Post-war Britain rebuilt itself on a wave of scientific and industrial breakthroughs that culminated in the cultural revolution of the 1960s. It was a period of sweeping change and experimentation where art and culture participated in and reflected the wider social changes. In this atmosphere was born the Electronic Music Studios (EMS), a radical group of avant-garde electronic musicians who utilized technology and experimentation to compose a futuristic electronic sound-scape for the New Britain.
This is video installation on three synchronized screens and surroundsound, what helps to create many-layered story ,which will let metransfer weird, spooky and unbearable feeling that everything passesand which is main feeling when one contemplates his or her feelingswhen visiting Press House.
Green Porno is a series of short films on animal sexual behaviour. A compilation of short films dramatizing the sex life and mating habits of eight home and garden creatures: bee, fly, mantis, dragonfly, firefly, spider, snail, and worm. Season two is devoted to marine life. Season three deals with ocean life threatened by commercial fishing.
For over two years now the ACTA agreement is being negotiated. It is pushed by the G8-countries and some befriended states under secrecy. Its effects will concern us all.
PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting “creativity”. The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites– they just have to convince a judge that the site is “dedicated to copyright infringement.”
A new generation of the very best urban sports stars are teaming up with incredible young film-makers. Together they’ve produced stunning films that have captured the attention – and the imagination – of tens of millions of viewers.
Dada was an art movement that sprang up in Zurich Switzerland roughly around 1916. It emerged largely in response to the atrocities and insanity of World War 1, and sought to find and experiment with new forms of expression in an attempt to rejuvenate the creative act. After the end of the war in 1918, Dada spread to Germany (Berlin, Cologne, Hanover), where it was to rebel against the increasingly militaristic and nationalistic policies of the emerging far right as typified by the eventual rise to power of Hitler’s Nazi party. Dada was important in an Art historical context in that it paved the way and laid the foundations for surrealism which was to follow. Many of the artists active in dada later becoming influential and active within surrealism. Although Dada groups existed in several forms for longer and shorter periods in other areas such in Paris, Italy, the Netherlands and New York. It’s spiritual and historical home has always been in Zurich (Switzerland), with a special mention going to post world war 1 Germany.
Rhythmus 21 (1921-1924), Hans Richter, 3.5 min, Germany
Symphonie Diagonale (1921-1927), Viking Eggeling, 7 min, Germany
Le Retour A La Raison (1923), Man Ray, 2 min, France
Entr’acte (1924), Rene Clair, Francis Picabia, 20 min, France
Le Ballet Mecanique (1924), Fernand Leger, Dudley Murphy, 14 min, France
Emak Bakia (1926), Man Ray, 17 min, France
Vormittagsspuk (Ghosts before breakfast) (1927), Hans Richter, 6 min, Germany
One of cinema’s most extraordinary talents, he has had a colossal influence on contemporary animation. His imagery, full of unexpected, outrageous conjunctions, comes from a consistent philosophy of militant Surrealism that underpins his work, in which he remains absolutely committed to the themes of dream, eroticism, revolt and freedom.
Disc 1
The Last Trick (1964)
JS Bach – Fantasy in G Minor (1965)
A Game with Stones (1965)
Punch and Judy (1966)
Et Cetera (1966)
Historia, Naturae, Suita (1967)
The Garden (1968)
The Flat (1968)
Picnic with Weissman (1968)
A Quiet Week in the House (1969)
Don Juan (1969)
The Ossuary (1970) (Both versions)
Jabberwocky (1971)
Leonardo’s Diary (1972)
Disc 2
The Castle of Otranto (1979)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1980)
Dimensions of Dialogue (1982)
Down to the Cellar (1983)
The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope (1983)
Virile Games (1988)
Another Kind of Love (1988)
Meat Love (1988)
Darkness-Light-Darkness (1989)
Flora (1989)
The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia (1990)
Food (1992)
Disc 3
Johannes Doktor Faust (1958)
Nick Carter in Prague (1977, excerpts)
The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (1984)
Les Chimeres des Svankmajer (2001)
Czech TV Interview (2001)
Lunacy trailer (2005)
Генрих Иваницкий, создатель газотранспортного кровезаменителя, больше известного под названием «голубая кровь» пережил одну из самых драматический историй в российской науке XX века.
