When my grandmother came to Switzerland in 1940, because she could no longer live in Italy, she was 18. One of the young men who courted her in Geneva, and who almost became my grandfather was the son of Jacques Bogopolsky, the inventor of the Bolex camera, an engineer from Ukraine.
gimme’da thing
gimme’da thing is a new Swiss-French webzine.
Sufferosa
Sufferosa is an online interactive movie designed by Dawid Marcinkowski (whom I met in Poland in 2007 at Camerimage). The story is inspired from Godard’s ‘Alphaville’, Boris Vian, & more.
Alien prequel
Ridley Scott has been planning to shot a prequel to the «Alien» classic, he says in an interview.
Cabaret nucléaire
Rebecca reminds me in the pictures on the site of Hollywood actress Fairuza Balk.
I met Fairuza during the West Coast premiere of «Don’t come Knocking» by Wim
Wenders.
Center for Future Storytelling
There is a project for building a state-of-the-art film and television studio campus in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Plymouth Rock Studios would also fund a new Center for Future Storytelling at the MIT Media Lab, directed by Michael Bove and Cynthia Breazeal.
Towards a Museum of Hope
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum (MICR) is undergoing transformation to redesign its permanent exhibition.
The production of the new exhibition will be coordinated by the Swiss designers of Atelier Oï.
Sundance, YouTube and Ridley Scott have partnered to create a film with people all around the world.
Submissions close 31st July 2010.
Cultures électroniques
Une page dédiée à la culture électronique, et l’émission d’ARTE du même nom.
Trust
Trust is a group exhibition curated by Andreas Broeckmann (previously project manager at V2 in Rotterdam and artistic director of Transmediale in Berlin). It will take place as part of ISEA 2010 Ruhr.