Avant followup.

How's that for an oxymoron? At any rate, one week after the Avant-Garde Blog-A-Thon, a few loosely related items for those still in the mood. What Experimental Cinema, found via filmtagebuch, is about is clear enough, but there's more than immediately hits the eye. There are three sections: the main site, where anyone can read and where registered users can post news and reviews; same rules go for discussions on the board and the blogs. So far, most of the news is in English and most of the blogs are in Spanish, since the site's created by Spain-based Marcos Ortega.

"I used to think Godard was not as radical as video activists during the same period who 'went out to the people,' including them in the process of production," writes Joanne Richardson. "In hindsight, he seems more radical for having posed the questions that went to the root of the problem. Godard drew a distinction between making a political film and making film politically." Also in Art Margins, Sergei K Kapterev: "Towards a New Archaeology of Russian Cinema."

"Manon de Boer records people in the act of remembering their past experiences, their own words or memories of others' words," writes Christy Lange in Frieze. "The resulting films and sound-pieces sometimes testify not to the strength of memory but rather to its flexibility." Two of the films discussed: Sylvia Kristel - Paris (yes, she of the early Emmanuelle films) and In Resonating Surfaces: "This time the narrator is Suely Rolnik, a former student of Félix Guattari and a lover of Gilles Deleuze who left her native São Paulo for Paris after being imprisoned as a dissident." Also: Catrin Lorch on recent work by Clemens von Wedemeyer.

Art Daily reports on the September 26 release of Brian Eno's elaborate DVD release, 77 Million Paintings, "which sees the continued evolution of Eno's exploration into light as an artist's medium and the aesthetic possibilities of 'generative software.'"

Posted by dwhudson at August 9, 2006 12:50 PM