threeASFOUR
Jul ::: preview
threeASFOUR is a fashion label from New York City established in 1998. The new line was in cooperation with Yoko Ono, showed on New York Fashion Week.
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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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90tes Sounds
Jul ::: music
short 90tes Review.
Gin and Juice (Uncensored) the deput from Snoop Doggy Dogg (b.1971) - Doggystyl Album (1993)
Barry Adamson (b.1958) with „Something wicked this way comes“, on David Lynch`s movie „Lost Highway“ from 1997.
hear also from the legendary Album, Moss Side Story (1988), „under wraps“!
"Mama cooked breakfast with no hog!“,no comment about that sick line. See the great classic chevy impala and listen to the „sunny“ beats from Ice Cub (b.1969), „It Was a Good Day“ from the Album The Predator (1993). The rest of the Lp is almost one of the roughest Hip Hop ever. Try that: When Will They Shoot? from the same LP
From 1995 Tricky - „Hell is around the Corner“ from his debut album Maxinquaye. It`s a mix of dark soul, hip hop and fusiondub
Dummy was the 1994 debut album of Portishead and changed a lot in sense about listen to music and being in love... anyway here is Glory Box
enjoy
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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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Jeff Koons Summer 1975
Jun ::: Interview
Maila Nurmi (1921 -2008)
Jun ::: camp
VAMPIRA
Maila Nurmi discusses her art. From the her final recorded interview by Mark Berry. She has passed on famous as VAMPIRA and The Ghoul Woman in Plan 9 From Outer Space. She was friends with James Dean, CRISWELL and many other Hollywood greats.
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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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Jan Lenica (1928-2001)
Jun ::: offart
- Rhinoceros (1965) A animated version of Ionesco’s tale, a play on the theme of conformity.- Ubu and the Great Gidouille- Labyrinth
Jan Lenica's checkered career has encompassed excursions into music, architecture, poster-making, costume design, children's book illustration, and all aspects of filmmaking. It is, however, for his animation that he is best known, particularly his collage and "cutout" films, which have their roots in the art of Max Ernst and John Heartfield. The films have influenced the work of Jan Švankmajer and Terry Gilliam.
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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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Pina Bausch (1940-2009)
Mai ::: offart
Die Klage Der Kaiserin by Pina Bausch
"This first film by choreographer Pina Bausch reflects her method of working as developed with the Wuppertal Theatre of Dance during the 1973/74 season. The film does not tell a story, but is made up of various scenes put together as a collage with scenes set in different locations, such as the woods and fields around Wuppertal, the city centre, the suspension railway, a carpet shop, a greenhouse and the rehearsal room. The futility of human activity and the search for love make up the film's central theme set against the strains of a Silician funeral march. Filmed on location in Wuppertal, Germany, between October 1987 and April 1989.
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Amon Düül
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Amon Düül / Rainer Werner Fassbinder / Niklashauser Fart
Amon Düüls appearance in the 1970 Fassbinder movie Niklahauser Fart which connects a 15th century peasants rebellion with the political struggles of the 1960ties. Fassbinder (in modern clothes representing the present) discusses the chances of a revolution with one of the peasant rebels
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Amon Düüls appearance in the 1970 Fassbinder movie Niklahauser Fart which connects a 15th century peasants rebellion with the political struggles of the 1960ties. Fassbinder (in modern clothes representing the present) discusses the chances of a revolution with one of the peasant rebels
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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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Hölderlins Traum (1972)
Mai ::: music
Psycadelic, experimental sounds from germany.
A Song from the album "Hölderlins Traum" (Hölderlins Dream) on german Pilz label. Requiem Für Einen Wicht (1972). The Album was inspired by Tolkiens, Lord of the Rings, here in a political interpretation.
