Cultural Internet Cinematheque

Bird directed by Andrew Zuckerman

2012-02-01T21:12:00.000-05:00

Turning his camera to the world of birds, Andrew Zuckerman has a created a new body of work revealing the vivid colors, textures, and personalities of each subject in extraordinary detail.

Behind the scenes of Andrew Zuckerman's new book of photographs "Bird" at the National Aviary.

Monolithic directed by Ed Roppo

2012-02-01T20:48:00.000-05:00

A video tour of a massive U.S. Navy building completed in 1948, the base was abandoned in the mid 1970s. The building housed the Ordnance and Optical Shops, for building and maintaining ordnance and periscopes. The building was deigned with an all-glass exterior, allowing an interior with floor-to-ceiling glass walls. It also contains an escalator rising over 40 vertical feet from the ground floor to the second level.

Music by Delerium, from their album "Spheres."

Paesaggio Composto #3 directed by Francesco Biccheri

2012-02-01T20:38:00.000-05:00

Paesaggio Composto (Composed Landscape) #3 is the third version of a video series born in 2008. ‘Paesaggio Composto’ is a game of the view. It moves in a landscape that changes continuously, that reveals new looks, that regenerates new points of view. Video is created by compositing 70-80 analogic photographs and moved then in a tridimensional space with After Effects. Photographs belong to Francesco’s personal collection, both urban and natural landscape pictures. They are taken in various places around Europe with Holga with 120 slide film and modified with Photoshop. Sound is made by manipulating urban and natural sounds.

Francesco Biccheri:
Graduated in Painting at Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia (Italy) in 2005, also studied b/w photography in dark room and music. Later he started working with video media to mix all his knowledge and experience of painting, photography and music. He has worked with video for advertising, music videoclip and videoart for exibition

Dans le labyrinthe / In the Labyrinth directed by Colin Low, Hugh O'Connor & Roman Kroitor, 1979, 21 min 1 s

2012-02-01T20:19:00.000-05:00

Dans la diversité des pays, des climats, des races et des sociétés, les rites, les croyances, la présence de la nature assurent une certaine permanence et aident chacun à traverser le mystère de l'existence. Conçu pour le pavillon Labyrinthe de l'Exposition universelle de 1967, ce film à écrans multiples se veut une interprétation moderne de la légende de Thésée et du Minotaure.
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A film without commentary in which multiple images, sometimes complementary, sometimes contrasting, draw the viewer through the different stages of a labyrinth. The tone of the film moves from great joy to wrenching sorrow; from stark simplicity to ceremonial pomp. It is life as it is lived by the people of the world, each one, as the film suggests, in a personal labyrinth.

In the Labyrinth was first released as a multi-screen presentation for Chamber III of the Labyrinth at Expo 67. These separate images were integrated into a single strand of film, using a "five-on-one" cinematic technique.

Morocco & Spain directed by Mike Matas

2012-02-01T20:14:00.000-05:00

1,000 miles, 2 weeks, 4,000 photo in 2 minutes.

Music by Patrick Books

ARTE: Poème symphonique pour 100 métronomes compsed by György Ligeti

2012-02-01T20:02:00.001-05:00

Video from an ARTE (France) broadcast of Poème Symphonique for 100 metronomes.

Poème symphonique was composed by György Ligeti in 1962. We are presenting this work this evening. The concert, which we went to record in Rome, was presented by an orchestra of 100 performers. This rebroadcast is a television premiere. At the end of the concert, we will offer a brief explanation, but first listen and watch. The concert begins in one minute.

Since its world premiere in the Netherlands in 1963, Poème symphonique for 100 metronomes has been very rarely performed in public. The complicated scenographic staging, the detailed preparation by hand, the need for around ten technicians to activate more or less simultaneously the 100 metronomes, makes the demand for performances limited. Thirty-two years after the premiere, the sculptor and installation artist Gilles Lacombe heard a recording of the work. Impressed, he decided to invent a machine able to perform the piece automatically. After six months, he set up this ingenious device. Ever since, Poème symphonique can be performed accurately, at any time, and in public. Please understand that at its world premiere in 1963, the concert was filmed by Dutch television. On that night, after the final tick-tock of the metronome, there was a heavy silence, followed by booing, screaming, and threats. The concert was never broadcast.

