There Are Two Colours In My Head
by Kilian
Showing posts with label film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label film. Show all posts
Film: Vanilla Sky by Cameron Crowe
There Are Two Colours In My Head
by Kilian
Film: The Phantom of Liberty by Luis Buñuel (Part 2/2)
Stories From the State of Grotesque
In
his surrealist tour de force filmmaker Luis
Buñuel explores the brinks of narrating and staging the big picture of a strange world. From behind the observing eye of the camera he remarks an augmented reality of sights, sounds, actions and urges.
by Kilian
Film: The Phantom of Liberty by Luis Buñuel (Part 1/2)
Stories From the State of Grotesque
In
his surrealist tour de force filmmaker Luis
Buñuel explores the brinks of narrating and staging the big picture of a strange world. From behind the observing eye of the camera he remarks an augmented reality of sights, sounds, actions and urges.
by Kilian
Film: Hannah Arendt by Margarethe von Trotta
A
Cut in the Flesh of the Twentieth Century
In
her New York years Hannah Arendt is stuck between the prejudices of the American and Israeli public, her dedication to profound
understanding and genuine truth and the moral thaw of the post-war
era.
by Kilian
Film: Jonah D. Ansell - Cadaver
CADAVER - A bittersweet love story (7 min) from Jonah D. Ansell on Vimeo.
Go here to read our interview with Jonah D. Ansell.
Film, Art and everything in between: Panda Kids
There are many ways to prepare for an interview. Reading articles, interviews and blog posts are the most common among them. But to prepare for my meeting with Laura Cherrygrove and Joost Leliveld I did something every single one of you has probably done before: I stalked them on Facebook.
Film: Interview - Jonah D. Ansell
If I told you about a 2D animated short film for adults based on a poem (yes, I mean the whole thing rhymes) about a cadaver waking up to say goodbye to his wife, would you find it interesting or just laugh?
What if I told you it starred everyone's favourite blogger/Editor in Chief of Rookiemag.com Tavi Gevinson, Back to the Future's Christopher Lloyd and Academy Award winner Kathy Bates and was written and directed by Jonah D. Ansell? Would you think it was too good to be true?
Did I mention the soundtrack is Neil Young's "Heart of Gold" covered by Tavi Gevinson?
I assure you all this is true, Jonah D. Ansell's Cadaver combines all the things above to create a unique film, curious enough to keep it in your mind once you heard of it without dismissing it as simply strange. A cadaver awakens after his heart get's taken out, he claims it belongs to his wife and sets out to give it to her, only to discover a truth in death he never saw in life - a dark romantic story in a time of commercialised love.
Music/Film: Tea with Mary Ocher - Part I: Film
"Mother, mother, mother, why did you not bear a son?.."
- Mary Ocher stands in a corner, her powerful voice echoes through Terra Music Bar in Berlin.
It's a very intimate show. Candles give the only light, there is no stage, just Mary and her guitar, each song is followed by a quiet "Thank you." She's a wonderful sight with her big glasses and bright blonde hair and when she plays her last song we are sad it's over.
Two hours earlier in Mary Ocher's flat:
Her cat greets us. "He's not normally this friendly.", she tells us. "He's probably trying to say: I'm the one who broke that lamp you really really liked." Mary is very sweet and at first even a little quiet, despite her eccentric appearance. She makes us tea and we sit at a large kitchen table. I remember a black board on the wall with something nice written on it, now I wish I had a picture...or had at least written down what it said...
There are three main themes we want to talk to her about: Film, Travelling/Living in Berlin as an Artist and Music.
- This is Part I: FILM
Lichtspieltheater: "EX DRUMMER"
How controversial is cinema allowed to be? Is cinema entitled to do anything? Can cinema be entitled to do anything, or must it? EX DRUMMER, my first Belgian, made me gulp more than once and I am not angry of the way it was made, what it thematises or how it does so. Cinema is entitled to do anything, but it must be good! And EX DRUMMER is a masterpiece.
The plot:
Three disabled people form a band (“The Feminists”). They need a drummer and seek out the successful author Dries Vanhegen. He says yes and dives into the world of society’s misfits. He gets a deep insight in a society characterized by drugs, racism, sexual abuse, ignorance, disease and idleness. A world far away from any form of human dignity. It doesn’t leave him cold, but he likes to dive into this world, to manipulate and control it.
The plot:
Three disabled people form a band (“The Feminists”). They need a drummer and seek out the successful author Dries Vanhegen. He says yes and dives into the world of society’s misfits. He gets a deep insight in a society characterized by drugs, racism, sexual abuse, ignorance, disease and idleness. A world far away from any form of human dignity. It doesn’t leave him cold, but he likes to dive into this world, to manipulate and control it.
Lichtspieltheater: When images overtake words.