Witthüser & Westrupp - Der Jesus Pilz
Ougenweide - der Schlemihl
Zupfgeigenhansel - Mein Michel
Ton Steine Scherben - Macht kaputt was euch kaputt macht, Rauch Haus Song (legendary song about a squatted house in Berlin Kreuzberg -K36)
Floh de Cologne - Die Luft gehört denen die sie atmen [1971]
Bröselmaschine - (I Once Loved) Lassie (1971)
Hannes Wader - Die Moorsoldaten (The song of marshland)
Franz-Josef Degenhardt - Spiel nicht mit den Schmuddelkindern
Liederjan - Die Weber
Amon Düül II - Eye shacking king (liveconcert 1970), Phalus Dei
Magna Ram - Wilde Zugfahrt
Can - Moonshake
Sweet Smoke - Just A Poke, Silly Sally
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Grobschnitt - Solar Music Live
Klaus Doldinger's Passport - Schirokko (1973)
Achim Reichel - Eisenpferde (1974)
Popol Vuh - Kyrie 1973
ELOY - Walk Alone (1970/71)
Kraan - Sarahs Ritt durch den Schwarzwald (1972)
Volker Kriegel - Und schön ist die Fahrt
Tangerine Dream - Zeit
Embryo - Try To Do (1979)
Guru Guru - Electric Junk (1971)
Birth Control - Gamma Ray
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A Song from the album "Hölderlins Traum" (Hölderlins Dream) on german Pilz label. Requiem Für Einen Wicht (1972). The Album was inspired by Tolkiens, Lord of the Rings, here in a political interpretation.
German bands of the 70es:
Witthüser & Westrupp - Der Jesus Pilz
Ougenweide - der Schlemihl
Zupfgeigenhansel - Mein Michel
Ton Steine Scherben - Macht kaputt was euch kaputt macht, Rauch Haus Song (legendary song about a squatted house in Berlin Kreuzberg -K36)
Floh de Cologne - Die Luft gehört denen die sie atmen [1971]
Bröselmaschine - (I Once Loved) Lassie (1971)
Hannes Wader - Die Moorsoldaten (The song of marshland)
Franz-Josef Degenhardt - Spiel nicht mit den Schmuddelkindern
Liederjan - Die Weber
Amon Düül II - Eye shacking king (liveconcert 1970), Phalus Dei
Magna Ram - Wilde Zugfahrt
Can - Moonshake
Sweet Smoke - Just A Poke, Silly Sally
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Grobschnitt - Solar Music Live
Klaus Doldinger's Passport - Schirokko (1973)
Achim Reichel - Eisenpferde (1974)
Popol Vuh - Kyrie 1973
ELOY - Walk Alone (1970/71)
Kraan - Sarahs Ritt durch den Schwarzwald (1972)
Volker Kriegel - Und schön ist die Fahrt
Tangerine Dream - Zeit
Embryo - Try To Do (1979)
Guru Guru - Electric Junk (1971)
Birth Control - Gamma Ray
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Gil Scott Heron
Mai ::: offart
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (1971)
Official promo for Gil Scott Heron's collected lyrics and poems, Now and Then.
Produced by Peter Collingridge and directed by Julian House.
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Official promo for Gil Scott Heron's collected lyrics and poems, Now and Then.
Produced by Peter Collingridge and directed by Julian House.
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Wolfgang Riechmann (1947-1978)
Mai ::: music
Abendlicht on the Lp Wunderbar (1978) from the Berlin school legend Wolfgang Riechmann. Released on the ever impressive Sky Records label. Riechmann would likely have played a significant part in the 80s synth scene, if not for his tragic death - murdered in a random street stabbing, weeks before this album was released...
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Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Mai ::: music
Winterreise
Hans Hotter singing the first Lied of the song cycle "Winterreise" by Franz Schubert. He is accompanied by the great Michael Raucheisen.
The recording was made in 1943. Gerhard Hüsch's 1933 recording, is one of the finest Winterreise ever recorded.
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Hans Hotter singing the first Lied of the song cycle "Winterreise" by Franz Schubert. He is accompanied by the great Michael Raucheisen.
The recording was made in 1943. Gerhard Hüsch's 1933 recording, is one of the finest Winterreise ever recorded.
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Daliah Lavi
Mai ::: camp
Original lifestile of the 70es. A german pop classic from Daliah Lavi.
Oh wann kommst Du (1970)
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Oh wann kommst Du (1970)
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ENDO
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Producer: Sara Tirelli, Valeria Palermo, Alberto Mussolini
ENDO takes the notion of the black-boxing of technology to a conceptual critique and poetic sculptural interpretation. We are offered an object â a black-cased digital recorder, equipped with various sensors â allegedly registering data from its surroundings such as sound, camera image, GPS coordinates, brightness, air pressure, humidity, and temperature on a terabyte hard drive. Once the hard drive is saturated, recording stops, and the data becomes enclosed within the object, transforming it into a monumental static artifact. ENDO is a data devouring device which yields nothing in return, and hence runs contrary to the idea that the recording and storage of data will produce additional information, or insight, or even in a time of data profiling: security. As viewers we are deprived of prying into, let alone understanding, the workings of the device before us. The maxim in data we trust is firmly put to the test. What is really happening with this information, if anything at all, becomes a matter of speculation.
