Posted February 28, 2007 by John Menick
Posted February 26, 2007 by John Menick
Posted February 26, 2007 by John Menick
Prophets of Deceit, which opened at the CCA Wattis last fall, travels to Columbus College of Art & Design, in Columbus Ohio, and opens February 28. The group show, which was curated by Magali Arriola, includes my video The Secret Life of Things. From the press release:
“Looking into notions of mysticism, religion and the occult as guidelines that assess the development of history, Prophets of Deceit constitutes an essay on the pervading significance of messianic and apocalyptic cults both as systems of restraint of social behavior, and as seditious exercises that seek to subvert those very same structures that brought them into play,” says curator Magali Arriola.
The show includes: Craig Baldwin, Tacita Dean, Rod Dickinson, HCRH, Christian Jankowski, Joachim Koester, Komar & Melamid, Melvin Moti, Raymond Pettibon, Mungo Thomson, PHAUSS (Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Erik Pauser). A review from the San Francisco Chronicle is available here. The archived Artforum pick from San Francisco is here.
Posted February 24, 2007 by John Menick
Posted February 24, 2007 by John Menick
From the Web site:
The 2007 New York Arab & South Asian Film Festival (NYASAFF) presents the best in recent features, docs, & shorts that increase awareness of the creative vitality and sociopolitical realities of North Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and their diasporas. Given the historical and cultural affinities between these geographic regions, as well as the contemporary political landscape, several cultural and media organizations, including Alwan for the Arts, 3rd i NY, South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, and Downtown Community Television have launched a collaborative series encompassing film, video, music, visual art, and literature, that will culminate in the annual, NYASA Film Festival running from February 23 – March 4, 2007.
Update: More from the Reeler.
Posted February 23, 2007 by John Menick
Posted February 23, 2007 by John Menick
From Dis Voir:
Following his research in Poetics of Cinema, 1 on new narrative models as tools for apprehending a fast-shifting world, Raul Ruiz makes with Poetics of cinema 2 an appeal for an entirely new way of filming, writing and conceiving the image.
“Eleven years separate these lines from the first part of my Poetics of Cinema. Meanwhile the world has changed and cinema with it. Poetics of Cinema, 1 had much of a call to arms about it. What I write today Poetics of cinema 2 is rather more of a consolatio philosophica. However, let no one be mistaken about this, a healthy pessimism may be better than a suicidal optimism.
‘Light, more light,’were Goethe’s last words as he died. ‘Less light, less light,’ Orson Welles cried repeatedly on a set—the one and only time I saw him.
In today’s cinema (and in today’s world) there is too much light. It is time to return to the shadows. So, about turn! And back to the caverns!”. R.R
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Posted February 23, 2007 by John Menick
Posted February 22, 2007 by John Menick
Posted February 22, 2007 by John Menick
I decided to give my bookmarking mania some socially useful form and signed up (finally) for a del.icio.us account. Part of the allure was actually a lesser-known and (it seems) seldom used feature: auto-blogging daily bookmarks. I find the prospect of auto-generating posts a little scary, but am willing to risk a few chaotic moments in order to give the feature a try. Let’s see….
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