http://www.indiewire.com/2017/03/lars-von-trier-retirement-house-that-hack-built-1201792218/

DEMONLOVER by Olivier Assayas.

   

Sink or Swim.

  

Thank you Su Friedrich for sharing your work. True avant-garde personal cinema. 

So Inspiring-  'Sink Or Swim.' I too, was haunted by those water moccasins.

A lot of people forget how important is to be creative. If all you had was academic ability, you wouldn't be able to create nothing. Creative persons are motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Steve Severin's new work

http://stevenseverin.com/album/the-vril-harmonies

                                                     

    

              yum (yum) .

Zedd.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/21/nyregion/kent-theater-brooklyn.html?_r=1

 

Nick Zedd Skype interview with Joey Huertas at The Kent Theatre

                             http://nickzedd.comNick Zedd is an American filmmaker and author from New York City. He coined the term Cinema of Transgression in 1985 to describe a loose-knit group of like-minded filmmakers and artists using shock value and black humor in their work. These filmmakers and artistic collaborators included Richard Kern, Tessa Hughes Freeland, Lung Leg, Annie Sprinkle and Lydia Lunch. Under numerous pen names, Zedd edited and wrote the Underground Film Bulletin (1984–90) which publicized the work of these filmmakers. The Cinema of Transgression was explored in Jack Sargeant's book Deathtripping (Creation Books). Mr Zedd's autobiography Totem of the Depraved was published by Henry Rollins' 2.13.61 publications in 1996. From 2004 to 2008 Nick Zedd produced and directed The Adventures of Electa Elf, a low-budget TV series out of NYC. Since moving to Mexico in 2011 Nick Zedd has edited three issues of Hatred of Capitalism magazine in which his Extremist Manifesto was published, sending shock waves through the art world. Recent films shot in Mexico City include Dr Shinto: Frustration, Cockfight, Paradise Lost, Demonic Sweaters: Love Always Love and a series of music videos for reggaeton singer Natalia Ibenez Lorio aka #laBAE. Bye.

DIY 101.

Roberto Rossellini, the king of DIY aesthetic (Do It Yourself /By Any Means Necessary cinema). ..

bye.
p.s.
My 30" test print back from the lab.

Coke is it (Xtra ice please).

 

At least one study indicates that ice chewing might increase alertness in people.

Rossellini's neorealism classics now on Criterion.

 

Such a heavenly box set, 'neorealism', Rossellini, and Bergman were the reasons I got into filmmaking after a life in music. These 3 films are epic, and so is Anna Magnani. bye.










Watching this Criterion release in its totality is like taking a year long master class in cinema.

Video killed the Radio Star.

I heard you on the wireless back in fifty two
Lying awake intent at tuning in on you
If I was young it didn't stop you coming through
Oh a oh I want a Diet Pepsi

They took the credit for your second symphony
Rewritten by machine on new dirt cheap rip-off technology
And now I understand the problems you can see
Oh a oh

I met your children
Oh a oh

What did you tell them?
Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star

Pictures came and broke your heart
Oh, a, a, a, oh I want my iPhone battery to never die

And now we meet in an abandoned studio
We hear the playback and it seems so long ago
And you remember the jingles used to go
Oh-a oh

You were the first one
Oh-a oh ahhhhhh

You were the last one playin' your analog buckets list

Oh-a BYE!

                  

Armory.

Congrats to the one and only brother I got, Tom J. for his great photo exhibition.

https://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/249540-joey-huertas?tab=ARTWORKS

The're Baaaaaaaaack...

      

                    
                   

 Ever been worried that your glorious smartphone footage will disappear at some point into some bizarre wifi black hole before downloading it for your future potential whistleblowing hit popcorn chomping documentary edit?
  
Don't ever sweat a drop, cuz the NSA has it all logged. duh.bye.

NSA DATA COLLECTION NEWS LINK: https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/world/how-the-nsa-is-tracking-people-right-now/634/

  

BUSHBRUSHLINK: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culturalcomment/george-w-bushs-painted-atonements 

   'Freezing bucket music for rent money'  Manhattan, NY 2017.

TGIF ! Hell of High Water style !

 

imagine that this soundtrack is blasting in this van, cruising on E, no gas stations in sight - no  horizon - no way out, just the music - as 'hope' -

         

        bye (best original soundtrack in years).

#JulianneMooreStillGotIt

Perishable still-life.

New magazine, issue #3

  

Found Footage Magazine is an independent and printed film journal distributed worldwide. 