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ENDO takes the notion of the black-boxing of technology to a conceptual critique and poetic sculptural interpretation. We are offered an object â a black-cased digital recorder, equipped with various sensors â allegedly registering data from its surroundings such as sound, camera image, GPS coordinates, brightness, air pressure, humidity, and temperature on a terabyte hard drive. Once the hard drive is saturated, recording stops, and the data becomes enclosed within the object, transforming it into a monumental static artifact. ENDO is a data devouring device which yields nothing in return, and hence runs contrary to the idea that the recording and storage of data will produce additional information, or insight, or even in a time of data profiling: security. As viewers we are deprived of prying into, let alone understanding, the workings of the device before us. The maxim in data we trust is firmly put to the test. What is really happening with this information, if anything at all, becomes a matter of speculation.
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Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970)
Mai ::: music
Room full of mirrors...Royal Albert Hall, London 24.02.1969
Jimi Henrix- Live at Woodstock '69
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Jimi Henrix- Live at Woodstock '69
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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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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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Digital Slaves
Mai ::: offart
Video by Valère Terrier
Digital Slaves have worked on several installations for Visual System exhibition.
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Digital Slaves have worked on several installations for Visual System exhibition.
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Logorama
Mai ::: offart
This is a short film that was directed by the French animation collective H5, François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy + Ludovic Houplain. It was presented at the Cannes Film Festival 2009. It opened the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and won a 2010 academy award under the category of animated short.
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Casey Neistat
Mai ::: offart
The Ethics of Stealing a Bike
between a movie in a movie and a performance with a subtle irony „new mediasmile“, Casey Neistat videos are a kind of conceptual brilliant dilettantism. On this movie he mixes different layer`s of perception into a state of question, what kind of ethic and social behavior are below pictures, words and the common value system.
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between a movie in a movie and a performance with a subtle irony „new mediasmile“, Casey Neistat videos are a kind of conceptual brilliant dilettantism. On this movie he mixes different layer`s of perception into a state of question, what kind of ethic and social behavior are below pictures, words and the common value system.
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Serge Gainsbourg (1928-1991)
Mai ::: music
Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg - Je T'aime... Moi Non Plus
The Movie for the sound is made on footage Super 8 and shows Gainsbourg and Birkin in Venice.
In 1968 Gainsbourg had written "Je t'aime, moi non plus", an explicitly erotic song which he had recorded with Brigitte Bardot. After the pair's relationship had ended, Bardot begged Gainsbourg not to release the recording as a single and Gainsbourg, the perfect gentleman, respected her wishes. However, in 1969 Jane recorded the notorious song as a duet with Gainsbourg and it appeared on the pair's joint album "Jane Birkin Serge Gainsbourg".
When "Je t'aime moi non plus" was released as a single later that year it caused an absolute scandal. Indeed, Gainsbourg's erotic lyrics and Jane's passionate whispering totally outraged public opinion. The international press attacked the song's "lewd" message, radios banned it from their playlists and the Vatican went so far as to issue a statement condemning the immoral nature of the song. In short, "Je t'aime moi non plus" benefited from a huge amount of free publicity and rocketed straight to the top of the charts, selling around a million copies in the space of just a few months. Needless to say, Gainsbourg and Birkin became the most scandalous couple of the year and their relationship became the subject of intense media scrutiny.
Another scandalous song was lemon incest composed and performed by Serge Gainsbourg in duet with his daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg, recorded in 1984.
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The Movie for the sound is made on footage Super 8 and shows Gainsbourg and Birkin in Venice.
In 1968 Gainsbourg had written "Je t'aime, moi non plus", an explicitly erotic song which he had recorded with Brigitte Bardot. After the pair's relationship had ended, Bardot begged Gainsbourg not to release the recording as a single and Gainsbourg, the perfect gentleman, respected her wishes. However, in 1969 Jane recorded the notorious song as a duet with Gainsbourg and it appeared on the pair's joint album "Jane Birkin Serge Gainsbourg".
