Originally published as "Cinéma(s) de l'histoire: Dark Rooms, Speaking Objects, More than Film: Gustav Deutsch as a Museum Maker" (2009). Translated from the German by Renée von Paschen. The essay was first published in the book Gustav Deutsch, edited by Wilbirg Brainin-Donnenberg and Michael Loebenstein, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen, Vienna 2009. Above: Gustav Deutsch.In the course of the European Cultural Project Light/Image/Reality, a camera obscura was built on the Greek Island of Aegina in 2003. Those responsible were Gustav Deutsch (idea/concept), Franz Berzl (architecture) and Gavrilos Michalis (realization). It is a cylindrical building with twelve small openings evenly allocated on its perimeter. When they are opened, the light from the surroundings is reflected in the building onto twelve screens, which are suspended from the ceiling in a circle. These natural projections result in a twelve-part panoramic view of the surroundings, mirror-inverted and upside down. The building was erected on the foundation...
- 11/6/2019
- MUBI
Part One of this series is about the origin of the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema (Rbmc). Part Two covers all the screenings in 1998.
Continuing into 1999 at the Collective Unconscious theater space in NYC, the Rbmc — co-programmed by Brian L. Frye and Bradley Eros — went on hiatus for the first week of the year, but resumed on January 12. Below is a list of screenings from then until a May 18 event that celebrated the Rbmc’s first full year of existence.
The films and filmmakers selected to screen by Frye and Eros represent an interesting time in the sphere of avant-garde and experimental cinema. Up until this point, there seemed to be a distinct separation between the formal style of, say, structuralism, and the more raucous, punk rock world of the “underground.” However, in the 1990s, these two worlds appear to be colliding. The Rbmc seemed just as content screening Hollis Frampton‘s Critical Mass (Feb.
Continuing into 1999 at the Collective Unconscious theater space in NYC, the Rbmc — co-programmed by Brian L. Frye and Bradley Eros — went on hiatus for the first week of the year, but resumed on January 12. Below is a list of screenings from then until a May 18 event that celebrated the Rbmc’s first full year of existence.
The films and filmmakers selected to screen by Frye and Eros represent an interesting time in the sphere of avant-garde and experimental cinema. Up until this point, there seemed to be a distinct separation between the formal style of, say, structuralism, and the more raucous, punk rock world of the “underground.” However, in the 1990s, these two worlds appear to be colliding. The Rbmc seemed just as content screening Hollis Frampton‘s Critical Mass (Feb.
- 6/17/2018
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
British distributor Eureka! Entertainment has announced the launch of Montage Pictures, a new world cinema sub-label focusing on contemporary works by new and upcoming filmmakers from around the world. Five titles have been announced so far - Kills on Wheels (2016, Attila Till, Hungary), Strangled (2016, Árpád Sopsits, Hungary), Shirley: Visions of Reality (2013, Gustav Deutsch, Austria), Rescue Under Fire [Zona Hostil] (2017, Adolfo Martínez Pérez, Spain) and Suntan (2016, Argyris Papadimitropoulos, Greece), which recently enjoyed a theatrical run in the UK and will be the label’s debut release, in a dual format (Blu-ray & DVD) edition on 4 September 2017. Eureka! is already the home of the much-revered Masters of Cinema series, which has showcased a number of contemporary world...
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- 6/17/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Films from Ron Howard, Lee Daniels, the Coens, Steve McQueen and Alexander Payne in the line-up of the cinematography festival.
Camerimage, the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography now in its 21st edition, today revealed the line-up of films selected for the festival’s main competition.
The entries are:
Burning Bush, Agnieszka Holland (Cz Rep)
Cinematographer: Martin Strba
Concrete Night, Pirjo Honkasalo (Fin-Swe-Den)
Cinematographer: Peter Flinckenberg
Heli, Amat Escalante (Mex-Fra-Ger-Neth)
Cinematographer: Lorenzo Hagerman
Home from Home (Die andere Heimat – Chronik einer Sehcsucht), Edgar Reitz (Ger-Fra)
Cinematographer: Gernot Roll
Ida, Paweł Pawlikowski (Pol-Den)
Cinematographers: Łukasz Żal, Ryszard Lenczewski
Inside Llewyn Davis, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (Us-Fra)
Cinematographer: Bruno Delbonnel
Lee Daniels’ The Butler, Lee Daniels (Us)
Cinematographer: Andrew Dunn
Life Feels Good (Chce sie zyc), Maciej Pieprzyca (Pol)
Cinematographer: Paweł Dyllus
Mary Queen of Scots, Thomas Imbach (Swi-Fra)
Cinematographer: Rainer Klausmann
Nebraska, Alexander Payne (Us)
Cinematographer: Phedon Papamichael
Paradise for the Damned, Alejandro Montiel (Arg)
Cinematographer:...
