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Histoire(s) du cinéma
These two articles focusing on Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma are the openers of the recent screening the past issue, as in the issue before an international poll has selected Godard’s Histoire(s) (along with Gilberto Perez’s The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium) as the most significant publications in our field in the past decade:Intersections: ...
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Logical Aesthetics
Research as Cultural Practice has been addressed now for some time, but this work by gatescherrywolmark I came across the other day is really presenting its expression/result in form of an interesting and refreshing media piece.The visible traces of the past in the present provide the essential material from which the video, Logical Aesthetics, constructs ...
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the ultimate underground movie
Yesterday I posted on Ken Jacobs Online Exhibition at tank.tv and gave two short examples of the films to be seen there. ‘The Whirled’, which was a pre-work to his magnum opus ‘Star Spangled to Death’. And this latter film definitely deserves some more words. Synopsis according to Jim Knipfel (from an interview with K.Jacobs): ...
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Ken Jacobs Online Exhibition at tank.tv
Don’t miss this kind of unique opportunity to watch these rarely seen films:Ken Jacobs Online Exhibition at tank.tv / Curated by Mark WebberKen Jacobs (b.1933) has been active as a filmmaker, performer and teacher for the past five decades. Rigorous and dedicated, his work is characterised by a keen eye for formal composition and a ...
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The Stranger in Me – Das Fremde in mir
UPDATE: I posted this information before I even saw the film as I knew an earlier work by film maker Emily Atef (‘Molly’s way’ / see post) ... and was right to do so >>> The Stranger in me is a strong movie focusing on an unpopular theme and narrating its story convincingly in an ...
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african screens – new cinemas from africa
Even though the festival african screens – new cinemas from africa at the House of World Cultures (HKW Berlin) started already last week I want to point towards it as a very good opportunity to get a sense of the african cinemas. So far I only have been able to visit two events, thus there ...
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Z32
Avi Mograbi’s presentation at the Venice Film Festival this year seemingly offered an interesting approach towards a difficult theme in which the filmmaker questions his own political and artistic approach. The film, based on real interviews, but concealing the attester’s identity is set up as a musical documentary tragedy. An Israeli ex-soldier who participated in ...
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… the way art works / Chinese way
The Committee to Protect Journalists points to an interesting – or better to say – shocking interview with Zhang Yimou, film director, who did the coreography for the Beijing opening show: Thanks to Xiao Qiang, director of the China Internet Project at the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and Sophie Beach at ...
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The Disorder of Things
One hardly hears anything anymore about Italian filmmaker Lina Wertmüller, who once started as Federico Fellini’s assistant on the set of 8 1/2, except that there has been her birthday the other day. But she might be worth to be recalled for some of her extra ordinary films or as the Harvard Film Archive put ...