Monday, July 18, 2011

Word Pictures

At Moving Image Source:

The films of David Gatten brand the brain and the retina with equal force. They consist partly of cerebral puzzles and partly of lyrical reveries, and their central drama lies in the space between, where facts transform into poetry and transient experiences are assimilated into systems of knowledge...

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Monday, June 20, 2011

Animal Love

At Alt Screen:

POPULAR LEGEND SAYS that Howard Hawks’ Bringing Up Baby was a critical and commercial disaster on its first release—a reception that makes for a neatly ironic contrast to the film’s subsequent status as Golden Age classic...

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Thursday, June 16, 2011

Internet Connoisseurship

At Art21's blog:

Since the 60s, cinephilia—obsessive movie love—has proved to be a particularly popular, durable, and visible form of connoisseurship...

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Friday, June 10, 2011

David Holzman's Diary

At Fandor:

“In Truth or Dare, there is a moment when Warren Beatty upbraids Madonna: ‘She doesn’t want to live off-camera,’ he says to the camera, and turns to her. ‘Why would you say something,’ he asks, ‘if it’s off-camera? Tomorrow, if they’re not here, what’s the point of existing...

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Cory Arcangel

At Art21's Blog:

New media artist Nick Briz has defined a “new media one-liner” this way:

The new media one-liner is a sub-genre of new media art. Enthusiasts and practitioners of the new media one-liner are drawn to the practice by its “reference-pleasure.” Reference-pleasure refers to the satisfaction one receives from experiencing a new media one-liner whose “one-line” is a reference to some aspect of either Internet/digital culture or media arts history/critical theory...

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Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Google Street View

At Art21's Blog:

In her essay “Certainties and Possibilities,” Janet Malcolm offers a brief genealogy of what she sees as a particularly American form of street photography. Malcolm starts by talking about European photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Kertész, and Brassaï, saying that these artists...

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Friday, May 20, 2011

Migrating Forms

At Alt Screen:

AT THE BEGINNING of Michael Robinson’s These Hammers Don’t Hurt Us (2010)—one of the films playing in Anthology Film Archives’ annual Migrating Forms Festival, which starts today—a blue-eyed Egyptian goddess discovers an androgynous dancer cutting a rug in a palace interior...

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