Soylent Green directed by Richard Fleischer

2012-02-01T14:09:00.000-05:00

Soylent Green is a 1973 American science fiction film directed by Richard Fleischer. Starring Charlton Heston, the film overlays the police procedural and science fiction genres as it depicts the investigation into the brutal murder of a wealthy businessman in a dystopian future suffering from pollution, overpopulation, depleted resources, poverty, dying oceans and a hot climate due to the greenhouse effect. Much of the population survives on processed food rations, including "soylent green".

The film, which is loosely based upon the 1966 science fiction novel Make Room! Make Room!, by Harry Harrison, won the Nebula Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film in 1973.

In the year 2022, the population has grown to forty million people in New York City alone. Most housing is dilapidated and overcrowded, and the homeless fill the streets and line the fire escapes and stairways of buildings. Food as we know it in present times is a rare and expensive commodity. Most of the world's population survives on processed rations produced by the massive Soylent Corporation, including Soylent Red and Soylent Yellow, which are advertised as "high-energy vegetable concentrates." The newest product is Soylent Green, a small green wafer which is advertised as being produced from "high-energy plankton." It is much more nutritious and palatable than the red and yellow varieties, but, like most other food, it is in short supply, which often leads to food riots.

Robert Thorn (Charlton Heston) is a New York City Police Department detective in the 14th Precinct who lives in a dilapidated, cramped one-room apartment with his aged friend and roommate, Solomon "Sol" Roth (Edward G. Robinson, in his last film). Roth is a former professor who searches through the now-disordered remnants of written records and books to help Thorn's investigations. Roth and his like are known as "books." He tells Thorn about the time before the ecological disaster and population crisis, when real food was plentiful, although Thorn is generally not interested in the stories, finding most of them too hard to believe.

Thorn is assigned to investigate the murder of William R. Simonson (Joseph Cotten). At the crime scene, he finds Simonson lying in a pool of blood after having been struck multiple times in the back of the head. Instead of looking for clues, the poorly paid detective helps himself to the wealthy man's food, liquor, shower (with real hot water and soap), and books. He questions Shirl (Leigh Taylor-Young), an attractive 23 year old "concubine" (euphemistically known as "furniture") who comes with the apartment, and Simonson's bodyguard, Tab Fielding (Chuck Connors), who claims that he was told to escort Shirl on a shopping trip when the attack took place.

Returning to his apartment, Thorn gives Roth the Soylent Oceanographic Survey Report, 2015 to 2019, a two-volume work which he took from Simonson's apartment. Thorn returns to work and talks to his superior officer, Lieutenant Hatcher (Brock Peters), telling him that he suspects it may have been an assassination, since nothing was stolen from the apartment and the murder seemed professional. He finds it odd that the luxury apartment's sophisticated alarm and monitoring electronics happened to be inoperative on the night of the murder, and his bodyguard just happened to be out of the apartment at the time.

After questioning Fielding's live-in "furniture," Thorn returns to his own apartment to eat a meal of the purloined food, where Roth tells him that Simonson was a member of the board of directors of the Soylent Corporation. When he presents Roth with a spoon of strawberry jam surreptitiously palmed from Fielding's apartment, Roth tastes it and declares that Fielding's "furniture" is eating some "$150 a jar" strawberry jam, which is an out-of-place luxury for the mistress of a bodyguard. Thorn returns to question Shirl, who tells him that Simonson became deeply troubled in the days before his death, even taking her to church. Thorn later attempts to question the priest about Simonson's confession, but the priest is almost catatonic with exhaustion and has a hard time remembering Simonson, even though Simonson, as a rich man, would have stood out among the impoverished people who normally frequent the church. When the priest remembers Simonson, he tells Thorn the memory of what Simonson told him was haunting him, and is unable to describe what Simonson said to him. Fielding later murders the priest to ensure he never talks. After Thorn begins uncovering evidence as to why Simonson was murdered, New York State's Governor, Joseph Santini (Whit Bissell), who was once Simonson's partner in a high-profile law firm and who is running for re-election (as shown in the campaign posters on such walls as that of Hatcher's office), instructs Hatcher to close the investigation. However, Thorn continues his investigation into the murder. When Thorn is on riot duty during the distribution of rations, Simonson's murderer fires several shots at Thorn, but then the attacker is crushed under the "scoop" of a riot control vehicle.

