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Cassette Memories (2003) 2008-03-08 05:20:58 Aki Onda has performed with multiple cassette walkmans and electronics, using field-recording sounds that he has recorded himself as a diary for more than a decade. He released the first album of the series, Cassette
Memories in 2003, under the title Ancient & Modern, followed by the second album, Bon Voyage!Cassette Memories is a music performance, or a ritual, that conjures up the general essence of memory as Onda playes his own personal memories. He uses old tube guitar and bass amps to deliver the desired warmness and depth of cassettes.These cassette diaries are only memories of sound, dreamscapes, freed from all meaning and even from Onda's own subjectivity. The artist conducts the attention to the origin of the sounds. It is an event that is partly visible but seen mostly in one
Pulci 2 2008-03-08 02:46:55 Pulci is by Claudio Cardinali. If you want to read Pulci 1, click here.
The Labours of Hercules 2008-03-07 10:59:22 Leonie Purchas.Selected by the Magenta Foundation 2007 Winner of the Arts Foundation Fellowship for photography Selected for the Joop Swart World Press Masterclass 2006 Awarded 15 month scholarship from Fabrica, Italy, to collaborate on the ‘Les Yeux Ouvert’ exhibition at The Pompidou Centre, Paris. Winner of the Jerwood Photography Award Selected as one of the Photo District News 30 emerging photographers Winner of the Tom Webster Award Winner of the Ian Parry Memorial Scholarship Winner of the Metro Bursary Award
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A Colour Box (1935) 2008-03-07 08:55:51 A dizzying parade of dancing lines, squiggles, dots and arabesques is set to a joyful Cuban soundtrack. A Colour
Box is probably one of the most innovative uses of film in the history of advertising and a tribute to the instincts of the GPO Film Unit under John Grierson. In order to turn an abstract film into a GPO advertisement, Grierson came up with the idea of inscribing a few words at the end of the film to promote the use of the postal service.Len Lye originally planned a self-sufficient abstract film. When John Grierson watched A Colour Box, he was so impressed by it that he suggested adding some words extolling the value of the parcel post which are incorporated into the final minutes of the film. These words are somewhat incongruous in the context of the film but they are incorpo
Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (1926) 2008-03-07 08:30:54 The Adventures of Prince Achmed was the first full-length animated film and despite being 75 years old, the silhouette animation looks clean, fresh and technically adroit.Lotte Reiniger spent three years making this silent animated film based on the Arabian Nights legends. She worked with animator Bertold Bartosch and background artist Walter Ruttman for three years on the film.A wicked sorcerer tricks Prince Achmed into riding a magical flying horse. The heroic prince is able to subdue the magical horse, which he uses to fly off to many adventures. While travelling, he falls in love with the beautiful Princess Peri Banu and must defeat an army of demons to win her heart.Reiniger made the entire film frame-by-frame with elaborate paper cutouts under a camera. The paper cutouts were jointed
Blueberry (2004) 2008-03-07 04:35:19 Blueberry (Blueberry: L'expérience secrète) is a French movie adaptation of the popular Franco-Belgian comic book series Blueberry, illustrated by Jean Giraud (better known as Moebius) and scripted by Jean-Michel Charlier. This adptation is very loosely based on the comic and adds mystical and shamanic elements not present in the source material of interest to the movie's director, Jan Kounen.In the 1870's, U.S Marshal Mike S. Blueberry tries to stop Wally Blount, the man who killed his girlfriend from getting to a stockpile of gold hidden in Indian territory. On his way, he meets Prosit, a German villain on a persistent mission to find gold in the Superstition Mountains.The film combines some action-packed western sequences with lots of druggy references as Blueberry follows his Indian Read more:Blueberry
Senza Titolo (Without Title) 2008-03-07 04:28:52 "Senza Titolo" (Without Title
, 2008, 21 cm x 30 cm). Claudio Parentela is an illustrator, painter, photographer, mail artist, cartoonist, collagist, free lance journalist... Active for many years in the international underground scene. He has collaborated & he collaborates with many, many zines, magazines of contemporary art, literary and of comics in Italy and in the world...& on paper and on the web...He has also worked with many bands of industrial, noise, experimental & electronic music. He has produced some booklets of illustrations and comics, too.
