

2019-01-06
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Mostly dark, rejecting images which are repeated. A stone wall, the chamber of a revolver which is, at first not recognizable, a close-up of a cactus. The duration of the takes emphasises the photographic character of the pictures, simultaneously with a crackling, brutal sound. (Hans Scheugl)
An early video work by Ivan Ladislav Galeta that underlines the perceptual presumptions of video-media.
7.0The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls.
10.0Pounding backbeats beaten by [(Don't Get)] warm[welcomes]th.
10.0Still it's really tall. Still it's really floundering/falling/fading.
10.0Strings together what's strung together (please use yr tether).
10.0Rather pointless, rather stilted, fetid; not what we want us going after.
10.0Cinema and painting establish a fluid dialogue and begins with introspection in the themes and forms of the plastic work of a woman tormented by the elongated specters, originating from her obsessions and nightmares.
6.5Centrist revelations abound among repetitions & revisitings.
Writing late becomes usual, we are always too late. Boris was my alter ego and I was his alter ego. Now that he is no longer here, I can be honest.
0.0In 1980, the first march of gays, lesbians and transvestites took place in Brazil in protest against the constant police operations that took place in São Paulo, which aimed to repress these groups. Based on Renan Quinalha's doctoral thesis, “Against morality and good customs: the sexual politics of the Brazilian dictatorship (1964-1988)”, carried out by the Institute of International Relations, a series of four 5 minute videos about the birth of the LGBT movement during the Military Regime.
10.0It's time the times met each other over & over.
10.0Don't ask me why, but I feel we're about to cry trying.
10.0Say Om as you reach home only to realize you never really left/stopped saying Om.
10.0Abandoning the Abaddon-loathed abandoner opens plenty of reclaimed... everything(s).
6.0The rare short film presents a curious dialogue between filmmaker Julio Bressane and actor Grande Otelo, where, in a mixture of decorated and improvised text, we discover a little manifesto to the Brazilian experimental cinema. Also called "Belair's last film," Chinese Viola reveals the first partnership between photographer Walter Carvalho and Bressane.
0.0An experimental journey through a year in the life of the director, using his always playing playlist to cross the boundaries of fiction and documentary. Through scenes of both comedy and tragedy, realistic documentary footage and experimental sequences of the director's environment and daily life we get a sometimes estranging image of a young man and also an intriguing insight in his mindset and how this translates to the imagery on screen.
10.0Locked away but not away; somewhere nearby but unreachable, a periphery so notfaroff it's always in sight.