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(ANTONIO PASOLINI, FILM CRITIC)loboreporterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14752534364641934756noreply@blogger.comBlogger466125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12254197.post-46214931035249281582009-12-16T11:42:00.001+00:002009-12-16T11:46:06.266+00:00THE AGNES VARDA COLLECTION: VOL 2 AND THE BEACHES OF AGNES ON DVD FEBRUARY 22 2010<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">THE AGNÈS VARDA COLLECTION</span></div><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">VOLUME 2</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A 4 DISC BOX SET</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">RELEASED ON DVD</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">FEBRUARY 22ND 2010</div></b><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Groundbreaking, influential and provocative, Agnès Varda has established herself as one of France's leading visionary directors. Following on from 2009's first instalment, the second collection includes five distinctly different but captivating features including her recent stunning retrospective documentary The Beaches of Agnès.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Extras include documentaries, short films, trailers and much more….</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">TITLES FEATURED IN THIS SET</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Run Time: 110 mins</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Extra Features:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Interview with director Agnes Varda – Featurette (Run time TBC)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">JACQUOT DE NANTES</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Run Time: 118 mins</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Extra Features:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Agnes Varda recollects – Featurette (6 mins)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Souvenirs from Nantes – Featurette (12 mins)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Evocations and vocations – Featurette (6 mins)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Le sabotier du Val de Loire – Featurette (26 mins)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Jacquot de Nantes – Trailer</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Beaches of Agnes – Trailer</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Cleo 5 to 7 – Trailer</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Le Bonheur – Trailer</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Vagabond – Trailer</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">VAGABOND</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Run Time: 105 mins</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Extra Features:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Notes and Commentaries – Featurette (40 mins)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Music and Travels – Featurette (12 mins)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Bonus film: Story of An old Lady – Featurette (Run time TBC)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Vagabond - Trailer</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Cleo 5 to 7 - Trailer</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Le Bonheur - Trailer</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Beaches of Agnes - Trailer</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Jacquot de Nantes - Trailer</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">L'UNE CHANTE, L'AUTRE PAS</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Run Time: 119 mins</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Extra Features:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Uncle Yanco – Short Film -18 mins</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Pleasure of Love in Iran – Short Film – 6 mins</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Response de Femmes – Short Film – 8 mins</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Cleo 5 to 7 - Trailer</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Le Bonheur - Trailer</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Beaches of Agnes - Trailer</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Vagabond - Trailer</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">· Jacquot de Nantes - Trailer</div>loboreporterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14752534364641934756noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12254197.post-83773404506993836722009-09-18T09:28:00.000+00:002009-09-18T09:29:40.069+00:00Transitland. Video Art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009 – Sofia Launch Event<div style="text-align: justify;">Transitland. Video Art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009 </div><div style="text-align: justify;">18th and 19th September </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Organized by InterSpace, Sofia</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hosted by Goethe-Insistut </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Bulgarien, Sofia </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.transitland.eu/">http://www.transitland.eu/ </a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The collaborative archiving project Transitland, realized on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, launches with a comprehensive website and a series of discussions and screenings in Sofia, followed by events in Budapest and Berlin. It presents a selection of 100 single-channel video works, produced in the period 1989-2009 and reflecting the transformations in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe. The selection of works was made by an international jury from 350 videos, proposed by 40 nominators - curators, art critics and artists.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The project focuses on an extensive and turbulent time and space span. The territory of "Transitland" is quite close to being a half of Europe - population and territory wise. Once called as the "Eastern bloc" without further specification, it was conceived as somewhat homogeneous, dark side of Europe behind the Iron Curtain. Central and Eastern Europe with different sub-regions now covers 24 post-socialist European countries. Twenty years ago this territory belonged to only 9 states.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Transitland is not only the widest-spanning presentation of video art from Central and Eastern Europe but also a unique attempt to address and reflect upon an extensive period of transformation and changes. The mere breadth of time and geography and the complexity of the transition process are still beyond perception not only from outside but also within the region. Besides the numerous discursive and documentary attempts to describe, analyze and contextualize the transformations, a multitude of viewpoints and aspects, presented through the media of video art are meant to provide a unique asset of aesthetic and critical positions to the current discourse on the transition period.