Saturday, August 11, 2012
Rhymthmus dir Hans Richter (1921)
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"Soviet avant-garde tectonics first appear on film in an entirely abstract fashion, and not in the USSR at all, in the form of Hans Richter’s series of animated shorts, Rhythmus, made in 1921–23. These compelling successions of polygons, intersecting, growing and pulsating, were very obviously based on the precedent of suprematism, the cult-like cosmic communist abstraction movement that applied its shapes to everything from propaganda posters to ceramic plates to putative buildings"-Owen Hatherley
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Monday, August 6, 2012
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Sigue Sigue Sputnik- "21st Century Boy" dir (? any ideas?) (1984)
"Sigue Sigue Sputnik might be the first band to admit that their branding was more important than the music. Indeed, Tony James never allowed record executives to hear SSS demo tracks, instead playing them a short video collage of futuristic and science-fiction movie clips
"Conflict’s ascetic vegan anti-capitalism is the polar opposite of Sputnik’s total embrace of hi tech corporate culture. The video for “21st Century Boy” includes a shot of Martin Degville licking a Sony Discman. Sigue Sigue Sputnik embraced commercial sponsorship at a time when this was still thought of as massively uncool by most “serious” music fans".- John Eden, uncarved.org
Also interesting to note the possible origins of the name L-Vis 1990 in the video.
Friday, July 13, 2012
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