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“Silent World” is an engrossing short film comprised of an apocalyptic series of photographs by Paris-based filmmakers/photographers Lucie & Simon, set to the music of Philip Glass and Daft Punk. When you think of ghost towns, your mind doesn’t typically gravitate to New York City, Paris or Beijing. Yet that’s what these teeming cities have become in the hands of Lucie & Simon.
Lucie & Simon have used a digital scalpel and a special filter to remove humans from the city landscapes. They have left just enough evidence of our species’ presence, a lone woman in a blood-red coat in Madison Square Garden or a hoisted flag in Tiananmen Square, to make the mysterious, mass disappearances as uncannily disturbing as possible.
Many city dwellers no doubt have dreamed of a magically emptied and peaceful metropolis. But “Silent World” suggests that life would not be so peaceful in a completely silent city. It’s unnatural and threatening; the uneasy feeling of being the last person on earth could build and build until one goes mad.
This piece includes a number of photographs and the oppressively eloquent short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/silent-world-an-apocalyptic-photo-series/“Silent World” is an engrossing short film comprised of an apocalyptic... more
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“Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change” is an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), which presents the first-ever retrospective examination of all aspects of artist Eadweard Muybridge’s pioneering photography. Best known for his groundbreaking studies of animals and humans in motion, what a magnificent photographer Eadweard Muybridge was and what a brilliant eye he had is too often overlooked. In addition to his iconic studies of animals in motion, Muybridge (1830-1904) was also an innovative and successful landscape and survey photographer, documentary artist, inventor and war correspondent.
The works in this exhibition have been brought together from 38 different collections and include a number of Muybridge’s photographs of Yosemite Valley, images of Alaska and the Pacific coast, pictures from Panama and Guatemala and urban panoramas of San Francisco, most of which were published under the pseudonym “Helios.” The exhibition also includes examples from Muybridge’s experimental series of sequential stop-motion photographs, such as his masterpieces “The Horse in Motion” and “Animal Locomotion.”
This piece includes a number of vintage photographs from the exhibition, a photo-gallery, a music video and a stop-motion animation.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/helios-the-pioneering-photography-of-eadweard-muybridge/“Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change” is an exhibition at the... more
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Terrifying playgrounds from around the world, that lay the foundations to horrifying childhood memoires or maybe great inspirations for future Sci Fi horror writers (no wonder horror films from overseas are the best).
The music is Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi a famed art film, plus yes it's the tune to the Janitors evil eye tune from Scrubs.Terrifying playgrounds from around the world, that lay the foundations to horrifying... more
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The starry sky is regular subject, spiritual circumstance or actual setting of Philip Glass’ work. His latest opera, “Kepler,” given its American premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Wednesday night, is about the German astronomer who identified the elliptical orbits of our solar system. The composer couldn’t have been more at home.
Among Glass’ 23 operas are “Galileo Galilei” and two others based on Nobel laureate Doris Lessing's “Canopus in Argos” series of science-fiction novels. “The Voyage” opens with Stephen Hawking meditating on space-time and an alien spaceship crashing onto Earth; it ends with Columbus taking his final journey on his deathbed into outer space.
Astronauts in space ships, nebbishes having out-of-body experiences, pensive mystics pondering unknown realms, an ancient Egyptian king becoming one with the sun -- these are situations enhanced by Glass’ repetitive melodies, moody harmonies and propulsive rhythms.
But in “Kepler,” Glass’ yin-yang style gains new advances. More than ever before, the same kind of music can express going somewhere or nowhere, a physical or spiritual state, a secular and sacred condition.The starry sky is regular subject, spiritual circumstance or actual setting of Philip... more
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Some hail him as a modern-day Nostradamus, others dismiss him as a crackpot. Futurist and famed inventor Ray Kurzweil is the preeminent theorist on the pending fusion of humans and super-intelligent machines as the next phase of evolution, a "singularity" he predicts will occur within 30 years. This fascinating (and at times terrifying) doc explores the personal ideals behind his controversial ideas. Screening at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival. For more information and tickets, visit www.tribecafilm.com/festival.
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"I predict that this documentary will be the most talked about "indie movie" this summer." - Pericles
Transcendent Man Premieres at 2009 Tribeca Film Festival 04/25/09
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Twitter User: loopmovieSome hail him as a modern-day Nostradamus, others dismiss him as a crackpot. Futurist... more
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"Flicker" is an acclaimed short one-minute experimental film by the young English filmmaker Hamish Anderson. "Flicker" is based upon a moment in the life of the pioneering photographer, Eadweard Muybridge. Muybridge is legendary for his "Horse in Motion" high-speed photographs of a trotting horse, which resolved the then long-running controversy over whether all four feet of a trotting or galloping horse ever leave the ground at the same time. His 1877-78 "Horse in Motion" photographs are considered by many in the know to be the world's first motion picture.
This composition includes biographic notes, a number of interesting photographs, the one-minute experimental film “Flicker" and the film of Muybridge's 1878 “Horse in Motion” moving pictures, as well as a 3-D computer graphics video of “A Horse in Motion.” In addition, it presents a music video from “The Photographer,” a 1982 opera by the avant-garde musician Philip Glass, which is based upon a dramatic episode in Muybridge's personal life."Flicker" is an acclaimed short one-minute experimental film by the young... more
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The documentary film "Wild Combination" highlights the life of Arthur Russell, whose varied and eclectic musical career spanned disco and avant-garde genres in early '80s New York.The documentary film "Wild Combination" highlights the life of Arthur... more
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In just a little over a quarter century on this earth, Nico Muhly has collaborated with the lofty likes of Philip Glass, Björk, Antony, Will Oldham, the National, Rufus Wainwright, and many others. Which, of course, makes the rest of us mid-twenty-somethings feel both lazy and mildly angry.
In just a little over a quarter century on this earth, Nico Muhly has collaborated... more
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