In “Cuadro por cuadro”, Lynne Sachs and Mark Street put on a workshop (taller in Spanish) with a group of Uruguan media artists to create handpainted experimental films in the spirit of Stan Brakhage. Sachs and Street collaborate with their students at the Fundacion de Arte Contemporaneo by painting on 16 and 35 mm film, then bleaching it and then hanging it to dry on the roof ...
ad feedbackRowland S. Howard, the Primitive Calculators, Ollie Olsen, Phillip Brophy and many others proffer their recollections and air their animosities in a tribute to the Melbourne underground music scene of '77 - '81. The Crystal Ballroom, the 'Little Bands', the Boys Next Door, the drugs, the fashions, the influences, the philosophies, the venues and the legacy of the tim...
Legendary blues guitarist BB King named Peter Green as one of the greatest exponents of the blues, and the 'only guitar player to make me sweat'. If Green had only written Black Magic Woman, his name would still have a place in blues rock history forever.
His three short years leading Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac saw the band established as one of the biggest-selling groups of t...
Gilles Perret has always associated the name "Walter" and the word "resistance." Even before knowing what the latter meant, Gilles knew that his neighbor had been sent to a concentration camp called Dachau. Through this story of Walter Bassan, a former resistance fighter and concentration camp internee from the Haute-Savoie, set against the current political backdrop, two quest...
Yusef是名美國出生、巴基斯坦裔的大學生,他的室友是熱愛龐克的非典型穆斯林,寢室自此成為舉辦龐克派對的場所,改編自同名小說,Taqwa原指來自真主阿拉的愛與恐懼,作者將之與Hardcore融合創出「Taqwacore」一詞,即為這群穆斯林樂手地下搖滾樂隊的團名,影片紀錄樂團美國巡演的行程,包括樂手的生活、他們的信仰,以及在不同文化宗教背景下產生的種種矛盾與衝擊,一新觀眾耳目。
片名很容易讓人以為這是部介紹龐克搖滾(Punk Rock)的音樂電影,事實上它是藉由伊斯蘭龐克從美國辛苦崛起然後反撲到回教國家革命過程的記錄片,進而探討封閉的傳統回教文化與新事物碰撞所擦出的火花和心酸。
The film contains the journey taken in search of a lost song. Famous singer Rasoolan Bai from 1950s India used her own singing methods and changed the lyrics to create different versions of the ‘thumri’ (a genre of traditional Indian music) song [My Breasts Are Wounded, Don't Throw Flowers at Me]. Her own singing style and ever-changing lyrics make this song a rare gem. As the ...
Wolfgang Tillmans became known during the nineties for his photos of parties and club life. His pictures had the effect of having been taken at random. Today he is one of the best-known photographers in the world. For four years, filmmaker Heiko Kalmbach followed him around with a video camera, observing his private as well as his professional life. It is Tillmans' voice speaki...