Visibility Unknown The Flight of Tulugaq (O Voo de Tulugaq) André Guerreiro Lopes, Brazil, 2010, 8m. Birds flying. Birds circling. A ballet of wing. This was the second silent film featuring birds in flight in three days. New Year Sun Jonathan Schwartz, USA, 2010, 3m. It wasn’t till Sunday when another Mr Schwartz’s films was [...]
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NYFF Views from the Avant Garde Day 2: Visibility Unknown
Posted in Multimedia, Reading, Thinking, Watching, tagged #NYFF, a loft, André Guerreiro Lopes, Avant garde, Ben Russell, Burning Bush, Jonathan Schwartz, Ken Jacobs, Materia Obscura part one Jürgen Reble, New Year Sun, The Flight of Tulugaq, Trypps #7 (Badlands), Vincent Grenier on October 5, 2010 |
NYFF Views from the Avant Garde Day 2: Station to Station
Posted in Reading, Thinking, Watching, tagged #NYFF, Avant garde, Crosswalk, Fern Silva, Jeanne Liotta, Manoel de Oliveira, Rite of Spring, Servants of Mercy on October 4, 2010 |
Station to Station Crosswalk Jeanne Liotta, USA, 2010, 19m. “For the native New Yorkers” was the last words Jeanne Liotta tossed out to the audience before her film started. It took me a few minutes to settle down after that. As a native New Yorker and a participant (that’s me on the right) in more [...]
NYFF Views from the Avant Garde Day 2: Mirror of Shadow and Cinders
Posted in Multimedia, Reading, Thinking, Watching, tagged #NYFF, A Thousand Julys, Ape of Nature, Avant garde, Destination Finale, Dissonant, Dominic Angerame, Erin Espelie, Gavin Smith, Lewis Klahr, Manon de Boer, Marie Karen, Mark McElhatten, Mirror of Shadow and Cinders, Paolo Gioli, Peggy Ahwesh, Philip Widmann, Philipp Lachenmann, Photofinish Figures (Il finish delle figure), SHU (Blue Hour Lullaby), The Soul of Things, Valleys of Fear, Yasinsky on October 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I neglected to mention yesterday that Mark McElhatten did a great job of hosting the marathon of first day screenings. Today one less screening but 6-7 times more artists/filmmakers for Marc and Gavin Smith to wrangle. Mirror of Shadow and Cinders SHU (Blue Hour Lullaby) Philipp Lachenmann, Germany, 2008, 12m. The most eerie falling of [...]
And they laughed at Rumsfeld … From WebProNews “The Google patent seems to be specific enough to leave enough room for a variety of approaches to identify underserved content areas on the Web, so even if Demand Media’s current algorithm was at risk, it should not be too hard for them to evolve it” New [...]
Art, politics, marketing and appropriation
Posted in Images, Reading, Thinking, tagged Appropriation, art, AT&T, Christo, Marina Abramoviç, Politics, Warhol on June 6, 2010 |
Angus Warhol (2010) Ron Diorio I have been toying with an essay about the meaning of Born in the USA which Bruce Springsteen can’t control. However recently AT&T has created a better Christo than Christo and Marina Abramoviç was reported in Art Fag City to have complained: The artist revealed that the exhibit wasn’t just [...]