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Sofia launch event features discussion panels and a series of screenings. The first discussion panel addresses the question of expectations right after the Fall of the Wall, the second one traces what actually was happening in those 20 years and the third – leads to the ultimate question where we are heading now. It gathers artists and curators with personal curiosity, first-hand experience and intellectual engagement with the transition period in Central and Eastern Europe. A series of screenings and discursive events will be taking place in Budapest organized by the Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange and the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art in the following months. In Berlin the project will be premiered by transmediale festival for digital arts and culture from 6th to 8th November at Collegium Hungaricum Berlin. Further presentations of the archive are being planned for 2010.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Transitland is realized by InterSpace Association Sofia, transmediale festival for art and digital culture berlin and Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange and Ludwig Museum-Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest, with associated partners D Media, Cluj and Videoaktiv, Berlin.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It was made possible with support from Culture 2007-2013 Programme, the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe, the European Cultural Foundation, the Culture programme of Sofia Municipality and the Hungarian Cultural Fund.</div>loboreporterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14752534364641934756noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12254197.post-34483732654285137282009-08-04T12:15:00.000+00:002009-08-04T12:16:43.268+00:00INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART FESTIVAL 2nd EDITION/ PEKING DUCK OR VIDEO IN TIME OF CRISIS 4 – 13 AUGUST 2009, VARNA, BULGARIA<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtdI9ry6gn1uq-oFW5q8NYgQOr40F-aPpioqeL1KZ81HGayrOF-tYskuHoTEi1z5yMSSy8GzOrVROqk0SDrZWj2Cu5hUr7GDgJ3Yf9TeWBbdMpunFexw0p2xi-_JCbV-1Zc5uyIQ/s1600-h/VIDEOHOLICA-.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 259px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtdI9ry6gn1uq-oFW5q8NYgQOr40F-aPpioqeL1KZ81HGayrOF-tYskuHoTEi1z5yMSSy8GzOrVROqk0SDrZWj2Cu5hUr7GDgJ3Yf9TeWBbdMpunFexw0p2xi-_JCbV-1Zc5uyIQ/s320/VIDEOHOLICA-.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366081431761964946" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Videoholica 2009 will take place over the period of 4 -13 August 2009 in Varna and will pass under the PEKING DUCK OR VIDEO IN TIME OF CRISIS motto.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The venues of the International Video Art Festival Videoholica 2009 will be the Varna Archaeological Museum and Varna Puppet Theater.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">344 videos of 138 artists from 31 countries were submitted to the 2nd edition of the Videoholica festival.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The selection of Videoholica 2009 has been made by Valeri Chakalov, Tsvetan Krastev, Georgi Krastev, Victor Petkov and Neno Belchev and will present 89 videos by the 71 artists from Australia, Austria, UK, Brazil, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Canada, Cyprus, Macedonia, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russia, USA, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Taiwan, Tunis, Finland, France, Netherlands, Chili, Sweden, South Korea and Japan.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides the conventional video screening, this year's edition of Videoholica will present the following non-governmental art organizations: Tricky Women festival of animated film (Viena, Austria), S–AIR (Sapporo, Japan), VisualContainer – Italian video art distributor and web video art TV (Milan, Italy) and the NoPassWord №0 festival for contemporary art (Genoa, Italy).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Videoholica 2009 is supported by Varna Municipality, August in Art Foundation, Varna Archaeological Museum, Varna Puppet Theater and Inside Magazine.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">VIDEOHOLICA 2009 PROGRAMME</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">4 August 2009 – 21.00</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Archeology museum/ Inner yard/ Inner yard</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Gazelle Samizay, USA – “This Will Be The Last” – 2009 – 05:00</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sergio Cruz, Portugal – “Еxótica” – 2009 – 05:10</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dragana Pesic, Serbia / Germany – “The Big Glutton” –2009 – 03:03</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Jonas Nilsson, Sweden – “The choice” –2009 – 02:15</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Jonas Nilsson, Sweden – “Just like any other morning” – 2007 – 01:12</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Qais Al–Sindy, USA – “Travelers” – 2008 – 02:44</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Henry Gwiazda, USA – “Claudia and Paul 07:04 a.m.” – 2008 – 00:49</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Guido Salvini, Italy – “Strength Text” – 2009 – 02:24</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Giovanni Bellavia, Italy – “Brainstorm” – 2009 – 02:00</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ismail Bahri, Tunisia / France – “Résonances” – 2008 – 07:00</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mit Borras, Spain – “Deafland” – 2008 – 04:00</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Nick Shiflet, USA – “Morse Code” – 2009 – 01:26</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kamen Stoyanov, Bulgaria / Austria – “Artzone – Timezone” – 2009 – 03:41</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Esther Johnson, UK – “Study in Light and Form #2” – 2008 – 01:00</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Konstantinos – Antonios Gautos, Greek / Germany – “Life Circle Live Circus Life” – 2005/2007 – 05:29</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Andrea Kustić, Croatia – “You Are Of No Importance!” – 2009 – 05:45</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Barbara Agreste, Italy – “Rain” – 2006 – 05:40</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Patrizia Monzani, Italy – “Stadt – Fisch” – 2006 – 05:00</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yaron Lapid, Izrael / UK – “The New Zero” – 2009 – 03:18</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lia Chavez, USA / UK – Penetration” – 2006 – 04:19</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Maria Buchnerq Australia – Richerd” – 2004 – 03:28</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Julie Sparso, Denmark – “Untitled (Passengers) – 2008 – 08:44</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">5 August 2009 – 21.00</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Puppet Theater/ Back yard</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Tricky Women festival of animated film, Viena, Austria</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Awarded Animations 2007</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Tricky Women 2007 Trailer, Alina Bliumis, USA 2006, 0´30</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mia Hulterstam, Cecilia Actis, Sweden – „Blue, Karma, Tiger” – 2006 – 12:00</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Pooja Pottenkulam, Great Britain – „NAP” – 2006, 04:00</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Michaela Copíková, Slovakia – „Fat Fatal” – 2005, 05:36</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sabine Groschup, Austria – „Gugug” – 2006, 06:23</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Klara