When "Je t'aime moi non plus" was released as a single later that year it caused an absolute scandal. Indeed, Gainsbourg's erotic lyrics and Jane's passionate whispering totally outraged public opinion. The international press attacked the song's "lewd" message, radios banned it from their playlists and the Vatican went so far as to issue a statement condemning the immoral nature of the song. In short, "Je t'aime moi non plus" benefited from a huge amount of free publicity and rocketed straight to the top of the charts, selling around a million copies in the space of just a few months. Needless to say, Gainsbourg and Birkin became the most scandalous couple of the year and their relationship became the subject of intense media scrutiny.
Another scandalous song was lemon incest composed and performed by Serge Gainsbourg in duet with his daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg, recorded in 1984.
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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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Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
Apr ::: lyrics
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac read by Allen Ginsberg
The Dharma Bums is a 1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. The semi-fictional accounts in the novel are based upon events that occurred years after the events of On the Road.
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John Steinbeck (1902-1962)
Apr ::: lyrics
Trampling Out the Vintage
The Grapes of Wrath is arguably the most celebrated work of John Steinbeck's illustrious career, and both the play and film based on the novel are classics in their own right. Through archival material and interviews with noted Steinbeck scholars, Trampling Out the Vintage explores the genesis and history of Steinbeck's novel, and examines its perennial hold on the American imagination.
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Gypsy Rose Lee Remembers Burlesque
Apr ::: offart
According to Wikipedia,
Gypsy Rose Lee was born Rose Louise Hovick in Seattle, Washington in 1911, although her mother later shaved three years off both of her daughters' ages. She was initially known by her middle name, Louise… Louise's singing and dancing talents were insufficient to sustain the act without [her sister] June. Eventually, it became apparent that Louise could make money in burlesque, which earned her legendary status as a classy and witty strip tease artist. Her innovations were an almost casual strip style, compared to the herky-jerky styles of most burlesque strippers (she emphasized the "tease" in "striptease") and she brought a sharp sense of humor into her act as well. She became as famous for her onstage wit as for her strip style, and—changing her stage name to Gypsy Rose Lee—she became one of the biggest stars of Minsky's Burlesque, where she performed for four years.
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Elmar Guantes (b.1962)
Motion, a film by Birgit Nagengast
is a short clip about some guys , a car and a nighttrip through munich. i could also say it`s in boulder colarado,- it doesnt matter. Based on the vibrating sound of Elmar Guantes in comparison of the extra ordinary pictures slips the scene in a bemused athmosphaire of something inchoate happen. The clip promise aimless intention of an expectant nothing, means everything could be for the birds, it depends on me ... .
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Jeff Mission (b.1963)
Swim
A live video feedback performance by VJ Jeff Mission. The smooth, colorful waves in this piece were generated by chaining together two pieces of equipment - an Edirol V4 video mixer, and a JVC JX-C7 Video Corrector - in a continuous loop, then making incremental adjustments to the settings on the JX-C7. The result is a digital organism, composed of pure feedback, that can be manipulated at will. The technique used in this piece is one of the core components of his live performances.
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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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Stelarc (b.1949)
Apr ::: offart
Gil Scott (b.1949)
Apr ::: music
"Me And The Devil"
Gil Scott-Heron's video for "Me And The Devil", out Feb 22. Taken from his forthcoming album "I'm New Here"
Video directed by Coodie & Chike and Michael Sterling Eaton.
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Gil Scott-Heron's video for "Me And The Devil", out Feb 22. Taken from his forthcoming album "I'm New Here"
Video directed by Coodie & Chike and Michael Sterling Eaton.
