ian McEwan.
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Excerpt from the 1993 movie "The Cement Garden" in which Charlotte Gainsbourg utters the quotation later used in Madonna's song "What It Feels Like For a Girl". The movie's screenplay is an adaptation of the eponymous book by Ian McEwan.
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Jul ::: movie
Lights, created for Interpol
Eclectic S/M-Scene between three woman with the message what goe`s in will come out again. a lab of erotic sophisticationin the basement of the chase manhatten bank, perhaps. And there`s a lot transformation of course...
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Hans Richter (1888-1976)
Jul ::: movie
Dreams That Money Can Buy 1947
Is like a whow`s who of international dada and surrealist artist`s like Marcel Duchamp (Writer), Man Ray (Director/Writer), Max Ernst (Director/Writer), Alexander Calder (Director/Writer), Hans Richter (Director/Writer), Fernand Léger (Director/Writer).
This experimental film written won the Award for the Best Original Contribution to the Progress of Cinematography at the 1947 Venice Film Festival.
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Bill Viola (b.1951)
Jul ::: offart
The Passing 1991
B/W 56 Min.USA
Bill Viola reworks the story of Christ’s death and resurrection in a modern medium but his pieces are dripping in classical heritage. He plays with Renaissance symbolism, drawing directly from early Renaissance compositions and poses - the original paintings on display may be less visceral but are much more mesmerising.
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Visite à Picasso (1950)
Jun ::: movie
Visite à Picasso (1950), by Paul Haesaerts
‘Visite à Picasso’ (1950) 20m, dir. Paul Haesaerts A poetic treatment which includes the artist painting on glass while facing the camera, shot at Picasso's home in Vallauris, accompanied by some fairly moody organ music in this very dark, but captivating film. The artist here takes on the character of an eminence-grise, an alchemist engulfed in the "sol y sombra" of his laboratory-studio, filmed in gorgeous black and white.
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Imamura Shōhei (1926-2006)
Jun ::: movie
The Ροrחοgraphers (1966)
Introduction to AnthropologySυbυ makes pοrnοgraphic films. Ηe sees nοthing wrοng with it. They are an aid tο a repressed sοciety, and he υses the mοney tο sυppοrt his landlady, Ηarυ, and her family. Ϝrοm time tο time, Ηaru shares her bed with Sυbυ, thουgh she belieνes her dead hυsband, reincarnated as a carp, disapprονes. Directοr Shοhei Ιmamυra has always delighted in the kinky explοits οf lοwlifes, and in this 1966 classic, he finds sυbνersiνe hυmοr in the bizarre dynamics οf Ηaru, her Οedipal sοn, and her daυghter, the trυe οbϳect οf her pοrnοgrapher-bοyfriend’s οbsessiοn. Ιmamυra's cοmic treatment οf sυch tabοοs as νοyeυrism aחd incest sparked cοntrονersy when the film was released, bυt The Ροrnοgraphers has ουtlasted its critics, and nοw seems frankly ahead οf its time.
I am interested in the relationship of the lower part of the human body and the lower part of the social structure on which the reality of daily Japanese life obstinately supports itself.
The Japanese did not change as a result of the Pacific War—they haven't changed in thousands of years!
—Shohei Imamura
Françoise Sagan
Jun ::: movie
Encore un Hiver (1979)
This wonderful film focuses on an older woman waiting on a park bench on a cold winter day for a lover who returns every year. Directed by Françoise Sagan, author of Bonjour Tristesse.
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Carson "Kit" Davidson
Jun ::: movie
Help, My Snowman's Burning Down (1964)
Fourteen international awards, including an Academy Award, Nomination and the Special Prize of the Jury, Cannes Intl Festival. Presents a surrealistic and humorous satire on the Madison Avenue image of the world through advertis
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Buster Keaton (1895-1966)
Mai ::: movie
Samuel Beckett's Film
Samuel Beckett’s only venture into the medium of cinema.
A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye.
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Samuel Beckett’s only venture into the medium of cinema.
A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye.
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Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Mai ::: offart
Screen Test
Between 1964 and 1966, Andy Warhol shot nearly 500 Screen Tests, beautiful and revealing portraits of hundreds of different individuals, from the famous to the anonymous, all visitors to his studio, the Factory. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong keylight, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in slow motion, resulting in a fascinating collection of four-minute masterpieces that startle and entrance, mesmerizing in the purest sense of the word.
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Between 1964 and 1966, Andy Warhol shot nearly 500 Screen Tests, beautiful and revealing portraits of hundreds of different individuals, from the famous to the anonymous, all visitors to his studio, the Factory. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong keylight, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in slow motion, resulting in a fascinating collection of four-minute masterpieces that startle and entrance, mesmerizing in the purest sense of the word.
