Archivi categoria: cinema

flicker / nik sheehan. 2009

The flicker effect was identified by the famously independent-minded scientist W. Grey Walter in his best- selling 1953 book The Living Brain.
Grey Walter – who was soon to become the father of Artificial Intelligence – discovered that by using high-powered stroboscopes and experimenting with trigger feedback techniques where the flash was set to fire in synchronization with the brain’s rhythms, the brain is, “transformed temporarily to a different sort of brain.” Walter found that time itself could become lost or disturbed. As he observed of one subject:

“[He had] the sense of having been pushed sideways in time by flicker. Yesterday was no longer behind, and tomorrow was no longer ahead..”

Stroboscopic light, or light flashing on the eye between 8 and 13 flashes per second, induces alpha wave activity in the brain – a state normally associated with dreaming and creativity. Subjects often report seeing shapes and colours, some have full-blown hallucinations, others mystical experiences. Approximately one in 4,000 people will have an epileptic seizure.

In 1997, ten million Japanese schoolchildren, and some adults, tuned into the animé cartoon Pokemon to see a “flashing explosion with high frequency red and blue flicker stimulation” hit the screen and persist. What happened next sparked international headlines. Some viewers went into a trance-like state, as if hypnotized. Others experienced altered vision and shortness of breath. Some passed out, others had seizures. Hospitals all over Japan received admissions, though nobody was permanently damaged.

http://www.flickerflicker.com/flash/WhatIsFlicker/WhatIsFlicker.html

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/434039.Chapel_of_Extreme_Experience

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“jean dupuy ypudu”: un film de gilles coudert

Sandro Ricaldone

JEAN DUPUY YPUDU
Un film documentaire écrit et réalisé par Gilles Coudert
Cinéma le Saint-André-des-Arts – Paris
2 – 14 février 2022

Du 2 au 14 février, tous les jours (sauf 08/02) à 13h et les mardis 22 février et 1er mars

La galerie Loevenbruck organise des projections du film de Gilles Coudert autour de l’artiste Jean Dupuy au cinéma le Saint-André-des-Arts tous les jours, en présence du réalisateur ou d’invités.

Le film de Gilles Coudert raconte le destin singulier, humain, sensible, romanesque, extraordinaire de Jean Dupuy, artiste hors normes, charismatique et singulier. Portrait d’un personnage aux multiples vies : pionnier de l’art technologique, performeur et grand ordonnateur de soirées artistiques dans le New York effervescent des années 1970–1980, devenu ermite « graphologue », bricoleur et anagrammiste, retiré à Pierrefeu, nid d’aigle perché au sommet d’une montagne de l’arrière-pays niçois.

Le film se tisse en croisant l’échange intime entre l’artiste et le réalisateur avec les témoignages de Patricia Brignone, Catherine Cattaneo, Augustin Dupuy, Alexandre Gérard, Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux, Éric Mangion, Jeffrey Perkins, Julia Robinson et Christian Xatrec. Des images d’archives, pour la plupart inédites, invitent les spectateurs à suivre l’itinéraire unique de Jean Dupuy en replaçant ses actions dans leur contexte historique et artistique.

Gilles Coudert est auteur-réalisateur, producteur et éditeur.

macro / giuseppe garrera: omaggio a lorenza mazzetti, in occasione della giornata della memoria

continua (con ricordi, immagini e vicende, fino alla fondazione
del “Free Cinema Movement” e al ritorno in Italia) qui:
https://www.museomacro.it/it/extra/parole-it/giornata-della-memoria-un-omaggio-a-lorenza-mazzetti-il-cielo-cade/

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here’s the rawcrudedirty punk low-res >̷̪͋̀̐)̴̦̩͎̲̐͋=̷̡͕̘̊”̶͌̊”̶̜͌̊̔̚(̸̣͓̇͝)̵̟̒͆̿͋=̴̡̛͕͚͉͋̀̈́(̶̦̝̪͈́≠̻̦͋̒<̷̨̢͔̒̽̉͘͘ video (differx. 2022)

— the low-res low-fi punk & loose video of the first asemic event ever.
facebook broadcast Jan 8th, 2022, h. 5:30pm, Italy, Rome —
by differx :

(Take note: the actual event was the event, the video is not the event, it’s only a raw trace, a ruin, a remain —sprayed with random lines)