Roth examines Soylent's oceanographic reports at the "Supreme Exchange," a library and gathering place for fellow "books." The "books" and Roth finally realize that the reports indicate a "horrible" truth which, despite reading it for themselves, they find nearly impossible to believe: Soylent Green isn't made from plankton, it's made from human bodies. Unable to live with what he has uncovered, Roth opts for assisted suicide at a government clinic in Madison Square Garden, which had been converted for mass euthanasia, a process referred to as "going home." As Roth is dying, he watches video clips of Earth long ago when animal (sheep, deer and horses) and plant life were thriving and there was no pollution, while listening to light classical music. Thorn forces the staff to allow him to see and talk to Roth. During Roth's final moments, he tells Thorn the secret of soylent green, and begs him to follow his body to the processing center, and report back to the "Supreme Exchange."

Thorn sneaks into the basement of the assisted suicide facility, where he sees corpses being loaded onto waste disposal trucks. He secretly hitches a ride on one, which is driven to a heavily guarded waste disposal plant. Once inside the plant, Thorn sees how the corpses are processed into Soylent Green wafers. Thorn escapes and heads for the "Supreme Exchange," but is ambushed by Fielding and several other gunmen. He retreats into a cathedral filled with homeless people. After a desperate fight through throngs of sleeping homeless, Thorn kills Fielding.

When police backup arrives, the seriously wounded and nearly hysterical Thorn confides to Hatcher the horrible secret behind Soylent Green, finally urging him to spread the word: "Soylent Green is PEOPLE!"

Dead Can Dance: Toward the Within directed by Mark Magidson

2012-02-01T13:38:00.000-05:00

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(WIKI) Toward the Within (1994) is the only official live album of Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard's group Dead Can Dance. It contains 15 songs, of which only four appeared on their previous albums, and two of which were later re-recorded and included on Lisa Gerrard's first solo album, The Mirror Pool. The others previously existed only in live performances and unofficial bootlegs, but were not officially released until Toward the Within. Along with Perry and Gerrard were a number of musicians who had performed with them on other occasions

Toward the Within was recorded in one take in November 1993 in the Mayfair Theatre in Santa Monica, California and was released by 4AD as an album and a video (VHS and Laserdisc) a year later. It was the last major event to take place in the Mayfair Theatre before it was severely damaged in the earthquake in January 1994 and had to be closed indefinitely. The video was filmed by Mark Magidson and contains interviews with Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry, as well a music video for "Yulunga (Spirit Dance)", composed of clips from the film Baraka.

While the CD functions as the soundtrack to the video, neither contain the entire show in itself. The CD lacks "Gloridean", as well as the song played over the ending credits of the video, and the video lacks "Persian Love Song" and concert footage of "Yulunga (Spirit Dance)".

In 2001, Toward the Within was re-released on DVD and included in the box-set Dead Can Dance (1981-1998). In addition to the original content, the DVD release contains a few extras: a discography, music videos for "Frontier", "The Protagonist", and "The Carnival Is Over", as well as a chapter from Baraka entitled "Calcutta Foragers/Homeless", which is set to Dead Can Dance's "The Host of Seraphim". In 2004, the DVD was released in a stand-alone package.

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger directed by Woody Allen

2012-02-01T13:00:00.001-05:00

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You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger is a 2010 English-language Spanish-American co-production comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen. It features Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Gemma Jones, Freida Pinto, and Naomi Watts. It premiered on 15 May 2010 at the Cannes Film Festival in an out-of-competition slot.

Alfie (Anthony Hopkins) and Helena (Gemma Jones) divorce. Helena begins seeing fortune teller Cristal (Pauline Collins). Their daughter Sally (Naomi Watts) has a troubled marriage with author Roy (Josh Brolin), who once wrote a successful book, and is now eagerly waiting for response from his publisher about the manuscript of his second one.