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F.W. Murnau (1888-1932)
Apr ::: movie
Faust 1926
F.W. Murnau's telling of the classic German legend, 'Faust' is a masterpiece to behold. From both the technical and story standpoint, the film excels and despite being nearly eighty years old, Faust still stands tall as one of the greatest cinematic achievements of all time. F.W. Murnau has become best known among film fans for 'Nosferatu', but this is unfair to the man. While Nosferatu is something of an achievement; it pales in comparison to this film in every respect. Faust is far more extravagant than Murnau's vampire tale, and it shows his technical brilliance much more effectively. The story is of particular note, and it follows a German alchemist by the name of Faust. As God and Satan war over Earth, the Devil preaches that he will be able to tempt Faust into darkness and so has a wager with God to settle things. Satan sends Mephisto to Earth to offer Faust an end to the plague that is making it's way through the local population, and eternal youth, in return for Faust's soul...
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Elia Kazan (1909-2003)
Feb ::: movie
Rich Ragsdale
Feb ::: offart
dance/movement test for experimental film
is a short intense work with an interesting combination of traditional dance moving scenes (expressionismus, butho, artaud, ect) and an atmospheric sound.
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František Vláčil (1924-1999)
Feb ::: movie
The White Dove (Holubice) 1960 (76 min.)
Kamera: Jan Čuřík
The White Dove (Holubice) is an acclaimed Czech drama from director František Vláčil follows a bird struggling to complete its homeward migration across Europe and the effect that caring for the dove has on an artist, an ailing boy, and a young girl.
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Satyajit Ray (1921-1992)
Feb ::: movie
Distant Thunder
"Distant Thunder" has all sorts of connections with Ray's great Apu Trilogy—its village setting, its leading actor, Soumitra Chatterji, who played the title role in "The World of Apu," and its source material. The new film, like the Apu Trilogy, is based on a novel by Bibhuti Bhusan Bannerji. It is, however, very different from those early films.
It is the work of a director who has learned the value of narrative economy to such an extent that "Distant Thunder," which is set against the backdrop of the "manmade" famine that wiped out 5 million people in 1943, has the simplicity of a fable.
Though its field of vision is narrow, more or less confined to the social awakening of a young village Brahmin and his pretty, naive wife, the sweep of the film is so vast that, at the end, you feel as if you'd witnessed the events from a satellite. You've somehow been able to see simultaneously the curvature of the earth and the insects on the blades of field grass.
"Distant Thunder" is about Gangacharan (Mr. Chatterji), the only Brahmin in his village, a solemn and rather pompous young man who accepts the responsibilities as well as the privileges of caste. As teacher, physician and priest he looks forward to the material rewards due him. When Ananga, his wife, asks him if he really can ward off cholera through spells, for which neighboring villagers will pay him handsomely, he replies that, in addition to the spells, he will pass on to the villagers the practical information from his hygiene encyclopedia.
As the war-induced rice shortage becomes increasingly acute, the tranquillity of the village is destroyed. Life-long trusts are betrayed. Civil order falls apart. At the same time, the famine prompts some remarkable instances of love and compassion. The self-assured Gangacharan, who wears black-rim spectacles and carries a black umbrella, is at first angry when his wife proposes that she go to work to earn rice for them. Then he says quietly: "If we have to humble ourselves, it's best we do it together."
As the scramble to survive humiliates some of Ray's characters, it ennobles others, including Gangacharan who, towards the end, has begun to question the social system that he has always accepted as given and right. In the context of the film, this is a revolutionary conversion, and a most moving one.
Ray has chosen to photograph the film in rich, warm colors, the effect of which is not to soften the focus of the film but to sharpen it. The course of terrible events seems that much more vivid in landscapes of relentless beauty.
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Barthelemy Bompard
Feb ::: movie
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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Ludmila Terni
Dez ::: 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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Strange Fruit
Nov ::: 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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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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Jim Jarmusch
Nov ::: 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
Nov ::: 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
Nov ::: 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)
Nov ::: 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
Nov ::: 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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The Shooter
Okt ::: 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
Okt ::: 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)
Okt ::: 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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Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
Okt ::: 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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Catherine Renaud Baret
Okt ::: 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)
Okt ::: 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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Chicasblue
Okt ::: offart
"The Dream" (1990)
Okt ::: 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
Okt ::: 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)
Okt ::: 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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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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Christopher Walken
Sep ::: movie
Weapon of Choice (2001)
Christopher Walken performs a swing-from-the-rafters solo in an empty hotel lobby...
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Joachim Koester
Sep ::: 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
Sep ::: 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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Werner Herzog (b.1942)
Aug ::: 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)
Aug ::: movie
Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (1931)
A masterpiece with a great performance by Peter Lorre.
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Banksy
Aug ::: 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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A Little Death by Simon Perkins and Paul Swadel
Jul ::: 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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Markus Heltschl
Jun ::: preview
Michael Hutchence
Jun ::: preview
Dogs in Space
First 10 minutes of 'Dogs In Space' directed by Richard Lowenstein
and the song Rooms for the memory by Michael Hutchence
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