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Joy Division Biopic to Open Directors’ Fortnight @ Cannes 07
May 1st
‘Control’ is picked for festival’s Directors’ Fortnight
26.Apr.07 12:32pm
"The forthcoming Joy Division movie based on the life of late frontman Ian Curtis is to feature at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
The biopic, directed by Anton Corbijn, has been chosen to open the Directors’ Fortnight section of the prestigious event next month.
Based on the book ‘A Touching Distance’, by Curtis’ widow, ‘Control’ trails the final years of the Joy Division singer, who committed suicide in 1980.
Corbijn’s film debut feature focuses on the singer’s rise to fame, as well as his relationships and his struggle with epilepsy.
Leeds newcomer Sam Riley and German actress Alexandra Maria Lara will play the part of his lover Annik Honore. Curtis’ widow is played by Oscar-nominated actress Samantha Morton."
Link: Joy Division film to be screened at Cannes | News | NME.COM.
via WIT
Join the NY Media Elite – FREE!
Apr 22nd
This is just so much dorky goodness that I have to post the full entry. From Kottke.com:
I might be shooting myself in the foot by posting this, but the table of contents for the newest issue of the New Yorker is usually available on Sunday on newyorker.com, the day before the issue hits the newsstands and arrives in subscriber mailboxes. All you need to do is hack the URL of the TOC from the previous Monday. Here’s the URL for the April 23 TOC:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/toc/2007/04/23/toc_20070416
“2007/04/23″ is the date of the issue and “toc_20070416″ refers to the date of the posting. This then is the URL for the April 30 issue:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/toc/2007/04/30/toc_20070423
At right is the cover for tomorrow’s issue, which includes Adam Gopnik’s piece on the Virginia Tech shooting, a new piece by Atul Gawande, and Anthony Lane’s review of Hot Fuzz. Monday’s New Yorker on Sunday is usually only available to the select few of the Manhattan media elite who are sped their new issues hot off the presses. Now everyone can have a similar experience on the web.
Enjoy.
via kottke.org
Nam June Paik @ Andrewshire 4/2007
Apr 22nd
Anyone working with film and/or video in the last fifty years likely owes much to Nam June Paik, and is also likely to know it. Who among us has not come face to face with "TV Cello" or "Global Groove" and been rendered speechless.
Don’t miss the chance to see this new show of the late artist’s work at Andrewshire Gallery, LA this month. From the press release:
"Nam June Paik died on January 29, 2006. His presence lingers in the surprising array of ideas and artworks he left behind. These works signal the contribution the artist made to contemporary art and culture. Paik’s often whimsical compositions, video-objects and installations are studied portraits wherein the artist himself seems to look out across the distance from the work to a point inside each of us. These artworks, already held in preservation, are perpetually connected to us while appearing suspended in time due to their vintage look. They serve as elucidations in which the artist and his countless viewers are portrayed and linked even as their mutual search for meaning is in flight. In his absence, Paik somehow still lives out the revelations he experienced in the bounds of the work which endlessly reproduces his era and his vision."
Nam June Paik
Selected Works
April 21–May 12, 2007
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 21, 6–8:30PM
ANDREWSHIRE GALLERY
3850 Wilshire Blvd #107, Los Angeles, CA 90010
Director, John Souza
213-389-2601
E-mail, souza@andrewshiregallery.com
Web site, http://www.andrewshiregallery.com
Hours, Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 6pm
C’était un Rendez-vous: Filmé par Claude Lelouch
Apr 16th
Need a little adreanaline rush? Click here to get 9 minutes a unadulterated, uncut speed with this little cult classic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyabObFKp0s
A big thank you to the just discovered (to us) Studio 109. Plenty of good debate on the authenticity of speed here, here and here…
According to Studio 109
"This short film by seminal French director Claude Lelouch presents a unique experience of the urban environment. A nine minute tour of 1970′s Paris from a moving vehicle. There are some pretty tense moments as the driver speeds through the cobblestone streets. There is a lot of controversy surrounding the nuts and bolts of the film. Who was driving? What type of car? Was it staged? Has it been altered to make the cars speed appear faster? But the overwhelming consensus is that Lelouch himself was driving, the roads were not block off, and he reached top speeds between 90-140 mph in a Ferrari 275 GTB before ending his voyage at the Basilica Sacre Coeur."
via Studio 109
Solar Flare Anomoly Animation by liyongqiang (YouTube)
Apr 15th
I’ve watched this 3 times so far and it gets better each time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQyp9y_9s10
"SOHO stands for Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. The SOHO Gallery has movies and animations on sunpots, solar flares, photon showers, and comets. This video of solar flares was made from SOHO’s images. Push Play or go to YouTube.
