Michael Szpakowski
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Re: SOCIALEAST SEMINAR ON ART AND MEMORY (Zagreb 21 April 2007)


http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi/2006/11/13#post121

http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi/2006/11/23#post125

m.

--- Reuben Fowkes <R.Fowkes@mmu.ac.uk> wrote:

> SOCIALEAST SEMINAR ON ART AND MEMORY
>
> Mimara Museum Zagreb, Saturday 21 April 2007
>
> The SocialEast research forum considers the art and
> visual culture of Eastern Europe through
> collaborative projects, exhibitions and seminars.
> The goal of SocialEast is to encourage comparative
> research into the art history of the countries of
> Eastern and Central Europe, as well as consider
> wider issues in socialist visual culture and beyond.
> The fourth seminar focuses on the role of artists in
> excavating memories of the socialist period. It
> considers the role of artists, curators and
> researchers in analysing and processing public
> memories and consciousness, as well as the role of
> visual representations in our understanding and
> recoding of Eastern Europe

DISCUSSION

Re: NEW SHORT FILM: ZUR FARBENLEHRE (THEORY OF COLOURS)


Gosh! - that's rather beautiful, but not in a random
way - it's sensitively & carefully constructed too.
Have you submitted it to the pocket films festival?

http://www.festivalpocketfilms.fr/index.php

I'm interested in the music which is nice in a sort of
floaty, undemanding, ambientish way..but presumably
wasn't written for the piece. Did you cut to it? Or
did it seem right afterwards & you added it? Because
the visual side of the video seems like a very
*careful*, *thoughtful* affair, like you've paid quite
a lot of close attention to each short sequence, to
getting the feel right( & to realising, developping
that gorgeous colour; is that straight out of the
phone or did you push it a bit in the editing?) but
then the music rather *imposes* its generalised
melancholic ache on top, almost in spite, of this....
not really a criticism.. more thinking aloud..I'd be
interested to know your thoughts..
michael

--- azimuthfilms@hotmail.co.uk wrote:

> ZUR FARBENLEHRE (THEORY OF COLOURS) -- a new short
> film for critique.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hsvq-d7eK8
>
> The footage for this film was shot entirely using
> the video camera on a Nokia N73 mobile phone. The
> footage was subsquently rendered and effected
> through software on a standard PC, prior to editing.
>
> The soundtrack is 'Vladivostok' by Sonmi451
> (Monotonik Records, 2006)
>
> "When the eye sees a colour it is immediately
> excited, and it is its nature, spontaneously and of
> necessity, at once to produce another, which with
> the original colour comprehends the whole chromatic
> scale"
>
> -- Goethe from 'Theory of Colours'
>
> Length: 7 minutes and 25 seconds.
>
> Azimuth Films UK, 2007
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DISCUSSION

Re: Sphinx Egypt


Wonderful.
This is quite literally sublime, but there's a note
of bathos too as the birds flock & squawk around - you
catch your breath -and if you don't catch your breath
please look hard into your soul - & then you have to
smile a little. Something of Shelley's Ozymandias too
in this: 'Look on my works ye mighty and despair!'
There's an interesting dichotomy in Doron's work
between the highly worked pieces - those with music &
actors, or the poetic documentaries - & these
apparently simple, found, works where he points the
camera at the right time, the at-the-right-time,
Cartier-Bresson like, being key..
(Indeed it seems to me there's somethig not dissimilar
to the influence of surrealism in C-B's work operating
in Doron's - it's as if the surreal/magical realist
element has been distilled, refined down so delicately
& completely that its presence is almost imperceptible
at first glance..it's only on further
investigation/contemplation/reflection that the
revelation, the unwrapping, of the profound
strangeness & singularity of the subject as a *central
theme & action* of the piece becomes clear)
I really recommend to people they spend some time
looking at Doron's recent work...in particular from
'broadway canal'
http://the9th.com/?p1
to this one.
It doesn't shout from any rooftops, it has no
gimmicks, no punch lines, in some ways it's quite
austere but it has a genuine depth & an unforced
complexity. Each movie is a mystery movie - one
returns many times & still finds something new..
It's an impressive & substantial - & I believe it
will be an enduring - body of work.
michael

--- doron golan <d@the9th.com> wrote:

> http://the9th.com/?p4
>
> new video from Giza.
> cheers,
> doron
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DISCUSSION

Re: Ilkley Moor


Well, -that is virtuoso on so many fronts, Vijay!
You're too modest -it's more a set of variations than
a remix -I especially love the little bits of
counterpoint, in particular the high countermelody.
I know nothing about C64 or SIDs -I had to google to
find a player ( I used sidplay2).
What software did you use to write it & do you write
directly into it or do you write , say, a MIDI first &
then transform it? If the first I'm even more deeply
impressed both by the end result & by your industry.
Made my day!
best
michael
--- Vijay Pattisapu <lexicontrol@gmail.com> wrote:

> C64 SID remix of the song attached.
>
> On 15/01/07, Michael Szpakowski <szpako@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Of the cycle of birth & death
> > & the importance of warm headgear:
> >
> >
>
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi/2007/01/13#post133
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> > 40MB, sound.
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> > best
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