Camerimage, the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography now in its 21st edition, today revealed the line-up of films selected for the festival’s main competition.
The entries are:
Burning Bush, Agnieszka Holland (Cz Rep)
Cinematographer: Martin Strba
Concrete Night, Pirjo Honkasalo (Fin-Swe-Den)
Cinematographer: Peter Flinckenberg
Heli, Amat Escalante (Mex-Fra-Ger-Neth)
Cinematographer: Lorenzo Hagerman
Home from Home (Die andere Heimat – Chronik einer Sehcsucht), Edgar Reitz (Ger-Fra)
Cinematographer: Gernot Roll
Ida, Paweł Pawlikowski (Pol-Den)
Cinematographers: Łukasz Żal, Ryszard Lenczewski
Inside Llewyn Davis, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (Us-Fra)
Cinematographer: Bruno Delbonnel
Lee Daniels’ The Butler, Lee Daniels (Us)
Cinematographer: Andrew Dunn
Life Feels Good (Chce sie zyc), Maciej Pieprzyca (Pol)
Cinematographer: Paweł Dyllus
Mary Queen of Scots, Thomas Imbach (Swi-Fra)
Cinematographer: Rainer Klausmann
Nebraska, Alexander Payne (Us)
Cinematographer: Phedon Papamichael
Paradise for the Damned, Alejandro Montiel (Arg)
Cinematographer:...
- 10/29/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: EastWest sells raft of films; launches English-language Never Die Young.
EastWest Film Distribution has revealed a slew of sales at Busan’s Asian Film Market, led by Gustav Deutsch’s Shirley, Visions of Reality, which has been sold to JinJin Pictures for South Korea and Sky Digi for Taiwan.
The film, which weaves together stories from the life of a fictional actress with Edward Hopper paintings, screened at several festivals including the Berlinale and Karlovy Vary.
The Vienna and London-based sales company has also sold The Closed Circuit, Miss Kicki, Cycle and Yarik to China (Jy Entertainment); Rammbock to Japan (Ayapro); and Miss Kicki to Hong Kong (Edko Films).
Expanding its operations in the Asia-Pacific, EastWest is participating in the Asian Film Market for the first time. Their titles include Never Die Young, a Luxembourg-set “poetic feature” directed by Pol Cruchten with a soundtrack featuring Bob Dylan who watched the film before giving permission to use...
EastWest Film Distribution has revealed a slew of sales at Busan’s Asian Film Market, led by Gustav Deutsch’s Shirley, Visions of Reality, which has been sold to JinJin Pictures for South Korea and Sky Digi for Taiwan.
The film, which weaves together stories from the life of a fictional actress with Edward Hopper paintings, screened at several festivals including the Berlinale and Karlovy Vary.
The Vienna and London-based sales company has also sold The Closed Circuit, Miss Kicki, Cycle and Yarik to China (Jy Entertainment); Rammbock to Japan (Ayapro); and Miss Kicki to Hong Kong (Edko Films).
Expanding its operations in the Asia-Pacific, EastWest is participating in the Asian Film Market for the first time. Their titles include Never Die Young, a Luxembourg-set “poetic feature” directed by Pol Cruchten with a soundtrack featuring Bob Dylan who watched the film before giving permission to use...
- 10/9/2013
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
The Bradford International Film Festival is typically an underground-friendly fest. This year appears to be no exception with two very special experimental film retrospectives, as well as a few modern underground-type flicks.
The 19th annual Biff will roll on April 11-21 at several locations around Bradford and Leeds in England, including the National Media Museum, Hebden Bridge Picture House, Hyde Park Picture House and other venues.
