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“Patti Smith: Dream of Life,” directed and mostly shot by Steven Sebring, is an elegantly impressionistic portrait of the punk godhead, Patti Smith, which was created over a heroic period of 11-years. The film has barely begun before Patti has offered forth a life’s worth of headline news, a strategy that allows Mr. Sebring and Ms. Smith, who is as much a collaborator as a subject, to fill the next 100 or so minutes with fragmented beauty and song.
For the most part, the film is a song of life, alternately joyous and elegiac, warm and vibrantly present, a mosaic of moods and moments from one woman’s richly lived time on earth. Against the odds and other punk rockers’ self-destructive tendencies, Ms. Smith didn’t die young or succumb to the usual rock clichés.
This piece includes photographs, a music video and the documentary film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2013/03/03/dream-of-life-an-elegantly-impressionistic-portrait-of-patti-smith/“Patti Smith: Dream of Life,” directed and mostly shot by Steven Sebring,... more
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"Avatar" star Michelle Rodriguez brought along her own mixing board, amps, laptop, headphones as well as an acoustic guitarist and sexy violinist to the Chelsea Room"Avatar" star Michelle Rodriguez brought along her own mixing board, amps,... more
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This multi-media piece on the legacy of New York’s Lower East Side, comprised of photographs, a slide show and a documentary short, initially appears to assume the form of a parody. However, beneath the humorously droll surface of the composition, another layer reveals a more serious message. It is a genuinely sincere remembrance for the spiritual heritage of New York City and the Lower East Side before they were forever changed by the waves of rapid and often greedy gentrification, which took hold in the 1980s and quickly accelerated during the 2000s.
The energy and camaraderie of the people who over multi-generations banded together in the face of suffering and adversity is truly captivating. Over the last 100 years, the East Village/Lower East Side neighborhood has served as the first home for cultural icons who have included financial barons, political leaders and national celebrities in the performing arts.
This piece presents a number of photographs, a slide show and a documentary short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/06/15/a-tribute-to-the-legacy-of-new-yorks-lower-east-side/This multi-media piece on the legacy of New York’s Lower East Side, comprised of... more
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In 2008, Patti Smith was the subject of “Patti Smith: Land 250” at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporaine, Paris. This short film was Patti Smith’s introduction to her rich multi-layered installation at Fondation Cartier in Paris, which reflected 40 years of her more personal visual art-making and creative expression. Her most recent photographic exhibition, “Objects of Life,” opened in New York City in January, 2010. Inspired by the process of discovery during 11 years of filming, this installation features a selection of photographs, video, and a rare unseen painting by Smith, as well as some of her personal belongings.
This piece presents the short film from Patti Smith’s 2008 appearance at the Fondation Cartier, photographs from that installation, photographs from her new exhibition, “Objects of Life” and an extensive slide show that includes photographs from both exhibitions.
Please visit my website to view these wonderful high-resolution photographs and the slide show, and to watch the rare short film from the Fondation Cartier:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/patti-smiths-objects-of-life-melancholy-meditations/In 2008, Patti Smith was the subject of “Patti Smith: Land 250” at the... more
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“Patti Smith: Dream of Life” is a film that’s been 12 years in the making, a work that reveals an intimate, impressionistic portrait of a woman who is still blazing her own trail through late middle age, a woman who has seen and suffered great loss and who is perhaps the only major surviving connection from New York City’s Beat generation, to the 1970s Manhattan art scene, to the birth of punk, to the present. The film has been described as a paean to life, resoundingly joyous and elegiac, warm and vibrantly present, a collage of moods and moments from one immensely talented woman’s richly lived time on earth.
Patti Smith arrived in the big city 40 years ago and made her first residence in a room at The Chelsea Hotel, which in those days was also home to William S. Burroughs, Jefferson Airplane, Leonard Cohen, Janis Joplin, Sam Shepard, Arthur Miller, Robert Mapplethorpe and some of the Warhol crowd. Patti soon became the muse, friend and partner of Robert Mapplethorpe, became a poet, then a performance poet, then an underground rock musician and then a rock star.
“Dream of Life” is a beautiful and occasionally haunting artistic creation, a meditation on aging and mortality, an intimate study of an unusual kind of fame and the portrait of a genuinely remarkable person. The film was received with great acclaim at The Sundance Film Festival last year, as well as in Berlin and all over the film-festival world.
This piece presents a short film comprised of number of vignettes from the longer documentary, the official trailer of “Patti Smith: Dream of Life,” a rare short documentary about Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, and a short film about the Chelsea Hotel. In addition, it presents two remarkable photo-galleries.
