Night

Jim Jarmusch's contribution to the compilation film 'Ten Minutes Older'. combined with the Bach Goldberg Variations. what a piece of Art!

The Hill (1965)by Sidney Lumet

If the cruelty of war is not enough, this film portrays the crualty of little personas who populate the army.beautiful photography, great acting demonstaring the spirit of men

L'Enfer

Extrait 3 de L'Enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot, film inachevé dont il ne reste que ses essais Avec Romy Schneider et Serge Reggiani Sortie en salles le 23 septembre (docu-film de Serge Bromberg)

"Nothing lives in me then my life"

"The music feels strong in my heart...Why can't i play the piano like i can breath?

From The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser. A Film by Werner Herzog

Voyage around my room

some suggestions for voyaging differently

reading at the moment a funny little book, 'Voyage around my Room' by Xavier de Maistre in Hebrew (The French text of Voyage autour de ma chambre

is available online ).

In 1790 Xavier de Maistre was punished for having gotten into a duel by being put under house arrest for forty-two days. De Maistre took advantage of his sequestration, finding within his own four walls a wealth of material to dwell on. His short book, Voyage around my Room, recounts his expeditions during that time. It is a travel book like no other.

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Which reminded me the book, À Rebours (translated into English as Against the Grain or Against Nature)by french novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans. The book tell the story of Des Esseintes- the last member of a powerful and noble family. He decides to leave Paris where he had lived an extremely decadent life which has left him disgusted with human society. And he absconds to a small house in the countryside in solitude.

He fills the house with his eclectic art collection. And decides to spend the rest of his life in intellectual and aesthetic contemplation. He indulge himself in intellectual experiments, and see his life only worth while by living an hyperaesthetic experience of the world.

on almost cloistral methods, to soothe his fantasy and to gratify his complex aesthetic sensations, his love of reading and contemplation. The finest pictures of Gustave Moreau hang on the walls, with the fantastic engravings of Luyken, and the strange visions of Odilon Redon. He has a tortoise curiously inlaid with precious stones; he delights in all those exotic plants which reveal Nature's most unnatural freaks; he is a sensitive amateur of perfumes, and considers that the pleasures of smell are equal to those of sight or sound; he possesses a row of little barrels of liqueurs so arranged that he can blend in infinite variety the contents of this instrument, his "mouth-organ" he calls it, and produce harmonies which seem to him comparable to those yielded by a musical orchestra.

In one of the book's more comic episodes, he spontaneously decides to visit London. When he reaches the train station, he overhears some English visitors, whom he finds disgusting. Feeling that he now knows what London would be like, he immediately returns home. x

also found

aleksandra domanovic video, aleksandra is humming while mapping her home in this video

No One Belongs Here More Than You

Miranda July is a filmmaker, performing artist and writer. her movie, Me and You and Everyone We Know is one of the most delicious and enchanted Gems i saw in the recent years. if you loved her film don't miss this: her web site offer a surprisingly fresh new way of telling a story (it's getting better by the page!) and it is 'only' a promotional move for the real thing

via coudal

fictional floor plans

Artist Mark Bennett drew floor plans for the homes of TV and movie characters. Bennett also published a book of fictional floor plans. Link to a gallery. Link to another gallery. via neatorama and J-Walk Blog

The Addams Family Home Floor Plan 1995

Home of Norman Bates , (near) Fairvale, CA (Psycho) 2004 Drawings, Watercolors on paper.

Home of Uncle Owen / Aunt Rue and Luke Skywalker, A Universe Far, Far Away (Star Wars) . 2003 India ink on paper 76.2 x 106.7 cm

Smell Jars of the Stasi

For those who watched the excellent movie, 'The lives of Others', this smell jars will be familiar, yet their historic authenticity came to my knowlege only by reading this overwhelming information via kirchersociety After the fall of the Berlin Wall, many astounding revelations came to light about the Stasi, the East German secret police. One of the more bizarre activities the Stasi was found to have engaged in was the collection of Geruchsproben ( smell samples ) for the benefit of the East German smell hounds. he odors, collected during interrogations using a perforated metal “smell sample chair” or by breaking into people’s homes and stealing their dirty underwear, were stored in small glass jars. Many of the remaining East German smell jars are on display at the Stasi Museum in Berlin. via kirchersociety

' What Barry Says '

Is a Brilliant Animation, an un-apologetic criticism of US foreign policy and The Project for the New American Century. written by Barry Mcnamara and Simon Robson in 2003, sadly still relevent today. won best animation: Brooklyn International Film Festival

. stills image from the movie and more info and other short animation movies

via design observer

On Eye Rape

Takahiko Iimura, 'On Eye Rape' 1962, 16mm, b&w/si, 10 min,

"The original film was rescued from a Tokyo trash bin. It is an American sexual education film in which plant and animal sex are explained. I, together with an artist friend, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, punched big holes in almost all of the frames. It was a protest against Japanese censorship of explicit images of sex, particularly pubic hair which the censors would cover with black marks. I inserted a few subliminal frames of pornographic imagery from magazines several times throughout the film. At the end, I even punched holes in these subliminal pictures, thereby 'censoring' the censored image." via ubu

The song of the stone

A list of experimental Film Works by Toshio Matsumoto for view on-line.

among the most beautiful is The song of the stone (1963) so very beautiful, slow and pensive (some of the films are in Japanesse, with no subtitles, but it is beautiful and viewable just the same-it's a visual poetry!) an interview with the artist

I WAS LOST

For the past few days, i've been watching LOST series; I'm completely captured by it. As someone who doesn't even posses a TV at home, and not thinking higly about TV all together, this series have enchanted me like a child being introduced to a Pegasus who came to visit him in an imaginary garden....

Or maybe it is simply the yearning for being lost in an Island such this

Films worth watching

The Fugitive Kind Directed by Sidney Lumet, Screenplay by Tennessee Williams. starring Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, and the amazing Anna Magnani

Reflections in a Golden Eye Directed by John Huston starring Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor