Sunday, October 31, 2010
Philip K. Dick: A Day in the Afterlife (1994)
An Episode of the BBC series "Arena"
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Jon Stewart C-Span Interview
In honor of the Rally to Restory Sanity and/or Fear, here's my favorite Jon Stewart interview.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Who is the Master? film/interview by Edgar Pêra Lisboa with Robert Anton Wilson (1994)
Reality is what you can get away with
Art of Noise- Close (to the Edit) dir Zbigniew Rybczynski
Classic video
Sunday, October 17, 2010
"Half Mensch" by Einsturzende Neubaten dir Sogo Ishii
speaking of found sound stomping, shoving, and pounding
Saturday, October 16, 2010
I Hear a Shadow dir Nico Vascellari (2009) (excerpt)
Nico Vascellari bangs a stick against a wall and creates an ungodly noise in a stunning performance piece
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Threads (1984) Dir Mick Jackson
In my formative high school years, I received a film education through my local library, which was the only place you could find movies from before 1975 (and found Blockbuster, Video Update, or other now extinct chains to be the enemy). Simultaneously, I obsessively used the library to mine the archives for "samples" to powder the rudimentary basement electronic music I was making at the time (examples of this will eventually be posted here). So I decided to check out an innocuous-seeming BBC drama called Threads from 1984 hoping to find a few cool sound samples and expecting little else. As any one alive when it first aired in the UK can attest, it is one of the most disturbing, terrifying films ever made. Going into scientific and horrific medical detail of what the fallout of a nuclear assault on Britain would be like, it's no surprise this was required watching for a country in the grips of the cold war. That the threat is no less plausible now should be a good enough reason to revisit this one.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Solaris (1972) dir Andrei Tarkovsky
Need I say More?
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