26 de septiembre de 2006
70 mm of Sara Montiel
Una película en 70 mm no se encuentra todos los días, y menos con la Sara Montiel como protagonista. No sabía si pintarlo, rascarlo o despintarlo pero como sólo tengo un par de metros he decido regalarlos a partes, a modo de postal translúcida (eso sí numeradas) a quien intente averiguar a qué película pertenece. Si alguien sabe o intuye el título del film, que me lo haga saber y recibirá un fragmento del mismo enviado por correo postal. Todo intento será recompensado.
23 de septiembre de 2006
Morocco's Trip
Un viaje a Marruecos trazado durante nueve días de agosto, realizado en compañía de dos amigos. Un cúmulo de percepciones reducido a tres minutos y veinte segundos gracias al Super 8. Herramientas: una Canon 310 sin control de diafragma y un carrete Kodachrome 64-T. Revelado: en Andec Filmtechnik, Berlin. Tiempo de espera: menos de una semana. Coste del revelado: 15 euros. Resultado: un tanto saturado de luz y cierta dispersión de colores, aún así caóticamente entrañable. Conclusión: El Kodachrome 40 ya se hecha de menos.
La imagen consta de tres muestras de 6 fotogramas cada uno, centrados en las puertas y las paredes azuladas de Chaouen y la exótica playa de Sidi Kaouki en Essaouira, donde deportes acuáticos como el surf, el windsurf y el kitesurf comparten espacio con vendedores ambulantes de ropajes y colgantes y paseos en camello.
22 de septiembre de 2006
A Critical Cinema 5 - Scott MacDonald
14 de septiembre de 2006
Cinemavisión – Macba
Algunas obras maestras del cine experimental, 1956-2000
Programa comisariado por Juan Bufill (www.macba.es)
4 D’OCTUBRE - LA FORMA MÒBIL
Len Lye - Free Radicals, 1958,
James Whitney - Lapis, 1963-1966,
Marie Menken - Arabesque for Kenneth Anger, 1961, Moonplay, 1962, Lights, 1964-1966,
Bruce Conner - Cosmic Ray, 1961,
Robert Breer - Recreation I, 1956-1957, Recreation II, 1956-1957,
Stan Brakhage - Mothlight, 1963,
The Garden of Earthly Delights, 1981,
Standish D. Lawder - Runaway, 1969,
Barry Gerson - Group V: Endurance/Remembrance/Metamorphosis, 1970,
Pat O’Neill - Saugus Series, 1974,
Malcolm Le Grice - Berlin Horse, 1970,
11 D’OCTUBRE - DIARIO FILMAT
Jonas Mekas - Walden. Diaries, Notes and Sketches, 1964-1969,
18 D’OCTUBRE - LA MÚSICA DE LA LLUM
Stan Brakhage -
Dog Star Man. Prelude, 1961-1964, Fire of Waters, 1965,
The Wold Shadow, 1972,
Black Ice, 1994,
Study in Color and Black and White, 1993,
Crack Glass Eulogy, 1996,
Commingled Containers, 1997,
The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him, 2000,
25 D’OCTUBRE - EL VOL DE LA VISIÓ
Michael Snow - La Région centrale, 1970-1971,
8 DE NOVEMBRE - FOTOGRAMÀTICA
Paul Sharits - N:O:T:H:I:N:G, 1968,
Tony & Beverly Conrad - Straight and Narrow, 1970,
Ernie Gehr - Serene Velocity, 1970,
Tony Conrad - The Flicker, 1966,
15 DE NOVEMBRE - FUSIÓ DE TEMPS
Zbigniew Rybczynski - Tango, 1981,
Werner Nekes - Diwan, 1973,
22 DE NOVEMBRE - PINTURA MÒBIL
José Antonio Sistiaga - ...ere erera baleibu icik subua aruaren... , 1968-1970,
29 DE NOVEMBRE - EL PAS DEL TEMPS
Hollis Frampton - Hapax Legomena I: (Nostalgia), 1971,
Michael Snow - Wavelength, 1966-1967,
Programa comisariado por Juan Bufill (www.macba.es)
4 D’OCTUBRE - LA FORMA MÒBIL
Len Lye - Free Radicals, 1958,
James Whitney - Lapis, 1963-1966,
Marie Menken - Arabesque for Kenneth Anger, 1961, Moonplay, 1962, Lights, 1964-1966,
Bruce Conner - Cosmic Ray, 1961,
Robert Breer - Recreation I, 1956-1957, Recreation II, 1956-1957,
Stan Brakhage - Mothlight, 1963,
The Garden of Earthly Delights, 1981,
Standish D. Lawder - Runaway, 1969,
Barry Gerson - Group V: Endurance/Remembrance/Metamorphosis, 1970,
Pat O’Neill - Saugus Series, 1974,
Malcolm Le Grice - Berlin Horse, 1970,
11 D’OCTUBRE - DIARIO FILMAT
Jonas Mekas - Walden. Diaries, Notes and Sketches, 1964-1969,
18 D’OCTUBRE - LA MÚSICA DE LA LLUM
Stan Brakhage -
Dog Star Man. Prelude, 1961-1964, Fire of Waters, 1965,
The Wold Shadow, 1972,
Black Ice, 1994,
Study in Color and Black and White, 1993,
Crack Glass Eulogy, 1996,
Commingled Containers, 1997,
The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him, 2000,
