a blog about Future Cinema, and a good article about the Kinder/Manovich debate on database vs. narrative.
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If psychologist Jean Piaget was the scientist who managed to capture how children view the world, probably the artist who managed to do this best on film is Jacques Doillon.
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Moving projectors
“In 1977, I began to wonder why movie cameras move and movie projectors do not…” says media artist Michael Naimark.
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This is not a film
Shot in part with an iPhone and smuggled to France in a cake to premiere at Cannes, «this is not a film» is a statement from Iranian film director Jafar Panahi, who has been assigned to his home and forbidden to make films by the government of his country.
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Dziga Vertov
Dziga Vertov was first the pseudonym of an avant-garde soviet filmmaker, and then became the name of a group created by Jean-Luc Godard in the 1970s during his revolutionary period.
To celebrate the 90th birthday of Chris Marker, the ciné-club of the University of Geneva has organized a retrospective of his work.
Rétrospective de Jean Rouch et Luis Buñuel à la Cinémathèque portugaise. En même temps que EXD’11, et le Estoril Film Festival.
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Film Curating
The London Film School offers a MA in Film Curating, since October 2010.
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Esse est percipi
«Film» is the name of the first film written by Samuel Beckett, directed by Alan Schneider, with Buster Keaton as the lead.
Fanny Deleuze has proposed a geometrical diagram in «L’Image-Mouvement» to represent the relationship of persecution between the viewer/camera (OE) and the actor/character (O).
Film reminds me of «L’Âge d’Or» and «Elephant Man» altogether.
Aleph: Anatomy of an Experiment is an ethnological documentary about the technicians and researchers of CERN, in Geneva. The film was shot over the period of 4 years, between 1987 and 1991, by Lynn Silverman, in 16mm.