Elle a passé tant d'heures sous les sunlights - Philippe Garrel, 1985, 35mm
24.3.14
12.3.14
Everything or nothing #6
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Bad filmmakers (sadly for them) have no ideas. Good filmmakers (it's what limits them) tend to have too many. Great filmmakers (especially the inventors) have only one. This idée fixe enables them to keep moving on, to take the idea through ever-renewing and ever-interesting landscapes. The price to pay is well-known: a certain solitude. What about great critics? It is the same thing, except there are none. They become (something else, outdated, filmmakers), they get (first famous, then on everyone's nerves), and finally, they bore. All but one.
--Serge Daney, in a review of Dudley Andrew's (very fine) 1978 biography of André Bazin, newly translated into English by Paul Chouchana for Double Exposure 6.
25.2.14
22.2.14
Illuminations #22, or: Sunset, Summer Solstice
Sun Tunnels - Nancy Holt, 1978, 16mm
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R.I.P. Nancy Holt, who passed away two weeks ago – "I have never lost my horror of the commodification of art..."
21.2.14
9.2.14
The devil, probably
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Some links: the excellent programme 'The Devil, Probably' (curated by Robert Snowden & Lucas Quigley and presented at Yale Union & Northwest Film Center between 4 January – 11 February) is accompanied online by a thoughtful archive of readings, including texts for Allan Sekula's class on globalisation at CalArts (in two parts: I, II). Other programmes of note: Courtisane 2014, 'Vengeance is Hers' at BAMcinématek (also: an interview with Thomas Beard & Nellie Killian) and 'Art of the Real' at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, which opens with Raya Martin & Mark Peranson’s La última película, one of the finest films of last year. AV Festival 14 (theme: Extraction) opens next month, and features a rare screening of La région centrale; a Wang Bing programme (inc. an installation of Crude Oil at Stephenson Works in Newcastle); Nikolaus Geyrhalter's Pripyat; two films by The Otolith Group; Xu Ruotao, J.P. Sniadecki & Huang Xiangs's Yumen; and performances by Akio Suzuki and Richard Skelton & Elysian Quartet.
Also: Anat Pick on Rose Lowder; a new film by Nathaniel Dorsky, December, which premieres as part of a four film cycle in SF in April; Éliane Radigue at the RFH; 'HYPNOSIS DISPLAY', a Grouper & Paul Clipson collaboration touring in June. And a late discovery: the early works on Jodie Mack's Vimeo channel, which is best worked through backwards (see also: Michael Sicinski on Mack's Yard Work is Hard Work and Persian Pickles, the former of which can be viewed in full here).
Also: Anat Pick on Rose Lowder; a new film by Nathaniel Dorsky, December, which premieres as part of a four film cycle in SF in April; Éliane Radigue at the RFH; 'HYPNOSIS DISPLAY', a Grouper & Paul Clipson collaboration touring in June. And a late discovery: the early works on Jodie Mack's Vimeo channel, which is best worked through backwards (see also: Michael Sicinski on Mack's Yard Work is Hard Work and Persian Pickles, the former of which can be viewed in full here).
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