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“New York Faces 1940-'50s” is a wonderful documentary short film created by filmmaker Leo Bar, a nostalgic piece that features the many “faces” of New York City, as seen while taking a ride on the now torn down Third Avenue Elevated Railway. Many of the vintage NYC images shown in the film were taken by the reclusive Vivian Maier, who was a nanny and street photographer in New York City and Chicago from the 1950-'90s. Other photographs were sourced from the New York Public Library. The music is “Hey Now” performed by Red Garland, released on “Red Garland Revisited!” (1957).
Enjoy the railway ride as it travels through the old neighborhoods of New York City!
This piece includes a number of black-and-white vintage photographs, a photo-gallery and the short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/a-ride-on-the-third-avenue-elevated-railway-new-york-faces-1940-50s/“New York Faces 1940-'50s” is a wonderful documentary short film... more
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Just in case you haven’t had enough Easter joy yet, Toronto's Crush has produced a very humorous stop-motion animated short film, “Legend of the Golden Egg Warrior,” as an offering of good will over the Easter period. The film introduces us to a ninja nunchucking Easter bunny well schooled in the martial arts. Eggscellent!
This piece includes pictures and the funny one-minute retro chop-suey flick.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/a-retro-chop-suey-flick-legend-of-the-golden-egg-warrior/Just in case you haven’t had enough Easter joy yet, Toronto's Crush has... more
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“Sleeping Betty” is the award-winning, absurdly humorous and surreal animated short film by Claude Cloutier at The National Film Board of Canada. In a sumptuous palace located in the basement of a house in a working-class neighborhood of Montreal, poor Princess Betty is bedridden and asleep, the victim of a strange case of narcoleptic stupor.
In a panic, the King calls on his subjects to rescue her, appealing to Uncle Henri VIII, Aunt Victoria, an emotional alien, a cool witch and a courageously funky Prince. The worthy Prince has to leave his royal suburb on his valiant steed, making his way to Princess Betty’s bedside on an arduous trip replete with ludicrous adventures. But will the Prince’s sweet kiss really be enough to awaken the sleeping Princess Betty? Where are we, or is that a different story?
Propelled by Claude Cloutier’s signature drawing style and absurdist humor, this anachronistic and playful animated short film sets the Perrault classic tale in Cloutier’s disjointed little kingdom of odd people and surreal habits, which offers the viewer many surprising twists.
Includes colorful illustrations, as well as the humorously wacky animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/04/05/the-ridiculously-absurd-ordeals-of-sleeping-betty/“Sleeping Betty” is the award-winning, absurdly humorous and surreal... more
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“Rear Window” is a fascinating three-minute time-lapse short film created by filmmaker Jeff Desom, which is based on Alfred Hitchcock’s classic movie “Rear Window” (1954). Desom extracted all of the film footage as seen from Jimmy Stewart’s point of view in the movie and stitched it back together. He reconstructed the pieces in a way that created a single panoramic view of the entire Greenwich Village apartment building’s courtyard, while keeping the order of events true to the movie’s plot.
In Hitchcock’s “Rear Window,” professional photographer L.B. “Jeff” Jeffries, played by Jimmy Stewart, had broken his leg while trying to take an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his Greenwich Village apartment, he spends his days and nights looking out of his apartment’s rear window into the courtyard observing the daily lives of his neighbors. He begins to suspect that a man who lives across the courtyard may have murdered his invalid wife. Jeff enlists the help of his high society girlfriend Lisa and his visiting nurse Stella to investigate.
This piece includes color photographs and the amazing time-lapse short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/rear-window-an-amazing-time-lapse-of-alfred-hitchcocks-rear-window/“Rear Window” is a fascinating three-minute time-lapse short film created... more
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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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An enormous clifftop, blue skies, multiple deaths and a yellow canary who matter-of-factly keeps meticulous notes of it all. “Yellow Belly End “is a dryly absurd, award-winning animated short film, created by Philip Bacon as a unique and compelling graduation film at England’s National Film and Television School. Bacon speaks in metaphors about the tragedies of life and death, as a yellow canary records animal suicides at the edge of a cliff, or possibly the world. The story unfolds in a way that encourages viewers to create their own interpretations of the larger meanings of the film.
This piece includes a number of colorful illustrations and the deliciously strange, acclaimed animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/the-final-song-of-the-yellow-canary/An enormous clifftop, blue skies, multiple deaths and a yellow canary who... more
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Keith Haring ranks among the most iconic, influential and popular artists in the world. Opening twenty years after his death, “Keith Haring: 1978–1982” is a rare and in-depth look at the prolific early years that established Haring’s language as an artist, his politics and social conscience, and his open homosexuality. The historic exhibition opened on March 16th at the Brooklyn Museum and chronicles the early career of Keith Haring in New York City, through the years when he opened his studio and took his art to the streets.
