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Because, because... 2008-03-15 12:02:40 Stefan Leyh .Selected Exhibitions2008 »relocated #3«, Filipp Rosbach, Leipzig2007 »Unter Löwen«, Sächsische Staatskanzlei, Dresden2006 »im nu«, Dresden »Grand Ouvert«, Filipp Rosbach, Leipzig »Il mondo reale«, Laden für Nichts, Leipzig2005 »624 miles«, Oslo »Spuk«, Kustodie Leipzig2003-2007 Jahresausstellungen der HfBK Dresden
It's So Nice to Have a Wolf Around the House (1979) 2008-03-15 05:59:24 Paul Fierlinger has been a professional independent animator since 1958, when he made his first TV commercial in Prague. Since then he has produced roughly 1000 films of varying lengths, including the Teeny Little Super Guy series for Sesame Street. He received an Oscar nomination in 1979 for his short, It's So Nice to Have a Wolf Around the House
.This animated film is based on a novella by Harry Allard.The wolf in this tale is a fully humanized character. He has made some grave mistakes in his life that have put him on the wrong side of the law. An old man advertises for a companion to take care of his animals and is answered by a fuzzy stranger named Cuthbert Devine. The wolf behaves well and becomes a trusted friend. Then comes the revelation of the wolf's criminal past through an arti
Ann Archer 2008-03-19 11:54:07 David Edward Byrd has created posters for Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, the Who & their rock opera Tommy, Traffic, Iron Butterfly, Ravi Shankar and the Grateful Dead.
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Komposition in blau (1935) 2008-03-19 08:23:07 Colorful geometric figures are set in rhythmic motion. Choreographs cubes, cylinders, and columns into an exuberant ballet that recalls the patterns created by Busby Berkeley. Within a deep blue environment, one red cube slowly drifts on a reflecting floor. Suddenly there are multiple red cubes drifting and dancing in various formations.In Komposition in Blau there is a continuing interest in eastern mysticism and western hermetic thought. Fischinger focused the romantic drama in his compositions on mystical, contemplative and speculative-scientific icons, filling his films with non-objective figurations.Fischinger used tight synchronization between his visuals and musical soundtracks as a helpful analogy for audiences who were still somewhat astonished by abstract art. His films became wi
Cold Mountain (2003) 2008-03-19 04:01:59 Directed by Anthony Minghella, this Civil War saga addresses romance, friendship and the ravages of war. Based on the Charles Frazier novel, this is a tale of hope and redemption. Cold Mountain
captures the horrors of war for both those fighting it and for those left behind.It tells the story of a wounded Confederate soldier named Inman (Jude Law) who struggles on a perilous journey to get back home to Cold Mountain, N.C. as well as to Ada (Nicole Kidman), the woman he left behind before going off to fight in the Civil War. We watch as the characters begin to unravel their internal tortures and their need to subdue their isolation, to face their regrets and hope for the future. We can also observe the stages of emotional changes in the characters.The symbolisms, throughout the film, are pl
Kingpong 2008-03-19 02:39:18 by James Barr. His projects: The Monkey Nuts, Marrs Bar and Piggy Bank.
Triangle (1994) 2008-03-18 09:34:08 Triangle is a a very conceptual and exotic kind of short animated film in which Erica Russell combined Charlie Hart's African and Brazilian sound track with western drawing. The artist uses pencil, brush painting, chalk, cut paper and air-brush. The drawing is influenced by African art, too.The passions of young lovers and another woman are expressed throught paint and dance. The triangle shape appears and wrap itself around the female's body and dances with the male. It makes powerful use of music and artwork styles that range from classical drawing to pure abstraction.The human figures are highly stylised and beautifully simplified. The entire film is based on the stream of movement, derived from three human figures against neutral backgrounds. There's a complex inter-relationships betw
Sortie D'Usine (1895) 2008-03-18 08:42:22 According to many critics and film buffs, the first viewing of Sortie d' Usine takes it rightful place as the biggest shock in movie history: the audience was caught completely off guard and were absolutely dumbstruck. They didn't think that the picture would move!The first film audiences did not demand to be told stories but found infinite fascination in the mere recording and reproduction of the movement of animate and inanimate objects.I doubt a modern audience could fully understand the beauty of Leaving the Lumière Factory: what fascinated audiences wasn't the depiction of riveting events but what went on behind the scene.You'll find yourselves flying into the screen, pulled by the movement of the doors of factory. Two doorways open themselves slightly. And at each moment we canno
Inkspinster 4 2008-03-18 02:25:40 Inkspinster is by Deco. If you want to read Inkspinster 3, click here.