Alfie marries a prostitute, Charmaine (Lucy Punch). Roy falls for Dia (Freida Pinto), a musicologist he sees through a window near his and Sally’s flat, who is engaged to another man. Sally considers having an affair with Greg (Antonio Banderas), her new boss at an art gallery, but discovers that Greg is having an affair with an artist whom Sally introduced him to.

Roy's book is rejected. He hears that a friend, who is also a writer, has died in an accident, and of whom only Roy knows that he had just finished a manuscript that he had not shown to anyone else yet. Roy steals it, and claims it is his work. It is well received. He convinces Dia to break off her engagement, and moves in with her.

Alfie gets into financial trouble and worries about Charmaine's high expenses. He asks Helena to make a new start with him, but she refuses because she feels attracted to a keeper of a bookshop, a widower. Charmaine has sex with another man and gets pregnant. Alfie wants a DNA test to find out whether he is the father, while Charmaine argues that it does not matter.

Sally quits her job and asks Helena for a loan she promised, for setting up her own art gallery, but Helena refuses because according to Cristal it is astrologically a bad time. Sally is furious. Roy is informed that there was a mix-up of the persons killed in the accident, and is shocked to hear that the friend whose manuscript he stole is actually in coma and recovering.

In the end, all are dissatisfied with their choices, except for Helena. She has acquired from Cristal a belief in reincarnation, and sees her life now as only one episode in her series of lives. She starts a relationship with the keeper of the bookshop she met. He also has esoteric beliefs, and they have first received the blessing of his deceased wife for the new relationship.

Elle cause plus... elle flingue réalisé par Michel Audiard

2012-02-01T12:41:00.000-05:00

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(WIKI) Elle cause plus... elle flingue est un film français réalisé par Michel Audiard sorti en 1972. (WIKI)

Rosemonde, dite "la Princesse", règne sur un bidonville de la région parisienne. Herbert, un journaliste venu enquêter sur la pollution, se retrouve dans une machine à broyer. Rosemonde revend les os aux autorités ecclésiastiques qui s'en servent comme de saintes reliques. L'inspecteur Adrien Bondu est chargé de l'affaire...

Cent mille dollars au soleil (Greed in the Sun) réalisé par Henri Verneuil (fr. st eng.)

2012-02-01T11:25:00.000-05:00

(WIKI) Cent mille dollars au soleil est un film franco-italien réalisé par Henri Verneuil, sorti sur les écrans en 1964. Ce film est l'adaptation au cinéma du roman de Claude Veillot Nous n'irons pas en Nigéria.

Ce qui suit dévoile des moments clés de l’intrigue.

Dans un endroit indéterminé du sud marocain et du Sahara espagnol à l'approche des années 1960, Castagliano patron aux méthodes douteuses et surnommé « la Betterave » à cause de son diabète, dirige d'une main de fer une entreprise de transport routier dont les employés sont exploités. Il engage John Steiner, un routier américain pour conduire sur 2 000 km vers le sud, un véhicule articulé Berliet rouge flambant neuf, affrété d'un mystérieux chargement d'une valeur déclarée de 100 000 dollars.

Le camion excite la jalousie de tous les chauffeurs expérimentés mais le chargement attire en revanche la convoitise de Rocco, excellent camionneur. Lors d'une soirée arrosée entre chauffeurs, ce dernier réussit à duper Steiner et à partir à sa place à l'aube au volant du Berliet ; il récupère en sortant de la ville une jeune femme. Sorti de ses gonds, Castagliano renvoie violemment Steiner et lance Hervé Marec à la poursuite de Rocco, en échange d'une prime substantielle.

Peu après avoir quitté l'entreprise de transport de Castagliano, Steiner parvient à se faire prendre à bord par Marec, en lui proposant de se relayer mutuellement à la conduite de « son » camion. Marec accepte mais chasse sur-le-champ le convoyeur qui devait partir avec lui. Même si Rocco essaie de les retarder en montant contre eux les habitués du relais routier tenu par un certain Halibi, le camion de Marec est moins chargé que le sien et se rapproche petit à petit. Pourtant, divers aléas de la route les retardent, et envoient régulièrement le camion de Marec dans le décor : Rocco, le fech-fech... Mitch-Mitch, un autre camionneur, toujours plus goguenard, croise à chaque fois opportunément leur chemin au volant de son camion, et les tire d'affaire.