Biff is hosting a tribute to Stan Brakhage this year by screening the prolific filmmaker’s magnum opus, Dog Star Man, as well as a selection of his short films, from 1963′s legendary Mothlight to 1994′s Black Ice. There’s also going to be an epic-sized tribute/retrospective of experimental films from Austria, a country with a proud avant-garde filmmaking tradition that’s typically overlooked.
From Austria, Biff is, of course, screening two works from one of the experimental film world’s biggest masters,...
The 19th annual Biff will roll on April 11-21 at several locations around Bradford and Leeds in England, including the National Media Museum, Hebden Bridge Picture House, Hyde Park Picture House and other venues.
Biff is hosting a tribute to Stan Brakhage this year by screening the prolific filmmaker’s magnum opus, Dog Star Man, as well as a selection of his short films, from 1963′s legendary Mothlight to 1994′s Black Ice. There’s also going to be an epic-sized tribute/retrospective of experimental films from Austria, a country with a proud avant-garde filmmaking tradition that’s typically overlooked.
From Austria, Biff is, of course, screening two works from one of the experimental film world’s biggest masters,...
- 3/11/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
★★★☆☆ In Austrian video artist Gustav Deutsch's Shirley: Visions of Reality (2013), pictures literally speak for themselves, with this experimental film using prominent Us painter Edward Hopper's calculated renderings of American society to tell the story of a fictional actress - a prime example of art imitating art. Recreated through the guise of thirteen of Hopper's best known paintings, Deutsch has create a series of vivid snapshots which thread together into a fascinating synthesis of art and film. What we get is a unique presentation of an aspiring actress, whose trials and tribulations paint their own portrait of American history.
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- 2/13/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Films from Poland, Romania and Slovenia will screen in the 2013 Berlinale Official Competition. The Official Competition, Panorama, Forum and Generation sections have also selected films from Turkey, Georgia, Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic and Latvia.
The Polish director Małgośka Szumowska returns to the Berlinale after Elles (2012), starring Juliette Binoche, with W imię... /In the Name of, selected for the Official Competition. The film is produced by Mental Disorder 4 in coproduction with Canal +, and it follows Father Adam who takes over a small parish in the middle of nowhere and has to confront a long forgotten burden and passion. The main characters are played by Andrzej Chyra and Mateusz Kościukieiwcz. Memento Films is the sales agent.
Danis Tanovic makes his entrance in the Official Competition of the Berlinale with Epizoda u životu berača željeza/An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker, the story of a 31 year old woman pregnant with her third child who needs emergency surgery, but has no health inssurance. The film is a coproduction between Bosnia and Herzegovina, France and Slovenia, involving Pro.ba, Emotionfilm and Asap Film France. The cast includes Senada Alimanovic, Nazif Mujic, Sandra Mujic, and Semsa Mujic.
This is also the first Berlinale for the Romanian director Călin Peter Netzer, who screens in the Official Competition with Poziţia copilului/Child's Pose, a mixture of drama, emotion and humour about the relationship between an overbearing mother and her adult son. Răzvan Rădulescu and Călin Peter Netzer wrote the script and the main characters are played by Luminiţa Gheorghiu (Moartea domnului Lăzărescu/The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu) and Bogdan Dumitrache (Cu cele mai bune intenţii/Best Intentions). Child's Pose is a 100% Romanian production between Parada Film and HaiHui Entertainment.
After travelling with the first two parts of his Paradise film trilogy to Cannes and Venice, ground-breaking Austrian director Ulrich Seidl is a newcomer to the Berlinale where the third film in the series is to be screened in the Official Competition. Paradies: Hoffnung/Paradise: Hope is a coproduction between Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion GmbH (Austria, www.ulrichseidl.com), Tatfilm (Germany, www.tatfilm.de) and Société Parisienne de Production ( France, www.coproductionoffice.eu).
Georgia sends two films to Berlin. On 7 February, the Panorama’s main programme will openwith the GeorgianChemi Sabnis Naketsi/A Fold in My Blanket by Zaza Rusadze. Produced by director’s production companyZazarfilm with the support of the Georgian National Film Centre, the film tells the story of a young man returning to his home town after studying abroad. Tornike Bziava, Tornike Gogrichiani, and Zura Kipshidze are the main actors. Media Luna New Films is the sales agent.
A Georgian-German coproduction will be screened in Forum. Grzeli nateli dgeebi/In Bloom, the first feature by Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß, is focusing on two young female friends in a country marked by civil war and poverty in 1992.
