27.10.15

The Dragon is the Frame




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Mary Helena Clark's excellent, mysterious, elusive The Dragon is the Frame (2014) has been streaming (in HD) on Vimeo for a little while, for free. Related: GAY GAZE – R.I.P. the great Mark Aguhar.

Realism(s) #58


Vivir para Vivir - Laida Lertxundi, 2015, 16mm

13.9.15

'All that was left was rubble'


Birds flying over destroyed homes in Khalidiya district, Homs - Sergey Ponomarev, 15/06/2014

28.8.15

Hou in London




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Next month at BFI Southbank: a complete Hou Hsiao-hsien retrospective. Highlights that are otherwise completely unavailable on watchable video copies: Edward Yang's Taipei Story, Daughter of the Nile, The Puppetmaster. Also: Flowers of Shanghai (in a new 35mm print that I've been warned is not quite optimal), Good Men, Good Women, Millennium Mambo, Café Lumière, etc.

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23.8.15

Illuminations #24


Studio firework in Roanoke, Virginia, 2008 - Jared Soares, originally from the series Small-Town Hip Hop in Virginia

22.8.15

88:88




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tears in your eyes, sharing a bed, shooting scenes, collecting cans, three years in prison, playing basketball, dancing on the couches, wandering alleyways, in my old kitchen, opening new books, always working, painting your blue house, our summer messages, lending mattresses, comrades this is for you...

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It's a great pleasure to see Isiah Medina's dazzling first feature 88:88 premiere at Locarno, then swiftly travel to TIFF Wavelengths and NYFF. Ripe for the booking by enterprising programmers! Recommended reading: Mark Peranson on Medina; Medina interviewed by Phil Coldiron in Cinema Scopean interview in Blackflash Magazine – 'they can cut my electricity, but I will find a way to cut my own movies...'

Realism(s) #57


88:88 - Isiah Medina, 2015, HD/SD video

Realism(s) #56


88:88 - Isiah Medina, 2015, HD/SD video