Friday, January 30, 2009
Monday, January 26, 2009
Komposition in blau, Oskar Fishchinger, 1935
This is an abstract film in which every motion is in strict synchronization with music, so the description must be read in terms of the overall impression it gives.
Balance - Christoph and Wolfgang Lauenstein
The setting is on a floating platform where a group of evenly and carefully placed men live. Each man is aware that the platform is not stable and in order not to fall to their deaths, they maintain a careful balance of weight to prevent the platform from tipping too far and cause them all to fall. This reasonably harmonious understanding is lost when one man pulls up a heavy trunk. In the ensuing struggle, balance is lost in more than one sense.
Won the 1989 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Wade Davis: Cultures at the far edge of the world
In response to some of the topics discussed in the previous Herzog post.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Uzak (2002)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5923048813949842511
Mahmut, a 40 year old independent photographer, is a "village boy made good" at least professionally in the big city - Istanbul in this case. After his wife leaves him, he falls into an existential crisis. Then comes his cousin Yusuf, who left his native village after a local factory closed down, effectively unemploying over half the local men. He looks to Istanbul for salvation: a job on board a ship sailing abroad, at once exciting and crucial to supporting his family in the desperately poor village. The distance between the two men is apparent at once, and becomes increasingly pronounced. Whereas Mahmut is adusted to big city life and suffers from many of its neuroses, Yusuf is a lonely, excentric country worker with annoying nervous and hygienic habits, and a sick mother back home he must somehow support. This intimate drama was filmed in the director's apartment in Istanbul, using all his furniture, appliances, rooms, car and so on as the film's props. The actor playing Yusuf is actually the director's real-life cousin, and the actor playing Mahmut is an actual friend, a non-professional actor.
Director:
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Sunday, January 18, 2009
GZA, RZA and Bill Murray - Coffee & Cigarettes
Bill Murray, RZA and GZA from Wutang Clan talk it out in a cafe
Tom Waits & Iggy Pop - Coffee and Cigarettes
A great scene from Jim Jarmusch's "Coffee and Cigarettes".
Occupations - Lars Von Trier
Coming to you directly from Mr.Trier's disturbed mind! Lars Von Trier's Short film for Cannes 2007's "Chacun Son Cinéma".
Thursday, January 15, 2009
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