29 September 2013
Alice Guy-Blaché - Falling Leaves (1912)
Falling
Leaves is
a 1912 American film by Alice Guy-Blaché. It was produced by Solax Studios when
it was based in Flushing, New York at
the beginning of the 20th century. The 2004 National Film Preservation Foundation restored
print runs 12 minutes.
27 September 2013
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova - on a hunger strike since 23d of September 2013
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/sep/23/pussy-riot-hunger-strike-nadezhda-tolokonnikova
24 September 2013
Femicine: Mania Akbari - In my country men have breasts
Femicine: Mania Akbari - In my country men have breasts: Akbari was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 and she lost her breasts due to the cancer. After she directed, wrote and acted 10+4 which s...
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13 September 2013
Mania Akbari - In my country men have breasts
Akbari was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 and she lost her breasts due to the cancer. After she directed, wrote and acted 10+4 which showed her struggle with the cancer, the depiction of the artist's body became central in her works. In the same year, Akbari photographed her own naked body for the photo project titled Devastation. Although it was pretty risky, put herself in danger and prohibited to exhibit Devastation in Iran due to the naked images of her own body, Akbari continued to depict her own body as a new medium and new material so that she provided a video secretly as well.
In 2012,after Akbari left Iran due to the barred situation of filmmaking and arresting film makers, she uses the video that shoot secretly from her own body in 2007 and juxtaposed with new images and the song of Ahangaran, who was a singer for the war time between Iran and Iraq. As a result of her action and performance, the video project titled In my country, Men Do Have Breasts happened. For Akbari, the aim of this video project is a protest in relation to the current political situation between Iran, United State, and Israel, the war in Middle East, and also the corrupted atmosphere inside of Iran.
In my country, Men Have Breast evokes the relationship between the devastating memory of war and the memory of the woman who lost part of her body due to ravages of cancer. The video highlights the symbolic connection between war, as a cancer, and the scars it bears on society. The metaphor also extends as a comparison between individual and society; the interaction of collective and personal memory of the war and death. The song over the video is by Ahangran, a singer whose voice has a heavy tone that symbolizes the massacre and death of the soldiers in the war of Iran and Iraq. This song is part of a difficult collective memory of the Iranian people during ten years of war.
In 2012,after Akbari left Iran due to the barred situation of filmmaking and arresting film makers, she uses the video that shoot secretly from her own body in 2007 and juxtaposed with new images and the song of Ahangaran, who was a singer for the war time between Iran and Iraq. As a result of her action and performance, the video project titled In my country, Men Do Have Breasts happened. For Akbari, the aim of this video project is a protest in relation to the current political situation between Iran, United State, and Israel, the war in Middle East, and also the corrupted atmosphere inside of Iran.
In my country, Men Have Breast evokes the relationship between the devastating memory of war and the memory of the woman who lost part of her body due to ravages of cancer. The video highlights the symbolic connection between war, as a cancer, and the scars it bears on society. The metaphor also extends as a comparison between individual and society; the interaction of collective and personal memory of the war and death. The song over the video is by Ahangran, a singer whose voice has a heavy tone that symbolizes the massacre and death of the soldiers in the war of Iran and Iraq. This song is part of a difficult collective memory of the Iranian people during ten years of war.
Barbara Hammer - Nitrate Kisses (1992)
Nitrate Kisses is a 1992 experimental documentary film directed by Barbara Hammer. According to Hammer, it is an exploration of the repression and marginalization of LGBT people since the First World War.
12 September 2013
10 September 2013
Alice Guy-Blaché - La Vie du Christ
07 September 2013
04 September 2013
Leni Riefenstahl - Triumph of the Will (1932)
Triumph of the Will (German: Triumph des Willens) is a 1935 film made by Leni Riefenstahl. It chronicles the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg. The film contains excerpts from speeches given by various Nazi leaders at the Congress, including portions of speeches by Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, and Julius Streicher interspersed with footage of massed Sturmabteilung and Schutzstaffel troops. Hitler commissioned the film and served as an unofficial executive producer; his name appears in the opening titles. The overriding theme of the film is the return of Germany as a great power, with Hitler as the leader who will bring glory to the nation. The film was made after the Night of the Long Knives so many prominent SA members are absent, having been murdered in 1934. Triumph of the Will became an example of propaganda in film history. Riefenstahl's techniques, such as moving cameras, the use of long focus lenses to create a distorted perspective, aerial photography, and revolutionary approach to the use of music and cinematography, have earned Triumph of the Will recognition as one of the greatest films in history. Riefenstahl won several awards, not only in Germany but also in the United States, France, Sweden, and other countries. The film was popular in the Third Reich, and has continued to influence movies, documentaries, and commercials to this day.
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