August 2011
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in a manner of speaking: How would you define pure... →
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Pure cinema is complementary pieces of film put together, like notes of music make a melody. There are two primary uses of cutting or montage in film: montage to create ideas—and montage to create violence and emotions. For example, in Rear Window, where Jimmy Stewart is thrown out of the window…
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WatchDear OK GO, you are to my childhood what Hitler was to the Jews.
STOP. OK?
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WatchHarrison Boyce & Nathaniel Brown shoot Tatiana Cotliar in their new film for Nowness. There are strong invocations here of both Ruth Hogben’s work for Gareth Pugh and Barnaby Roper’s most recent experiments. This is perhaps unsurprising given the fact that Brown has served as an editor on several of Roper’s projects. A fractious, urgent and sensual peroration. Here’s...
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The Smartest Cities Use People As Sensors →
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WatchIn 2008, W+K TokyoLab commissioned four music videos for the Japanese artist Jemapur. Director Max Hattler responded to the brief with a work of staggering ambition. Channeling the Modernist photograms of Moholy-Nagy, and the formal pyrotechnics of Norman Maclaren, this is stop-motion at its very best.
Abstract, ornate, crystalline, but above all things beautiful.
Here, finally, is the...
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WatchIt goes without saying that when we hear the words “New From Supinfocom” we start salivating. Here’s “8BITS” by Valere Amirault, Jean Delauney, Sarah Laufer & Benjamin Mattern. It’s a bit slight on the story front and beyond the slightly-obvious paen to the golden age of the video game we were a tad bewildered by what the hell was going on.
However, the...
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The Smurfs Drinking Game
To play The Smurfs Drinking Game you will need: Two 500cl bottles of Blue Bols (per player), one white sleeping cap, ample powder-blue face paint and too much spare time. Rules: When the word ‘Smurf’ is used as a family-friendly substitute for an expletive (eg ‘What the Smurf?!’): take a shot. When the Smurfs sing their happy indoctrination song: take a shot. When the Smurfs conduct an...
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WatchThe chromomaniacal jewellery-designer Fred Butler talks about her work as the sublimation of her frustrated musical aspirations in this short documentary for MTV Swatch. (via www.alexloves.com)