Au cours de la poursuite, on découvre que c'est Pepa qui a donné l'idée à Rocco de détourner le chargement. Après le franchissement d'une frontière pour prendre un raccourci, Marec comprend que Steiner, en plus d'être un chauffeur débutant et peu fiable est aussi un mercenaire, ancien haut responsable de la dictature récemment renversée, et qui lui a enlevé tout ce qu'il avait. Son vrai nom Peter Frocht est révélé sur une fiche de signalement lors d'un contrôle policier dans ce territoire étranger, contrôle qui a failli lui coûter la prison. Steiner quant à lui comprend que Marec, s'il met la main sur le chargement de Rocco, n'a absolument pas l'intention de retourner chez Castagliano et envisage de reprendre à son compte l'idée de Rocco.

À proximité du but, le camion de Rocco, endommagé par les accidents de terrain et de poursuite finit par tomber en panne. Il détourne alors le camion de Marec et blesse Steiner qui voulait s'y opposer. Marec propose à Rocco de faire la part à deux en souvenir du bon vieux temps, mais ce dernier refuse arguant que personne ne partage le pognon. Puis Rocco et Pepa repartent : Steiner et Marec regagnent la ville d'arrivée à pied, ce dernier abandonnera pourtant son compagnon de poursuite après lui avoir exprimé son plus profond mépris.

Steiner qui est désormais seul, prépare son départ pour le sud afin de reprendre son travail exclusif de mercenaire. Marec quant à lui, retrouve Rocco qui fait le joli cœur dans une maison close. Après un échange assez vif de coups entre eux, Rocco éclate de rire, et propose la part à deux précédemment refusée : sous les yeux de Marec, il partage la carte grise du Berliet en deux, en déclarant que Pepa s'est envolée avec le camion et la cargaison... Rocco et Marec finissent de se réconcilier entre les bras des dames de l'endroit.
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Greed in the Sun (French: Cent mille dollars au soleil) is a 1964 French comedy film directed by Henri Verneuil. It was entered into the 1964 Cannes Film Festival.

Bali, île mythique de l'Asie réalisé par Éric Barcos

2012-02-01T10:45:00.000-05:00

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À Bali, le Nouvel an est l'occasion de nombreuses cérémonies festives où s'allient musiques, danses et chants traditionnels.

Île touristique, Bali offre des paysages, des sites archéologiques, des temples, des saveurs et des arts originaux, appréciés des habitants comme des touristes...

Enquête d'Art: Paul Alexandre, De Profil, Une Pipe A La Main De Amedeo Modigliani réalisé par Laure Delalex

2012-02-01T10:29:00.000-05:00

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Ce film part sur les traces d'Amedeo Modigliani, ce célèbre artiste connu autant pour ses tableaux de femmes indolentes que pour sa vie tumultueuse et sa mort prématurée.
Le peintre italien incarne d'ailleurs aujourd'hui le mythe de l'artiste maudit, fauché par une tuberculose à l'orée de la gloire (et suivi dans la mort par sa compagne qui se suicidera en apprenant la nouvelle).

Le dessin qu'il fit en 1909 de Paul Alexandre, son ami et premier mécène, faisait partie de l'une des collections privées les plus secrètes du XXe siecle, et il est aujourd'hui la propriété du musée des Beaux-arts de Rouen.

A travers cette oeuvre, cette "enquête d'art" retrace le parcours chaotique de l'artiste italien, de Livourne ou il est né en 1884, jusqu'à son dernier atelier parisien, rue de la Grande Chaumière.