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Wolfgang Flatz (b.1952)
Apr ::: offart
A consistent example of bodyart was the flatz performance called guilty-not guilty, shown at 15.01.2010 at Kunstraum Tirol. there where some excited news on europe culture tv channels and some of the visitors of the show act like „aunt erna carry her treated dog“ ... .
anyway, Flatz well known for his strange bodyperformance`s shows how to get out with simple acting the most possible result. It`s like the other side of delicate works such for an exampel Valie Export, Orlan or „Patina de Prey“ (Hunter Reynolds). even the work of Bob Flanagan is more controvers in the meaning of gender discurse, but in the sense of a retrospect body expierence he become quit important. MdT
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anyway, Flatz well known for his strange bodyperformance`s shows how to get out with simple acting the most possible result. It`s like the other side of delicate works such for an exampel Valie Export, Orlan or „Patina de Prey“ (Hunter Reynolds). even the work of Bob Flanagan is more controvers in the meaning of gender discurse, but in the sense of a retrospect body expierence he become quit important. MdT
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tori
Apr ::: camp
Lolita forever! A pearl straigt from the cosmic picture-timemaschine. imagine a loop out of the lacosteshirt with a cigarette on top and ready is the full featured campinstallation,- so on...life could be so easy at man`s world.
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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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The Residents'
Mrz ::: music
The Kid Who Collected Crimes!
Music video by Pavel Borodin and Anna Cherednichenko created for and submitted to the River of Crime Online Community Art Project held by The Residents and New York's Museum of Modern Art and was choosen as one of the eleven favourites.
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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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Thomas Pynchon (b.1937)
Mrz ::: preview
Entropy
Mrz ::: offart
A short film made for the Transmedialities course at the University of Amsterdam in 2006, the assignment being to produce an adaptation in the broadest sense of the word.
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Yvette Chauviré (b.1917)
Mrz ::: offart
"The Dying Swan" danced by Yvette Chauviré
A Film by Dominique Delouche
A Cannes Film Festival selection, this portrait of Frances greatest ballerina (originally titled Yvette Chauviré: Une ètoile pour l'example) was also included in the Film Society of Lincoln Centers 2008 acclaimed series devoted to the ballet films of Dominique Delouche.
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A Film by Dominique Delouche
A Cannes Film Festival selection, this portrait of Frances greatest ballerina (originally titled Yvette Chauviré: Une ètoile pour l'example) was also included in the Film Society of Lincoln Centers 2008 acclaimed series devoted to the ballet films of Dominique Delouche.
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Ryoichi Kurokawa (b.1978)
Mrz ::: offart
cimatics 17/11
Ryoichi Kurokawa is an audiovisual artist living in Osaka (Japan). His works take on multiple forms like screening works, recordings, installation and live performance. He composes time based sculpture with digital generated materials and field recorded sources, and the minimal and the complexitiescoexist there. He accepts sound and imagery as a unit not as separately, and constructs very exquisite and precise computer based works with the audiovisual language. That shortens mutual distance, the reciprocity and the synchronization of sound and visual composition.
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Jan Švankmajer
Feb ::: movie
Food (1992)
Jan Švankmajer (born 4 September 1934 in Prague) is a Czech surrealist artist. His work spans several media. He is known for his surreal animations and features, which have greatly influenced other artists such as Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, The Brothers Quay and many others.
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Jan Švankmajer (born 4 September 1934 in Prague) is a Czech surrealist artist. His work spans several media. He is known for his surreal animations and features, which have greatly influenced other artists such as Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, The Brothers Quay and many others.
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Elia Kazan (1909-2003)
Feb ::: movie
Aleksandr Petrov (b.1957)
Feb ::: offart
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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Andrew Huang
Feb ::: offart
Doll Face
A machine with a doll face mimics images on television screen in search of a satisfactory visage. Doll Face presents a visual account of desires misplaced and identities fractured by our technological extension into the future.
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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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BluBlu
Feb ::: offart
MUTO
the new short film by Blu
an ambiguous animation painted on public walls.
Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden (fantoche)
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the new short film by Blu
an ambiguous animation painted on public walls.
Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden (fantoche)
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Barthelemy Bompard
Feb ::: movie
Joseph Beuys (1921-1986)
Feb ::: offart
Virgine Marchand
Feb ::: offart
The Little Mermaid
filmed in 2002 Mathilde as the mermaid, Patrice Marchand and Jean-Louis Costes as the surgeon, thanks to the Woman to accepted to be filmed!
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David Cronenberg
Jan ::: movie
From the Drain (1967)
The film is centered on two men in a bathtub; it is implied that they are veterans of some past conflict but revealed that they are currently in a mental institution. The first man is paranoid about the drain of the tub, the second indifferent to it. After the conversation between the two men progresses, a vine-like tendril emerges from the drain to strangle the first man. The second shows no emotion to this sudden turn of events and the film ends.
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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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Malek Khorshid
Jan ::: movie
