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In the Parque del Retiro (Retiro’s Park) in Madrid, Ines Sastre runs to meet Javier Bardem who is waiting for her with his arms wide open and they embrace one another in a passionate kiss. This only one shot which lasts one minute twenty seconds is subjected to a hundred and thirteen changes for one hour and seventeen minutes. “I wanted to exhaust the possibilities of changing a shot by changing the music, the colours, by burning it, by making some holes…” remembers Aguirre; “sometimes, the heads are not visible, or we can only see her legs, or the image seems to be scrapped off”… /… the variations of this shot are preceded by the ones of another couple taken in the beach of La Concha in San Sebastian that maybe acts as a suggestion of a merely real support for this ideal meeting. The images are accompanied by not only Borges’ voice-over but also Fernando Fernan-Gomez and Francisco Rabal’s voices-over among some not so well-known other voices …/ … disparate prints, sometimes unpredictable, that Borges’ literature proposed to moviemakers of this period and from distant cultures. It is the disparity of Javier Aguirre’s experimentation along with the contradiction that seems us so provocative.
Alas, I cannot find this film online, or even any clips. But I felt WU-vies should know about it, in case any art-house showing appears in your neighborhood, or you find it on disc, or on streaming!
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 06, 2019 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Movies, Avant Garde, Twenty-first Century, Love & Romance
The Magic Egg
State-of-the-art CGI--in 1984, that is!
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 03, 2019 -
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Category: Movies, Special Effects, 1980s
Telephones
The term "supercut" did not exist in 1995 when Christian Marclay created this video.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 22, 2019 -
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Category: Movies, Avant Garde, Telephones, 1990s
Flying Saucers Over Istanbul
Essay with many still photos here.
IMDB page.
Another short clip here via Facebook.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 12, 2019 -
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Category: Feminism, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Robots, 1950s
Possibly in Michigan
A recent article in the NY Times describes how artist Cecelia Condit’s weirdo 1983 short video “Possibly in Michigan” is finding a new audience via social media site Tik Tok.At the time of writing, the #PossiblyInMichigan hashtag on TikTok had over 12 million views. The video’s YouTube upload had over 750,000 views, while another recently deleted excerpt had around 875,000. “This is a wild time in my life — you couldn’t predict it,” Condit said. “It’s funny, I don’t have a gallery, I don’t have those things, but the internet has been,”— and here she interrupted herself — “I get so many hits,” she concluded.
Condit describes her video as “A musical horror story about two young women who are stalked through a shopping mall by a the cannibal named Arthur.”
Posted By: Alex - Sun Nov 10, 2019 -
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Category: Movies, Outsider Art, 1980s
Mystery Illustration 87
Two of the biggest stars of Hollywood's Golden Age. Can you possibly tell who, from this off-model illo?
Answer is here (page 12).
Or after the jump.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 18, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies
The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 15, 2019 -
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Category: Dreams and Nightmares, Movies, Special Effects, Surrealism, 1900s
Nude on the Moon
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 05, 2019 -
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Category: Movies, Exploitation and Grindhouse, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, Avant Garde, Public Indecency, 1960s
Dark Side of the Rainbow
For those who may not have heard of this classic urban legend of music, Jan Dirk Blom provides this explanation in his Dictionary of Hallucinations:The term Dark Side of the Rainbow denotes a peculiar pattern of thematic similarities that can be discerned while one is watching The Wizard of Oz while simultaneously listening to The Dark Side of the Moon. With the aid of this somewhat unusual procedure, over a hundred instances of perceived interplay have been reported by fans.
It is not known who first established this pattern of thematic similarities, but from 1994 onwards it was widely discussed on internet sites such as the Usenet message board alt.music.pink-floyd and in the popular media.
As the Pink Floyd band members (save Roger Waters) have always denied deliberate attempts to synchronize their album with the movie, the Dark Side of the Rainbow is commonly designated as a cognitive illusion and attributed to a process called apophenia, i.e. an excess of perceptual or heuristic sensitivity leading to the discernment of patterns or connections in random or meaningless data.
It is not known who first established this pattern of thematic similarities, but from 1994 onwards it was widely discussed on internet sites such as the Usenet message board alt.music.pink-floyd and in the popular media.
As the Pink Floyd band members (save Roger Waters) have always denied deliberate attempts to synchronize their album with the movie, the Dark Side of the Rainbow is commonly designated as a cognitive illusion and attributed to a process called apophenia, i.e. an excess of perceptual or heuristic sensitivity leading to the discernment of patterns or connections in random or meaningless data.
If you're curious to experience this phenomenon for yourself, someone has helpfully posted the entirety of the Wizard of Oz on YouTube, synced to Dark Side of the Moon.
Though this raises the biggest problem with the theory: Dark Side of the Moon is about 43 minutes long, while the Wizard of Oz is over an hour long. In the video below, this is solved by simply looping the album.
Some of the synchronicities to look for:
2:20 Look for a triangle hanging in the tree, that looks kinda like the triangle on the cover of Dark Side of the Moon.
8:03 Bells start playing just as Margaret Hamilton (the Wicked Witch) rides onscreen, ringing the bell of her bicycle.
19:34 The song 'Money' starts playing when Dorothy first lays eyes on the Yellow Brick Road, which was often seen as a metaphor for bricks of gold, or money.
29:10 When the Wicked Witch, dressed in black, appears out of a cloud of smoke, the lyrics say "black, black, black..."
37:15 As Dorothy is first talking to the Scarecrow, and (in the movie) he begins singing "If I only had a brain," the song "Brain Damage" starts to play.
42:30 When Dorothy meets the Tin Man and bangs on his chest to listen for his heart, the album ends and fades to a heartbeat sound.
More info: Wikipedia
Posted By: Alex - Fri Oct 04, 2019 -
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Category: Movies, Music, Synchronicity and Coincidence
Charles Bowers
And one more.
His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 29, 2019 -
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Category: Movies, Cartoons, Stop-motion Animation, Special Effects, Outsider Art, Surrealism, Twentieth Century
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