Two Turkish films were also selected for Panorama. Asli Ozge's Hayatboyu/Lifelong is a Turkish-German-Dutch coproduction between Razor Film Produktion, Augustus Film, Kaliber Film, Bulut Filmand, and Soda Media. The cast includes Defne Halman, Haka Cimenser, and Gizem Akman. Uğur Yücel's Soğuk/Cold is a 100% Turkish production starring Cenk Alibeyoğlu, A. Rıfat Şungar, and Valeria Skorohodova.
Croatia is also represented with two films selected for the Forum section. Krugovi/Circles Srdan Golubović’s drama of three parallel stories about heroism is produced by the Serbian company Bas Celik and the German company Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion, in coproduction with the Slovenian company Vertigo/E-motion Film, the Croatian company Propeler Film and the French company La Cinefacture.
Another Croatian coproduction, this time with Bosnia and Herzegovina, was also selected in Forum. The story from Obrana i zaštita/A Stranger aka The Bridge, written and directed by the acclaimed theatre and film director Bobo Jelčić, is set in Mostar, a town still divided into the Croatian and the Bosnian side 20 years after the war. The film is a tale about prejudice, human weaknesses and conflict between the individual and the society played by: Bogdan Diklić, Nada Đurevska, Ivana Roščić, and Izudin Bajrović. The project involves Spiritus Movens, Produkcija Kadar and Croatian Radio and Television.
Two Austrian films will be shown in the Forum section, beginning with the world premiere of Gustav Deutsch's Shirley – Visions of Reality. This Austrian production of Kgp Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production uses 13 cinematically vivified paintings by Edward Hopper in order to tell the story of a woman who lives in a reality she sees as a made up construct. The cast includes Stephanie Cumming, Christoph Bach, and Florentin Groll.
Die 727 Tage ohne Karamo/The 727 Days without Karamo by Anja Salomonowitz (also in Forum) is a documentary experiment of 21 binational couples sharing personal moments of their love stories, forming one complete story of how love can rise above the written law. The 80 minite film is produced by Amour Fou Vienna.
The German-Polish coproduction Sieniawka by Marcin Malaszczak, screening in Forum, is a lyrical portrait of post-socialist reality between Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany, conceived of as a mix of fictional staging and documentary representation of a dilapidated mental asylum and a landscape scarred by coal mining
Reha Erdem's Jîn (Turkey), selected in Generation 14plus, sees the war between guerrillas and the army in Kurdish areas in Turkey through the eyes of a 17 year old girl, a young fighter (played by Deniz Hasgüler). The film is produced by Ömer Atay through Atlantik Film.
Kasia Rosłaniec's Baby Blues (Poland), will have its European premiere in Generation 14plus. After Mall Girls, Kasia Rosłaniec made a teenage mother’s tour de force through a world of daily chores, nappies fashion and drugs. Zentropa International Poland is producing.
Mammu, es Tevi mīlu/Mother, I Love You by the Latvian director Jānis Nords, selected in Generation Kplus, is the touching story of a misunderstood adolescent who tries to negociate his relationship with his mother while delving into the world of the petty crime. The film is produced by Tanka ( alise@tanka.lv) and stars Kristofers Konovalovs, Vita Varpina, and Matiss Livcans.
Cee Films At The Berlinale:
Official Competition:
W imię... /In the Name of by Małgośka Szumowska (Poland)
Epizoda u životu berača željeza/An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker by Danis Tanovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina-France -Slovenia)
Poziţia copilului/Child's Pose by Călin Peter Netzer (Romania)
Paradies: Hoffnung/Paradise: Hope by Ulrich Seidl (Austria-Germany-France)
Panorama:
Chemi Sabnis Naketsi/A Fold in My Blanket by Zaza Rusadze (Georgia)
Hayatboyu/Lifelong by Asli Ozge (Turkey-Germany)
Soğuk/Cold by Uğur Yücel (Turkey)
Forum:
Grzeli nateli dgeebi/In Bloom by Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß (Georgia-Germany)
Krugovi/Circles by Srdan Golubović (Serbia-Germany-Slovenia-Croatia-France)
Obrana i zaštita/A Stranger by Bobo Jelčić (Croatia – Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Shirley – Visions of Reality by Gustav Deutsch (Austria)
Die 727 Tage ohne Karamo/The 727 Days without Karamo by Anja Salomonowitz (Austria)
Sieniawka by Marcin Malaszczak (Germany-Poland)
Generation 14plus:
Jîn by Reha Erdem (Turkey)
Baby Blues by Kasia Rosłaniec (Poland)
Generation Kplus:
Mammu, es Tevi mīlu/Mother, I Love You by Jānis Nords (Latvia)...
