Included will be excerpts from Girls from My Hometown (1991), Marathon Runner (2002), Urban Girl Comes to Get Married (1992) and others. Jim Finn, director of The Juche Idea (2008), will present clips from his favorite movies and music videos from North Korea, punctuated by excerpts of Kim Jong Il’s On the Art of Cinema and the director’s own interpretations. Musical Numbers from the Juche-Oriented Socialist State of Korea Both sections suggest that the peasants revolted too soon and succeeded too late.” The especially fine second section, roughly twice as long, does the same thing with a more recent Marxist text by Mahmoud Hussein about Egyptian peasants’ resistance to English occupation prior to the “petit-bourgeois” revolution of Neguib in 1952. The first part shows a series of locations in contemporary France, accompanied by Huillet reading part of a letter Friedrich Engels wrote to Karl Kautsky describing the impoverished state of French peasants, and excerpts from the “Notebooks of Grievances” compiled in 1789 by the village mayors of those same locales in response to plans for further taxation. Critic Jonathan Rosenbaum writes, “There are no “characters” in this 105-minute feature about places, yet paradoxically it’s the most densely populated work in their oeuvre to date. Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet: Too Early, Too Late (Trop Tot, Trop Tard)Ī one-night revival of Straub and Huillet’s 1981 color documentary made in France and Egypt. This program is a part of EAI’s 40 year anniversary celebration. The story of an American tourist family that gets stranded in a government nuclear test site in the desert, the promotion for this film says it all: “They wanted to see something different, but something different saw them first…”Įlectronic Arts Intermix (EAI) is a leading international resource for video and media art whose core program is the distribution and preservation of a major collection of over 3,500 new and historical video works by artists. Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes (1977), an important influence on Maughan, will be screened in conjunction with this program. These rarely screened videotapes drew upon her eclectic upbringing in Los Angeles, tempering the grotesqueries of B-movies and pulp fiction with a dry conceptualist wit, and imbuing the hygienic domesticity of lifestyle magazines with a macabre and iconoclastic sensibility. A prolific contemporary of William Wegman, John Baldessari, and Paul McCarthy, Maughan produced nearly 300 direct-camera performances from 1973 through the 1980s. Tube Time, the festival’s long-running online found video showcase, trades its tournament format for topical visual culture selections chosen by bloggers from Teenage, Toys and Techniques, and Unchanging Window.Ī rare revival of the master of the Brazilian Cinema Novo movement’s seminal trilogy: Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol (Black God, White Devil) (1964) Terra em Transe (Earth Entranced) (1967) Antônio das Mortes (O Dragão da Maldade Contra o Santo Guerreiro) (1969).Įlectronic Arts Intermix presents Cynthia Maughan: Holidays in the SunĪ selection of Maughan’s work curated by EAI, accompanied by artists and videos that inspired her. Chewbacca, like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, is not history’s actor. ” - Moving Image Source Followed by a screening of Curt Hanks epic Star Wars: Chewbacca Supercut (2011) “Chewbacca Supercut is a bizarre visual analogue to Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) both focus our attention on minor characters from major cultural touchstones in order to explore the postmodern feeling of narrative powerlessness. Re-edit master and pop culture parser Rich Juzwiak (, VH1) presents a program of his influences and favorites. Structured as a filmic sestina, Perec and Queysanne reimagine the framework of the novel while maintaining much of the original narration (read by Shelly Duvall in the English version!). Georges Perec and Bernard Queysanne (1974)Īdapted from Georges Perec’s novel of the same name. Un homme qui dort (The Man Who Slept) Dir. “The only Thompson adaptation to truly express the author’s deeply personal darkness.” - Moving Image Source Georges Perec wrote dialogue made up almost entirely of cliches and aphorisms for this adaptation of Jim Thompson'sA Hell of a Woman. Migrating Forms will showcase films and videos by 48 artists living and working in 19 countries including Argentina, Algeria, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Morocco, The Netherlands, Portugal, The Republic of Congo, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the festival of new work:
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