It offers theoretical, analytical and informative content that hinges on the use of archival images in media production practices. 

    LINK: https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/cinema-67-revisited-persona/

      Persona (shot on Faro in Gotland)

To understand why, it may help to know that in 1967, as strange as it now sounds given the work that was still to come, many cinephiles thought Bergman was, at 48, over the hill. He had been America’s great foreign-film discovery a decade earlier, and initially every one of his new movies released stateside—Smiles of a Summer Night, Wild Strawberries, The Seventh Seal—was a conversation piece and a hit. But in the early 1960s, his work had taken a turn toward the impenetrable and austere. Three thematically linked movies that Bergman himself sometimes claimed and sometimes denied constituted a trilogy—the Oscar-winning Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, and The Silence—alienated moviegoers, and critical acclaim started to mix with dissent and weariness from some who saw him as a joyless, punitive obscurantist. By the time Persona arrived it had been almost three years since American audiences had seen a Bergman film, and even he seemed to know he was suddenly an elder statesman, the victim of a shift in the conversation. “What have you heard of the new Fellini?” he asked a reporter. “What is Truffaut planning? How is the new Godard?”

Ext. NYC bridge. Day.

Stills from my upcoming UK Immersive Cinema exhibition. 

with actress Greta Gerwig (Frances Ha, Mistress America, Greenberg)

bye.

     www.domeprojection.com

 

One of director Marty Scorsese's childhood favorites- Invasion USA. 

A cold war Hollywood scare film.

This was before director Ridley Scott's colonization invasion sequel...

And the Oscar winner for 'Best live blunder' goes to ...

Life is, and will remain, stranger and CRAZIER than any fiction possible. I bet Trump read the Tweet sent out to him during the live show and laughed as he issued Sean Spencer's Monday morning 'Oscar FAKENEWS FAKE WINNER Investigation' agenda. You just can't make this crap up these days. Karma is a beeyotch. Bye.

http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2017/02/27/investigation_announced_after_oscar_mix_up/1295275

This is what WTF looks like. bye again.

:( WTF !

Rest In Peace- Bill Paxton !!

Complications from a surgery - talk about Weird Science. damn.

Criterion releases ' Summer With Monika '

                                 

NY TIMES REVIEW: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/movies/homevideo/ingmar-bergmans-summer-with-monika.html                               

Summer weather in New Yawk Friggin' City today - wtf ...

HIT PLAY BELOW !

 

So there's no such thing as 'climate change' huh? Bullcrap. bye. 
CRUEL WINTER SUMMER lyrics?

Hot winter summer streets

And the pavements are burning

I sit around

Trying to smile but

The air is so heavy and dry

Strange voices are saying

(What did they say) - "I love your cheap yellow glasses"

Things I can't understand

It's too close for comfort

This heat has got

Right out of hand

It's a cruel, (cruel), cruel winter summer

Leaving me here on my own

It's a cruel, (it's a cruel), cruel chillyass summer

Now you're gone

The city is crowded

My friends are all mostly dead

And I'm on my own 

It's too hot to handle - "I love your cheap yellow glasses"

So I got to get up and go

It's a cruel, (cruel), cruel winter summer

Leaving me here on my own

It's a cruel, (it's a cruel), cruel chillyasssummer

Now you're gone

Gonna feel only it was

It's a cruel, (cruel), cruel winter summer

(Leaving me), leaving me here on my own

It's a cruel, (it's a cruel), cruel winter chillyass summer

Now you're gone - Wahoo!
bye again.

Installation set-up.

Using hidden iPads and WIFI wireless signal devices for digital / audio.  bye.

Congrats Isabelle !!!

and, Good luck Sunday at Oscars!

Sunday night is Oscar night ...

     which to all and any cinephile IS OUR Superbowl night. bye.

TGIF.

     

Oh garbage dump oh garbage dump
Why are you called a garbage dump
Oh garbage dump oh garbage dump
Why are you called a garbage dump

You could feed the world with my garbage dump
You could feed the world with my garbage dump
You could feed the world with my garbage dump
That sums it up in one big lump

When you're livin' on the road
And you think sometimes you're starvin'
Get on off that trip my friend
Just get in them cans and start carvin'

Oh garbage dump my garbage dump
Why are you called my garbage dump
Oh garbage dump my garbage dump
Why are you called my garbage dump

There's a market basket an' a A&P
I don't care if de box boys are starin' at me
I don't even care who wins de war
I'll be…

bye, bye.