Swantesson, Sweden – „Tillväxtsjukan / Radicalized” – 2006, 08:00</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Maryam Mohajer, Great Britain – „The girl with Short Hair” – 2006 – 03:04</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Laura Neuvonen, Finland – „Kutoja / The Last Knit” – 2005 – 06:39</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Regina Pessoa, Portugal – „Història Trágica Com Final Feliz / Tragic Story with Happy Ending” – 2005 – 07:46</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">6 August 2009 – 21.00</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Archeology museum</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Presentation of S–AIR Sapporo, Japan</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lector: Mami Odai</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">7 August 2009 – 21.00</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Puppet Theater/ Back yard</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Eva Olson, Sweden – “The Labyrinth” – 2009 – 03:41 </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dave Farnham, UK – “War Drawing 003” – 2009 – 01:33</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Marius Leneweit / Ricio Rodriguez, Spain – “…niland” – 2009 – 06:45</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mirka Majorosova, Slovakia – „Lickerish” – 2008 – 01:04</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lucas Matejka. Slovakia – “20m” – 2008 – 01:00</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Milica Rakic, Serbia – “Report” – 2008 – 01:00</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Christin Bolewski, Germany – “Mountain–water–painting” –2009 – 06:12</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Misup Song, UK – “Hikikomori” – 2009 – 06:46</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Jeong Yoon Ahn, South Korea / Netherlands – “The Hymn of a Republic” – 2009 – 04;58</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Finda Ozgunaydin, Germany – “Namus Belasi” – 2008 – 04:12</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Gordon Culshaw, UK – „Slinky” – 2008 – 03:46</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yiannos Economou, Cyprus – „Forest Loops” – 2007 – 01:25</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Scot Keefer (My Name Is Scot) – “The Wild Goose” – 2009 – 03:06</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Roland Wegerer, Austria – “How To Clean A Puddle!” – 2008 – 01:44</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Martin Kohout, Germany – “Moonwalk” – 2008 – 02:20</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sal Cooper, Australia – “The Second Circle” –2009 – 03:40</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Stefan Riebel, Germany – “Untitled #44” – 2009 – 00:41</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ines Wickmann, France – “Landscape with mirror” – 2006 – 07:00</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Maslen & Mehra in collaboration with Riz Maslen, UK – “Erasure” – 2009 – 03:18</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lemeh42, Italy – “Study on Human Form and Humanity #01” – 2008 – 02;00</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Christian Nikolay, Canada – “ampli fly” – 2008 – 02:43</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Rebekkah Palov, USA – “Fog Drops” – 2009 – 02:54</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Wei Ming Ho, Taiwan – “Run Nanu Run!” – 2008 – 05:50</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">9 August 2009 – 21.00</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Archeology museum/ Inner yard</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Angelina Voskopoulou, Greece – “Button” –2009 – 04:35 </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Maria Karini, Italy – “Hopeless K” – 2007 – 06:00</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sindy Rehm, USA – “Passage” – 2008 – 05:15</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Renaud Perin, france – „Ispaitche” – 2009 – 04:00</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ava Lache, germany – “Silence” 2008 – 03:13</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Judith Vandermade, Netherlands –“One” – 2007 – 03:40</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Paola Vela, Peru – “the Shelling of Neon Lights” – 2009 – 04:00</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Justin Randolph Tompson – Italy – “Table” –2009 – 04:10</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kira Zhigalina, Russia / UK – “Blank or Attempts to Draw at Nothingness” – 2008 – 05:30</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Stuart Pound, UK – “Not You Again!” – 2009 – 03:49</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Giuseppe di Bella, UK – „Healing” – 2008/2009 – 06:21</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yin–Ling Chen, Taiwan / UK – „Gaze /Parents” – 2008 – 02:46</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Jonathan Trayner, UK – “Walbrook restoration” – 2008 – 03:00</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Boris Eldagsen, Germany – “the Dieing Widow” – 2008 – 06:19</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Jasika Adnan, Bosnia and Herzegovina – “This Body” – 2009 – 03:15</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Robert Waldeck, Canada – “Neutron & Black Demon” – 2008 – 04:05</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Elisa Eliash, Chile – “I am the dog: Pavlov’s Experiment Applied” – 2009 – 01:49</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lary Caveney, USA – “Singing Waitress” – 2006 – 04:00</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ulrike Mothes, Germany – „On Impermanence” – 2008 – 03:20</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Anna Sieradzka – Kubacka, Poland – “Consciousness Chanell” –2009 – 03:30</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">11 August 2009 – 19.00</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Archeology museum</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Presentation of Visualcontainer, Milan, Italy </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lectors: Giorgio Fedeli, Alessandra Arno</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Riccardo Arena, Italy – “25.765” - 2008 -07:00 </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Alessandra Arnò, Italy – “Save Ours Souls” – 2008 —03:50</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Silvia Camporesi, Italy – “Dance dance dance” – 2008</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Luca Christian Mander, Italy – “Eppursimuove” – 2009 – 03:40</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Maria Korporal, Italy – “Passing by” – 2008 – 07:39</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">12 August 2009 – 19.00</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Archeology museum/ Inner yard</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Presentation of NoPassWord №0 festival for contemporary art, Genoa, Italy</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lector: Elleonora</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">13 August 2009 – 21.00</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Archeology museum/ Inner yard</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">John Deneuve, France – “Cerebral Adventure” – 2008 – 04:00 </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Robin Whenary, UK – “The Boy, the Bike