En suivant Modigliani dans ses pérégrinations parisiennes, et dans les nombreux ateliers où il logea, ce documentaire nous ouvre les portes des résidences d'artistes les plus célèbres de la capitale : le fameux Bateau Lavoir de Montmartre, ou Modigliani fréquente Picasso, mais aussi la cité Falguière ou encore la Ruche, qui connut les belles heures de Montparnasse.
Grâce au temoignage exceptionnel de la petite fille de Modigliani, ainsi que ceux des interlocuteurs et artistes qui font revivre le peintre, "Enquête d'art" nous plonge dans le quotidien de ces jeunes émigrés de l'Ecole de Paris qui vécurent la bohême parisienne du début du siècle.

Orient Occident réalisé par Enrico Fulchignoni

2012-01-31T22:07:00.003-05:00

A l'occasion d'une exposition de sculpture organisée au musée Cernuschi en 1959 sur le thème des rapports entre l'orient et l'occident à travers cinquante siècles d'art, Enrico FULCHIGNONI tente de montrer comment, à travers l'art égyptien, l'art grec a été influencé par les arts étrusques et orientaux. Le commentaire de Pierre HENRY dit par Pierre CHAMBON et les maniements de camera soulignent les ressemblances qui existent entre les diverses statuettes sculptées, au niveau des profils, des sourires, des attitudes. La musique originale de Iannis XENAKIS, douce, lente, lointaine, semble rendre hommage à ces civilisations disparues.

Czech Republic presentation at Expo 2010 directed by Lukas Fisarek & Marek Cimbalnik

2012-01-31T21:44:00.000-05:00

This experimental short film is based on the overall theme of the presentation of the Czech Republic at Expo 2010 which is the "Fruits of Civilisation". The Czech Republic is a place where unique approaches and original ideas have always been valued. Its' inhabitants do not transform their surroundings thoughtlessly but try to keep the cities and nature in balance and harmony, making use of their mutual potential and resulting in a functioning symbiosis. The Czechs are creating environments which bear a message to future generations. Thanks to new technologies and materials they manufacture products which are modern but acknowledge local and historical traditions.

L' art n'est point sans Soucy réalisé par Bruno Carrière, 1994, 53 min 35 s

2012-01-31T20:57:00.000-05:00

Long métrage documentaire sur Jean-Jules Soucy, artiste originaire La Baie au Lac-Saint-Jean, lequel possède une forte imagination et un grand sens de l’humour. Il utilise les objets de son quotidien – pelures d’oignons, serpillières industrielles, sacs en papier, cartons de lait – pour en faire des œuvres d’art rigolotes et lucides. Drôle d’artiste ou artiste drôle, Soucy aime les jeux de mots et les images qui font réfléchir aux (sérieux) problèmes socio-environnementaux.

Dutch Profiles: Powerhouse Company directed by Submarine

2012-01-31T20:49:00.000-05:00

In 2004 architects Nanne de Ru and Charles Bessard started up Powerhouse Company. Like the modernists of the 20th century, they believe architects should have a broad scope of expertise, from luxury villas to low-cost-housing. From public buildings to interior design, and furniture. For their first assignment, a private villa, they won the AM /NAi Prize for best building by architects under 40.

Powerhouse Company’s field of interest extends way beyond the realm of expensive villas. They also design low-cost-housing, like this apartment building in Almere. With these kinds of projects they often stumble upon investors who are not primarily concerned with the quality of living, but with the profitability of these projects as investment objects.

Dans le ventre du Moulin (The Image Mill Revealed) réalisé par Marie Belzil & Mariano Franco, 2009, 51 min 57 s

2012-01-31T20:39:00.000-05:00

Ce documentaire relate les trois derniers mois menant à la première du Moulin à images, un événement-spectacle unique au monde réalisé par le metteur en scène Robert Lepage et Ex Machina à l'occasion du 400e anniversaire de la fondation de la ville de Québec. Fresque historique monumentale, Dans le ventre du Moulin convie les spectateurs à une extraordinaire aventure artistique.
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This documentary describes the final 3 months leading up to the opening of Moulin à images, an impressionistic performance-event celebrating Quebec City's 400th anniversary. Director Robert Lepage works with a member of the Ex Machina team, leading a group of talented and creative young people who were invited to build this monumental panorama. This film by Mariano Franco and Marie Belzil demonstrates the scope of the Lepage project, highlighting the contribution of every artist. The Image Mill Revealed is an adventure in art for the viewing audience.