The Polish director Małgośka Szumowska returns to the Berlinale after Elles (2012), starring Juliette Binoche, with W imię... /In the Name of, selected for the Official Competition. The film is produced by Mental Disorder 4 in coproduction with Canal +, and it follows Father Adam who takes over a small parish in the middle of nowhere and has to confront a long forgotten burden and passion. The main characters are played by Andrzej Chyra and Mateusz Kościukieiwcz. Memento Films is the sales agent.
Danis Tanovic makes his entrance in the Official Competition of the Berlinale with Epizoda u životu berača željeza/An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker, the story of a 31 year old woman pregnant with her third child who needs emergency surgery, but has no health inssurance. The film is a coproduction between Bosnia and Herzegovina, France and Slovenia, involving Pro.ba, Emotionfilm and Asap Film France. The cast includes Senada Alimanovic, Nazif Mujic, Sandra Mujic, and Semsa Mujic.
This is also the first Berlinale for the Romanian director Călin Peter Netzer, who screens in the Official Competition with Poziţia copilului/Child's Pose, a mixture of drama, emotion and humour about the relationship between an overbearing mother and her adult son. Răzvan Rădulescu and Călin Peter Netzer wrote the script and the main characters are played by Luminiţa Gheorghiu (Moartea domnului Lăzărescu/The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu) and Bogdan Dumitrache (Cu cele mai bune intenţii/Best Intentions). Child's Pose is a 100% Romanian production between Parada Film and HaiHui Entertainment.
After travelling with the first two parts of his Paradise film trilogy to Cannes and Venice, ground-breaking Austrian director Ulrich Seidl is a newcomer to the Berlinale where the third film in the series is to be screened in the Official Competition. Paradies: Hoffnung/Paradise: Hope is a coproduction between Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion GmbH (Austria, www.ulrichseidl.com), Tatfilm (Germany, www.tatfilm.de) and Société Parisienne de Production ( France, www.coproductionoffice.eu).
Georgia sends two films to Berlin. On 7 February, the Panorama’s main programme will openwith the GeorgianChemi Sabnis Naketsi/A Fold in My Blanket by Zaza Rusadze. Produced by director’s production companyZazarfilm with the support of the Georgian National Film Centre, the film tells the story of a young man returning to his home town after studying abroad. Tornike Bziava, Tornike Gogrichiani, and Zura Kipshidze are the main actors. Media Luna New Films is the sales agent.
A Georgian-German coproduction will be screened in Forum. Grzeli nateli dgeebi/In Bloom, the first feature by Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß, is focusing on two young female friends in a country marked by civil war and poverty in 1992.
Two Turkish films were also selected for Panorama. Asli Ozge's Hayatboyu/Lifelong is a Turkish-German-Dutch coproduction between Razor Film Produktion, Augustus Film, Kaliber Film, Bulut Filmand, and Soda Media. The cast includes Defne Halman, Haka Cimenser, and Gizem Akman. Uğur Yücel's Soğuk/Cold is a 100% Turkish production starring Cenk Alibeyoğlu, A. Rıfat Şungar, and Valeria Skorohodova.
Croatia is also represented with two films selected for the Forum section. Krugovi/Circles Srdan Golubović’s drama of three parallel stories about heroism is produced by the Serbian company Bas Celik and the German company Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion, in coproduction with the Slovenian company Vertigo/E-motion Film, the Croatian company Propeler Film and the French company La Cinefacture.
Another Croatian coproduction, this time with Bosnia and Herzegovina, was also selected in Forum. The story from Obrana i zaštita/A Stranger aka The Bridge, written and directed by the acclaimed theatre and film director Bobo Jelčić, is set in Mostar, a town still divided into the Croatian and the Bosnian side 20 years after the war. The film is a tale about prejudice, human weaknesses and conflict between the individual and the society played by: Bogdan Diklić, Nada Đurevska, Ivana Roščić, and Izudin Bajrović. The project involves Spiritus Movens, Produkcija Kadar and Croatian Radio and Television.
