Eyeteeth: A journal of incisive ide (Free subscription) | 06/28/2009
When the Bicycle Film Festival rolls into Minneapolis July 8 it, sadly, won't include the JoyRide art exhibition that accompanied it in New York. Organized by BFF and Anonymous Gallery, the show included a huge array of works by artists including Aiko, Jonas Mekas, Martha Cooper, Ellis Gallagher, Ji Lee and many others. One work that piqued my interest: Benedict Radcliffe 's graffiti bike. He sends...
Maxim Northover at FAD writing for I V Y paris A few doors from Maison de la Poésie on rue Quincampoix, a still modest street of galleries in Paris, is the Galerie du Jour agnès b. Often overlooked for her...
New Zealand vodka company 42Below and the Beijing Film Studios have partnered to sponsor forty-two 42-second shorts from, yep, 42 creative types from across the planet. The high-flown premise: each piece is inspired by the director’s dreams. Sure, it’s a marketing gimmick, but the product placement is near nil and the commissioned names speak for themselves: David Lynch, Kenneth Anger,...
Courtesy of MovieMan at The Dancing Image , this meme has been floating around all week and has been quite great to see. Those tagged were asked to pick the 10 most influential film books to their development as writers, scholars, and cinephiles of all sorts. I was thrilled to be tagged in MovieMan's initial post and since then Brandon was tagged by another friend – Jeremy Richey of the always...
The last time Asia Argento was at Cannes, she had three films in the festival. In one of them, she distracted an ex-lover by idly masturbating in front of him ( Boarding Gate ); in another, she licked the blood off her wounded lover’s chest ( The Last Mistress ); and in the third, she made out with a rottweiler ( Go Go Tales ). This year, the fearless Italian actor-director was no less ubiquitous...
Rare Audio from Anthology Film Archives (1964-1974)UbuWeb has announced a new project in their ongoing partnership with Anthology Film Archives in New York City. This is the first in a series of over 1,000 tapes from the Anthology historic audio collection. These recordings feature many years worth of interviews, lectures, question & answer sessions and other amazing discoveries. The first series...
Hell, I haven't even seen this , but how could it not be our DVD of the Week? Mekas, or any experimental film for that matter, on DVD is a rarity. This may be expensive, but its an immediate must buy. 150 page booklet!? Are you kidding me??? This is a cinephile's dream DVD.
News: The BFI have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of Central Bazaar on 25th May 2009 priced at £19.99 RRP. Director, artist and advocate of independent film, Stephen Dwoskin gathered a group of strangers together for five weeks in 1974 and filmed th...
This book is a must-buy for anyone interested in the Beat Generation, fifties and sixties avant-garde or non-mainstream cinema, and the evolution of the New York art scene. Jack Sergeant provides a extensive bibliography, an index of films discussed, and film sources which will get any reader searching the internet for clips or ways to purchase films with fantastic titles such as – at random...
My complimentary copy of The Believer slid through my letterbox today like a rude, papery tongue between metal lips. It’s the annual film issue, containing a free Godard DVD of ultra-rare shorts, little pieces by myself, B. Kite, J. Winter, S. Salamensky, and big meaty interviews with John Sayles, Sam Mendes, Julie Delpy, Mike Leigh. (I [...]
FOURTEEN days on and Sandi Thom's beloved cat Toots is still missing somewhere near Brechin or Edzell. "We are doing everything we can to find her," the singer tex
In the late 60s, Anton Perich ran an underground film program in Paris that screened the early works of Andy Warhol and Jonas Mekas. When he moved to New York City in the 1970s, he freelanced photography gigs for Interview Magazine and ran one of the very first ‘underground’ cable access shows. He was even [...]
It’s been a rough start to 2009 for Manhattan cinephiles still lamenting the loss of Mondo Kim’s video archives to to an eccentric Sicilian: New Yorker Films, the venerable distributor of foreign classics, has folded after 44 years; Film-Makers’ Cooperative, a distributor of avant-garde films fronted by Jonas Mekas, is facing eviction from its TriBeCa [...]
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