Paris 2008-03-07 02:35:51 You can watch the artwork of architect and artist Hartwig Braun on Artyglobe.
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L'Enfant de la haute (2001) 2008-03-06 12:00:26 In a village surrounded by the sea, a little girl lives dreaming from one day to the next. Suddenly, she thinks she has discovered something ...This seven-minute short film was made as a graduation project at the Supinfocom (School for Infography and Multimedia in Valenciennes, France) and it has been selected at the Cannes Film Festival, at the Hiroshima Festival and at the Amnecy Festival.The scenario was inspired by the novel L'Enfant de la Haute Mer by Jules Supervielle. Every stage of the realization (scenario, storyboard, animation and sound) was executed by the group. The artistic group worked mostly with the lighting and in the rendering process to merge 3D and 2D. All the textures attached to 3D objects are watercolored and they are very expressive in order to convey the emotions
Terminus (2007) 2008-03-06 10:35:05 Trevor Cawood was born in Regina. He began his career working as a visual-effects supervisor and commercial director. Terminus (2007) is his first film. This short is a dark comedy about the self-destructive nature of the human mind and the dangers of urban isolation. It employs a sharp deadpan sensibility and a stylized dystopic world to evoke our universal anxieties.Soaked in Seventies concrete modernism and making brilliant use of computer generated graphics, Terminus brings urban angst vividly to life.After inadvertently offending a strange entity that accosts him on his way to work, a 1970's businessman quickly finds himself in the midst of a bizarre predicament. A colossus made of concrete pilings follows a lonely man throughout the city tormenting him as he goes about his daily life
Filmstudie (1926) 2008-03-06 10:24:46 Hans Richter’s pioneering Dada work Filmstudie was an early attempt to combine Dadaist aesthetics and abstraction. Made in 1926 Richter’s film presents the viewer with a disorientating collage of uncanny false eyeballs, distorted faces and abstract forms (none of these themes is treated constantly). It's similar to Man Ray's work in its ballet of motion which combines a playful tension between figurative and abstract forms, both in negative and positive exposure.Filmstudie is essentialy a transitional work of mixed styles. A number of devices drawing attention to the technical specificity of photography (multiple exposures and negative images) are also included and enter into a successful fusion with the remaining elements.Dreamlike motifs of magical realisms correspond to the style o
Tusalava (1928) 2008-03-06 10:24:09 Tusalava (The Samoan word Tusalava means 'In the end, everything is just the same'), is a 9 minute black and white animation on the origin of life, based on Polinesian art. Len Lye had recently arrived in London from the South Pacific when he began this film in which he merges elements of European modern art with the primitive art which he had experienced in the South Sea Islands.It was particulary influenced by the witchetty grub (Baldwin Spencer's and F.J. Gillen's The Native Tribes of Central Australia has been the main source for Lye's ideas on witchetty grubs), a source of food for the Aboriginal people. The shapes inherent to much of Lye’s direct animation and paintings are derived from dots and indigenous tapa patterns. His enduring fascination for and extensive studies of Pacifi
Emak-Bakia (1926) 2008-03-06 10:23:52 Emak-Bakia, ( the title comes from an old Basque expression that means don't bother me), subtitled a cinépoéme, features many filming techniques used by Man Ray, including rayographs, double exposures, soft focus and ambiguous features. The film features sculptures by Pablo Picasso and some of Man Ray's mathematical objects both still and animated using a stop motion technique.It was, originally, a silent film (note: the first screening was with a phonograph recording of a popular jazz tune, along with a live pianist and violinist who took over with tangos when the records were changed) but recent copies have been dubbed using music taken from Man Ray's personal record collection of the time. The musical reconstruction was by Jacques Guillot.This short film involves a series of illusive