Two Austrian films will be shown in the Forum section, beginning with the world premiere of Gustav Deutsch's Shirley – Visions of Reality. This Austrian production of Kgp Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production uses 13 cinematically vivified paintings by Edward Hopper in order to tell the story of a woman who lives in a reality she sees as a made up construct. The cast includes Stephanie Cumming, Christoph Bach, and Florentin Groll.
Die 727 Tage ohne Karamo/The 727 Days without Karamo by Anja Salomonowitz (also in Forum) is a documentary experiment of 21 binational couples sharing personal moments of their love stories, forming one complete story of how love can rise above the written law. The 80 minite film is produced by Amour Fou Vienna.
The German-Polish coproduction Sieniawka by Marcin Malaszczak, screening in Forum, is a lyrical portrait of post-socialist reality between Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany, conceived of as a mix of fictional staging and documentary representation of a dilapidated mental asylum and a landscape scarred by coal mining
Reha Erdem's Jîn (Turkey), selected in Generation 14plus, sees the war between guerrillas and the army in Kurdish areas in Turkey through the eyes of a 17 year old girl, a young fighter (played by Deniz Hasgüler). The film is produced by Ömer Atay through Atlantik Film.
Kasia Rosłaniec's Baby Blues (Poland), will have its European premiere in Generation 14plus. After Mall Girls, Kasia Rosłaniec made a teenage mother’s tour de force through a world of daily chores, nappies fashion and drugs. Zentropa International Poland is producing.
Mammu, es Tevi mīlu/Mother, I Love You by the Latvian director Jānis Nords, selected in Generation Kplus, is the touching story of a misunderstood adolescent who tries to negociate his relationship with his mother while delving into the world of the petty crime. The film is produced by Tanka ( alise@tanka.lv) and stars Kristofers Konovalovs, Vita Varpina, and Matiss Livcans.
Cee Films At The Berlinale:
Official Competition:
W imię... /In the Name of by Małgośka Szumowska (Poland)
Epizoda u životu berača željeza/An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker by Danis Tanovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina-France -Slovenia)
Poziţia copilului/Child's Pose by Călin Peter Netzer (Romania)
Paradies: Hoffnung/Paradise: Hope by Ulrich Seidl (Austria-Germany-France)
Panorama:
Chemi Sabnis Naketsi/A Fold in My Blanket by Zaza Rusadze (Georgia)
Hayatboyu/Lifelong by Asli Ozge (Turkey-Germany)
Soğuk/Cold by Uğur Yücel (Turkey)
Forum:
Grzeli nateli dgeebi/In Bloom by Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß (Georgia-Germany)
Krugovi/Circles by Srdan Golubović (Serbia-Germany-Slovenia-Croatia-France)
Obrana i zaštita/A Stranger by Bobo Jelčić (Croatia – Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Shirley – Visions of Reality by Gustav Deutsch (Austria)
Die 727 Tage ohne Karamo/The 727 Days without Karamo by Anja Salomonowitz (Austria)
Sieniawka by Marcin Malaszczak (Germany-Poland)
Generation 14plus:
Jîn by Reha Erdem (Turkey)
Baby Blues by Kasia Rosłaniec (Poland)
Generation Kplus:
Mammu, es Tevi mīlu/Mother, I Love You by Jānis Nords (Latvia)...
- 2/12/2013
- by Iulia Blaga
- Sydney's Buzz
I've only just now caught wind of a one-time-only event that took place in the Port of Tallinn last Thursday, 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero, via Alison Nastasi at Movies.com: "An international collective of directors… contributed their shorts to the single 35mm film anthology that was screened for an audience one time — as part of Estonia's 2011 European Capital of Culture celebration — and then burned to the ground (along with the screen itself). Why, exactly? The project's website describes it as 'flying in the face of the cynicism of marketing, production, business operators, and the moral majority … dedicated to preserving freedom of thought in cinema.'" The roster of participating directors and artists is pretty impressive:
Brian Yuzna (USA), Michael Glawogger (Austria), Aku Louhimies (Finland), Ken Jacobs (USA), Gustav Deutsch (Austria), Tom Tykwer (Germany), Mark Boswell (USA), Malcolm Le Grice (UK), Aki Kaurismäki (Finland), Bruce McClure (UK), Mika Taanila...