Organized by the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati and the Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna, the exhibition traces the development of Haring’s extraordinary visual vocabulary. “Keith Haring: 1978–1982” includes 155 works on paper, numerous experimental videos and over 150 archival objects, including rarely seen sketchbooks, journals, exhibition flyers, posters, subway drawings and documentary photographs.
This piece includes a number of vintage photographs, a photo-gallery and the documentary, “The Universe of Keith Haring.”
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/the-early-works-of-keith-haring-1978-1982/Keith Haring ranks among the most iconic, influential and popular artists in the... more
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“Creatures of the Deep” is part of the award-winning nature documentary series “Life,” which was created by BBC television and first broadcast as part of the BBC’s Darwin Season in 2009. The series received its North American premiere on Discovery Channel Canada in November 2009 and received its U.S. premier on Discovery Channel in March 2010. The series was nominated for six Primetime Emmy Awards in July 2010, and the episode “Challenges of Life” went on to win the Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming Award.
The series takes a global view of the specialized strategies and extreme behaviors that living things have developed in order to survive. “Creatures of the Deep” focuses on marine invertebrates, which are some of the most bizarre and beautiful animals on the planet, thriving in the midst of the toughest parts of the oceans. Divers swim into a shoal of predatory Humboldt squid as they emerge from the ocean depths to hunt in packs. When cuttlefish gather to mate, their bodies flash in stroboscopic colors. Time-lapse photography reveals thousands of starfish gathering under the Arctic ice to devour a seal carcass. The greatest living structures on earth, coral reefs, are created by tiny animals in some of the world’s most inhospitable waters.
The beautiful HD “Life” nature series provides the perfect visual background for any living room activity. As many have discovered, they play even better when muted and paired with soundtracks of your own choice. Now, videographer Tobi Totschlag has undertaken the task of curating some of his favorite songs and pairing them with parts of BBC’s “Life,” including some amazing scenes from “Creatures of the Deep.”
This piece includes a number of color photographs and four music videos created from the documentary series.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/the-challenges-of-life-extraordinary-creatures-of-the-deep/“Creatures of the Deep” is part of the award-winning nature documentary... more
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“A House, A Home” is an amazing narrative music video from the debut album of The Alialujah Choir, directed by Daniel Fickle and produced by Mark Smith. The song tells the story of two imagined characters, an adolescent boy and girl, who were in treatment at a psychiatric hospital. They were both going through that intense experience together, but since they were never allowed to be alone with each other, and the boy could never express his feelings for the girl, his feelings for her became larger than life. One day, when the boy saw the girl leaving the office from her therapy session, he assumed that it was a rendezvous of a different kind and took his own life.
Smith wanted to create a narrative for the video to help the boy who had committed suicide reconcile his past. A few years after the boy’s death, the girl also died of natural causes and was buried next to him. It was Fickle’s idea to continue the story underground. By keeping the obvious graveyard imagery out of the story, it helped to create a lighter mood and leave room for playfulness, which was a counterbalance to the somber tone of the song and lyrics.
This piece includes color photographs and an HD version of the breathtaking music video.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/03/22/the-alialujah-choir-a-house-a-home/“A House, A Home” is an amazing narrative music video from the debut album... more
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The ghostly Polaroids that filmmaker Jem Cohen has taken of New York City over the past 30 years remind him of “a sleepwalker’s view of the city.” The impressionistic images, filled with vaporous landscapes, acid colors, deadpan close-ups and long, lonesome vistas, could be said to capture those parts of the city its residents have forgotten, or even what the city has forgotten about itself.
The same can be observed about Mr. Cohen’s short films, “NYC Weights and Measures” (2006) and “Lost Book Found” (1996), which capture the lonely solitude that exists beneath the often deafening noise and frantic bustle of the city’s streets.
This piece includes a number of Cohen's color Polaroids, as well as two of his short films.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/03/12/the-lonely-ghosts-of-new-york-citys-past/The ghostly Polaroids that filmmaker Jem Cohen has taken of New York City over the... more
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“Girl Walk // All Day” is the newly-released debut film from director Jacob Krupnick, a piece of visual art painted with the colors of New York City, where the residents don’t even blink when a seemingly goofy young woman in a windbreaker starts dancing like a crazy person right through a park in broad daylight. The twelve-act movie uses “All Day,” the latest album from Girl Talk (Gregg Gillis), as its narrative force. The music provides a deeply emotional soundtrack to 71 minutes of dancing, as the three main actors dance their way through New York, from the High Line to Central Park, to the subway, to Occupy Wall Street and back.
This piece includes a number of color photographs, an HD version of the full movie and the documentary, “A Day in the Life: Girl Talk.”
