30 ene 2012
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26 ene 2012
LEONARD COHEN - I am a Hotel (1983)
Complete high quality version.
"I Am a Hotel is a 1983 Canadian made for TV short musical film, written by Leonard Cohen and Mark Shekter and directed by Allan F. Nicholls.
The storyline is based around imaginary events in the King Edward Hotel in Toronto, and the guests' (usually romantic) interactions with each other.
Leonard Cohen had the idea for the film based upon his personal experiences and his song The Guests. It was originally intended for the Canadian pay TV network C-Channel, but when the network collapsed, the production was completed by City TV with financial assistance from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and the Canadian Film Development Corporation.
Scenes:
Cohen features frequently, as an amused bystander ('the Resident'). Extensive dance routines in scenes 2 and 3 were choreographed by Ann(e) Ditchburn, who also dances as the Gypsy wife in scene 3. There are five scenes, each based around a Cohen song.
1. THE GUESTS (in which the characters enter via the lobby and are taken to their rooms; The bellboy and chambermaid meet in the corridor; and the manager and his wife apparently have angry words in the lobby after which she strides off).
2. MEMORIES (in which the bellboy pursues the chambermaid around the laundry and ballroom).
3. THE GYPSY WIFE (in which the manager's wife, in fetching attire, dances on the boardroom table).
4 CHELSEA HOTEL # 2 (in which the two lovers try, and fail, to make love, and the admiral and diva at last face each other across the hallway).
5 SUZANNE (in which scenes of Suzanne with Cohen are interspersed with shots of the two couples reunited and dancing together, and the hotel manager distraught and then drinking at the bar).
A short epilogue repeats the opening material from 'The Guests'.
The final credits give the makers as 'Blue Memorial Video Ltd' and dedicate the piece to David Blue (1941-1982).
Cast:
Leonard Cohen as The Resident
Celia Franca as The Diva
Alberta Watson as Suzanne
Toller Cranston as The Manager
Claudia Moore as Chambermaid
Daniel Allman as Young Lover
Samantha Logan as Young Lover
Robert Desrosiers as The Bellboy
Anne Ditchburn as The Gypsy Wife
Leo Leyden as The Admiral
The film won a Golden Rose international television award at the 1984 Montreux TV festival in Montreux, Switzerland.
Source of video and text: speleotube youtube channel
25 ene 2012
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16 ene 2012
Ruth Marten - Histoire un-Naturelle
Artist Bio:
"Born and living in N.Y., Ruth Marten has worn several hats, in spite of the hair. From 1972 to 1980 she was an important figure in the tattoo underground and, as one of the few women practicing the craft, influenced people's ideas about body decoration. Working during the disco and punk era, she also tattooed in the Musée D'Art Moderne de La Ville de Paris during the 10th Biennale de Paris in 1977.
Hired by Jean-Paul Goude for her first illustration (and for 30 years after) she illustrated books, albums and magazines and is most associated with the "Year in Provence" books of Peter Mayle, art-directed for A.A.Knopf by Carol Devine Carson. That love of the printed image informs her newest interest: changing, through over-drawing and collage, the configuration and content of 18th century engravings.
Her book Histoire un-Naturelle, published for her 2007 London exhibit at Isis Gallery, is a catalogue of the work that came on the heels of a 17 year obsession with hair. Her drawing, painting and sculpture has been exhibited at the Aldrich Museum (Pop Surrealism, 1998), the Tang Museum (Hair, Untangling a Social History, 2004), the Halsey Institute (Hair on Fire, 2009) and is represented in many collections -- most recently in the de Young Museum in San Francisco."
Text source: www.ruthmarten.com
14 ene 2012
GRAVITY // UN RÊVE DE DEMAIN by Filip Piskorzynski
GRAVITY // UN RÊVE DE DEMAIN from Filip Piskorzynski on Vimeo.
Synopsis:
Ayoung woman wake's up in a dream about tomorrow. she flies till gravity hits her. ///
Une jeune femme se réveille dans un rêve de demain. Elle vole dans la nature. Jusqu'à être aspirée par un monde où règne la gravité. Où on l'oblige à mettre les pieds sur terre. Les gens qui l'entourent se ressemblent tous...
Music:
"Tasty City" by Rone
About the film:
"The film was shot in 2011. We started the project spontaneously in february in Burkina Faso and two shots from there even survived over the process. we continued to shoot additional scenes at the north sea cost without still knowing all of the story we would be telling at the end. Then in Hamburg we shot most of the scenes and finished it in brussels in july.
All in all I would say: round about 7 days of shooting. Lots of nice shots we didn't put in the final editing.
Shot on canon eos 5d mkII with older nikon prime lenses: 35mm 1.4 // 50mm 1.2 // 85mm 1.4 // 105mm 1.8. All pics are manually shot single photos in sraw2 format."
Filip Piskorzynski
13 ene 2012
Patti Jordan - Drawings 2009 / 2011
Technique: Ink & Graphite on Paper
ARTIST'S BIOGRAPHY:
Patti Jordan was born in New York City and lives and works in Montclair.
Patti Jordan was recently accepted into The Drawing Center’s online curated registry, “The Viewing Program” (NYC). Jordan received an Honorarium in 2009 for works included in “Lineweight,” a contemporary drawing exhibition at Truman State University Art Gallery, (Kirksville, MO). Two of her works have also been published in Manifest Creative Research Gallery’s 2010 International Drawing Annual. Jordan lectures on art and has written reviews for ArtCat Zine. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors from Pratt Institute and holds a Master of Fine Arts, Summa Cum Laude, from Montclair State University. She exhibits widely.
“Working with ink, water, graphite and solvent, Patti Jordan squeegees and pushes ink across the surface of large sheets of Fabriano paper. While not producing delicate soulful swoops with a hand-held Chinese brush, Jordan pushes and pulls her medium, coaxing and building the black ink so that it results in bold, textured and abstractly cratered and rippled layers. Creatures, bones, eyes, limbs and orifices appear, collide and condense on her horizontal and vertical scroll-like pieces, constructions of the imagination, psyche and random gesture.”
Virginia Fabbri Butera, Ph.D.
(Text source: http://www.pattijordan.com/about/)
Patti Jordan's Web at www.pattijordan.com
12 ene 2012
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