Brian Yuzna (USA), Michael Glawogger (Austria), Aku Louhimies (Finland), Ken Jacobs (USA), Gustav Deutsch (Austria), Tom Tykwer (Germany), Mark Boswell (USA), Malcolm Le Grice (UK), Aki Kaurismäki (Finland), Bruce McClure (UK), Mika Taanila...
- 12/27/2011
- MUBI
"My sense is that Joe and his films bring out the best in people. And that his swift rise to prominence, to the upper ranks of the cinema republic has not lessened but strengthened his - and our - desire for films, and a film culture, where things are done differently, dreamily, democratically." —Alex Horwath, p. 6
The series of books put out by FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen, devoted to the likes of Romuald Karmakar, Gustav Deutsch, and James Benning (among other people and topics) has done well in its recent-ish collection on Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Before getting to the content, it's a fine object—matte paper, almost square in its dimensions, double columned text, and tasteful photographs in color throughout. The Thai tyro has risen even further in the ranks of international art cinema in the wake of his Cannes Palme d'Or for the tremendous Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010). So...
The series of books put out by FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen, devoted to the likes of Romuald Karmakar, Gustav Deutsch, and James Benning (among other people and topics) has done well in its recent-ish collection on Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Before getting to the content, it's a fine object—matte paper, almost square in its dimensions, double columned text, and tasteful photographs in color throughout. The Thai tyro has risen even further in the ranks of international art cinema in the wake of his Cannes Palme d'Or for the tremendous Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010). So...
- 5/2/2011
- MUBI
Above: Zoulikha Bouabdellah's Al Attlal (Ruines), left, and Pierre Léon's À la barbe d'Ivan, right.
Nicole Brenez has curated two programs of new work from the French avant-garde for this year’s Rendezvous with French Cinema 2011 in New York; below she has offered her program notes in French. Program one (on Saturday) concentrates on filmmakers reappropriating images; program two (Sunday) is the new feature by Ange Leccia, Nuit bleue. Below, I’ve translated Brenez’s extended appreciation of Leccia and Nuit bleue; as usual, I’ve tried to stay faithful to the sound and rhythm of the original where possible. Beneath the translated extract you'll find the full article by Ms. Brenez in its original French. —David Phelps
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…Although Ange Leccia has also practiced re-appropriating images (especially Jean Luc-Godard’s) in his installations and his films, Nuit bleuetakes up a different aesthetic vein, one rich with a long tradition of the French avant-garde.
Nicole Brenez has curated two programs of new work from the French avant-garde for this year’s Rendezvous with French Cinema 2011 in New York; below she has offered her program notes in French. Program one (on Saturday) concentrates on filmmakers reappropriating images; program two (Sunday) is the new feature by Ange Leccia, Nuit bleue. Below, I’ve translated Brenez’s extended appreciation of Leccia and Nuit bleue; as usual, I’ve tried to stay faithful to the sound and rhythm of the original where possible. Beneath the translated extract you'll find the full article by Ms. Brenez in its original French. —David Phelps
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…Although Ange Leccia has also practiced re-appropriating images (especially Jean Luc-Godard’s) in his installations and his films, Nuit bleuetakes up a different aesthetic vein, one rich with a long tradition of the French avant-garde.
- 3/19/2011
- MUBI
Experimental filmmaker Gustav Deutsch’s latest found footage concoction, “Film Ist. a Girl & a Gun,” begins a weeklong run today at New York’s Anthology Film Archives. “Taking his title from D.W. Griffith’s famous maxim that all one needs to make a movie is a girl and a gun, Deutsch recombines shards of archival footage—vintage nature docs, silent melodramas, old newsreels, and ancient porn—to explosive effect,” writes the Village Voice’s J. Hoberman. …...
- 12/2/2009
- Indiewire
This week's slate gathers together so many big name stars in one place you'd think it was Oscar night already.
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"Across The Hall"
A stripped-down neo-noir with a twist, this feature debut for filmmaker Alex Merkin began as a 2005 short (starring Adrian Grenier, which can be found online here). Grenier didn't return, but Mike Vogel takes his place as Julian, a young man who races to a seedy hotel where his best friend's wayward fiancée (Brittany Murphy) and another man have aroused the suspicions of his pal, who's holed up "across the hall" with a bottle of whiskey and a gun.