The facebook event was at https://www.facebook.com/events/1088380671780514/
Slowforward announcement was at https://slowforward.net/2022/01/08/%cc%b7%cd%8b%cd%80%cc%90%cc%aa%cc%b4%cc%90%cd%8b%cc%a6%cc%a9%cd%8e%cc%b2%cc%b7%cc%8a%cc%a1%cd%95%cc%98%cc%b6%cd%8c%cc%8a%cc%b6%cd%8c%cc%8a%cc%94%cc%9a%cc%9c%cc%b8%cc%87%cd%9d%cc%a3%cd%93/

punkasemic images & noises by differx
(CC) 2022 differx

nova express: “the intolerable kid” (readings by william s. burroughs and philip proctor)

“NOVA EXPRESS”
a film by Andre Perkowski
based on the writings of
William S. Burroughs

readings by
William S. Burroughs
and Philip Proctor
music by Andre Perkowski

(excerpt from draft five)

Thanks to:
James Grauerholz
Oliver Harris
Jan Herman
Keith Seward
Jan Herman
Carl Weissner
Giorno Poetry Systems
realitystudio.org

cia rinne @ the “haus für poesie” (berlin), today h. 19

screening today at the zebra poetry film festival, urania berlin

16h30 dealing with poetry/ umgang mit gedichten

19h: wortbilder, eine zebra lesenacht screenings+readings

an der urania 17, kleistsaal, 2g+

l’usage du mot, 7’46 min (2020)

official selection of the vienna poetry film festival, the monologues & poetry international film fest and the zebra poetry film festival berlin

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Reading and Conversation with the Poets
Jürg Halter (Switzerland) | Florence Pazzottu (France) | Jörg Piringer (Austria) | Cia Rinne (Germany) | Éric Sarner (France)

Hosted by: Daniela Seel

The event languages are German and French, with simultaneous interpretation. German translations of the French poems will be available.

What would a poetry film festival be without poems being read live and the people who write them? We have invited poets from France and the german-speaking countries whose texts are playing an important part in this year’s films. They will be presenting more of their work and giving us an insight into their very own worlds of poetic imagery.

tickets & info here:
https://www.haus-fuer-poesie.org/de/literaturwerkstatt-berlin/veranstaltungen/alle_veranstaltungen/wortbilder-eine-zebra-lesenacht1

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more about “wasting my grammar”:
https://slowforward.net/2021/05/21/wasting-my-grammar-cia-rinne-in-berlin/
& https://slowforward.net/2021/05/16/cia-rinne-berlin-wasting-my-grammar/

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“gaza”, di garry keane e andrew mcconnell: film in streaming (gratuitamente) dal 5 al 7 novembre

È difficile immaginare che qualcuno viva una vita normale nella Striscia di Gaza: questo documentario irlandese è un meraviglioso ritratto di chi abita in quel luogo, gente comune che vive una vita piena nonostante le macerie causate dal perenne conflitto.

GAZA di Garry Keane e Andrew McConnell, in streaming dal 5 al 7 novembre con #IFFSilverStream

Prenota subito il tuo biglietto gratuito
https://bit.ly/IFF-Gaza

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https://www.facebook.com/irishfilmfesta/posts/1947555882081125

“the velvet underground”: a todd haynes documentary

Sandro Ricaldone

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND
Documentary Film, USA, 2021, 110′
Directed by Todd Haynes
Produced by Todd Haynes, Christine Vachon, Julie Goldman, Carolyn Hepburn, Christopher Clements, David Blackman
Cinematography: Edward Lachman
Edited by Affonso Gonçalves, Adam Kurnitz
Distributed by Apple TV+
Release date July 7, 2021 (Cannes)

The Velvet Underground is a 2021 documentary film directed and produced by Todd Haynes that chronicles the life and times of the rock band The Velvet Underground.

The Velvet Underground was an influential band that arose from the music, art, and film avant-gardes of early-1960s New York City. Although not a commercial success at the time, it had a significant impact on underground, experimental, and alternative music and the development of punk and new wave music. Its core members were Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, John Cale, and Maureen Tucker. Artist Andy Warhol managed and promoted the band—convincing them to add German singer and model Nico to their line-up. Haynes’s film examines the cultural milieu of the band and its musical and cinematic influences. It tracks the band’s history from formation to the break-up of its original line-up in the early 1970s. Interviews with surviving band members Cale and Tucker and musicians the band influenced are woven with archival music and film material.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Velvet_Underground_(film)