‘Forever’, the analogue feedback music video for Love Of Diagrams screens in the Rojo Nova Audiovisual Sessions, happening July 1st – August 15th 2010 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. http://www.rojo-nova.com If you cant make it to the museum in Brazil, you can watch the video here: http://www.messandnoise.com/tv/3916440
Electric Cinema presents two striking examples of essay film-making Tuesday evening at the old squatted film academy at Overtoom 301: Chris Marker’s serene and mesmerising Sans Soleil against Johan Grimonprez’s unrelenting history of terrorist airjackings, Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y. http://www.electric-cinema.org Bar at 20:00. Starts: 20:30 hrs. Last Electric Cinema program before cinema renovations and the summer break. Nightly [...]
Bart Rutten of the Stedelijk invited me to come up with a short film introduction and live visual mix for this upcoming conference on museum as content creator. Thinking of Zabriskie point slow-motion explosions of the Guggenheim, youtube tourist videos from outside the represented museums, postcards and snapshots, classicism and iconography. Free entry, reserve via [...]
My regular screening night returns with films that were scheduled in May, but delayed due to Icelandic gods of vulkan interruption. Full details at http://www.electric-cinema.org Tuesday 8 June 2010 at Overtoom 301 Amsterdam Final Flesh 90′ dir. Vernon Chatman 2009 U.S.A. House 88′ dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi 1977 Japan From the creator of Xavier: Renegade Angel [...]
Three days in a cinema to pick the brain of Mike Figgis, director, artist and musician. Sugar and cocaine. Digital and celluloid. Grain and focus. Portrait and landscape. Hollywood and independence. Script-writing and score notation. Bullshit and real bullshit. Theatre and self-obsession. Pornography and J.L. Godard. Brilliant, real and inspiring. http://www.mikefiggis.co.uk Thanks to Janine Dijkmeijer at Cinedans.nl
This festival opens this weekend in Osaka. Jona is showing a number of my videos in the screening program. Check it out if you’re in the neighborhood. http://www.feavs.org