Monday, 01 February 2010 15:24
Elena Oroz
The last edition of the International Film Festival of Gijón devoted a retrospective to the german experimental filmmakers Matthias Müller and Christoph Girardet, an artistic tandem that, in most of their work, use the found footage technique to unravel the male dominant ideology underlying in classical cinema. This interview for Blogs&Docs is the result of a brief chat during the festival and extended later by email.
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Monday, 08 March 2010 17:03
Marcos Ortega
 Filmmaker Pat O'Neill through his company Lookout Mountain Studios, has released a first batch of four DVDs, from his early silent 16mm films to his latest digital works.
- Silent Works presents five films, both 16mm and 35mm, including the installation works Two Sweeps (1979) and Let's Make A Sandwich (1978) presented as continuous loops; plus Screen (1969), Squirtgun/Stepprint (1998) and Coreopsis (1998).
- Five Films centers in his 16mm films from the 70s, with Sidewinder's Delta (1976), Saugus Series (1974), Down Wind (1973), Foregrounds (1979) and Runs Good (1970).
- Trouble includes the 35mm works Trouble In The Image (1996), Horizontal Boundaries (2008) and the 16mm short film Runs Good (1970).
- And last, but not least, Starting to go bad contains three recent digital works, Starting To Go Bad (2009), I Open The Window (2009) and I Put Out My Hands (2009).
NTSC, Region free, 30US$ each, available in his website's store.
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Friday, 12 February 2010 20:55
Marcos Ortega
 Criterion has just announced the forthcoming publication of the second volume of the anthology By Brakhage. Next May 25th will see the release not only of this second volume, but of a 3-disc Blu-ray pack containing all the films in volumes 1 and 2. The second volume will contain the films The Wonder Ring (1955), The Dead (1960), Two: Creeley/McClure (1965), 23rd Psalm Branch (1966-1967/1979-1980), Scenes From Under Childhood [Part One] (1967), The Machine of Eden (1970), Star Garden (1974), Desert (1976), The Process (1972), The Domain of the Moment (1977), Burial Path (1978), Murder Psalm (1980), Duplicity III (1980), Unconscious London Strata (1981), Arabic 12 (1981), Visions in Meditation 1-4 (1989-1990), Boulder Blues and Pearls And... (1993), The Mammals of Victoria (1994), From: First Hymn to the Night - Novalis (1994), I Take These Truths (1995), The Cat of the Worm's Green Realm (1997), Yggdrasill: Whose Roots Are Stars in the Human Mind (1997), Ellipsis Reel 5 (1998), Persians 1-3 (1999) and Chinese Series (2003) with new high-definition digital transfers and many extras, including a booklet featuring film program notes by Marilyn Brakhage and write-ups of the films by Brakhage expert Fred Camper. Both packs are available for preorder. By Brakhage vol.2, 3 DVDs, Region 1, NTSC, 454 min., 39.95 USD. By Brakhage Blu-ray set, 3 Blu-rays, Region 1, NTSC, 697 min., 79.95 USD
Thursday, 28 January 2010 13:11
Marcos Ortega
 LUX has just released a second DVD of Guy Sherwin's films. While the previous volume Optical sound films (1971/2007) collected Sherwin's works dealing with his research on the 'synaesthesic relationship between sound and image manifest in the material of film sound', Messages deals with his more personal and lyrical films.
The publication will be celebrated in a launch event at Cafe Oto on Tuesday 23rd February 2010. Several of Guy Sherwin's films will be screened accompanied by a live soundtrack by John Edwards, Steve Noble and Alan Wilkinson.
The films included in this compilation are Messages (1981-4), Flight (1994-8), Prelude (1980-96), Filter Beds (1990-98) and Views from Home (1987-2005). Includes a small artists’ book and a specially commissioned essay on children and language by writer and critic Nicholas Tucker. DVD, PAL, 70 minutes, Region free, 20 GBP.
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Online gallery tank.tv beings the new year's programme with the work of Laetitia Benat (Villeurbanne, 1971), a Paris-based artist whose work revolves around photography, video, drawing and also strange figurines in ceramic.. Benat uses the simplest of video techniques to negotiate and toy with the way in which emotion and suspense are implied by images. Simple sounds, shots, sequences and subjects are used to examine the way in which the viewer is triggered into feeling. Allowing the viewer to extrapolate story and feeling from so little Benat's work examines the very building blocks of filmmaking and will be online until the 31st January.