Dog Interface (2000) 2008-03-06 09:57:23 The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time (TMGLMOAT) is a Radiohead DVD released on December 1, 2004. It is directed and edited by Chris Bran. The film contains all four episodes of TMGLMOAT and features new songs with numerous live videos. It also has animations and interviews with the band.One of the episodes is The Dog Interface
, a short film directed by the acclaimed Juan Pablo Etcheverry. It's pure poetry!In a futuristic world, human society has been annihilated. People continue to live but they have mutated and even if their knowledge of science and techology continues to grow, they no longer comunicate with each other.Their life is impersonal, without a soul. Everything, every human life can be "rehealed" artificiously. People don't need anything, they no longer need to be human.Dog
Hokusai - An Animated Sketchbook (1978) 2008-03-06 09:56:42 This award winning short film was written, directed and animated by Tony White who is known for his versatility and range of styles, way back in 1978. His career includes twenty years at Animus Productions/Entertainments as president and founder, seven years at Richard Williams Animation Limited as personal assistant to Richard Williams on A Christmas Carol (Academy Award), five years at Halas and Batchelor as Head of Design, Director, Designer, Animator of numerous projects such as the animated tv series Jackson Five and Tomfoolery, various commercials and short films.The film brings to life the worlds of Japanese ukiyo master, Katsushika Hokusai (best known for his iconic The Great Wave). Hokusai's work is so pervasive in Japanese culture that you can still see it influencing today's ar
The Blood of Yingzhou District (潁州的孩子), 2006 2008-03-06 08:37:09 Ruby Yang is a noted Chinese-American filmmaker whose work in documentary and dramatic film has earned her an Academy Award and numerous international awards. She lives and works in Beijing, directing documentaries and public service announcements for the China AIDS Media Project.The Blood
of Yingzhou District
, which Yang directed as part of the project, won an Academy Award in February 2007.The subject is AIDS in China, specifically in the province of Anhui. The victims are poor families. The adults donated blood in evidently unsanitary conditions: one individual, apparently connected to the blood drawing procedure, describes combining the donated blood of fifty individuals and then re-injecting a little bit of the mixture into the veins of the donors.Yang enters the Yingzhou region and
Contraband Chapter 1 2008-03-06 06:56:45 A near-future tale revealing an all-too-possibly-real world of underground video, violence and crime on cell phone networks, Contraband follows a young man's journey into a new "voyeur underground", where profit-hungry youths prowl streets secretly filming radical events with mobile devices to satisfy society's demand for sensational on-the-go content.It's an Orwellian Graphic Novel: the use/misuse of camera phones, loss of privacy and the boom in the spy cam industry that this generates. It reveals how our life going to be in the next few years!Contraband is a 144 page graphic novel written by Thomas Behe and illustrated by Phil Elliott. Published by SLG Publishing.Canadian writer TJ Behe has twelve years experience developing wireless content for global entertainment companies inclu Read more:Chapter
Amsterdam 2008-03-05 06:48:07 You can watch the artwork of architect and artist Hartwig Braun on Artyglobe.
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Brace 3 2008-03-04 16:57:52 Barbara Caveng. Since 1991, she participated as a free-lance artist in numerous art projects, concentrating on sculpture, installation and object art. Her installations have been recently shown in projects in the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, in Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, the Gaus der Kunst in Munich, the Art Museum of Akurery, Iceland, the Kunsthalle Mannheim in Heidelberger Kunstverein.In 2003, she was awarded the H. W. & J.Hector Award by Kunsthalle Mannheim for installation and in 2002 the Award of the city of Limburg for her work U MENJA EST METSCHTA – I HAVE A DREAM. In 2001, she was also awarded the cultural exchange scholarship for Moscow by the Senate of Berlin.