and the Apple” – 2007 – 04:30</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Nadine Kiese, Germany – “I Toppled Monument Yesterday” – 2009 – 01:17</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Floriane Davin, France – “Cosmos” – 2008 – 01:59</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Maria Panayotovaq Bulgaria – “Untitled” – 2009 – 05:00</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Gaelle Jaunay–Desroches, France – “Goodtimes” – 2009 – 03:17</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kristina Bozurska, Macedonia – “Polyptych” – 2008/2009 – 03:58</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sergey Patskevich, Russia – “Never Ending Rain” – 2008 – 03:13</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Virginie Foloppe, France – “J. F.’s Toybox” – 2004 – 05:50</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kika Nicolela, Brazil – “Naked” – 2008 – 03:22</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Andrew Salgado, UK/ Canada – “The Bather” – 2009 – 04:30</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Alice Bradshaw, UK – “Brown Paper Bag Box” – 2008 – 04:57</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Maja Hodoscek, Slovenia – “Escape with a Flaw” –2008 – 01:00</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kate Pelling, UK – “Whipped” – 2009 – 06:24</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Gerard Funk, Germany – “Streak” –2008 – 02:33</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Charles A. Gick, USA – “Flowers from Mouth” – 2009 – 04:43</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Charles A. Gick, USA – „Hand with Cloud” – 2009 – 07:00</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Andrea Zrno, Croatia – “Me vs Myself” – 2009 – 04:44</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Inger Alfnes, Netherlands – “Exercise №1” – 2008 – 04:44</div>loboreporterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14752534364641934756noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12254197.post-17189656549147368762009-07-30T14:51:00.001+00:002009-07-30T14:53:33.991+00:00Serpentine Cinema: Henry Flynt and Owen Land Sunday 2 August<div style="text-align: justify;">American conceptual artist, filmmaker, philosopher and avantgarde musician Henry Flynt shows two short films, Shrine of the Insect, 2008, and My Paisley Eyes, 2008. American artist and film-maker Owen Land screens Dialogues, 2007–09, 30 years since his last completed film. It takes the form of a series of short films, informed by folklore, history and theology.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Serpentine Cinema</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">‘There’s no film. Cinema is dead. There can’t be film anymore. If you want, let’s have a discussion.’</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Guy Debord</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Serpentine Cinema is a series of monthly screenings and events at The Gate cinema in Notting Hill which give an opportunity to view rarely seen artists’ films in a cinema context. Presented in association with Sketch.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Gate</div><div style="text-align: justify;">87 Notting Hill Gate</div><div style="text-align: justify;">London W11 3JZ</div><div style="text-align: justify;">0871 704 2058</div><div style="text-align: justify;">gate@picturehouses.co.uk</div>loboreporterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14752534364641934756noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12254197.post-50367138450559189872009-07-25T09:59:00.002+00:002009-07-25T10:04:35.086+00:00Antichrist opens in the UK; Lars Von Trier interviewLars Von Trier <a href="http://audio.theguardian.tv/audio/kip/film/series/filmweekly/1248278987910/999/gnl.film.090723.jp.film_weekly_extra_trier.mp3">speaks to the Guardian about his new film</a>, ANTICHRIST. He talks a lot about his depression and why he needs to think he's the best director in the world in order to make a film.<br /><br /><br />Antichrist was given an 18 certificate by the BBFC and remains completely uncut, despite scenes containing explicit penetrative sex and masturbation, extreme torture and genital mutilation. The BBFC have conceded that “there is no doubt that some viewers will find the images disturbing and offensive,” with the Sunday Times judging that Antichrist “deserves to be banned.”<br /><br /> <br /><br />Antichrist has divided UK press, receiving both boos and applause at this year’s world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, provoking debate across the nation: UK journalists have warned that “nothing can prepare you for Antichrist. Nothing,” (John Carr, Sky Movies). Early UK preview screenings have seen people run for the exit during the final scenes, physically retching.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Antichrist has faced censorship in other areas. The film poster, featuring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg in a graphic sex scene, has been met with uproar and Artificial Eye, the film company releasing Antichrist, has been barraged with complaints by offended cinema-goers. The poster image has been BANNED for use on the London underground and BANNED for use in the Metro newspaper. Social networking site, Facebook, has even BANNED the sex scene featured in the trailer. Antichrist flyers, also featuring the image, have even been sabotaged by outraged members of the public, ripped from display stands and destroyed, with cinema owners struggling to replenish stocks. <br /><br /> <br /><br />Antichrist is the latest film from provocative Danish director Lars von Trier, starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe. A psychological horror film, many film distributors doubted that Antichrist could be released in the UK uncut, but the British cinema-going audience will now have their chance to watch the ‘must see film of the summer’ from this Friday. <br /><br /> <br /><br />Director Lars von Trier says: “I can offer no excuse for ANTICHRIST. Other than my absolute belief in the film – the most important film of my entire career.”loboreporterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14752534364641934756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12254197.post-69271684210480642652009-07-09T17:01:00.001+00:002009-07-09T17:01:07.951+00:00OUT SOON: PRESS SCREENING: LES DEMOISELLES DE ROCHEFORT - Fri 17 July<i>(Via email):</i><br><font size="6"><b><br></b></font><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="6"><b>LES DEMOISELLES DE ROCHEFORT</b></font><br></div><div><p align="center"><font face="Arial"><font size="6"><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><b> </b></span></font><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(The Young Ladies of Rochefort) <br> </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>A film by Jacques Demy<br> <br> Music by Michel Legrand<br> <br> </b>France 1967<font color="#0000ff"> </font>/ 126<font color="#0000ff"> </font>mins / cert tbc<br> <br> Starring<font color="#0000ff"> </font>Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac, Gene Kelly<br> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br> <img src="cid:3330000325_1052150"><br> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b> <br> </b><br> A BFI release<br> <b> <br> RELEASE DATE: 14 August 2009<br> Opening Venue: BFI Southbank <br> <br> <a href="http://press@sarahharvey.info" target="_blank"></a> <br> </b></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font> </p><p> <font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br> </span></font> </p></div> </div><br> loboreporterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14752534364641934756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12254197.post-58108107799710238732009-06-26T23:51:00.000+00:002009-06-26T23:52:01.291+00:00New writing gig<div style="text-align: justify;">I've started collaborating with a new arts salon from London called Woolf & Wilde. My first post was on Maya Deren and you can read it <a href="http://woolfandwilde.com/2009/06/spellbound-by-maya-deren/">here</a>.