Where better than New York City to make a structuralist film? Cities are iterative, their street grids diagrams of theme and variation, and New York most of all—with its streets and avenues named for numbers and letters and states and cities and presidents and Revolutionary War generals spanning an archipelago, intersecting at a million little data points at which to measure class, race, culture, history, architecture and infrastructure. And time, too—from this human density emerge daily and seasonal rituals, a set of biorhythms, reliable as the earth’s, against which to mark gradual shifts and momentary fashions. Summer is for lounging on fire escapes, always, and, today, for Mister Softee. Yesterday it was shaved ice. Tomorrow, who knows?
In The Hottest August, Brett Story, the cultural geographer who made The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, attempts something a little like Akerman’s News from Home, schlepping a camera across...
In The Hottest August, Brett Story, the cultural geographer who made The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, attempts something a little like Akerman’s News from Home, schlepping a camera across...
- 6/12/2019
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
The world of documentary filmmaking is as diverse as that of its fiction sibling, although what’s regularly shown on television or in larger theater chains may lead you to believe otherwise. While fiction is seemingly freer to imagine different stories and forms, the culturally dominant approach to nonfiction cinema hardly suggests its possible dynamism. Since documentaries are often hamstrung by notions ironically imported from mainstream fiction filmmaking—character arcs, straight-forward storytelling, satisfying conclusions—the kind of nonfiction movies that achieve broader cultural interest tend to be neatly packaged delivery vehicles for information one could easily glean much more quickly from an article. This approach while most visible is hardly the norm, and the world is far too messy and filmmakers far too adroit at being inspired by this terrific confusion to be limited to the commercial standards of truth-telling. After all, while the truth is a necessary component of living,...
- 3/13/2019
- MUBI
The Open City Documentary Festival, taking place across London between the 5th and 10th of September 2017, will present three films by Belgian filmmaker Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd: Lost Land (2011), For the Lost (2014) and The Eternals (2017). The films, shot mostly on 16mm and Super 8, are poetic essays exploring the lives of those affected by exile, conflict, loss, and the ecology of harsh environments, hauntingly soundtracked by British Avant-Garde musician Richard Skelton. Ahead of the festival I interviewed Vandeweerd concerning the aesthetic and thematic connections between his films, his anthropological approach and the role of language in his cinema.Notebook: You’ve studied anthropology, amongst other subjects, and you’ve worked as a teaching assistant in a Philosophy and Literature department. What led you to utilize filmmaking as an extension of your research? Pierre-yves Vandeweerd: The first area I worked in as an anthropologist, at the beginning of the 90s, was Niger in West Africa.
- 9/4/2017
- MUBI
Embellishment. Is it a dirty word, especially when it comes to writing? Well, it depends. Simply put, there must be no embellishment when writing for a professional journal. The truth must be told. There is a big difference between writing for a professional journal and writing fiction, or even this column. Writing for a professional journal must follow a proscribed style set by peer-reviewed organizations whose rules on grammatical usage, word choice, elimination of bias in language, the proper citation of quotes and references and the inclusion of charts and tables have become the authoritative source for all intellectual writing. This means that for me, as an Rn, Bsn, Cnor, I must adhere to the styles and standards set by the Publication Manual Of The American Psychologoical Assocociation (Apa), which is “consulted not only by psychologists but also by students and researchers in education, social work, nursing, business, and many...
- 4/22/2013
- by Mindy Newell
- Comicmix.com
Zombies have infected our cultural landscape so much so that it seems nearly normal to think of zombies in just about any situation, but are you prepared for Zombies vs. Gladiators? Drop some zombies in ancient Rome and see what happens. Amazon Studios is pursuing this project with horror legend, Clive Barker, at the helm. Check out the official press release below:
Hellraiser Creator Clive Barker to Rewrite
Zombies vs. Gladiators for Amazon Studios
Based on the popularity of Zombies vs. Gladiators, Amazon Studios will further develop the project for a mainstream commercial audience
Amazon.com, Inc. today announced that Hellraiser creator and prolific horror and fantasy writer Clive Barker will rewrite the action horror project, Zombies vs. Gladiators, for Amazon Studios. Based in ancient Rome, the Zombies vs. Gladiators story opens as a shaman who is about to die in the Coliseum casts a spell that unleashes the world’s first zombies.
Hellraiser Creator Clive Barker to Rewrite
Zombies vs. Gladiators for Amazon Studios
Based on the popularity of Zombies vs. Gladiators, Amazon Studios will further develop the project for a mainstream commercial audience
Amazon.com, Inc. today announced that Hellraiser creator and prolific horror and fantasy writer Clive Barker will rewrite the action horror project, Zombies vs. Gladiators, for Amazon Studios. Based in ancient Rome, the Zombies vs. Gladiators story opens as a shaman who is about to die in the Coliseum casts a spell that unleashes the world’s first zombies.
- 6/8/2012
- by Lillian 'zenbitch' Standefer
- ScifiMafia
Amazon Studios is the production arm of Amazon.com and they’ve just announced that Clive Barker will rewrite their upcoming action/horror project Zombies vs. Gladiators:
“Seattle, Jun 05, 2012 –Amazon.com, Inc. today announced that Hellraiser creator and prolific horror and fantasy writer Clive Barker will rewrite the action horror project, Zombies vs. Gladiators, for Amazon Studios. Based in ancient Rome, the Zombies vs. Gladiators story opens as a shaman who is about to die in the Coliseum casts a spell that unleashes the world’s first zombies. It’s up to a gladiator to stop the spread of the zombie horde and save Rome. From the moment it debuted at Amazon Studios, Zombies vs. Gladiators has been one of the most creatively engaging scripts, spurring tremendous interest within the community and movie fans alike, indicating its mainstream and commercial viability for the studio. As a result of this overwhelming and popular support,...
“Seattle, Jun 05, 2012 –Amazon.com, Inc. today announced that Hellraiser creator and prolific horror and fantasy writer Clive Barker will rewrite the action horror project, Zombies vs. Gladiators, for Amazon Studios. Based in ancient Rome, the Zombies vs. Gladiators story opens as a shaman who is about to die in the Coliseum casts a spell that unleashes the world’s first zombies. It’s up to a gladiator to stop the spread of the zombie horde and save Rome. From the moment it debuted at Amazon Studios, Zombies vs. Gladiators has been one of the most creatively engaging scripts, spurring tremendous interest within the community and movie fans alike, indicating its mainstream and commercial viability for the studio. As a result of this overwhelming and popular support,...
- 6/5/2012
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
When Image Journal published its Top 100 Books of the Century, it became my reading list for over a year. Their refreshing selections from 100 different authors manifested “a genuine engagement with the Judeo-Christian heritage of faith, rather than merely using religion as background or subject matter.” Image included some of my then-favorites like Walker Percy, Flannery O’Connor, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkein. These writers wrestled honestly with faith, and the list led me to read Frederic Beuchner’s Godric, G.K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday, Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Shusaku Endo’s Silence, Graham Greene’s The Power and...
- 3/2/2010
- Pastemagazine.com
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