Tomboy, 2011

Fulll Firearms, Emily Wardwill 2012

Fulll Firearms by Emily Wardill, 2012 (Extract 3) from City Projects on Vimeo.

I went to see this at the ICA last night.  Well done Richard Harrowing!

Synestesia

Directed by Terri Timley / USA / 2009


More Madness

Scenes from the Suburbs (Spike Jonze and Arcade Fire)

This is so fucking good I wish it was 4 times longer. You have until the end of today to watch it for free click HERE.



SCENES FROM THE SUBURBS
United States, Canada
2011
28 Min
Color
2.35:1
English
No Subtitles

Sous mon lit. (Under my bed)

SOUS MON LIT
France 2004
44 Min
DIR Jihane Chouaib

The Dog Pound

THE DOG POUND
Uruguay 2006
90 Min
DIR Manolo Nieto

Christoph Schlingensief

Christoph Maria Schlingensief (born October 24, 1960 in Oberhausen) is a German film and theatre director, actor and author. Because of his often controversial work he has often been called a “scandal-maker”.

As a young man he organized art “events” in the cellar of his parents house and artists such as Helge Schneider or Theo Jörgensmann performed in his early films.

Schlingensief considers himself a “provocatively thoughtful” artist. He has created numerous controversial and provocative theatre pieces as well as films, his former mentor being filmmaker and media artist Werner Nekes. One of his main works, the so-called Germany-Trilogy, which deals with three turning points in 20th century German history: the first movie Hundert Jahre Adolf Hitler (Adolf Hitler – A Hundred Years) covers the last hours of Adolf Hitler, the second Das deutsche Kettensägenmassaker (The German Chainsaw-Massacre), depicts the German reunification of 1989 and shows a group of East-Germans who cross the border to visit West-Germany and get slaughtered by a psychopathic family with chainsaws, and the third Terror 2000 uses the theme of the 1970s Red Army Faction terror. His films have been compared to Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s film, Hitler, A Film from Germany.

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And see HERE his lovely first film. Made at the age of 7. 

MY 1. MOVIE

MEIN 1. FILM

West Germany

1968

11 Min

Subtitled in English

Audio in German

Beginners

Biutiful

I am going to go watch it this week, for which apparently I need to get emotionally prepared as it promises good amounts of rawness. Wanna come along? I can't wait to cry in the cinema and feel uneasy on my way back home..

movies for cheese sundays..

John Cameron Mitchell

I need to start leaving one day a week to go to the cinema..

I killed my mother, 2009

So I want to see this:

but I have to admit is not cos I found the trailer so thrilling, but more cos I saw this little extract by accident..



and well to be honest is hard to say if its just the scene which even if  I found it horribly cheese is also at the same time quite sexy, or its because that guy, the taller one is extra hot?? hmm

It does genuinely intrigues me though,  the fact that the director is bloody 20 years old!!! and this film gave him not one but three nominations at the Cannes Festival, what a perfect excuse to watch it  ;)

I KILLED MY MOTHER

J'AI TUÉ MA MÈRE

Canada

2009

Erwin Blumenfeld, abstraction and distortion

The Hour-glass Sanatorium

1973 Polish film directed by Wojciech Jerzy. as close to dreaming as it gets, albeit a bit long.

Future Shorts Best of 2010

The Invisible Frame, 2009

I watch the whole thing waiting for something to happen... and the only thing that got me excited for about two seconds was recognising the street where my friends live. Watch this when you have insomnia. It was beautifully shat, there is plenty of birds and nature like sounds and very little of that sloooowwly said poetic monologue.

THE INVISIBLE FRAME

Germany 2009

  60 Min

     DIR Cynthia Beatt

BAD BOY BUBBY

BAD BOY BUBBY

Australia 1993

114 Min

DIR Rolf de Heer

Black Swan, 2010

hmm I dunno... I didn't really like it. There isn't really much more than what you can see in the trailer.
I am  quite disappointed actually, somehow I am still waiting or the Aronofsky from 'Pi' or even 'Requiem for a Dream'. Even after the cheesy hippy astral fiasco that was 'The Fountain', I still hoped he would get me back to that inner claustrophobia from the need to scape your own mind and self control.
He did not. It is beautiful, and it is thrilling but I did not feel I was going lulu with  Portman like I did with Gullete in Pi.  Or may be I'm just being a bitch cos my insomnia is back and I cant sleep over 3 hrs at the time..?

BLACK SWAN

United States 2010

103 Min

DIR Darren Aronofsky

Reprise, 2006

This is the film equivalent of the song 'the past is a grotesque animal' by of montreal. So there is no point on me trying to explain, or say what is it about, you are gonna have to watch  it. I would just say its excellent. I've written here a bit of a dialogue, which is by no means a synthesis of the film, but may be just about its arrogant honesty feeling. 

REPRISE

Norway 2006

105 Min

DIR Joachim Trier

- Girls aren't cool. They can be pretty or 'cute'
and with some serious dieting, even sexy.
They can be nice. Dumb, but nice.
But who wants 'nice'?
You want interesting people around you.
Has a girl ever introduce you to any new music
or recommended a book you didn't already read in high school?
Anything just slightly outside the mainstream?
If so, she got it from an ex, her brother, her father.
They just pretend.
It's worse here. On the East Side
they know they're underprivileged.
Here they think they have to have an opinion.
And Intrude on adult conversations.
Guys in long-term relationships become so lame.
They get sucked into this feminine sphere of TV-series and nice dinners.
They get less and less time to read and listen to music.
Eventually they don't even miss it.
They end up as understimulated, bourgeois retards.
-Bullshit
-Feeling guilty is slave mentality.
Sometimes you have to be Zarathustra. Be mean.