</div>loboreporterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14752534364641934756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12254197.post-44817379887992248352009-06-14T17:22:00.001+00:002009-06-14T17:25:43.892+00:00Norman McLaren’s 1971 short film Synchromie<center><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Jqz_tx1-xd4&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Jqz_tx1-xd4&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></center><br /><br /><a href=" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_McLaren"><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_McLaren</a>loboreporterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14752534364641934756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12254197.post-92063384236580268462009-06-12T17:00:00.002+00:002009-06-12T17:09:04.755+00:00ANTICHRIST has been given an 18 certificate by the BBFC<div style="text-align: justify; font-family: courier new;"><blockquote><span style="font-size:85%;">ANTICHRIST has been given an 18 certificate by the BBFC and remains completely uncut. Described as ‘the most shocking film in the history of the Cannes Film Festival,’ ANTICHRIST will hit UK cinemas on 24th July 2009.<br /><br /><br /><br />ANTICHRIST is the latest film from provocative Danish director <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lars von Trier</span>, starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe. A psychological horror film, Antichrist outraged viewers at the world premiere at Cannes Film Festival 2009. London has seen two press screenings in the last 7 days in which several journalists walked out in disgust and repulsion. While many film distributors doubted that Antichrist could be released in the UK uncut, the British cinema-going audience will now have their chance to watch this ‘must see’ film of the summer.<br /><br /><br /><br />Throughout the film viewers are exposed to explicit penetrative sex and masturbation, extreme torture and genital mutilation. The BBFC have conceded that “there is no doubt that some viewers will find the images disturbing and offensive.”<br /><br /><center><object width="4000" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LO-TNfPzh_k&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LO-TNfPzh_k&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="340"></embed></object></center><br /><br /><br />Curzon Artificial Eye CEO, Philip Knatchbull says “There is no doubt that Antichrist is a controversial film but it’s our duty as a distributor to present the works of talented directors such as Lars Von Trier in their original form exactly as the director intended. We fully support the BBFC’s decision to allow people to make up their own minds about this film.”<br /><br /><br /><br />Director Lars von Trier says: “I can offer no excuse for ANTICHRIST. Other than my absolute belief in the film – the most important film of my entire career.”<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">That's good news. I haven't seen the film yet but I have immense respect for Lars Von Trier. The fact that this sort of film causes scandal while teenage violent fantasies have a free pass reveals something quite sinister about our culture. I was flabberghasted when I read reports that a petulant British journalist had demanded from Trier an explanation at a Cannes press conference. Really ...<br /><br /><center><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/w1SPz5Z_6ew&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/w1SPz5Z_6ew&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></center><br /></span></span> </blockquote></div>loboreporterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14752534364641934756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12254197.post-11192765902414500412009-06-05T19:20:00.003+00:002009-06-05T19:26:09.335+00:00From the newswire: MID-AGUST LUNCH<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr__USqTsbU27eubpcVJUOcYma2N1A0cvuSLiicURReGIO8EDBdlG3A4qFwp_4JMmxGAcwPwA6nHcP2NKd7wxcvO_NCwohzEd__xeJxpbgHoGlwXLWfz4i_3nlLPT1PFUuonf9gw/s1600-h/image004.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr__USqTsbU27eubpcVJUOcYma2N1A0cvuSLiicURReGIO8EDBdlG3A4qFwp_4JMmxGAcwPwA6nHcP2NKd7wxcvO_NCwohzEd__xeJxpbgHoGlwXLWfz4i_3nlLPT1PFUuonf9gw/s320/image004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343926942248127634" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">I haven't seen this film yet but I sure like the sound of it. It will released in the UK on 14 of August. Here's the full press release:<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">MID-AUGUST LUNCH (12 A)</span></span><br /><br />(PRANZO DI FERRAGOSTO)<br /><br />A film by Gianni Di Gregorio<br /><br /><br /><br />Winner of the SATYAJIT RAY AWARD – London Film Festival 2008<br /><br /><br /><br />Starring<br /><br />Valeria de Franciscis, Marina Cacciotti, Maria Calì, Grazia Cesarini Sforza, Alfonso Santagata and Gianni di Gregorio<br /><br /><br /><br />Italy / 2008 / 75 Mins / In Italian with English Subtitles / Colour / 1.85<br /><br /><br /><br />An Archimede production in collaboration with Rai Cinema<br /><br /><br /><br />Gianni is a middle-aged man, the only son of his widowed mother, with whom he lives in an old house in central Rome. Living under the tyranny of this impoverished aristocrat, his life drags on between housework and going to the bar. The day before the August bank holiday the apartment manager asks him to take his mother into his home for the two days of the bank holiday. In exchange, he will knock some money off the debts Gianni has run up over the years. Gianni is forced to accept.<br /><br /><br /><br />The manager treacherously turns up with two women, since he doesn't know where to take his aunt, he brings her along too. Gianni is overwhelmed and crushed by the clash between these three dominant characters, but heroically does his best to make them happy. At a certain point he feels faint and calls a friend of his who is a doctor. The doctor not only reassures Gianni, but foists his own elderly mother on him, since he is on shift at the hospital. Gianni goes through 24 hours of hell. But when at last it’s time to say goodbye, the women have other ideas…<br /><br /><br /><br />Gianni Di Gregorio was born in Rome in Trastevere, where he still lives and works. After studying classics at high school before attending the Accademia di Arti Sceniche in Rome, run by Alessandro Fersen, where he took a diploma in directing and acting. For three years he worked in Fersen’s experimental research workshop (taking part in seminars and exchanges with the groups of Bob Wilson, Grotowski, Kantor and Chaikin), which led to the show LEVIATHAN, presented at the Festival of Spoleto in 1976. After three years of theatre, as an assistant director and actor, he saw Scorsese’s film MEAN STREETS, which made such an impression on him that he left theatre and started to work in film.