25 D’OCTUBRE - EL VOL DE LA VISIÓ
Michael Snow - La Région centrale, 1970-1971,
8 DE NOVEMBRE - FOTOGRAMÀTICA
Paul Sharits - N:O:T:H:I:N:G, 1968,
Tony & Beverly Conrad - Straight and Narrow, 1970,
Ernie Gehr - Serene Velocity, 1970,
Tony Conrad - The Flicker, 1966,
15 DE NOVEMBRE - FUSIÓ DE TEMPS
Zbigniew Rybczynski - Tango, 1981,
Werner Nekes - Diwan, 1973,
22 DE NOVEMBRE - PINTURA MÒBIL
José Antonio Sistiaga - ...ere erera baleibu icik subua aruaren... , 1968-1970,
29 DE NOVEMBRE - EL PAS DEL TEMPS
Hollis Frampton - Hapax Legomena I: (Nostalgia), 1971,
Michael Snow - Wavelength, 1966-1967,
11 de septiembre de 2006
Peter Greenaway - Early Structural Films
(En la imagen el cineasta ficticio de "Vertical Features Remake")
8 de septiembre de 2006
Anti-100 years of cinema manifesto
by Jonas Mekas
"As you well know it was God who created this Earth and everything on it. And he thought it was all great. All painters and poets and musicians sang and celebrated the creation and that was all OK. But not for real. Something was missing. So about 100 years ago God decided to create the motion picture camera. And he did so. And then he created a filmmaker and said 'now here is an instrument called motion picture camera. Now go and film and celebrate the beauty of the creation and the dreams of human spirit, and have fun with it.'
But the devil did not like that. So he placed a money bag in front of the camera and said to the filmmakers 'why do you want to celebrate the beauty of the world and the spirit of it if you can make money with this instrument?' And, believe it or not, all filmmakers ran after the money bag. The Lord realized he had made a mistake. So some 25 years later, to correct his mistake, God created independent avant-garde filmmakers and said, 'here is the camera. Take it and go into the world and sing the beauty of all creation and have fun with it. But you will have a difficult time doing it, and you will never make any money with this instrument.'
Thus spoke the Lord to Viking Eggeling, Germaine Dulac, Jean Epstein, Fernand Leger, Dmitri Kirsanoff, Marcel Duchamp, Hans Richter, Luis Bunuel, Man Ray, Cavalcanti, Jean Cocteau, and Maya Deren, and Sidney Peterson, and Kenneth Anger, Gregory Markopoulos, Stan Brakhage, Marie Menken, Bruce Baillie, Francis Lee, Harry Smith and Jack Smith and Ken Jacobs, Ernie Gehr, Ron Rice, Michael Snow, Joseph Cornell, Peter Kubelka, Hollis Frampton and Barbara Rubin, Paul Sharits, Robert Beavers, Christopher McLain, and Kurt Kren, Robert Breer, Dore O, Isidore Isou, Antonio De Bernardi, Maurice Lemaitre, and Bruce Conner, and Klaus Wyborny, Boris Lehman, Bruce Elder, Taka Iimura, Abigail Child, Andrew Noren and too many others. Many others all over the world. And they took their Bolex's and their little 8 and Super-8 cameras and began filming the beauty of this world, and the complex adventures of the human spirit, and they're having great fun doing it. And the films bring no money and do not do what's called useful.
And the museums all over the world are celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of cinema, costing them millions of dollars the cinema makes, all going gaga about their Hollywoods. But there is no mention of the avant-garde or the independents of our cinema.
I have seen the brochures, the programs of the museums and archives and cinematheques around the world. But these say, "we don't care about your cinema." In the times of bigness, spectaculars, one hundred million movie productions, I want to speak for the small, invisible acts of human spirit, so subtle, so small, that they die when brought out under the clean lights. I want to celebrate the small forms of cinema, the lyrical form, the poem, the watercolor, etude, sketch, portrait, arabesque, and bagatelle, and little 8mm songs. In the times when everybody wants to succeed and sell, I want to celebrate those who embrace social and daily tailor to pursue the invisible, the personal things that bring no money and no bread and make no contemporary history, art history or any other history. I am for art which we do for each other, as friends.
