29 March 2013
19 March 2013
26 February 2013
25 February 2013
21 February 2013
07 January 2013
Shirley Clarke - Bridges-Go-Round (1958)
Clarke's film Bridges Go-Round (1959) is a major example of abstract expressionism in film, with two alternative soundtracks, one with electronic music by Louis and Bebe Barron and the other consisting of jazz created by Teo Macero. She used the camera to create a sense of motion while filming inanimate structures.
04 January 2013
03 January 2013
Shirley Clarke - Portrait of Jason (1967)
Portrait of Jason is a 1967 documentary film directed, produced and edited by Shirley Clarke and starring Jason Holliday (1924-1998).
A gay, African-American hustler and aspiring cabaret performer, Jason is the sole on-screen presence in the film. He narrates his troubled life story to the camera, behind which Clarke and her partner at the time, actor Carl Lee, provoke and berate Jason with increasing hostility as the film progresses. The film employs avant-garde and cinéma vérité techniques to reach the tragedy underlying Jason's theatrical, exaggerated persona.
10 December 2012
22 November 2012
19 November 2012
03 October 2012
13 September 2012
Shirley Clarke - Skyscraper (1959)
She received an Academy Award nomination for Skyscraper (1960). Mainly shot in 1958, the short film captures the construction of 666 Fifth Avenue which began in 1957. The 20-minute film also includes shots of the Roxy Theatre which was demolished the year Skyscraper was released. In 1959, it won the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
03 August 2012
28 July 2012
25 July 2012
Claire Denis - Identity and Environment, Strangers and Nationality
Claire Denis talking about narrative construction, multiple narratives, identity, clichés, 'walls' and borders, nationality, strangers, outsiders, immigration, nomads, wanderers, gender, suicide Rear Window and White Material; lecturing on and revealing the methodology of narration, and cultural anthropology in cinema. Public lecture open for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2010 Claire Denis.
More on: http://www.egs.edu/
More on: http://www.egs.edu/
23 July 2012
Forugh Farrokhzad - The house is black (1962)
The House is black (1962) is a documentary of a leper colony in the north of Iran.
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