<br /><br /><br /><br />In 1986 he wrote the screenplay for the film SEMBRA MORTO MA È SOLO SVENUTO by Felice Farina, with Sergio Castellitto and Marina Confalone, which won the Premio FRIPRESCI at the Settimana della Critica, at the 1987 Venice Film Festival. In the same year he wrote the story and screenplay for the film CAREFREE GIOVANNI by Marco Colli, with Sergio Castellitto, Eleonora Giorgi, Aldo Fabrizi, Franco Fabrizi and Luca De Filippo. Presented at the Quinzaine des Realisateurs at Cannes 87, it was awarded the Grand Prix du jury at the festival of Annecy.<br /><br /><br /><br />In 1991 he wrote Shipwrecks directed by Marco Colli, and the following year he wrote the story and screenplay for the film AFFETTI SPECIALI directed by Felice Farina. In 2000 he wrote the screenplay for LONG LIVE THE MONKEY!, based on the short story LE DUE ZITELLE by Tommaso Landolfi and directed by Marco Colli. He met Matteo Garrone (GOMORRAH) after seeing his first film, TERRA DI MEZZO. He started working with him, as assistant director, in 2000 with Roman Summer, and continued with THE EMBALMER and FIRST LOVE. In 2007, with Braucci, Chiti, Gaudioso, Saviano and Garrone, he co-wrote the screenplay for the film GOMORRAH, directed by Matteo Garrone.</div>loboreporterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14752534364641934756noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12254197.post-70255584830471684732009-05-28T18:35:00.001+00:002009-05-28T18:41:17.018+00:00Jonas Mekas in Paris<div style="font-family: courier new; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Galerie du Jour agnés b.<br /><br />Paris, France<br /><br />A Few Things I Want To Share With You, My Paris Friends<br /><br />May 16 – June 20, 2009<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br />Jonas Mekas’ solo exhibition entitled <span style="font-weight: bold;">A Few Things I Want To Share With You</span>, My Paris Friends is currently on view at galerie du jour agnés b., Paris through June 20, 2009. Focusing on the dynamic scope of Mekas’ work from recent years, the presentation brings to light his innovations within avant-garde film and contemporary currents of the visual arts. Highlights include the premiere of a 12-monitor installation featuring the monumental 365-Day Project, for which Mekas released one film a day throughout 2007 on his website <a href="http://www.jonasmekas.com">www.jonasmekas.com</a>. Designated to one month each, the monitors are hooked up to i-pods playing footage that was downloaded directly from the artist’s website. Mekas states, “It was a very challenging and demanding undertaking, but I did it. This is the first presentation of the Project as it was intended, that is, as an i-pod project.” The exhibition is accompanied by the 365-Day Project catalogue, produced in conjunction with Maya Stendhal Gallery, New York, which offers revealing profiles of each film through descriptions and stills. Mekas’ Summer Manifesto (2008) takes form in an installation of 40 nature images that Mekas chose from his vast archival footage. While manifestos tend to be politically charged and oppositional, Mekas’ statement finds comfort in the subtle beauty and fleeting happiness of summer. Also on view is an installation of 4 quartet pieces divided into parts entitled Destruction Quartet, SoHo Quartet, Martin Scorsese Shooting “The Departed,” and The Education of Sebastion. The work features riveting footage of renowned filmmaker Martin Scorsese at work, the fall of the Berlin Wall and events from 9/11 in combination with images of old SoHo and the artist’s journey to Egypt. <span style="font-weight: bold;">A Few Things I Want To Share With You, My Paris Friends</span> is dedicated to the long-time friendship between Mekas and fashion designer and supporter of the arts agnés b.<br /><br />A recent retrospective at Museum Ludwig in Cologne prolifically summarized Mekas’ accomplishments in establishing film as art. Viewers were given rare access to the artist’s personal archives in the form of documents, photographs, catalogues, texts, and film posters alongside his and later film works, installations, and film still collections. A great success, it drew nearly 100,00 visitors, and was followed by Museum Ludwig’s acquisition of the internegative and 4-channel installation of Birth of a Nation for its permanent collection. Mark Gloede of Art in America singled out the presentation for the magazine’s International Review issue writing, “[T]he exhibition achieved a striking dynamic: in the space between different mediums, it became clear that the film experience cannot be limited to watching movies in a dark room. With this overview of Mekas’s work, the full cosmos of independent cinema opened up.” A full-page color exhibition catalogue was published in collaboration with Serpentine Gallery, London and is available through Koenig Books. A second major retrospective on the artist will be exhibited at Serpentine Gallery, London in 2010.</div>loboreporterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14752534364641934756noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12254197.post-35963990478429692682009-05-25T21:09:00.001+00:002009-05-25T21:12:04.557+00:00Reuters piece on Michael Heneke's White RibbonMichael Haneke's newly anointed Palme d'Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival gets a Reuters review. Click on the title to read the whole piece.loboreporterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14752534364641934756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12254197.post-76521041154759297162009-05-11T14:53:00.001+00:002009-05-11T14:56:00.993+00:00New film outs gay American politicians<center><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://static.reuters.com/resources/flash/include_video.swf?edition=US&videoId=102945" width="422" height="346"><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.reuters.com/resources/flash/include_video.swf?edition=US&videoId=102945" /><embed src="http://www.reuters.com/resources/flash/include_video.swf?edition=US&videoId=102945" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="422" height="346"></embed></object></center>loboreporterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14752534364641934756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12254197.post-52754632115146737492009-05-07T00:24:00.002+00:002009-05-07T15:19:21.054+00:00Watch: Cheryl Donegan's Head (US,1993, 5'47")Some pieces of video art contain more ideas than Hollywood's entire yearly output ...<br /><br /><embed src="http://ubu.artmob.ca/video/flash/player-viral.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="file=http%3A%2F%2Fubu.artmob.ca%2Fvideo%2Fflash%2FDonegan-Cheryl_Head.flv&plugins=viral-1d" height="350" width="400"></embed><br /><br />More about <a href="http://www.ubu.com/film/donegan_head.html">Cheryl Donegan</a>loboreporterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14752534364641934756noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12254197.post-62617606020112909982007-09-13T13:24:00.001+00:002007-09-13T13:24:49.036+00:00London Film Festival announces line-up for 2007<div style="text-align: justify;">The <span style="font-weight: bold;">51st London Film Festival</span>’s today announced its full programme, which includes includes 184 features and 133 shorts plus a host of screen talks, masterclasses and live events.