A New EVR
What follows is a doctored press release, much of which I either disagree with, question, have criticisms about, and opinions to add. My reactions follow the press release in red. Via e-Flux: After seven years as a traveling project, e-flux video rental (EVR) has found a permanent home at Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana. Donated to... [ Read More → ]
Ken Russell (1927–2011)
Ken Russell, the legendary British filmmaker responsible for provocative and iconoclastic films like The Devils (1971), Crimes of Passion (1984), Women in Love (1969), and Tommy (1975), has died at the age of eighty-four. He was born in Southhampton, England and attended naval college until studying photography at Walthamstow Art College. He later worked as... [ Read More → ]
DanceR(equired)
Pina Bausch, founder of Tanztheater was not interested in how people moved, but rather, what moved them. Like Bausch, Friedman’s new 16mm film Dancer manifests dancers’ internal monologues through self-scripted movement. Dancer is the most recent film from a new body of work that focuses primarily on performance and public space. But there’s so... [ Read More → ]
FOUR ADVENTURES OF REINETTE & MIRABELLE
Film Forum presents Eric Rohmer’s 1987 feature, Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle, the sister piece to his 1986 film, Le Rayon Vert (aka Summer). Over the course of four chapters, two young women –Reinette, from the city, and Mirabelle, from the country– meet when Reinette fixes Mirabelle’s flat bike tire. After bonding immediately, Reinette... [ Read More → ]
Videobytes
Videobytes at Russ & Daughters: 179 East Houston Street With work that spans a fifty-year period, Videobytes features pieces by internationally renowned experimental filmmakers Robert Breer and Harry Smith, conceptual artists John Baldessari and Gordon Matta-Clark, and a younger generation of video and performance artists including Kate Gilmore, Hiraki Sawa and Susana Mendes Silva. The common... [ Read More → ]
Kuchar and MoMA
Tonight: MoMA presents A Celebration of George Kuchar: Rambunctious Rarities, Moody Masterpieces to coincide with the exhibition Pagan Rhapsodies, opening this weekend at PS1 Planned prior to the artist’s recent death, this past September, George Kuchar: Pagan Rhapsodies includes many of the artist’s most important works, including films, videos, and works on paper. A presentation of Kuchar’s films... [ Read More → ]
Mono No Aware-2011 Program Lineup
Mono No Aware is an exhibition that will present an international program of expanded cinema performances. The program will present ephemeral works that emphasize the cinematic and phenomenological experience. Now that the internet, television, and cellphones have become an everyday vehicle for the moving image; audience experience and connectivity is significantly altered, and the basic... [ Read More → ]
Public Video: The High Line Channel
The High Line park recently announced they will host a daily program of outdoor video art this winter. Called the “High Line Channel,” a curated series of art films, videos, recorded historic works, and new video pieces will be screened from dusk to 10pm on various buildings just east of the High Line So the... [ Read More → ]
Nunvember NYC
So, I recently re-formatted this site, and for whatever reason– I lost a significant amount of content. One of the missing posts listed the details about the Flying Nun 30th Events in NYC.So I will re-post the latest below. Here’s the latest: 11/8: Open Deck DJ Night at Daddy’s Bar, BK. Bring yr favorite... [ Read More → ]
New Bruce Russell comp
A couple of months back, I started blathering on about FN’s 30th. One of the things that I was pretty excited about was a new Bruce Russell comp, called “Time To Go.” Listen to this fantastic radio interview, which gives insight to Russell’s involvement with the label and previews excerpts–complete with personal accounts– from the... [ Read More → ]