Please visit my website to view the wonderful high-resolution photographs and the stunning slide shows, and to watch these short films:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/the-world-of-patti-smith-dream-of-life/“Patti Smith: Dream of Life” is a film that’s been 12 years in the... more
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The Chelsea Hotel on West 23d Street in Manhattan has long been known for its storied past as an elegantly shabby Victorian-Gothic hotel, which is now registered as a national historic landmark. Long a mecca for bohemian artists and eccentrics, one resident once fondly described the hotel’s surreal atmosphere as ”a cross between the Plaza Hotel and the Port Authority Bus Terminal.” The Chelsea has a long history of serving as a sanctuary for the the avant-garde.
Through the years, those who lived at the Chelsea have included Jack Kerouac, Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard, Tennessee Williams, Edith Piaf, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Leonard Cohen, Willem de Kooning, Jane Fonda, Janis Joplin, Milos Forman, Jimi Hendrix, Dennis Hopper, Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith, Vladimir Nabokov and Wes Klein. Dylan Thomas drank 18 straight whiskies there...sadly, his very last. Arthur C. Clarke wrote "2001: A Space Odyssey" while living there.
After Andy Warhol’s film "Chelsea Girls" was released upon the world, the hotel’s reputation became the stuff of urban mythology, attracting artists from all over the world. Edie Sedgewick, Andy Warhol’s patroness and advisor, the Factory artists and other pop art figures were all there. Bob Dylan produced both a record and a son there. Sid Vicious stabbed his girlfriend in Room 100.
This very detailed article includes a number of wonderful photographs and a music video (Rufus Wainwright's "Chelsea Hotel#2"), as well as a remarkable photo-essay video (accompanied by Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side").The Chelsea Hotel on West 23d Street in Manhattan has long been known for its storied... more
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"Patti Smith: Dream of Life" is a new film that’s been 12 years in the making, a work that reveals an intimate, impressionistic portrait of a woman who is still blazing her own trail through late middle age, a woman who has seen and suffered great loss and who is perhaps the only major surviving connection from New York City’s Beat generation, to the 1970s Manhattan art scene, to the birth of punk, to the present.
The film is a paean to life, resoundingly joyous and elegiac, warm and vibrantly present, a collage of moods and moments from one immensely talented woman’s richly lived time on earth. "Dream of Life" is a beautiful and occasionally haunting artistic creation, a meditation on aging and mortality, an intimate study of an unusual kind of fame and the portrait of a genuinely remarkable person.
Stunning photographs, five remarkable videos and a wonderful photo-gallery are included.
Have a look and enjoy!!"Patti Smith: Dream of Life" is a new film that’s been 12 years in the... more
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Chelsea on the Rocks, a new documentary about New York City's famous Chelsea Hotel, has premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. The documentary includes archival footage and interviews with many of the artists, writers and actors who have lived there. The Chelsea has been a mecca for bohemian artists for decades. At the present time, many fear that it will be lost to the corporate owners wanting to convert it into a fancy Manhattan boutique hotel.
Photographs, music, videos and a photo-gallery are included.Chelsea on the Rocks, a new documentary about New York City's famous Chelsea... more
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This article describes the life and times of Patti Smith, the godmother of punk music. It discusses the new documentary about her, Patti Smith: Dream of Life, which is not a nostalgia act, but rather a journey about real things, like art, family and loss, and not the romantic death found in rock and roll lyrics, but the literal kind.
Photographs, videos and a photo-gallery are included.This article describes the life and times of Patti Smith, the godmother of punk music.... more
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Rufus Wainwright has been nominated for best International Male Solo Artist of the year at the Brit Music Awards to be held in London on Wednesday night, February 20, 2008. He was selected for the single,"Going to a Town," from his album "Release the Stars" (2007).
Earlier in his musical career, a flamboyant extravagance and narcissistic self-absorption pushed Wainwright to the edge of self-destruction. After his harrowing past experiences, Wainwright is desperate not to waste his chances all over again.
Photographs, a great photo-gallery and music videos are included with this article. The music videos include "Going to a Town" and the wonderfully elegant 2005 version of "Hallelujah" recorded live at the Sydney Opera House in Australia with his sister Martha Wainwright and friend, Joan Wasser.Rufus Wainwright has been nominated for best International Male Solo Artist of the... more
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"Patti Smith: An American Experience." Patti was living in New York's Chelsea Hotel with Robert Mapplethorpe, when she helped put punk-rock and the East Village punk-rock landmark CBGB on the map. The documentary "Patti Smith: Dream of Life" has just premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
Photographs and music videos are included."Patti Smith: An American Experience." Patti was living in New York's... more
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