Chinese Insect 2008-03-17 12:01:04 Donald Silverstein has worked as illustrator for advertising agencies and publishing companies. He has won awards for advertising illustrations and book illustration. His works has been exhibited at The Detroit Institure of Art as well as galleries in Tokyo and in Paris.
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Alice in Wonderland (1903) 2008-03-21 15:19:39 Alice in Wonderland
is a 1903 silent film directed by Cecil Hepworth and starring May Clark in this more twisted version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Parts of the movie are lost; there is only one known copy of this film remaining so the British Film Institute are unable to restore the missing parts.Alice in Wonderland was made barely five years after Dodgson's death. Barely nine minutes long, this movie necessarily shows only a few fragments of the novel. Hepworth was insistent that the images stay faithful to the drawings of Sir John Tenniel, the original illustrator of Lewis Carroll's story, so it's strange that the central character looks nothing at all like Tenniel's Alice.Hepworth has been a vitally important figure in Britain's early cinema. Alice in Wonderland was the longe
Maybe 03 2008-03-21 12:11:57 By Maura Cluthe .
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Shaun the Sheep (2007) 2008-03-21 08:39:24 Shaun the Sheep
is a British show from Aardman Animations ('Wallace & Gromit') about a Sheep named Shaun. The series of seven minute episodes. Shaun Shaun made his TV debut on Christmas Eve 1996 in Nick Park's Academy Award-winning short film A Close Shave where one of Wallace's contraptions sheared off all of Shaun's wool. Shaun later appeared in the 2002 series Cracking Contraptions episode, Shopper 13, ostensibly to rescue a wayward wheel of cheese.The spin off series, Shaun the Sheep, is formed by fourty episodes of seven minutes.In this series, Shaun has many adventures with his barnyard compatriots and the rest of his flock. He is a sheep who doesn't follow the flock. It is hilarious, adorable and far too good for the children it is clearly aimed at. Inquisitive, imaginative and Read more:Shaun
Self Portrait 2008-03-21 02:48:07 Ratingher directes Donna Bavosa Produzioni. His comics have been published on magazines Petrolio, Fandango and iPunk.
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Street Fight (2005) 2008-03-20 18:37:06 Street Fight is an Academy Award-nominated documentary by filmmaker Marshall Curry. This documentary follows the 2002 mayoral campaign in Newark, New Jersey in which Cory Booker attempted to unseat longtime mayor Sharpe James. It provides a fascinating in-depth look behind the scenes of campaigns and elections and shows a series of outrageous scenes.The documentaries can be a force for good in the world. At their best, they expose people to new issues, struggles, characters and lifestyles. They challenge us and help us to understand each other.Street Fight is a film about race and politics whose goal is to attract an audience that does not necessarily care about or does not know that they care about, race and politics.This film will seduce you, using humor, irony and drama to lure you out Read more:Street
Snowbound 2008-03-20 12:03:26 Lisa M. Robinson. Awards include a Fulbright Grant, as well as “Curator’s Choice” at the Houston Center of Photography Membership Exhibition and the “Top 50 Photographers” chosen by Critical Mass. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at Light Work, and was recently selected as the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Fellow at the MacDowell Colony.Snowbound has been exhibited internationally in Argentina, Syria, Lithuania, Denmark, Uruguay, Chile and Bolivia. Lisa M. Robinson was recently nominated for a Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant.He has issued Snowbound.
Measles (2007) 2008-03-20 11:19:37 Measles won the Public Choice award at the British Animation Awards 2008. It's animated by Sweetworld TV, directed by Lisle Turner and written by Robin Ince and Neil Redmond.Usually I don't enjoy commercial films but it is worthywhile watching this short. It's a funny cartoon with an important message: every day someone dies. Did you ever ask yourselves how many lives can be spared? Amnecy International estimates that in 2010 more people are going to be killed by armed conflict than by diseases!The visual style is impressive: the contrast between the coloured germs and the black and white scenes give the germs more humanity than mankind. In the animation and the filmmaking there are references to Lyonel Kouro's F.A.E.L.L.
