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‘The Dislocation of Amber’ was filmed in the city of Suakin, a formerly flourishing port in Sudan, now in ruins. Its history is one of famine and opulence, devastation and progress, rich trade and damage, and colonialism. Shariffe used symbols to accentuate a sense of desertion and alienation hinted at in the title. This surreal masterpiece of Sudanese cinema features poems sung by the late Sudanese singer Abdel-Aziz Dawoud.Read More »
“This is the story of a dog who makes films. Or a filmmaker who is a dog. In a series of return trips between Brittany and Lisbon, the protagonist tries to create a filmed animal diary. On the road to Lisbon, he talks with a Portuguese producer, to attempt to show all the sincerity of the canine gaze in his film. An extensive consideration of the thousand-year-old interdependency between humans and dogs thus develops through the prism of ethology and film. In particular, he calls on the history of cinema, from which he unearths hundreds of film excerpts featuring dogs, who become perfect heroes and actors when they find themselves alone in a shot. In this second feature-length film, Maxime Martinot makes a resolutely film-and-dog-loving animal comedy, a profound and cheerful reflection at the heart of our images of the human and animal condition. And if there had to be a conclusion, perhaps it could be this: humans do not deserve dogs.”
Aurélien Marsais, Visions du RéelRead More »
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The creators of the skateboarding magazine Big Brother go on an East Coast tour, and get into some pretty wild shenanigans.
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This is one of the most wild movies I think I’ve ever seen, there’s quite literally no way this would’ve gotten released today. Most of it is skateboarding videos and that’s fun but the rest is people doing stupid shit and it’s hilarious but so bad at the same time, it is quite literally a product of it’s timeRead More »
The film tracks Fresnel lenses from their site of production to their exhibition in a museum of lighthouses and navigational devices. It also examines the diverse social contexts in which optics are implicated, contrasting the system of triangular trade that followed the first European arrivals in the ‘New World’ with the political potential seen in Op art in post-revolutionary Cuba. Incorporating 16mm celluloid images, digital desktop captures and 3D CGI, the film also maps a technological trajectory: from historical methods of optical navigation to new algorithms of locating, from singular projection to multi-perspectival satellitic visions. Registering these technical advances progressively through the film’s materials and means of production, Sunstone creates “a cinema of affect, a cinema of experience – an Op- Film.”Read More »
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I’m talking about ARREBATO (1979), of course.
While Zulueta can be compared to other great filmmakers like Lynch or Buñuel, watching his brief filmography (he had no luck with the film industry) it’s obvious that he has his own, magnificent style. An style that combines surrealism, fantasy and most important, the exploration of the fascinating human mind (ARREBATO was a film about an obsession and a dependence).Read More »
For seven days, at exactly 1 pm, someone watches the mountain ahead.
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This is the first of Time Series, which according the dirtector, “portray, through photography in movement and the spectator’s solitude, the passage of time, apparently slow, but which reveals fast when we open our eyes and look back every year, month, day, hour, minute and second.”Read More »
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MatsuiI’s debut film, “Rusty Empty Can” (1979), was photographed by Sogo Ishii; nonetheless the film turned out to be a serious and emotionally painful one unlike Ishii’s speedy roller-coaster movies. The film which depicts a homosexual relationship was success at the many film festival held in Japan. “Rusty Empty Can” is still shown at theatres today as it has become the pioneer of cult movies with devoted fans and approval from Nagisa Oshima and Shuji Terayama.Read More »
A series of intimate diaries, starting from daily encounters. We experience Bulle Ogier and Viva, Nico and Tina Aumont, Philippe Garrel and Udo Kier, a performance by Béjart, a piece by Marc’O, concerts by Bob Marley and Patti Smith. It’s like a maelstrom of psychedelic images that are passed through a particle accelerator.Read More »
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Sex, Hood, Skate, and Videotape shot, edited, and released by Ian Reid in 2006 is a legendary and infamous video that has been unavailable in it’s entirety for 10+ years.
“I’m gonna take this time out to talk to you about Ian Reid’s video. It’s a timepiece that takes you on a trip from the bottom to the top. It was made amidst the streets of New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia and Los Angeles in the middle of skating with my friends, shootouts, sex, money and drugs. I’m here to adjust the game, to put the integrity back in skateboarding. The game’s all wrong- I’m gonna show you how to do this. Ian Reid’s video is 110% RAW and UNCUT. This is how a video should be made.”Read More »