Archive for the ‘Film’ Category
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Fischer
Last night Ted, Sarah, Zack, James, Curran and I met at the TIFF Lightbox to see the recent documentary on former World Chess Champion, Bobby Fischer. It was interesting and unsettling. Directed by Liz Garbus, the film followed his upbringing, his dedication to the game of chess from the age of six, and his personal psychological decline, leading to his ...
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Hot Docs
The Hot Docs Film Festival is upon us, and our correspondent C.S. Folkers is devouring films at an unprecedented rate. Along with the article “Two Approaches to Black History at the Hot Docs Film Festival” included in SB27, wherein C.S. Folkers reviews Göran Hugo Olsson’s Black power Mixtape 1967-1975 (Sweden, 2011) and Charles Officer’s Mighty Jerome (Canada, 2011), we’re posting ...
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The Schwitters Scandal
Last night Curran and I watched the recently released ARTHAUS MUSIK art documentary on the legacy left to the world by prolific German DADA (MERZ) artist Kurt Schwitters. With his only son Ernst nearing death after a stroke, Kurt’s grandson and daughter-in-law are battling it out with Marlborough Gallery in England to take back possession of – and exclusive selling ...
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TIFF
With the start of my grad classes and teaching two tutorials this week, I really didn’t think I’d have time to dip into the plenitude of the Toronto International Film Festival. Alas, I was wrong. Last night Riaz (who is working as the Media Room Co-ordinator for the festival) and I saw two features, Benedek Fliegauf’s Womb and the world ...
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Made Found
Made found footage mis-takes. Bad Burns | Paul Sharits | 1982 The player will show in this paragraph var s1 = new SWFObject(‘http://ubu.artmob.ca/video/flash/player-viral.swf’,'player’,’600′,’480′,’9′); s1.addParam(‘allowfullscreen’,'true’); s1.addParam(‘allowscriptaccess’,'always’); s1.addParam(‘flashvars’,'file=http://ubu.artmob.ca/video/flash/Sharits-Paul_Bad-Burns_1982.flv’); s1.write(‘preview’);
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Comment redonner un sens au mot ‘Humanisme’?
Peter Gidal | Upside Down Feature | 1967-1972 The player will show in this paragraph var s1 = new SWFObject(‘http://ubu.artmob.ca/video/flash/player-viral.swf’,'player’,’600′,’480′,’9′); s1.addParam(‘allowfullscreen’,'true’); s1.addParam(‘allowscriptaccess’,'always’); s1.addParam(‘flashvars’,'file=http://ubu.artmob.ca/video/flash/Gidal_Peter_Upside-Down-Feature_1967-72.flv’); s1.write(‘preview’);
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Southern Souls
Up late watching Mitch Fillon’s Southern Souls videos from southern Ontario musicians. Best thing to happen since my beloved Blogotheque. Gravity Wave‘s is particularly good. Beautiful music is everywhere.
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The Great Digital Film Festival
I can’t lie: I don’t often find myself in the area of the Scotiabank (formerly The Paramount) Theatre these days. Perhaps it’s the blaring club-tunes and limousines full of drunk suburban high-school girls crying on their Blackberries on Richmond Street, or maybe I left the Entertainment district in that era of my life when hobos slept in Speaker’s Corner, Much ...
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On a Residents kick
The Residents are awesome. Though less Pynchon-esque in their social obscurity, they still sport tuxedos and eyeball masks in public, and refuse to participate in interviews. Lovely. Plus, their music has spanned a few decades of awesomeness, and their wicked series of one-minute videos are great sensory treats. Below is a selection of recent favourites…
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fucked with the wrong broad
Change: I’ll believe it when I see it. Leeches are gross. Law is lovely. Paul Chan (b. 1973) Untitled Video on Lynne Stewart and Her Conviction, The Law, and Poetry (2006) From Ubuweb: On February 10, 2005, Lynne Stewart was convicted of providing material support for a terrorist conspiracy. She is the first lawyer to be convicted of aiding terrorism ...