Opens in New York and Los Angeles.
"Armored"
Having garnered a great deal of attention with his grungy murder mystery debut "Kontroll," American-born Hungarian helmer Nimród Antal first made his mark in Hollywood...
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"Across The Hall"
A stripped-down neo-noir with a twist, this feature debut for filmmaker Alex Merkin began as a 2005 short (starring Adrian Grenier, which can be found online here). Grenier didn't return, but Mike Vogel takes his place as Julian, a young man who races to a seedy hotel where his best friend's wayward fiancée (Brittany Murphy) and another man have aroused the suspicions of his pal, who's holed up "across the hall" with a bottle of whiskey and a gun.
Opens in New York and Los Angeles.
"Armored"
Having garnered a great deal of attention with his grungy murder mystery debut "Kontroll," American-born Hungarian helmer Nimród Antal first made his mark in Hollywood...
- 11/30/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
Gustav Deutsch is a maestro of found footage filmmaking. In this enterprise, he travels to film archives worldwide, researches, and excavates clips from obscure films, and reassembles them into montage sequences that create compelling visual narratives organized around larger thematic concerns.
In Film Ist. a girl & a gun, the director weaves together a stunning array of color-tinted images from a variety of genres, including scientific, erotic, fiction, and actuality films. Deutsch also obtained privileged access to the film archives of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, enabling him to incorporate sequences from especially rare erotic and sex films into his latest oeuvre. Deutsch adroitly assembles a precisely constructed, mesmerizing ebb and flow of images into extraordinary montage sequences divided into five acts: Genesis, Paradeisos, Eros, Thanatos, and Symposion.
- notes from Jon Gartenberg Tribeca 09, if your attendig the festival you still have one more chance to see the film Sat,...
In Film Ist. a girl & a gun, the director weaves together a stunning array of color-tinted images from a variety of genres, including scientific, erotic, fiction, and actuality films. Deutsch also obtained privileged access to the film archives of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, enabling him to incorporate sequences from especially rare erotic and sex films into his latest oeuvre. Deutsch adroitly assembles a precisely constructed, mesmerizing ebb and flow of images into extraordinary montage sequences divided into five acts: Genesis, Paradeisos, Eros, Thanatos, and Symposion.
- notes from Jon Gartenberg Tribeca 09, if your attendig the festival you still have one more chance to see the film Sat,...
- 4/27/2009
- by Leigh
- Latemag.com/film
And here's the rest, including the Midnight Section, all after the break.
Encounters
This collection of engaging and entertaining narrative features and documentaries, a mixture of dark comedies and lighter fare, offers work from returning filmmakers, established talent, and popular subjects, and includes 10 World Premieres. Included in Encounters are performances from Academy Award®-nominated actors Thomas Haden Church, Melissa Leo, Elisabeth Shue; directorial debuts from both Eric Bana and Cheryl Hines (from a screenplay by Adrienne Shelly); stories ranging from an ill-fated man's discovery of inspiration and happiness, dysfunctional families, and unrequited high school crushes to a doc on the emergence of New York’s independent film scene.
• Blank City, directed by Celine Danhier. (USA) - World Premiere, Documentary. Celine Danhier’s kinetic doc mirrors the urgent, anything-goes energy of her subject: the Diy independent film movement that emerged in tandem with punk rock in late ‘70s downtown New York.
Encounters
This collection of engaging and entertaining narrative features and documentaries, a mixture of dark comedies and lighter fare, offers work from returning filmmakers, established talent, and popular subjects, and includes 10 World Premieres. Included in Encounters are performances from Academy Award®-nominated actors Thomas Haden Church, Melissa Leo, Elisabeth Shue; directorial debuts from both Eric Bana and Cheryl Hines (from a screenplay by Adrienne Shelly); stories ranging from an ill-fated man's discovery of inspiration and happiness, dysfunctional families, and unrequited high school crushes to a doc on the emergence of New York’s independent film scene.
• Blank City, directed by Celine Danhier. (USA) - World Premiere, Documentary. Celine Danhier’s kinetic doc mirrors the urgent, anything-goes energy of her subject: the Diy independent film movement that emerged in tandem with punk rock in late ‘70s downtown New York.
- 3/11/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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