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Sacre bleu! Naked in Paris

Committed

http://www.hitandmiss.me

Man With a Movie Camera

Blue Remix

A plaything for the great observers at rest

In this installation, audience can control viewpoint and switch between geocentric model and heliocentric model through the operation of the device, conceptual model of Sun and Earth. But the operation of a moving eye : this is a kind of privileged power that the unmoving observer, using only a paper and a pen, a telescope, and his own imagination, can be able to reach. The act of re-adjusting the core of the world is a truly dynamic and exciting experience, but only in the conceptional phase. This concept made me named this artwork “plaything”.

http://counteraktiv.com/wrk/ap/index.html

Green Cloud

http://www.pixelache.ac/nuage-blog

Nora

“A highlight of the festival was …”Nora”, directed by Alla Kovgan and David Hinton. Based on the life of Zimbabwean-born dancer Nora Chipaumire, this film is part biopic, part fable, part dramatic cinema and part dance film. Filmed on location in Southern Africa and lusciously coloured, Nora engages with concepts of self and memory, and the active process of remembering, using a language of dance.

The traditional tools of filmmaking—lighting and landscape, pacing and movement—draw out story and character, and a searing performance by Chipaumire as herself, her mother, her father and other characters provides a strong emotional centre. Tableaux are carefully composed within the frame and in a gesture towards silent film scenes are punctuated by brief and sometimes humorous intertitles.” – Justine Shih Pearson, realtime #89, Australia, http://www.realtimearts.net/article/89/9340

http://www.movementrevolutionafrica.com/nora

Jean Genet

Un Chant d’Amour
1950, Runtime: 25 minutes

Un Chant d’Amour is French writer Jean Genet’s only film, which he directed in 1950. Because of its explicit (though artistically presented) homosexual content, the 26-minute movie was long banned and was also disowned by Genet later in his life.

The plot is set in a French prison, where a prison guard takes voyeuristic pleasure in observing the prisoners perform masturbatory sexual acts. In two adjacent cells, there are an older Algerian-looking man and a handsome convict in his twenties. The older man is in love with the younger one, rubbing himself against the wall and sharing his cigarette smoke with his beloved through a straw.

The prison guard, apparently jealous of the prisoner’s relationship, enters the older convict’s cell, beats him, and makes him suck on his gun in an unmistakably sexual fashion. But the inmate drifts off into a fantasy where he and his object of desire roam the countryside. In the final scene it becomes clear that the guard’s power is no match for the intensity of attraction between the prisoners, even though their relationship is not consummated.

Genet does not use sound in his film, forcing the viewer to completely focus on closeups of faces, armpits, and semi-erect penises. Originally produced as a porn movie of sorts, the film with its highly sexualized atmosphere has later been recognized as a formative factor for works such as the films by Andy Warhol.