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Company of American Girls 2008-03-04 08:46:35 Melissa Ann Pinney.Grants and Awards2007 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Award2006 Photography Now: One Hundred Portfolios1999 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship1997 LaSalle National Bank, Chicago Marathon Project Commission1992 Chicago Women in Philanthropy, Mac Arthur Foundation1989 Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship Award1987 National Endowment for the Arts, Midwest Regional Fellowship Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship Award Community Arts Assistance Program, Chicago Changing Chicago Documentary Project, Chicago1981 Illinois Arts Council Project Completion Grant1980 Illinois Arts Council Project Completion Grant1977 Artist in Residence, Evanston Arts Center, Evanston
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La storia di Mara (Mara's story ) 2008-03-03 04:57:35 Paolo Cossi. He has worked as a teacher in a comics school since 1997. He won the Jacovitti contest in 2002 and the Albertarelli Prize in 2004.His works: Corona. l'uomo del bosco di Erto (Biblioteca dell'immagine), Tina modotti (Biblioteca dell'immagine), Mauro Corona. la montagna come la vita (Biblioteca dell'immagine), Il terremoto del Friuli (Becco giallo), Unabomber (Becco Giallo), La storia di Mara (Lavieri), 1918: DESTINI d'OTTOBRE. Britannici oltre il Piave (Dario De Bastiani Editore), Medz Yeghern, Il grande male (Hazard edizioni).
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Landscape 02 2008-03-02 15:36:11 Rebekka Ehlers. In 2003 she received a scholarship from Fabrica, The Benetton Research and Communications Center, where she worked until starting out as a freelance photographer in 2005.
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E.S.U. 8 2008-03-02 02:58:02 If you want to read E.S.U. 7, click here.
Inkspinster 1 2008-03-12 17:43:04 Elisabetta Decontardi (Deco). Her strip "Inkspinster" is published weekly on: Inkspinster and La Striscia.In 2003, it the first collection of Inkspinster was released by Lilliput.Deco has received awards in illustrations, satire and comics contests. She collaborates with comic-related sites, webzines, magazines and free-press newspapers.
Hardwood (2004) 2008-03-12 16:42:01 The Academy Award nominated Hardwood
is a personal journey by director Hubert Davis, the son of former Harlem Globetrotter Mel Davis, who explores how his father's decisions affected his life and those of his extended family. Mel Davis, now a coach for young basketball players in Vancouver, recalls falling in love at first sight with Hubert's mother, a white woman, at a time when racism seemed to make their union impossible. Despite their emotional bond, still resonating over 20 years later, Mel chose to marry a black woman, with whom he also had a son.Elegantly structured into three chapters entitled "love," "recollection" and "redemption," Hubert Davis uses personal interviews, archival footage and home movies to delve into his father's past in the hope of finding a new direction for hi
Seelische Konstruktionen (1927) 2008-03-12 16:36:57 In the early 1930s, German and Austrian emigrants influenced the American film scene. One of the most important of avant-garde artists was the animator and painter Oskar Fischinger: one of the greatest artists of the XX century.His films and paintings have long enjoyed the status of cult icons, influencing a whole generation of artists and continuing anonymously to serve as models for computer graphics and MTV video-clips.Spiritual Constructions opens with two silhouetted male figures drinking together at a table. Over the course of the next few minutes, they change rapidly into all manners of shapes, objects and creatures.The final result is a surreal and nightmarish imagery: a wonderfully witty exploration of a vast interior landscape.You can buy these: The importance of being Fischinger
Tim Tom (2003) 2008-03-12 07:44:10 Romain Segaud codirected his first film, Tim Tom, with Christel Pougeoise, as graduating project at SupInfoCom.Tim and Tom are two little men (whose faces are in fact notepads!) trying to keep in touch with each other. But the Creator, a giant omnipotent hand, tries very hard to interfere with this. To succeed in their quest, they must face more severe perils!The plot is clever, full of intentional references to animation. Tim Tom is, in fact, a homage to the cartoon film, with touches from the Thaumatrope, the studio Aardman and the influences of Tex Avery. Segaud's inspiration for the film came also from Georges Méliès, Norman McLaren George Pal and Ian Svankmayer.This short film boasts excellent timing and character animation. The characters designs are very simple and the animation
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