<br /><br />Opening the Festival on Thursday 17 October is the UK premiere of David Cronenberg’s <span style="font-weight: bold;">Eastern Promises</span> with Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts and Vincent Cassel. The festival will close with Wes Anderson's <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Darjeeling Limited</span> on 01 November starring Jason Schwartzman, Owen Wilson and Adrien Brody.<br /><br />Said festival director, Sandra Hebron: “In a very strong year for world cinema, we are delighted to be able to present such a wide ranging and high quality programme of films and special events, in which work by internationally renowned directors sits comfortably alongside that from many exciting new talents. We look forward to welcoming filmmakers, audiences and press and industry delegates alike to our two week celebration of the best, most creative and original films of the year.”<br /><br /><a href="http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/lff/">London Film Festival website</a></div>loboreporterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14752534364641934756noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12254197.post-11324505845657685472007-09-07T13:14:00.000+00:002007-09-07T13:15:09.769+00:00Around the world: Honolulu and Geneva<div style="text-align: justify;">Lots of instigating news have come through our newswires lately. If you happen to be in Hawaii, pop around the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu to see <a href="http://www.tcmhi.org/ex_mhPhantasmagoria.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence</span></a> which runs until 25 November.<br /><br />It brings together 13 international artists including Christian Boltanski, Jim Campbell, Michel Delacroix, Laurent Grasso, upcoming 02art4 artist Jeppe Hein, TCM collection artist William Kentridge, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Teresa Margolles, Oscar Muñoz, Julie Nord, Rosângela Rennó, and Regina Silveira who use ephemeral means in their work such as fog, reflection, shadows, and vapors. The exhibition title refers to 18th-and 19th-century entertainments created by “magic lanterns” and rear-screen shadow projections.<br /><br />These precursors of the modern film projector were used to stage dancing specters and other frightening theatrical effects for their audiences. The exhibition draws on this rich theatrical tradition to reframe questions of absence and loss, death and the afterlife around contemporary issues.<br /></div><br />I was very impressed by the still of Rosangela Rennó's contribution to the show:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFiOxOrADHDtIFcboAvGffBpCDkrpOSbT1Cwy9gXH_5loqBRpNoJsxGrPiZgb4MR0xEfJDgqDml4rSrGut9NiFIlXYEiiJf56PBevT7WBIYE6BawCyvjFaRmaIZjSHXfhsDROR/s1600-h/Renno_1Experiencia_Cinema(high)sm.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFiOxOrADHDtIFcboAvGffBpCDkrpOSbT1Cwy9gXH_5loqBRpNoJsxGrPiZgb4MR0xEfJDgqDml4rSrGut9NiFIlXYEiiJf56PBevT7WBIYE6BawCyvjFaRmaIZjSHXfhsDROR/s400/Renno_1Experiencia_Cinema(high)sm.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5107446554689778482" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Back in Europe,<span style="font-weight: bold;"> the </span><strong>Biennial of Moving Images</strong> takes place from 12 to 20 October 2007 in Geneva. Founded in 1985 as the “International Video Week,” the <a href="http://www.12bim.ch/"><strong>Biennial of Moving Images</strong></a> (BIM, as it is known by its initials in French) is one of the oldest and most important events in Europe devoted to artists’ films. From the start, the Biennial has highlighted the increasingly numerous and creative crosscurrents that exist between film, the contemporary arts and mass media.<br /><br />So a great chance to check out what's happening in the world of art cinema that is not likely to come to any theatre near you, ever!<br /></div>loboreporterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14752534364641934756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12254197.post-35122203226632479662007-09-05T09:27:00.001+00:002007-09-05T09:27:51.401+00:00YouTube: Nam June Paik's Electronic Moon #2 (1969)<object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3Kr4CoU3G04"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3Kr4CoU3G04" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"></embed></object>loboreporterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14752534364641934756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12254197.post-52473469157034210602007-09-05T08:02:00.000+00:002007-09-05T08:06:56.779+00:00Open Artist Roundtable - Video Art in the Age of the InternetIf you happen to be in New York, check this out:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Perpetual Art Machine Open Artist Roundtable</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Video art in the age of the internet"</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Thursday September 6, 2007,</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">8-9:30pm</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chelsea Art Museum</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">556 West 22nd Street</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">New York, NY 10011</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The <a href="http://www.perpetualartmachine.com/">[PAM]</a> founders will be hosting an open roundtable discussion on September 6th to analyze the current state and future of the medium of video art and the emergence of new artistic communities that question theauthority and connoisseurship of traditional systems of 20th century art. What is the role and future of video art in this very exciting time? What are the current transformations in modes of creation and distribution of video art in the early 21st century? The possibilities seem endless as opensource and creative commons communities thrive, allowing for projects like [PAM] to be made possible. Several experts will be present to address these topics.<br /></div><br />Roundtable participants include:<br /><br />Lisa Baldini is an independent curator and the Social Networking Manager for Deep Focus.<br />Peer Bode is an artist, electronic arts pioneer and the Co-Director of IEA at Alfred University<br />G.H. Hovagimyan is an artist, theorist and editor of <a href="http://thing.net/">Thing.net</a><br />Chris Borkowski is an artist, Guggenheim museum Intranet engineer and [PAM] co-founder<br />Raphaele Shirley is an artist, new media specialist and [PAM] co-founder<br />Lee Wells is an artist, curator and [PAM] co-founderloboreporterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14752534364641934756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12254197.post-64935753841984343462007-09-04T15:34:00.001+00:002007-09-04T15:34:52.590+00:00Vote for your favourite non-English film<div style="text-align: justify;">Another day, another list of favourite films. The folks from the blog <span style="font-style: italic;">Edward Copeland on Film</span> are requesting votes for the best non-English films so if you want to have your say, go <a href="http://eddieonfilm.blogspot.com/2007/08/choosing-best-in-non-english-language.html">here</a>.<br /></div>loboreporterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14752534364641934756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12254197.post-47400297633849268682007-08-31T07:37:00.001+00:002007-08-31T07:37:37.784+00:00Venice sighting: Vanessa Redgrave<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8mvrp_vh7_gxFWWm6EpoS82AdvmFy0naFPpcwCrMKakM3fHVRl12cfdTlS5eFFqkbYvEdR0CChETuekBxA6bp-eKExc4-l_fso7jnJHkjZFiFT3p0sZxotaOY7lU3h0farVTd/s1600-h/DSC_1936_vanessa_redgrave_ATONEMENT.