Completely calm, completely relaxed Stanly Kubrik looks at his cinematographer and says “Either you do what I tell you now, or you disappear from this set and don’t come back” after he put a 50mm lens on the camera and not, as Kubrik had ordered, a lens with a focal distance of 25mm. Wrongfully.
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Film: Harry Potter As Companion Through Childhood And Adolescence
Harry Potter As Companion Through Childhood And Adolescence
The night of July 12th to 13th 2011 was for many of us the end of an era. One last time did a movie of the Harry-Potter-Saga come to a close with the credits of „Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 7.2“. And to evaluate this unbiasedly might be difficult for everyone, that grew up with the books and movies for more than a decade. One could even speak of a Harry-Potter-Generation. Project Quality, however, will try to take a few different perspectives on this phenomenon in the following four weeks, starting with “Harry Potter As Companion Through Childhood And Adolescence”.
With an overwhelming amount of over 500 Million sold copies worldwide, the book series seems to address adult as well as young audiences, although the influence on those readers, who grew up along with the main character, might be even greater. With its fabulous complexity it’s hardly possible to reduce this series on a single genre. The criteria of Children’s and Young-adult literature apply as well as those of Crime Novels, of course of Fantasy literature and Coming-Of-Age-Novels too.
Functioning as a Coming-Of-Age-Novel J. K. Rowling’s opus also reveals educatioal values. It is almost as if this moral authority has been there all throughout our childhood. Harry suffers, is often confused and unsure – emotional conditions that many youngsters can relate to very well. However, he does not match the popular cliché of a “normal” teenager.
With the deep insight into her main characters psyche Rowling allowed us to identify with Harry, even though he is a very individual and oftentimes even idiosynchratic character. And that exactly is the educational aspect: learning to have the same compassion for him that Harry shows to fellow human beings. Because despite all the suffering and dangers, that Harry has to go through, he always remains true to his friends and prefers threat after threat over selfishness.
Professor Dumbledor’s wise advice also helped to shape and advance our own moral maturation. His universal message, that love triumphs over everything, has been processed in books and films numerous times before, but almost never as vividly as it has been through Harry’s survival and his parents’ ultimate sacrifice.
Maybe no lightning-bolt scar will remain on our forehead to remind us, but the belief in the good in man has been memorably installed in half a Billion readers’ hearts just by this book and movie series. I believe that this message survived even the hype around the franchise, which signifies a rare exception in Youth literature, equal to the work of such authors as Astrid Lindgren, Jostein Gaarder, Michael Ende or Erich Kästner.
Hendrik
Lichtspieltheater: Festival Diary Film Thursday and Friday
Thursday
Friday
Half a week too late you finally get the Project Quality Festival Diary of the Hurricane Festival 2011 on tape, colored and with sound! So far - unfortunately - only for our German-speaking quality-conscious readership, to watch the rest of the Festival Diary please visit our german page.
Today, you get the Thursday (9 minutes) and the Friday (about 34 minutes) of the movie (german).
Next week you'll see the Saturday and finally Sunday and Monday (departure).
Marcus
Lichtspieltheater: Festival Diary (Hurricane Festival 2011) Film Trailer
The Hurricane Festival in Scheessel takes place every year in the middle of June. This year from the 17th to the 20th and it was mind-blowing! We arrived there, equipped with a camera and beat a lot of nice material into the lens. So a film is coming. When it's coming you'll see in the trailer (It's german, but subbed english)!
Marcus.
Lichtspieltheater: New Hollywood...and today
The New Hollywood is a film era, which began in the late 1960s and lastet over a decade. How important this time was for the development of cinematic art is often undervalued. In fact this era has an influence on the approach to a film as far as today, many modern films use innovations and ideas of that time. Astonishingly time here seems to be standing in front of a stop sign.
But first the historical aspect: The Golden Age, which began in the 20s reigned the cinematic before the time of New Hollywood. The films that were created at that time showed a dream world, far away from reality, with the purpose to let the audience forget all the evil, bad and uncomfortable in the world for a while. The concept was fitted for them. The audience-member was meant to feel good. At some point this wasn’t possible anymore. Hollywood reached a dead point. More and more films failed to please because nobody could and wanted to see them anymore. Studios and production companys were ruined by colossal debt, as films were made, which were expensive and elaborate, but at the same time so superficial, that nobody was interested in them anymore.
A vacuum emerged and made room for newly studied directors, authors, actors etc., who wanted to revive the market with groundbreaking ideas (mainly inspired by european cinema) and succeeded. Some of them became legendary like Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now), Martin Scorsese (Shutter Island, Taxi Driver), Arthur Penn (Bonni and Clyde), Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Apace Odyssey, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb), Roman Polanski (Chinatown, Macbeth, The Pianist), etc… Sadly the last also hit the headlines for other reasons.
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| self-portrait of Stanley Kubrick |