Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Mamers Valles, Mars
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Monday, November 2, 2009
Zimoun: Sound Sculptures & Installations
more info at http://www.zimoun.ch/
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Man on Wire
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Sunday, October 18, 2009
The Cause of Imagination
If you've ever wondered what the inside of the Spaceship on Monta Vista Blvd. looks like, this is your chance to find out. Architect Bart Prince takes you on a tour of his home and studio, and discusses the intentions behind some of his most innovative and ambitious works. This is a fascinating look at a little of the private life of the highly regarded and internationally known architect who makes his home in New Mexico. Orginally broadcast on New Mexico PBS station KNME.
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Exile in Buyukada
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Friday, October 2, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Toshimaru Nakamura

Various Tracks from Improvised Music from Japan
No-input mixing board player
Toshimaru Nakamura has been producing electronic music on self-named "no-input mixing board," after long unhappy years with the electric guitar. The name describes the method of his music. "No" external sound source is connected to "inputs" of the "mixing board." Mostly an improviser, occasionally a composer for dancers, an instrumentalist for compositions.
Nimb 19.1
Nimb 19-1
Oosslloo
>> video Sachiko M & Toshimaru Nakamura
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Monday, September 14, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Baadeh Sabah by Albert Lamorisse
"A well- known French filmmaker, Albert Lamorisse, under the aus- pices of Iran's Ministry of Culture and Art, produced the poetic film "Lovers' Wind" (1969). Eighty-five percent of this dramatically visual film is shot from a helicopter, providing a kaleidoscopic view of the vast expanses, natural beauty, historical monuments, cities and villages of Iran. The "narrators" of the film are the various winds (the warm, crimson, evil and lovers' winds), which accord- ing to folklore, inhabit Iran. They sweep the viewers from place to place across the Iranian landscape, introducing the incredible variety of life and scenery in Iran. The camera, defying gravity, with smoothness and agility, provides a bird's eye view, caressing minarets and domes, peek- ing over mountain tops beyond, gliding over remote villages to reveal the life enclosed within the high mud-brick walls, bouncing along with the local wildlife, following the rhyth- mic, sinuous flow of the oil pipelines and train tracks, and hovering over the mirror-like nmosaic of the rice paddies that reflect the clouds and sky. The film is a testimonial to the Iranian landscape and people over which so many dynasties and kings have ruled and have, in turn, passed away. Ironically, on the tenth anniversarv of the completion of the film, yet another seem- ingly powerful dynasty (Pahlavi) has fallen, leaving, as the film points out, the land and the migrating tribal nomads who have survived more or less intact for centuries. Upon completion of the film, the Ministry of Culture and Art decided that Lamorisse had not sufficiently emphasized the industrialization of Iran. So he was called back to film additional sequences documenting that progress. This task was never completed, because the helicopter crashed while filming the Karaj Dam near Tehran, plunging Lamorisse and his crew to their deaths. This film, whose storybrook style of narration is often contrived, does not purport to be a social document on Iran; nevertheless, it has never been shown publicly in theaters in Iran." ºº -- Hamid Naficy
recommended as well:
Claude LeLouch - Iran
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