The Hearts of Age (1934) 2008-03-20 09:17:54 This is Orson Welles' first film. This film was co-directed by Welles with William Vance and also stars Welles' first wife, Virginia Nicholson, as well as Welles himself.This silent film is a series of images loosely tied together and is arguably influenced by surrealism. The film begins with a rapid-fire montage sequence of a ringing bell, shot at odd angles and shown in both positive and negative.The Hearts
of Age reveals both a keen eye for composition and montage and substantial familiarity with film art.The final effect is adequately frightening and disconcerting.You can buy Avant Garde - Experimental Cinema of the 1920s & 1930s.
Inkspinster 5 2008-03-20 03:27:50 Inkspinster is by Deco. If you want to read Inkspinster 4, click here.
Manhatta (1921) 2008-03-23 17:59:20 Manhatta is the result of a collaboration between painter Charles Sheeler and photographer Paul Strand (neither of the two had previous filmmaking experience and no connections to the film industry). It is a cinematic prose poem exalting the energetic and modern pulse of New York City.This film is a rhythmic series of images, interspersed with verse excerpted from Whitman, fashioning an expression of the city over the course of a day. Their urban portrait begins at dawn as scores of people arrive in the city for a day of work. The ten minute film spans an imaginary day in the life of New York City, beginning with footage of Staten Island ferry commuters and culminating with the sun setting over the Hudson River.It consists of 65 shots sequenced in a loose narrative in which the primary obj
The Peculiar Adventures of Hector 2008-03-22 10:16:36 LARSOA has teamed up with Texaco for the launch of ‘Hector
’, a road safety character brought to life with the help of triple Oscar winners, Aardman Animations. ‘The Peculiar Adventures
of Hector’ DVD has been offered free to customers when they make a fuel purchase at any of Texaco’s (the UK’s largest branded network of independently-owned service stations) 1,100 retail sites from the start of November.The five animations, along with ‘bloopers’ and ‘the making of Hector’ are available as free downloads at www.hectorshome.com with games and interactive activities. In the site, children can also explore and engage in fun activities based around the themes of road safety.This cartoon enters the imaginative world of Hector as he embarks across a range of road safety lesso
Inkspinster 6 2008-03-22 02:38:49 Inkspinster is by Deco. If you want to read Inkspinster 5, click here.
Allegretto (1936) 2008-03-25 17:16:22 Allegretto develops itself as an invigorating contrast between overlapping, expanding concentric circles and flocks of angular, foreground shapes that sail across the screen in time to Rainger's jazzy score.There's a series of white and pale green lozenges, irregularly distributed across a larger rhomboid shape composed of rectangles divided into red and deep green at each of whose tip hovers a scattering of white diamonds. Diamond and oval shapes in primary colors perform a sensual, upbeat ballet to the music of composer Ralph Rainger. The geometric dance is set against a background of expanding circles that suggest radio waves. Allegretto presents an intricate layering of a number of recurring motives.This was the first film Oskar Fischinger made after he emigrated from Berlin to Hollywo
Second Growth 2008-03-25 12:33:09 Bill Clone work as a Production Designer at a computer animation studio.
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Hourly Comics 2008-03-25 03:25:21 John Campbell. You can read Hourly Comics
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The Process 2008-03-28 04:30:21 "The is a journey and exploration through a personal 'pleroma', an imaginary landscape populated by strange, wondrous creatures and archetypal characters. Throughout the creation of this story, readers will find that the art will vary radically from chapter to chapter. This relates to another stop along the way; that of the journey of the artist. By exploring this personal world, I also hope to expand and develop my own visual idiom by experimenting with new ways of making art and storytelling. Even this introduction is by no means permanent. I will be updating it and finetuning it as the story develops. Everything here is in flux and part of an exploration and investigation into life, creativity and spirituality."You can continue to read The Process
by Joe Infurnari.
The Music Box (1932) 2008-03-28 03:04:30 The Music
Box was directed by James Parrott, produced by Hal Roach and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and it's one of the longer shorts for its time. The film is a partial remake of their 1927 silent short Hats Off, which was filmed at the same location and is today considered a lost film. Hats Off was itself remade in the same location in a film called It's Your Move starring Edgar Kennedy in 1945. But the inspiration to build a comedy around those steps apparently came to producer Hal Roach even before Hats Off. Although The Music Box won the first Academy Award for Live Action Short Film (Comedy) in 1932. This little classic is generally regarded as the Stan&Ollie's best film. The Laurel & Hardy Moving Co. have a challenging job: hauling a player piano up a monumental fl
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