Федор Углов, старейший практикующий хирург (с 1930 по 2004), работавший во всех областях хирургии и выполнивший многие принципиально новые операции первым в мире, произносит монолог со 100 летнего рубежа собственной жизни.
Александр Зиновьев признан выдающимся ученым в области теории знаков и теории индукции, входит в тройку сильнейших логиков мира, доктор философии, профессор логики, автор более 40 книг, среди которых знаменитые «Зияющие высоты». Александр Зиновьев произносит свой финальный монолог, содержанием которого стало то, что философ считает нужным и возможным оставит в назидание и в пользование потомкам. Это как бы последняя лекция, адресованная неизвестному поколению на пределе собственной жизни.
Paul Mawhinney was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Over the years he has amassed what has become the world’s largest record collection. Due to health issues and a struggling record industry Paul is being forced to sell his collection.
Life has a rhythm, it’s constantly moving. The word for rhythm ( used by the Malinke tribes ) is FOLI. It is a word that encompasses so much more than drumming, dancing or sound. It’s found in every part of daily life.
Tony Hill has described Downside Up as ‘a film which by the use of simple camera movement explores and reviews some relationships, literally upsetting earth’s stability’. Many of Hill’s films have been made with purpose-built equipment, in this case a rotating camera-carrying structure.
The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the credit crisis is to quickly supply the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated.
After hovering over Mount Everest and the gorges that plunge to the Ganges, you are pulled through the Earth’s atmosphere to glimpse the inky black of space over Tibet’s high desert. So begins The Known Universe, a new film produced by the American Museum of Natural History that is part of a new exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City.
A scientific film essay, narrated by Phil Morrison. A set of pictures of two picnickers in a park, with the area of each frame one-tenth the size of the one before. Starting from a view of the entire known universe, the camera gradually zooms in until we are viewing the subatomic particles on a man’s hand.
The film consists of extreme close-ups of children’s faces in various states of intense emotion, accompanied by the dramatic music of Philip Glass. Only in the final seconds of the film do we see what the children have been looking at all this time…
More than fifty years of disinformation and manipulation in the shadow of the media have divided and impoverished public opinion, so as to control it all the better.This film is neither a work of fiction, nor a documentary.
A gang in a Volvo have staked out a flat; when its occupants leave to walk their dog, the six break into the place. One keeps his eyes on a stopwatch: they have only ten minutes before the couple returns. Instead of stealing things, the gang goes from room to room making fascinating percussive music with found objects: first in the kitchen, then the bedroom, the bathroom, and the salon. Cabinet doors, pot lids, light switches, a pill dispenser, a lamp, books, and a vacuum cleaner hose all add to the suite in four movements. The drummers keep the first three rooms tidy, but what will the flat’s occupants make of the hurricane that hits the living room?
Nathan, a lad in his teens, is driving alone through a winter landscape. His pill bottle is beside him; he pops a few. He’s almost out of gas. He reaches a town, and while staring at someone sitting at a bus stop, he runs over someone. He gets out of the car: it seems to be a lifeless mannequin. He goes for help to a café; everyone’s a mannequin, and when he looks away, they move their positions. He hears sirens. He runs home. What’s he to do; is it a nightmare?
10 Minutes is a short film contrasting ten minutes in the life of a Japanese tourist in Rome with the bloody drama of a Bosnian family taking place at the same time less than an hour away in the besieged city of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War.
The ironic, heartbreaking and acid “saga” of a spoiled tomato: from the plantation of a “Nisei” (Brazilian with Japanese origins); to a supermarket; to a consumer’s kitchen to become sauce of a pork meat; to the garbage can since it is spoiled for the consumption; to a garbage truck to be dumped in a garbage dump in “Ilha das Flores”; to the selection of nutriment for pigs by the employees of a pigs breeder; to become food for poor Brazilian people.
Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene short involving plot-less images of old people with television sets for heads, a beautiful woman having sex, and overall confusion; and an old man reminiscing over his youth.
