Thursday 7 June 2012



Stealing Beauty (Trailer), 2007
Guy Ben-Ner

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Alive by Margarita Athansiou

Alive - Episode 03:




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This got me thinking about Claudia Sola's piece Being There, 2007
Which I saw in the From Here On show at Les Recontres d'Arles, 2011
You can see the first few minutes of this piece here:
http://claudiasola.org/custom/films/work.php?work=beingthere1
It's a real shame not to be able to see the whole piece, and I kind of feel you miss the point because of this - this is work that will shake you to the core whether its on a laptop screen or projected on a big screen, with deafening surround sound. Seeing this piece transform (in front of) me, from a  kind of digital white-noise imagery to something so profoundly moving and spiritual that I felt it bordered on violation.

(this was definitely a high point of the festival, along with the film screened next door, Girls / Room / Dance by Cum* Collective - can't find this online)

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The Mood of the Moment by Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries
http://www.yhchang.com/MOOD_OF_THE_MOMENT.html

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Venus de Gummy

By Brian Khek




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And finally
In 1982 three 12 year old boys started working on a shot-for-shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark
Seven summers later they had finished
Here you can see the first ten minutes of the film