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/girl-walkall-day-an-infectious-urban-dance-marathon/“Girl Walk // All Day” is the newly-released debut film from director... more
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In film director Aaron Rose’s Warhol-inspired and farmyard-centric “Chicken Screen Tests,” a collection of exquisite California chicks and a charismatic duck mug for the camera, all the while posing for their portraits to the music of Dean and Britta’s cover of Bob Dylan’s “I’ll Keep It With Mine.” Rose’s bewildering chicken screen tests were shot with 16mm film in line with the standard formula of Andy Warhol’s 1960s “Factory Screen Tests,” with the finely feathered thespians obtained from a farm in San Pedro.
This piece includes photographs, as well as the perplexing short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/sexy-screen-tests-a-big-cock-and-hot-chicks/In film director Aaron Rose’s Warhol-inspired and farmyard-centric... more
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“The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” is an award-winning animated short film by author/illustrator William Joyce and Co-Director Brandon Oldenburg at Moonbot Studios, which won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film last night at the 2012 Academy Awards. Drawing on inspirations from Hurricane Katrina, The Wizard of Oz and Buster Keaton, the amazing and inspirational short film combines a variety of animation techniques to tell the story of people who have a passion for books.
This piece includes a number of colorful illustrations, as well as the acclaimed animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/the-fantastic-flying-books-of-mr-morris-lessmore-wins-2012-oscar-for-best-animated-short-film/“The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” is an award-winning... more
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The Street Photography of Alex Webb: Sweet Home Chicago
“Photographs from the Streets of Chicago” is a wonderful video photo-essay, a collection of photographs by the acclaimed contemporary street photographer, Alex Webb. Unlike street photographers of the Chicago School (Callahan, Metzger, Sturr and Sterling), Alex Webb has chosen to photograph the city’s multitudinous character in color. Having spent most of his three-decades long career shooting outside of the United States, Webb turns his lens to Chicago during this very important election year.
This piece includes a number of color photographs and the HD video photo-essay, an exploration of Chicago and the Loop.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/the-street-photography-of-alex-webb-sweet-home-chicago/The Street Photography of Alex Webb: Sweet Home Chicago
“Photographs from the... more
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The fleeting beauty of youth is captured in this spellbinding collection of raw, honest portraits of androgynous boys that documents the authenticity of youth, from London-based photographer Toyin Ibidapo. A tribute to the charged emotions of adolescence, Ibidapo’s first solo show “There’s No Such Thing as Perfect, But There’s Perfection in the Things We Love,” is currently on exhibition at the Doors Showcase Gallery in London.
Ibidapo is a fashion photographer who has collaborated with the late Alexander McQueen, super-stylist Nicola Formichetti and designer Kim Jones, as well as contributing to “Dazed & Confused,” “Arena Homme Plus” and SHOWstudio. The exhibition evolved from Ibidapo’s book “Cult of Boys,” which she describes as a “record of amazing moments and various chapters in my life as a photographer as well as the faces in this book. They represent themselves and they also represent me because it was my vision and they came into my world, some for years, others just once. But sometimes once is all you need, one photograph to remember a poetic moment forever. Seen through the eyes of the female gaze.”
This piece includes a number of mesmerizing color photographs, a photo-gallery and two richly creative musical documentary short films.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/poetic-moments-a-celebration-of-young-masculine-beauty/The fleeting beauty of youth is captured in this spellbinding collection of raw,... more
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“Welcome to My Home” is delightful documentary short film by Kelsey Holtaway and Mark Cersosimo at Departure/Arrival Films. Anthony Pisano is a sweet old man who sits on the sidewalk and invites passersby to browse the contents of his East Village home, an amber-lit apartment-space packed with antiques, photographs, knickknacks, figurines and watch parts, which might easily be confused with a rummage sale or second-hand shop.
But nothing in the collections Mr. Pisano has built throughout his life is for sale. Instead, for Mr. Pisano, the benefit of living in his East Village storefront is that it offers him a chance to meet people. He leaves the front door ajar, and blasts Frank Sinatra music into the street. Passersby peer at his collection of unusual items, like a Bill Clinton doll on an antique model boat. “The New York Times” reported in 2010 that Pisano “estimates he gives away 10 to 12 trinkets every day.”
This piece includes colorful photographs and the wonderful documentary short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/anthony-pisanos-east-village-apartment-a-home-for-the-heart/“Welcome to My Home” is delightful documentary short film by Kelsey... more
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On February 26 I underwent reconstructive surgery to repair all of the above, and in the process of jury-rigging the thing back together (evidently tendons turn into ligaments over time, and when you remove half the hamstrings in the leg they grow back – don’t ask me to explain it) the doctor took these nice arthroscopic photographs.On February 26 I underwent reconstructive surgery to repair all of the above, and in... more
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