fotoFilm: hollis frampton's nostalgia in 4 parts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voMDL1TgTh4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=300DOyjj3Vw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzgsq5BnzeM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czMphN0r_1o&feature=related

"In (nostalgia), Frampton is clearly working with the experience of cinematic temporality. The major structural strategy is a disjunction between sound and image. We see a series of still photographs, most of them taken by Frampton, slowly burning one at a time on a hotplate. On the soundtrack, we hear Frampton's comments and reminiscences about the photographs. As we watch each photograph burn, we hear the reminiscence pertaining to the following photograph. The sound and image are on two different time schedules. At any moment, we are listening to a commentary about a photograph that we shall be seeing in the future and looking at a photograph that we have just heard about. We are pulled between anticipation and memory. The nature of the commentary reinforces the complexity; it arouses our sense of anticipation by referring to the future; it also reminisces about the past, about the time and conditions under which the photographs were made. The double time sense results in a complex, rich experience." - Bill Simon

Surviving Life (Theory and Practice)

tonight at the filmcasino: jan svankmajer's new film - Surviving Life (Theory and Practice) Přežít svůj život (teorie a praxe) --

i plan to still go to this movie and just stare at the pictures and pretend to understand german subtitles or listen to czech / and a few exhibitions to see before that

IT WAS WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES AFTER-ALL:))))

right thing, right time:))

girl power / twist of magic / rocket jump

Spiklenci slasti / Conspirators of Pleasure

Barevný, 35 mm
Česká republika, 1997, 75 min
Sekce: Pocta Janu Švankmajerovi

spiklenci slasti/jan svankmajer; vegetable dinner with coconut sauce (ella's specialty); mom made schnapps (from the mountains); going over ideas for new works yet to come; the wind oh the wind; the dance of a table cloth; people getting cold

and it feels just -in place - to be back in the first house that i have ever stayed in vienna.

i believe the objects are alive with souls maybe everywhere but especially in this house they have a twist of magic.

we go over idioms of flying. watch excerpts from documantaries.i learn about the jumps in games.

and the Jan Svankmajer - Spiklenci Slasti - Conspirators Of Pleasure

and it reminds me somehow of kieslowski: "the double life of veronique"

so we watch the excerpt where he is moving the marionettes; and she watches his reflection as he is controlling the marionettes...

and i tell ella about my plan to do this story - interview on flying... i construct it as i explain it; finally.

thanks, ella.

cheese borek, conversations, Pretty Diana and Shutka

shutka

LIJEPA DYANA · Serbien und Montenegro 2003 · Regie, Drehbuch und Kamera: Boris Mitic · Musik: Boris Kovac, Boban Markovic · romanes.OmU · 56‘

"Do what you can, with what you have,
where you are."
- Theodore Roosevelt

lovely conversation - lovely breakfast at regina's kitchen: regina - lena- lerna - evrim

conversation continued at the lab factory with thomas and in the absence of a dog but with a coffee cup that has dog photos on it

cooking a late lunch back at reginas

invitation to exhibiton from anna

the thing which was not there : she said i should see the thing which was not there

and i saw it

this will be the next post

a rose for deniz. orane joins us. for this exhibit of angewente.

afterwords the documentaries at cafe boem. very interesting stuff... maren comes in from the country side.

orane and i we sit on the heater as it is freezing after watching 2 documentaries

the first one is PRETTY DIANA (boris mitic)(and the next one is alexandar manic's THE SHUTKA

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2181669920911563723#

An intimate look at Gypsy refugees in Belgrade suburb who make a living by transfoming Citroen's classic 2cv and Dyana cars into Mad Max-like recycling vehicles, with which they ollect cardoard, bottles and scrap metal. These modern horses are much more efficient than the cart-pushing competition, but more important - they also mean freedom, hope and style for their crafty owners. Even the car batteries are used as power generators in order to get some light, watch tv and recharge mobiles! Almost an alchemist's dream come true! But the police doesn't allways find these strange vehicles funny...