3 films I watched on the Internet this week. marc
Enjoy :-) Wolf Vostell by E.d.H.R. 1968 Wolf Vostell's philosophy was built around the idea that destruction is all around us and it runs through all of the twentieth century. He used the term dé-coll/age (in connection with a plane crash) to refer to the process of tearing down posters, and for the use of mobile fragments of reality. His first Happening, Theater is in the Street, took place in Paris in 1958, and incorporated auto parts and a TV. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzGsVbSdD3k -------------------------------- Hackney Girl The piece is a video-wall diary describing the artist's journey from Hackney, London where there are significant immigrant populations of Turkish extraction, to Istanbul in Turkey where he decided to live. It is a love story documenting the artist's involvement with Hackney Girl's eponymous heroine, Yasemin Güvenç, a Turkish actress, who went back to Istanbul to work. A central theme is that of environments and the people that populate them. As such it is a visual meditation on place and displacement. The camera thus follows the people who inhabit the scene as well as the scene itself. Each time you walk in a place like Hackney Marshes, the weather, the people and the path you take all conspire to give you another version of the same story: a walk in your environment. In effect, each time you play Hackney Girl, you get another walk. The work draws on a visual library of nearly 600 stills and over 550 short movie clips to present this visual collage of static shots and moving images that also end in a freeze photo frame. This along with the three by three grid of alternately filling and emptying screens provides the piece's staccato rhythm. http://www.blipstation.com/hackney_girl/hackney.html ------------------------------- Excerpts from René Viénet's 1973 film "Can Dialectics Break Bricks?" "Imagine a kung fu flick in which the martial artists spout Situationist aphorisms about conquering alienation while decadent bureaucrats ply the ironies of a stalled revolution. This is what you'll encounter in René Viénet's outrageous refashioning of a Chinese fisticuff film. An influential Situationist, Viénet stripped the soundtrack from a run-of-the-mill Hong Kong export and lathered on his own devastating dialogue. . . . A brilliant, acerbic and riotous critique of the failure of socialism in which the martial artists counter ideological blows with theoretical thrusts from Debord, Reich and others. . . . Viénet's target is also the mechanism of cinema and how it serves ideology." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wPCiyjtBfo wishing all well... _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