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8mvrp_vh7_gxFWWm6EpoS82AdvmFy0naFPpcwCrMKakM3fHVRl12cfdTlS5eFFqkbYvEdR0CChETuekBxA6bp-eKExc4-l_fso7jnJHkjZFiFT3p0sZxotaOY7lU3h0farVTd/s400/DSC_1936_vanessa_redgrave_ATONEMENT.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104765146477343490" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Adding a touch of <span style="font-style: italic;">real </span>class to the red carpet...<br /></div>loboreporterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14752534364641934756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12254197.post-59441581964413168872007-08-30T09:21:00.001+00:002007-08-30T09:21:55.944+00:00Venice opens with British filmThe 64th annual Venice Film Festival opened yesterday with the usual crowds gathering to see the actors of the British film <span style="font-weight: bold;">Atonement</span>, the opening number of this year's edition. Early reports claim that the film got a strong reception.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />One of the curios of this year's festival is the return of Peter Greenaway, who will be showing his new film <span style="font-weight: bold;">Nightwatching</span>, which revolves around Rembrandt's most famous work. Greenaway has an obsession with 19th century Holland, his residence country of many years.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioi08hq5_j9Xr1BTwq7QXDNeWd-dUnYGRr1psqHK2GDrgIuKcpfKoerg9eV9CyVhOj53ZAZPLVZzNU8fbM22ad2xQ0-vWKDi5o8zfWfNXzRr8yEsWuYIcPA1UsQeB3sD5Ud-Y-/s1600-h/Gregg_Araki_alla_61MIAC_del_2004_(2).JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 136px; height: 156px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioi08hq5_j9Xr1BTwq7QXDNeWd-dUnYGRr1psqHK2GDrgIuKcpfKoerg9eV9CyVhOj53ZAZPLVZzNU8fbM22ad2xQ0-vWKDi5o8zfWfNXzRr8yEsWuYIcPA1UsQeB3sD5Ud-Y-/s400/Gregg_Araki_alla_61MIAC_del_2004_(2).JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104420724459942642" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br />Another curio is the fact that Greg Araki (<span style="font-style: italic;">pictured</span>) will preside the Jury of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Orizzonti</span> section and one of the people serving under Araki's chairing is documentarian Frederick Wiseman plus a few other international names. That's one of the interesting things about festivals, you get the most unlikely types under the same roof.<br /><br />That said, the 2007 edition is markedly dominated by Anglophone cinema this year, which could indicate that the organisation of the event is aiming squarely at the commercial prospects of the event rather than artistic and national variety.<br /></div>loboreporterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14752534364641934756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12254197.post-15932278639076527242007-08-25T06:49:00.000+00:002007-08-25T06:58:27.268+00:00Vagalume video festival<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Vaga-Lume</span>, which means <span style="font-style: italic;">glowworm</span>, is a yearly video art festival that takes place in Porto Alegre, the southernmost Brazilian capital of Porto Alegre. I'm taking part of this year's edition as an invited artist with the videos <a href="http://lobopasolinivideo.blogspot.com/2007/04/new-video-video-graffitti-lobo-motivas.html">Video Graffiti</a> and <a href="http://lobopasolinivideo.blogspot.com/2007/05/new-video-art-of-video-art.html">The art of video art</a>. The festival starts on Monday and runs until 6 September.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq6a6BdC__1K6eTxvXCeMLHGUk9AlJIwfKFZLFyi0kzA9K-RGb79-p5jX0r5zcb7pPwG_T4lKrD3L4jjowGZSPKS-4G3YeagY5zMHhqg5_NGHwRD5urx7a9TNBSrTlMUx9ioDOnA/s1600-h/vaga_lume6.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq6a6BdC__1K6eTxvXCeMLHGUk9AlJIwfKFZLFyi0kzA9K-RGb79-p5jX0r5zcb7pPwG_T4lKrD3L4jjowGZSPKS-4G3YeagY5zMHhqg5_NGHwRD5urx7a9TNBSrTlMUx9ioDOnA/s400/vaga_lume6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102528692581806818" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div>loboreporterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14752534364641934756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12254197.post-73825582058808088502007-08-24T15:16:00.000+00:002007-08-24T15:17:04.682+00:00Helvetica, the filmOn the jacket of my copy of Virginia Woolf's book<span style="font-style: italic;"> Flush</span>, her biography of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's aristocratic pet cocker spaniel (a great read, whose success displeased Virginia), there is a great quote by the author taken from a lecture she gave in Oxford in 1928:<br /><br /> <blockquote>"<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">What is meant by "reality"? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable—now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun.</span>"</blockquote><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQGSD6RPpgLTiVF_SAFS_A31ByjzCGF5t0jgxWaqQPrQRBG0MdfCGi8grmbHCFZTsRMFC0OTFTLYfYaPNd_jlwJn0jWgvvoyPNivq48cEME6Af_M0iywPbVzpOOlC1Eu28Zdaj/s1600-h/sm.amsterdam4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 189px; height: 113px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQGSD6RPpgLTiVF_SAFS_A31ByjzCGF5t0jgxWaqQPrQRBG0MdfCGi8grmbHCFZTsRMFC0OTFTLYfYaPNd_jlwJn0jWgvvoyPNivq48cEME6Af_M0iywPbVzpOOlC1Eu28Zdaj/s200/sm.amsterdam4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102285485763703506" border="0" /></a>And of course it can also be found right under a writer, or filmmaker's, nose as the success of the documentary <span style="font-weight: bold;">Helvetica</span> seems to prove. A film about a font sounds like an unlikely subject but apparently everyone wants to see Gary Hustwit's itinerant film. Me too, I'm dying to see it now, after hearing so much about it. Hopefully I'll be able to get a seat next time it comes to London on 7 September at the <a href="http://www.ica.org.uk/Helvetica+14863.twl">ICA</a>.<br /></div><br /><a href="http://www.helveticafilm.com/screenings.html">Here</a> you can find whether it's screening anywhere near you.loboreporterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14752534364641934756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12254197.post-8710818839272307312007-08-21T09:06:00.000+00:002007-08-21T09:07:08.773+00:00Video art: Art of Noise: Beat Box<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NNcx6W_SVl4"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NNcx6W_SVl4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>loboreporterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14752534364641934756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12254197.post-77658959529977420712007-08-21T05:55:00.000+00:002007-08-21T05:56:54.278+00:00Streaming: winners of Aarau festival<div style="text-align: justify;">The winners of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">One Minute Internationales Film & Videofestival</span> in Aarau, Switzerland, which took place last weekend and whose programme included my video <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://lobopasolinivideo.blogspot.com/2007/04/new-video-video-graffitti-lobo-motivas.html">Video Graffiti</a>, have been posted online and you can watch them <a href="http://www.oneminute.ch/">here</a>.</div>loboreporterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14752534364641934756noreply@blogger.com0