Philosophy and the Matrix - Baudrillard
See the full documentary here.
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What is Modernism/Postmodernism?
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Killing Us Softly 4 (2010) - 1/2
“In this update of her pioneering Killing Us Softly series, Jean Kilbourne takes a fresh look at how advertising traffics in distorted and destructive ideals of femininity. Killing Us Softly 4 stands to challenge a new generation of students to take advertising seriously, and to think critically about popular culture and its relationship to sexism, eating disorders, and gender violence.”
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Situationist International - Part 1 of 3
On the Passage of a few People through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1956-1972
A video documentary combining exhibition footage of the Situationist International exhibitions with film footage of the 1968 Paris student uprising, and graffiti and slogans based on the ideas of Guy Debord (one of the foremost spokesmen of the Situationist International movement). Also includes commentary by leading art critics Greil Marcus, Thomas Levine, and artists Malcolm Mac Laren and Jamie Reid. Branka Bogdanov, Director and producer. NTSC-VHS 22 min. 1989 -
Can Dialectics Break Bricks?
Excerpts from René Viénet’s 1973 film “Can Dialectics Break Bricks?”
“Imagine a kung fu flick in which the martial artists spout Situationist aphorisms about conquering alienation while decadent bureaucrats ply the ironies of a stalled revolution. This is what you’ll encounter in René Viénet’s outrageous refashioning of a Chinese fisticuff film. An influential Situationist, Viénet stripped the soundtrack from a run-of-the-mill Hong Kong export and lathered on his own devastating dialogue… . A brilliant, acerbic and riotous critique of the failure of socialism in which the martial artists counter ideological blows with theoretical thrusts from Debord, Reich and others… . Viénet’s target is also the mechanism of cinema and how it serves ideology.”
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Koyaanisqatsi also known as Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance, is a 1982 film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke.
The film consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse footage of cities and many natural landscapes across the United States. The visual tone poemcontains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and music. Reggio explains the lack of dialogue by stating “it’s not for lack of love of the language that these films have no words. It’s because, from my point of view, our language is in a state of vast humiliation. It no longer describes the world in which we live.” In the Hopi language, the word Koyaanisqatsi means “unbalanced life”. The film is the first in the Qatsi trilogy of films: it is followed by Powaqqatsi (1988) and Naqoyqatsi (2002). The trilogy depicts different aspects of the relationship between humans, nature, and technology. Koyaanisqatsi is the best known of the trilogy and is considered a cult film. However, because of copyright issues, the film was out of printfor most of the 1990s.[3]
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![In her most recognizable work to date, “Suns (From Sunsets) from Flickr,” Penelope Umbrico takes images of sunsets posted by Flickr users, then crops, prints and presents them as a grid of hundreds of photographs. Each time Umbrico exhibits the work, which is ongoing, she adds to the title the current number of sunset photographs on Flickr, which is constantly increasing as new images are added and new users join the community. [Source]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0dq2dlYi31rowv96o1_500.png "In her most recognizable work to date, “Suns (From Sunsets) from Flickr,” Penelope Umbrico takes images of sunsets posted by Flickr users, then crops, prints and presents them as a grid of hundreds of photographs. Each time Umbrico exhibits the work, which is ongoing, she adds to the title the current number of sunset photographs on Flickr, which is constantly increasing as new images are added and new users join the community. [Source]")
In her most recognizable work to date, “Suns (From Sunsets) from Flickr,” Penelope Umbrico takes images of sunsets posted by Flickr users, then crops, prints and presents them as a grid of hundreds of photographs. Each time Umbrico exhibits the work, which is ongoing, she adds to the title the current number of sunset photographs on Flickr, which is constantly increasing as new images are added and new users join the community. [Source]
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Alec Soth discussing his working method.
http://www.jeudepaume.org/index.php?idArt=486&lieu=1&page=article&idImg=571
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In God’s Hands, Markel Redondo 2010.
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![When Albert Hastings was 85 years old,photographer KayLynn Deveney moved near his small flat in Wales. KayLynn took notice of the small rituals and routines - gardening, laundry, grocery shopping - that made up Bert’s life. A friendship slowly developed as KayLynn began photographing parts of Bert’s day. The two began a simple yet effective method of storytelling - with KayLynn’s images and Bert’s handwritten text - that evolved into The Day-to-Day Life of Albert Hastings, a poignant and profound chronicle of aging, living alone, and the small joys that make up our daily lives. Containing 78 annotated photographs along with poems written by Bert, his clock drawings, and personal family photographs, The Day-to-Day Life of Albert Hastings gives the reader a glimpse into one man’s life; we can only imagine what stories are left untold. [source]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzacj2aJF41rowv96o1_500.jpg "When Albert Hastings was 85 years old,photographer KayLynn Deveney moved near his small flat in Wales. KayLynn took notice of the small rituals and routines - gardening, laundry, grocery shopping - that made up Bert’s life. A friendship slowly developed as KayLynn began photographing parts of Bert’s day. The two began a simple yet effective method of storytelling - with KayLynn’s images and Bert’s handwritten text - that evolved into The Day-to-Day Life of Albert Hastings, a poignant and profound chronicle of aging, living alone, and the small joys that make up our daily lives. Containing 78 annotated photographs along with poems written by Bert, his clock drawings, and personal family photographs, The Day-to-Day Life of Albert Hastings gives the reader a glimpse into one man’s life; we can only imagine what stories are left untold. [source]")
When Albert Hastings was 85 years old,photographer KayLynn Deveney moved near his small flat in Wales. KayLynn took notice of the small rituals and routines - gardening, laundry, grocery shopping - that made up Bert’s life. A friendship slowly developed as KayLynn began photographing parts of Bert’s day. The two began a simple yet effective method of storytelling - with KayLynn’s images and Bert’s handwritten text - that evolved into The Day-to-Day Life of Albert Hastings, a poignant and profound chronicle of aging, living alone, and the small joys that make up our daily lives. Containing 78 annotated photographs along with poems written by Bert, his clock drawings, and personal family photographs, The Day-to-Day Life of Albert Hastings gives the reader a glimpse into one man’s life; we can only imagine what stories are left untold. [source]
![In her most recognizable work to date, “Suns (From Sunsets) from Flickr,” Penelope Umbrico takes images of sunsets posted by Flickr users, then crops, prints and presents them as a grid of hundreds of photographs. Each time Umbrico exhibits the work, which is ongoing, she adds to the title the current number of sunset photographs on Flickr, which is constantly increasing as new images are added and new users join the community. [Source]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0dq2dlYi31rowv96o1_1280.png "In her most recognizable work to date, “Suns (From Sunsets) from Flickr,” Penelope Umbrico takes images of sunsets posted by Flickr users, then crops, prints and presents them as a grid of hundreds of photographs. Each time Umbrico exhibits the work, which is ongoing, she adds to the title the current number of sunset photographs on Flickr, which is constantly increasing as new images are added and new users join the community. [Source]")
