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walking history’s ruins w/ Chris Marker & Arvo Pärt

Posted in Cinema, Visual culture, tagged , , on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Michael Moore may be American cinema’s best known film essayist (or propagandist, if you like), but the leader of the genre is still alive and kicking, at age 88, living quietly in Paris (no doubt with one or several cats). Chris Marker’s Pictures at an Exhibition is a walk through a gallery of his photoshopped […]

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Mars attacks Sydney!

Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , , on September 23, 2009 | 7 Comments »

The photos are a bit too beautiful to resist sharing. And the stories taken from the archive of the already screened: “like scenes from Mad Max,” “like waking up on Mars,” “like a nuclear winter morning”. . . White urban Australia’s dreamtime apocalypse of being taken over by the Outback, the uncanny aboriginal sacred that […]

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cinematic ecologies

Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, Philosophy, tagged , , , , on July 11, 2009 | 7 Comments »

As ecocriticism expands and deepens in scope (of subject matter & media examined), extent (internationally), and diversity (in approaches, connections with other schools of thought, etc.), its interactions with non-literary fields such as cinema studies, theatre/performance studies, and musicology (as I posted about recently) are starting to develop in healthy ways. The ASLE conference had […]

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filmmakers & the Iranian opposition

Posted in Cinema, Politics, tagged , , , on June 20, 2009 | 7 Comments »

Two of the world’s best known Iranian artists, Marjane Satrapi, author of the graphic novel Persepolis and director of the Oscar-winning animated feature based on it, and leading filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, have been presenting apparent “proof” at the European Parliament that Mousavi actually won the elections. This comes in the form of an internal memo […]

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