Link to SOHO. -via Ursi’s Blog. via Neatorama
Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center
Apr 13th
Now you have one more reason to visit Lithuania! As if you needed one…
"New York/April 12, 2007 – The City Council of Vilnius, Lithuania established the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center on February 19th. The new center will exhibit collections by Jonas Mekas, the internationally renowned avant-garde filmmaker, and George Maciunas (1931-1978), the impresario/creator of Fluxus, a key art movement of the second part of the 20th century.
“New York City has always been home to the avant-garde and two of its most influential figures have been Lithuanian. The international resonance of the Fluxus world that they created will provide the impetus for Vilnius to become the world’s new center for the avant-garde,” said Mayor Arturas Zuokas.
Mayor Zuokas noted that Vilnius has been declared a European Capital of Culture for 2009 and the founding of the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center is the first step in preparation for the City’s monumental role.
Jonas Mekas, renowned filmmaker and inventor of the Diarist Cinema, continues to preserve a collective memoir where life and art are inseparable. Mekas came to New York City in 1949 and quickly became a prominent figure among the city’s art scene. He founded Anthology Film Archives, the Film-Makers’ Cooperative, Film Culture magazine, and wrote film reviews for the Village Voice from 1958 to 1978. Mekas’ expansions upon the qualities of intimacy, spontaneity, and supreme selectivity are crafted through his distinctive discourses of time as the ordinary. Films focus on friends and collaborators such as Hans Richter and Andy Warhol to reveal deeply intimate portraits. Mekas masterfully extracts from thousands of hours of film footage, giving rise to interpretations of life experienced and life remembered.
more here: http://www.mayastendhalgallery.com/
Golden Cage by The Whitest Boy Alive feat. Geoff McFetridge Animation on YouTube
Apr 10th
AMAZING! Geoff McFetridge’s video for The Whitest Boy Alive.
Click the URL here or watch below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y78FztTd414
via neverhappened
Diana Thater and T. Kelly Mason; RELAY @ West of Rome
Apr 9th
Diana Thater and T. Kelly Mason are at it again. If you missed JUMP at the Whitney (and even if you didn’t) be sure to catch RELAY in LA.
"LOS ANGELES, CA.- Emi Fontana is presenting her third West of Rome project: T. Kelly Mason and Diana Thater’s ‘relay’ to be installed in a retail space in Westwood, formerly a bridal shop. This project follows the inaugural West of Rome installation, Meant to be lived in (Today I’m feeling prismatic) by Olafur Eliasson (2005) and Monica Bonvicini’s Not for you (2006).
After the tremendous success of JUMP, shown at the Tate Modern and at the 2006 Whitney Biennale and their first work, the live performance The future that almost wasn’t, ‘relay’ is Mason and Thater’s third collaboration.
Mason and Thater designed a new installation, a theatre comprised of a mirrored room in the Los Angeles Arboretum where a rock band played the song Why Can’t I Touch It, written by Pete Shelley and recorded by the Buzzcocks in 1979. The song is constructed as a round. The same music and verse are played repeatedly, with no actual ending to the song. The lyrics are four simple sentences that are swapped with each new verse.
I just can’t get enough "Art Star as Rock Star"…no, really!
via Artdaily
(and by the way, here is the original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5SNoTRTeJQ )
VIS-A-VIS SOCIETY LIVE! @ NWFF April 6-8/07
Apr 5th
Last time these two were in town, I missed their final show due to sickness, theirs, not mine. I’m hoping the tables do not turn.
"Drs. Ink and Owning of the Vis-A-Vis Society (a.k.a. Rachel Kessler and Sierra Nelson of the Typing Explosion) scientifically examine the highs and lows of human life in this interactive, interdisciplinary show. Featuring field data on secret songs, secret dances and the emotional life of coats, as well as research presentations using 16mm educational films, tear-drinking moths and live audience surveys, the doctors will clog, graph and sing each night’s findings to statistically present the hidden life of you to you."
APRIL 6-8 Fri-Sun at 8pm
$10 MEMBERS / $15 GENERAL
VIS-A-VIS SOCIETY LIVE!
WE ARE YOU: A STATISTICAL MUSICAL
David Lynch on Product Placement
Apr 4th
Not sure if this is real, (sounds like a VO to me) but it is funny, nevertheless:
WARNING! Extreme Language (but don’t let that stop you)
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