Dutch Profiles: Neutelings Riedijk Architecten directed by Submarine

2012-01-31T20:22:00.000-05:00

Architects Neutelings Riedijk design sculptural buildings with a powerful urban presence, often with striking facades as a result of well thought-out designs. Although they frequently cooperate with visual artists Neutelings Riedijk do not consider themselves to be artistic.

One of their most ingenious projects is The Netherlands Institute for Image and Sound. In this gigantic archive almost one million hours of Dutch radio and television footage is preserved. Part of this collection is presented in the accompanying museum. And scenes from famous TV shows are incorporated in its colourful glass façade, designed by artist Jaap Drupsteen.

Neutelings Riedijk hold an ambiguous position regarding their Dutch heritage. Although innovation is not a goal in itself, the results of their design process is often very surprising.

Klimt directed by Raoul Ruiz (eng. st esp.)

2012-01-31T20:13:00.002-05:00

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(WIKI) Klimt is a 2006 Austrian art-house biographical film about the life of the Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt (1862–1918). It was written and directed by Raoul Ruiz, with an English screenplay adaptation by Gilbert Adair. The director of photography was Ricardo Aronovich, and the music was composed by Jorge Arriagada. The title role was played by John Malkovich and the cast included Stephen Dillane. Both a 130 minute long director's cut and a shortened producer's cut of 96 minutes were shown at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival.

Klimt's life-story unfolds in the artist's mind as he lies dying of syphilis in a Viennese hospital where he is visited by his friend, Egon Schiele (Nikolai Kinski). Themes within the film include Klimt's platonic friendship with Emilie Floege (Veronica Ferres).[3] Much of the film is centred on Klimt's relationship with Lea de Castro (Saffron Burrows), a dancer to whom he is introduced by the film pioneer Georges Méliès.
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Retrato del artista austríaco Gustav Klimt, cuyos suntuosos y eróticos cuadros marcaron el estilo Art Nouveau de finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX.

Dutch Profiles: Benthem Crouwel Architects directed by Submarine

2012-01-31T19:56:00.001-05:00

For over 30 years, Mels Crouwel has been designing public buildings like railway stations, cultural and educational institutions and museums. He is an expert in restoring historical buildings, while at the same time, expanding them so they will fit the needs of the 21st century. The transformation of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam is one of his latest projects.

Although some of their buildings are pretty spectacular, Benthem Crouwel Architects are not primarily after sensation and extravagance. Their main goal is to create environments where people enjoy coming together in an efficient way.

The Fourth Dimension directed by Zbigniew Rybczynski

2012-01-31T19:42:00.000-05:00

In The Fourth Dimension, Rybczynski discovered that the raw material he was working with was not made up of dots, but lines. Lines whose center, as Deleuze would say, quoting Leibniz, •is never a part, but a simple extremity of the line.ê Lines whose êsmallest element is not the dot, but the rhizome.ê [Ä] With the help of a computer programmed to re-film an image 480 times, line by line, Rybczynski folds the bodies and the backgrounds infinitely. He unfolds time in space (the matter-fold is matter time, explains Deleuze): each line, at most, could belong to a different time. Swirling lenses, dizzying twists, inverted plaits, entangle themselves before our bewildered eyes [Ä]. The Fourth Dimension begins with a reference to the Bible: a large open book unfolds its wings, wrapping itself around a candle, a symbol of the primordial light, born of the word Creatoress (And God saidÄ Let there be lightÄ). Then a primitive mass, which unfolds itself slowly. Later, a man walks around a rock. The woman around the man. Then the light (neon filaments) around the original couple. Soon afterwards, their twists conjure up serpentine movements, hence the Evil One, he who divides. And the apple of betrayal, in a corner of the frame, shows that we have not made a mistake, that we have returned to the earlier era of the original sin.”

Le quattro volte diretto da Michelangelo Frammartino

2012-01-31T19:23:00.000-05:00

(WIKI) Le quattro volte è un film del 2010 scritto e diretto da Michelangelo Frammartino.

