“If cinema is to take its place beside the others as a full-fledged art form, it must cease merely to record realities that owe nothing to their actual existence to the film instrument. Instead, it must create a total experience so much out of the very nature of the instrument as to being separable from [...]
Jack Smith (1932-1989)
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Flaming Creatures (1962-63)
“If cinema is to take its place beside the others as a full-fledged art form, it must cease merely to record realities that owe nothing of their actual existence to the film instrument. Instead, it must create a total experience so much out of the very nature of the instrument as to be inseparable from [...]
“If realism is the term for a graphic image which most precisely simulates some real object, then a photograph must be differentiated from it as a form of reality itself.” Maya Deren, Cinematography, p. 64
Jonas Mekas, 1963-90, 35 min, color.
This extraordinary diary by avant-garde film legend Jonas Mekas chronicles Warhol’s everyday life and work, and the social and cultural milieu that swirled around him. The film includes footage from the first public performance of the Velvet Underground at Delmonico’s Hotel on January 13, 1966. Tracing an arc that veers [...]
Michel Gondry explores the de-blending capabilities of the Deblendex appliance
This is not to say that cinema should or could replace the other art forms, any more than flight is a substitute for the pleasures of walking or for the leisurely panorama of landscapes seen from a car or train window. Only when new things serve the same purpose better do they replace old things. [...]
http://www.nfb.ca/nollywood-babylon (website coming soon)
A compelling look at the third largest movie industry in the world - in the heart of Africa.
Nollywood Babylon is a feature documentary about the explosive popularity of Nigeria’s movie industry.
The film drops viewers into the chaos of Lagos’ Idumota market. Here, among the bustling stalls, films are sold and unlikely stars [...]
Jack Smith (1932-1989)
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Flaming Creatures (1962-63)
An experimental film shot entirely on super 8 mm film, edited/ altered on a Macintosh computer using Final Cut Pro. ‘Somnolence’ combines a retro 1960’s psychedelic light show aesthetic with today’s technology creating a stimulating visual film experience. Film by artist Don Diego Ramirez with music by Lars Wigen of POLYPHASIC.
“Thus ‘reality’ extends its picketing fence and each is encouraged to sharpen his wits. The artist is one who leaps that fence at night, scatters his seeds among the cabbages, hybrid seeds inspired by both the garden and wits-end forest where only fools and madmen wander, seeds needing several generations to be…finally proven edible…
Realize the [...]
What is the daydream generation?
In March 2007 we put together 160 mins of songs from various mainly unsigned bands whose music we loved in a free downloadable compilation of mp3s. To begin with it was just a fun and interesting experiment, like making a modern day mix-tape of brilliant new music that deserves exposure. Thanks [...]