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There’s a great interview with one of my favorite artists Julien von Bismarck, the 26-year old Berlin-based artist/student in Olafur Eliasson’s Institute of Space Experiments. His media intervention project is The Image Fulgurator in which Bismarck uses an analog camera fitted with a projection/strobe system to throw images rather than capture them. Used in [Read More]
I’m not sure how I feel about Montreal. Ever since I started learning French I’ve associated the language with hostility and romantic impulses for sneering antagonism. The language of love and revolution. Or perhaps just indulgent protests and overpriced espresso. In all fairness, my narrow and decidedly cliche perspective is both the fault [Read More]
It is impossible to conclude even a minute comprehension of Pedro Costa’s cinema without addressing the formidable influence which the work of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet had on Costa’s recent constructions, and particularly on the structuring of his masterpiece, Colossal Youth. The French film-making duo — whose works are identified [Read More]
South Korea resumed operations of psychological warfare against North Korea — effectively ending a six-year moratorium on propaganda — in response to the sinking of the Cheonan warship. The broadcast began yesterday evening at 6 p.m. on FM radio when a female anchor announced, what she called, the “voice of freedom”. What followed [Read More] The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film last year was bestowed onto an Argentine mystery romance; a film that intermixes the pathos of unspoken love and the torture chamber of memory, and parallels these alongside the shadowy contours of law and corrupt politics. As the film frames all these disparate elements within a novelist’s remembrance of a rape and murder investigation that he was involved in as a young attorney in the court halls of Buenos Aires in the early 1970s, it continuously draws analogies to the mercenary political machinations of a dictatorial Argentina. This brilliantly scripted and acted film was written and directed by Juan Jose Campanella, a director who has now catapulted himself onto the international film scene with this minor masterpiece. [Read More]
The standing paradox of the camera-eye — of the frame which it creates and through which we inquire and learn of a spectacle — is that it permits freedom to gestate in a contained space. By ‘freedom’ I refer to that unmistakable sensation of plurality which the cinematographic spectacle invokes. The spectres of [Read More] A couple nights ago I dropped by my new favorite Los Angeles cinema, the historic and tragic Silent Movie Theater on Fairfax, now completely reimagined by the oh so excellent curatorial group Cinefamily. As part of a series on animation for grown-ups, Cinefamily hosted a special screening and presentation on the origins of [Read More] This weekend the Los Angeles Getty Museum will host a theater performance of one of the towering Mexican poems of the 20th century “Piedra De Sol”, a work by the renowned and Nobel prize winning poet Octavio Paz. The multimedia performance is the commission of director Maria Morrett and is in connection to the sculpture [Read More] The cinema of Pedro Costa is indeed “colossal,” and though its progression has been a labor of glacial speed, its achievements are as far reaching as the giant steps of those who’ve practiced the unacknowledged art of vigilant forbearance. Costa’s name has been bandied about by diligent, discerning cineastes since the beginning of the decade as the arrival of a visionary filmmaker whose cinema demands the strictest attention to its atomic motions and a similar participation in its latent unfolding. [Read More]
A couple months ago I wrote a blog post about how music videos were getting a bit monstrous. At the time, I didn’t yet find it odd that I was even watching music videos even though that MTV had long stopped playing them, and well, who watches the television nowadays anyway? Looks like [Read More] |
 Luigi Russolo: How The Art of Noise Revolutionized 20th Century MusicIn 1913, a young Italian painter wrote an impassioned letter of admiration to composer Balilla Pratella after being witness to a performance of his symphony at the Costanzi Theatre in Rome: “While I was listening to the orchestral performance of your overwhelming Futurist music, there came to my mind the idea of a new art, one that only you can create: the Art of Noises, a logical consequence of your marvelous innovations.” The artist’s name was Luigi Russolo and what he envisioned for the future of sound on that day set the template for modern [Read More]  Can Video Games be Art? A Response to Roger EbertAfter eleven years of anticipation, yours and mine surely, Blizzard Entertainment finally released, at the end of last month, Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty. Still, one question lingers concerning video games. And we can thank film critic Roger Ebert for lighting the fire under the conversation. Can video games be art? [Read More]  The Art of the Take Away ConcertBy Adri Wong
Music is not divorced from place. We know that songs and albums are psychically and sensorily linked to specific memories, specific ages: the temperature of a summer in a foreign city, the smell of an old friend or lover. The take away concert carves out a role for this method of [Read More]  ‘Inception’: Three Film TheoriesIf the proof of the synthesis of the dream-life and real time is the meta-dream of the cinematic, then Christopher Nolan’s Inception, a film of grandiose mechanics and mnemonic architectures, introduces cinema itself as a powerful allegory for the possibility of shared [Read More]  Future Funk: Searching for the Lost GrooveFunk was born from the sludge, the grainy mud of the earth. It festered in the primordial soup until the spirit of life sucked itself into its own existence, and grew into form, and that form changed under the cycles of the sun and moon and stars. The funk has since changed in shape and appearance, once nearly forgotten and then revived in the backbone of hip-hop, but now the possibility of a future funk is making itself clear. [Read More]    |
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