"If cities are a reflection of the society, what can we say about ourselves by looking at Istanbul? What kind of city are we leaving behind for future … [Read more...]
Brian Sanders: Artwork Commissioned for the Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Illustrator Brian Sanders was hired by Stanley Kubrick to record the filming of "2001: A Space Odissey. Sanders had free access to most of the set and … [Read more...]
Chris Marker’s Junkopia
Passed away the last month, Chris Marker will be mostly remembered for his 1962 film La Jetée, a post-apocalyptic tale of time travels constructed … [Read more...]
About Metropolis
Metropolis is probably the film that set a standard for 20th century science fiction. The futuristic urban dystopia depicted by Austrian director … [Read more...]
dOCUMENTA13: Francis Alÿs’ REEL/UNREEL (2011)
"On the 5th of september 2001, the taliban confiscated thousands of reels of film from the Afghan Film Archive and burned them on the outskirts of … [Read more...]
dOCUMENTA 13: News From Nowhere, by Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho, [a Retrospective from the Future]
News from Nowhere is probably the most ambitious art-project of Kassel's dOCUMENTA 13. Presented in three forms: a film, an installation, a … [Read more...]
Rear Window: dissecting and recreating a movie’s scenario
Back to Socks from Rome and the lecture! We remember, from our time as students at the architecture school, a typical lecture in "Descriptive … [Read more...]
A Consumerist Landscape
From "Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle", 1967 Jean-Luc Godard) Excerpts from Wikipedia: The film does not tell a story so much as a present … [Read more...]
Chris Marker’s La Jetée Study Guide
In the week that will see two landmark Marker's movies out on Blu-ray, Criterion also shares this interesting study guide for junior and senior high … [Read more...]
“Images drifting into the distance”, a cycle of conferences, debates, meetings, by Benoit Peeters
The Centre Pompidou program of evenings during the last three months of this year is particularly rich (Anri Sala, Kusama, Matali Crasset among … [Read more...]
“Smithson and Serra: beyond modernism” documentary
An out-of-circulation documentary about the work of Richard Serra and Robert Smithson, produced in the UK for television. Streamable and downloadable … [Read more...]
Phase IV, (1974) the only Saul Bass feature film
From Wikipedia: Due to some unknown cosmic event, listed in "phases," ants have undergone rapid evolution and developed a hive mind. A scientific … [Read more...]
The Star Wars blueprints
A new, inaccessible (500$) book is out: Star Wars: the Blueprints, containing over 500 photographs, illustrations and details of all the objects, … [Read more...]
Look-a-like = Otto Wagner Vs. Star Wars
Otto Wagner’s 1880 design for the central offices of the Vienna Giro und Kassenverein competition versus designer Ralph McQuarrie Millennium Falcon … [Read more...]
Sergei Eisenstein, sequences diagrams for Alexander Nevsky and Battleship Potëmkin.
Alexander Nevsky and Battleship Potëmkin. More on Eisenstein. More on the soviet "montage" theory. Samantha Krukowski's Alchemical Frames. … [Read more...]
Don’t do this at work – 24
There are movies. There are objects in movies. There are games which let you guess which classic movie a particular object is from, among more than 70 … [Read more...]
The sound of Noise
A new Swedish (crime) movie, where music is literally a synchronization of noise(s). Nice musical performances! By the way: while watching this … [Read more...]
Kraftwerk and the electronic revolution
This is the kind of documentary that blows me away. the other 18 parts are here. … [Read more...]
WHITE DOG (1981)
"A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that's been raised to kill Black people." This is Imdb summary and I couldn't agree more. White Dog is … [Read more...]
The Swimmer (1968)
Ned Merrill has been away for a long time. He reappears at a friends pool and he's greeted with love by everybody. As they talk, Ned notices that … [Read more...]
John Whitney, inventor and father of computer animation.
Composer, inventor, older brother of James (read previous post ), one of the fathers of computer animation. His most notable works include the … [Read more...]
Into a frightening eternity
Onkalo is a Finnish word for "hiding place". It is situated at Olkiluoto in Finland - approx. 300 km northwest of Helsinki and it's the first … [Read more...]
Computers in movies
Two web pages devoted to real and fictional computers featured in the movies. For real computers check this out: Starring the Computer is a … [Read more...]
Puppets and masks by Anna Deschamps
Anna Deschamps is a set designer, modeler and puppet maker, currently based in Melbourne. Here is our selection among her many remarkable … [Read more...]
