"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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
The Wire: adventures in a modern city
We are always a bit sad when a TV show we enjoyed so much comes to an end. There are so many reasons to watch The Wire, we are only going to … [Read more...]
24 Hour Party People – Blue Monday
John Simm, Ralf Little and Tim Horrocks perform Blue Monday as New Order in 24 Hour Party People. Split screen with Steve Coogan as Tony Wilson … [Read more...]
Lumière Brothers – The Serpentine Dance (c.1899)
Shot and hand-colored - frame by frame - at the end of the 19th Century. Still captivating today, but just imagine what it must have been like to … [Read more...]
The Sci-fi Corridors
In praise of one of the most prominent architectural elements in every Sci-Fi movie: the corridor. … [Read more...]
People in Order
By Lenka Clayton and James Price (Part of www.portablefilmfestival.com). People in Order's Age is part of a series of short films that assembles … [Read more...]
Things you got to know
Photoshop adbusting in Berlin: 1)Target some boring poster ads with heavy female characters (Britney Spears, of course) 2)Overlay the image with … [Read more...]