È stato presentato nella Quinzaine des réalisateurs del Festival di Cannes 2010.

Il film è diviso in tre parti:

La prima parte è su un vecchio pastore, che è molto malato e crede di aver trovato un rimedio nella polvere dal pavimento della chiesa.

La seconda parte è uno studio di un capretto, dalla sua nascita in poi.

La terza parte è uno studio di un abete, in quanto è abbattuto da visualizzare nella piazza del paese e viene successivamente trasformato in carbone di legna per i fuochi della gente del luogo.

Un dimanche à la campagne (A Sunday in the Country) réalisé par Bertrand Tavernier (fr. st eng.)

2012-01-31T19:00:00.000-05:00

(WIKI) Un dimanche à la campagne est un film français réalisé par Bertrand Tavernier, sorti en 1984 et adapté du roman de Pierre Bost, Monsieur Ladmiral va bientôt mourir.

De nombreuses scènes d'Un dimanche à la campagne font référence à l'univers impressionniste. Auguste Renoir, Au jardin-sous la tonnelle au moulin de la galette (1876).

Un dimanche de la fin d'été 1912. M. Ladmiral est un peintre sans réel génie, au crépuscule de sa vie. Depuis la mort de sa femme, il vit seul avec Mercédès, sa domestique. Comme tous les dimanches, il accueille Édouard, son fils, un garçon rangé, épris d'ordre et de bienséance, accompagné de son épouse, Marie-Thérèse et de leurs trois enfants, Émile, Lucien et Mireille. Ce jour-là, Irène, la sœur d’Édouard et jeune femme énergique et anti-conformiste, vient bousculer ce paisible rituel.
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A Sunday in the Country (French: Un dimanche à la campagne) is a 1984 French film directed by Bertrand Tavernier.

In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so often... An intimist chronicle in which what is not shown, what is guessed, is more important than how it looks, dealing with what each character expects of life.

Les Ripoux (My New Partner) réalisé par Claude Zidi (fr. st eng.)

2012-01-31T18:54:00.000-05:00

(WIKI) Les Ripoux est un film français sorti en 1984 de Claude Zidi.

René est un "flic" à l'ancienne, qui évolue comme chez lui dans le milieu des prostituées et des truands. Il a compris qu'on pouvait en arriver à des arrangements avec le "milieu". Mais, un beau matin, on envoie à René un nouveau co-équipier : François, fringant jeune homme, tout frais venu de sa province et de l'école de Police. René voit cette association d'un mauvais oeil et confie très vite ses soucis à sa meilleure amie, Simone, une ancienne prostituée au coeur tendre, avec laquelle René se voit très bien finir ses jours. Aussi ils mettent le jeune policier dans les bras de Natacha, une jolie call-girl qui va effectivement réussir à leur changer le bonhomme. François, très amoureux, commence à modifier son "look" : il troque son costume trois pièces contre le blouson de cuir et le jean. Et, peu à peu, c'est François qui va aller beaucoup plus loin que René : et il lui montrera que compromission pour compromission, il fallait jouer gros. Il lui propose alors d'intercepter un gros magot dans une affaire de drogue. Finalement René accepte et réussit au nez de la police à anéantir les gangsters. François s'enfuira avec le magot. De par son attitude René sera arrêté, jugé et emprisonné. Il pense avoir été trahi, mais François, Natacha et Simone, l'attendront à sa sortie de prison, dans une calèche attelée à un magnifique trotteur pour l'emmener au bar dont il avait rêvé.
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My New Partner is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Claude Zidi, starring Philippe Noiret and Thierry Lhermitte. Noiret plays a streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them to continue. At the start of the film, his partner is busted for corruption and he narrowly escapes. He is assigned an idealistic new partner fresh from police academy. He sets out to corrupt his new partner and, after a slow start, succeeds spectacularly.

The original French title is Les Ripoux, which can be translated as "The rotten cops". The term is verlan, a type of slang where syllables of words are pronounced backwards. "Ripoux" is an inversion of "pourris", which means "rotten". The film is also known as Le Cop. It won the César Award for Best Film in 1985. Two sequels were later made: Ripoux contre Ripoux and Ripoux 3.