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Various |
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Dance for Camera |
| Label: |
First Run Features |
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DVD |
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39 euro |
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Selected from festivals in Europe and North America, and winners of over 17 international awards, these six dance films present an array of humor, drama, beauty and rhythm not usually seen on film or stage.
Films Include:
REINES D'UN JOUR, Switzerland, 26 minutes
Choreographer: Marie Nespolo, Christine Kung; Director: Pascal Magnin
MEASURE, United States, 7 minutes
Choreographer: Dayna Hanson; Directors: Gaelen Hanson and Danya Hanson
REST IN PEACE, UK & Netherlands, 9 minutes
Choreographer: Hans Hof Ensemble; Director: Annick Vroom; Producer: Rodney Wilson
A VILLAGE TRILOGY, Canada, 24 minutes
Choreographer and Director: Laura Taler
CORNERED, Canada, 5 minutes
Producer/director/choreographer: Michael Downing
CONTRECOUP, Switzerland, 24 minutes
Choreography: Guilherme Botelho; Director: Pascal Magnin
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| Artist: |
FJELLESTAD, HANS |
| Title: |
Moog: A Documentary Film |
| Label: |
PLEXIFILM |
| Format: |
DVD |
| Price: |
27 euros |
| Catalog #: |
PLEX 018DVD |
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"Moog, the new documentary about Robert Moog, inventor of the modern synthesizer, is a portrait of the legendary figure in music and technology and his ideas about creativity, design, interactivity, spirituality and his collaborations with musicians over the years. Moog was directed by Hans Fjellestad and produced by Fjellestad and Ryan Page, who collaborated on Frontier Life (2002), a film about Tijuana, Mexico, and its burgeoning electronic dance music scene. Permanently changing the face of music, the 'Moog synthesizer' went from being the centerpiece of a late-'60s craze -- appearing on records with such titles as 'Spotlight on the Moog,' 'Moog Power,' 'Music to Moog By,' 'Country Moog,' 'Moog Indigo,' 'Exotic Moog' and countless others -- to an indispensable instrument for progressive rock bands like Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Yes to pre-dating the electronic dance music movement of today. Moog explains that he 'can feel what's going on in a piece of electronic equipment ... it's something between discovering and witnessing.' And he is convinced that many musicians come to 'feel' a circuit in a similar way. In fact, musicians make such strong emotional connections with the electronics inside a Moog synthesizer that the inventor himself has reached cult hero status. The film was shot on location in Asheville, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tokyo and London, featuring appearances by Keith Emerson, Walter Sear, Gershon Kinsgley, Jean-Jacques Perrey & Luke Vibert, Rick Wakeman, DJ Spooky, Herb Deutsch, Bernie Worrell, Pamelia Kurstin, Tino Corp. with Charlie Clouser, Money Mark, Mix Master Mike, and an eclectic mix of performers. Artists such as Stereolab, Meat Beat Manifesto, Tortoise, Money Mark, Luke Vibert & Jean-Jacques Perrey, 33, Moog Cookbook, Plastiq Phantom, Psilonaut, Bernie Worrell & Bootsy Collins, Roger O'Donnell, The Album Leaf, Pete Devriese, Bostich, Charlie Clouser, Baiyon, Suzanne Ciani, Gershon Kingsley, Doug McKechnie, Electric Skychurch and others contributed original music produced on Moog instruments for the soundtrack." Specs: 70 minutes, color, super 16mm, 1.78:1 (original ratio). NTSC Region 0.
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LAETITIA BOURGET + FREDERIC NOGRAY |
| Title: |
Cultures/paysages |
| Label: |
Optical sound |
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DVD |
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39 euros |
| Catalog #: |
0S001DVD |
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«What is happening with these faces, tainted with sad patience, pitted with mould ?
And then with that travelling, slowly withdrawing from them?
All those stains are not abstract eruptions, but how to say ? palpable peels of time, visible (maybe measurable) curves of time.
Time is thick and Laëtitia Bourget’s work makes one feel that strange sedimentation.»
Stéphanie Eligert about Cultures-paysages
Laëtitia Bourget’s artwork springs from various forms of productions : video, photo, edition, installation, intervention, sculpture, painting… it develops mainly around problematics of the physical and the existential (integrity of the body, its materiality and precariousness, alterity, the fact of being in life, understanding one’s own disappearance…) but also proceeds from questioning the relationships in peculiar social contexts (the making of an exposition, work space, urban contexts, and public space).
Cultures have been produced with found slides, picked up in the streets. For some of them, the emulsion has been slowly altered by moisture and mildew, and for the others, through a more corrosive way by using an alimentary compost, even to get t o the vanishing of the initial picture.
Thus, the pictures are given a kind of depth through transformation, by introducing a third dimension. The picture looks like incarnated and induced in a duration, which is the very process of it’s transformation. The DVD edition of that installation is from 2004.
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METRONOMIC&CO / French animated shorts #1 DVD (Lowave) 29 euros
An epic collection of 11 extraordinary animated shorts like you've never seen before, created by a collective of rebellious directors beyond definition ... Careful, perhaps you are not ready for such an experience... But at night, far from your bosses prying eye or those of your mom, you will discover true happiness. And you will laugh.
11 Film(s), 4 Bonus Film(s), runtime 60 minutes, PAL/NTSC, ALL ZONES, stereo, 4:3
Languages: French English
Subtitles: English French German Spanish Japanese |
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| Artist: |
Osvaldo Cavandoli |
| Title: |
La linea vol. 1-2-3 |
| Label: |
Monitorpop |
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3x1 DVD |
| Price: |
27 euros each |
| Catalog #: |
MPE-DVD04 / 05 / 06 |
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Anyone out there who doesn’t remember this permanently babbling “line manikin” who, as a 70’s breaktime diversion, regularly popped up during early evening TV broadcasts, cinema screenings and advertising?
Christened “la linea” by its creator, the Italian cartoonist Osvaldo Cavandoli, the tiny choleric became the star of la linea, a great moment in the Italian animation school of “fumetto”. But despite its high recognition value, little has been published on this cartoon series - at least not outside of its country of origin.
Cavandoli, a resident of Milan since the age of two, started out as a technical designer for Alfa Romeo between 1938 and 1943. In 1944 he developed a keen interest for animation whilst working in the studio of animation pioneer Nino Pagot. By 1950 he had become an independent director and producer of a puppet animation for cinema advertising. In 1969 the budget by Lagostina, a manufacturer of kitchen utensils, turned out to be la linea’s midwife.
The series became a resounding success, both commercially and artistically. As part of light entertainment programming more than 100 different episodes began their triumphal procession across the television screens of 40 different nations. Besides, Cavandoli created numerous commercials, five books, hundreds of illustrations for magazines, calendars, posters etc. and the animations received illustrious awards at international festivals, amongst others ”best drawn animation” in Annecy (1972), Zagreb (1973) and “Pulcinella Award to the Career” in Positano (2002). Soon it was Cavandoli himself who handed out the trophies: as member of the jury at cartoon and animation festivals or as a honorary citizen of the City of Milan.
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