I am standing in the middle of the information highway and laughing, because a butterfly on a little flower somewhere in China just fluttered its wings, and I know that the entire history, culture will drastically change because of that fluttering. A super-8 millimeter camera just made a little soft buzz somewhere, somewhere on the lower east side of New York, and the world will never be the same.
The real history of cinema is invisible history. History of friends getting together, doing the thing they love. For us, the cinema is beginning with every new buzz of the projector, with every new buzz of our cameras. With every new buzz of our cameras, our hearts jump forward my friends."
-Jonas Mekas, February 11, 1996, American Center, Paris
(Filmstills of This Side of Paradise: Fragments of an Unfinished Biography, Jonas Mekas, 1999)
(Thanks to Jennifer MacMillan)
"As you well know it was God who created this Earth and everything on it. And he thought it was all great. All painters and poets and musicians sang and celebrated the creation and that was all OK. But not for real. Something was missing. So about 100 years ago God decided to create the motion picture camera. And he did so. And then he created a filmmaker and said 'now here is an instrument called motion picture camera. Now go and film and celebrate the beauty of the creation and the dreams of human spirit, and have fun with it.'
But the devil did not like that. So he placed a money bag in front of the camera and said to the filmmakers 'why do you want to celebrate the beauty of the world and the spirit of it if you can make money with this instrument?' And, believe it or not, all filmmakers ran after the money bag. The Lord realized he had made a mistake. So some 25 years later, to correct his mistake, God created independent avant-garde filmmakers and said, 'here is the camera. Take it and go into the world and sing the beauty of all creation and have fun with it. But you will have a difficult time doing it, and you will never make any money with this instrument.'
Thus spoke the Lord to Viking Eggeling, Germaine Dulac, Jean Epstein, Fernand Leger, Dmitri Kirsanoff, Marcel Duchamp, Hans Richter, Luis Bunuel, Man Ray, Cavalcanti, Jean Cocteau, and Maya Deren, and Sidney Peterson, and Kenneth Anger, Gregory Markopoulos, Stan Brakhage, Marie Menken, Bruce Baillie, Francis Lee, Harry Smith and Jack Smith and Ken Jacobs, Ernie Gehr, Ron Rice, Michael Snow, Joseph Cornell, Peter Kubelka, Hollis Frampton and Barbara Rubin, Paul Sharits, Robert Beavers, Christopher McLain, and Kurt Kren, Robert Breer, Dore O, Isidore Isou, Antonio De Bernardi, Maurice Lemaitre, and Bruce Conner, and Klaus Wyborny, Boris Lehman, Bruce Elder, Taka Iimura, Abigail Child, Andrew Noren and too many others. Many others all over the world. And they took their Bolex's and their little 8 and Super-8 cameras and began filming the beauty of this world, and the complex adventures of the human spirit, and they're having great fun doing it. And the films bring no money and do not do what's called useful.
And the museums all over the world are celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of cinema, costing them millions of dollars the cinema makes, all going gaga about their Hollywoods. But there is no mention of the avant-garde or the independents of our cinema.
I have seen the brochures, the programs of the museums and archives and cinematheques around the world. But these say, "we don't care about your cinema." In the times of bigness, spectaculars, one hundred million movie productions, I want to speak for the small, invisible acts of human spirit, so subtle, so small, that they die when brought out under the clean lights. I want to celebrate the small forms of cinema, the lyrical form, the poem, the watercolor, etude, sketch, portrait, arabesque, and bagatelle, and little 8mm songs. In the times when everybody wants to succeed and sell, I want to celebrate those who embrace social and daily tailor to pursue the invisible, the personal things that bring no money and no bread and make no contemporary history, art history or any other history. I am for art which we do for each other, as friends.
I am standing in the middle of the information highway and laughing, because a butterfly on a little flower somewhere in China just fluttered its wings, and I know that the entire history, culture will drastically change because of that fluttering. A super-8 millimeter camera just made a little soft buzz somewhere, somewhere on the lower east side of New York, and the world will never be the same.
The real history of cinema is invisible history. History of friends getting together, doing the thing they love. For us, the cinema is beginning with every new buzz of the projector, with every new buzz of our cameras. With every new buzz of our cameras, our hearts jump forward my friends."
-Jonas Mekas, February 11, 1996, American Center, Paris
(Filmstills of This Side of Paradise: Fragments of an Unfinished Biography, Jonas Mekas, 1999)
(Thanks to Jennifer MacMillan)
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