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Microcinema International The God Who Wasn't There is playing tomorrow night at 7pm in the Downtown Salt Lake Public Library.
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is a documentary that sounds spectacular - this Thursday, December 3, let's all join the Atheists of Utah to see what it's all about! 7:00pm at the Downtown Salt Lake Public Library - 210 E. 400 S.
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"Spotworks" is EXCLUSIVELY DISTRIBUTED by Microcinema DVD. To order this DVD and/or other Microcinema titles, go to: www.microcinemadvd.com.
Experience 87 minutes of hypnotic retinal bliss by San Francisco VJ and software artist Spot, a.k.a. Scott Draves. Five video tracks sync with electronic music by jhno, Spool, dj ...vordo, and mbb. Three more tracks sync with music by techno-violin sensation Kenji Williams (ABA Structure), including an original track not released elsewhere. See three unique and original styles: Electric Sheep, Dub Visuals, and Bomb, each with a documentary explanation. Includes looping tracks with solid backgrounds for use by VJs, and progressive-scan for videophiles.
"Beautiful and mind-boggling." --Rudy Rucker, father of cyberpunk
With the spiked eye candy and fractal arabesques of Spotworks, Scott Draves has significantly raised the bar on digital psychedelia and the broader category of abstract animation. His electric sheep are the fluttering Gaian spawn of networked computers and genetic algorithms, while his visual 'dubs' of Ernst Haeckel's fin-de-siecle scientific lithographs add a resonant historical dimension to trippy visuals. Mind-melting stuff, and refreshingly devoid of the usual fungal kitsch.
Erik Davis, author of Techgnosis and contributing writer to Wired Magazine
This isn't just trippy wallpaper -- it's not even just art. This is garage-band artificial life. Draves is cooking up a new species made of code, decisions and cooperation, and this disc is a petri dish swimming with the organisms that deserve to succeed us here on Earth. I for one welcome our new a-life masters.
Cory Doctorow, author of Eastern Standard Tribe and co-editor of Boing Boing.
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"Hors Pistes Volume 3" is EXCLUSIVELY DISTRIBUTED by Microcinema DVD. To order this DVD and/or other Microcinema titles, go to: www.microcinemadvd.com.
The third volume of the HORS PISTES DVD presents three films selected during the 2008 festival: 'The Music of Regret' (Laurie Simmons), 'Les hommes sans gravité' (Eléon...ore Weber) and 'In the Wake of a Deadad' (Andrew Kötting). Each of these films deliberately challenges our perceptions beyond that of the usual director and spectator roles. The shifting of form and subject makes HORS PISTES unique. Imagined and directed by the Pompidou Centre, with help from the French short film agency (Agence du court métrage), HORS PISTES is a cry for original creativity!
THE MUSIC OF REGRET is a musical in three parts that appropriates the genre and reaffirms its happy, fanciful aspects. The film is peopled with familiar characters from Laurie Simmons' world: ventriloquist dummies, anthropomorphic puppets and oversized everyday objects. Inspired by the work of artist Ardis Vinklers, Laurie Simmons' first film builds on her photographic work expanded into performance. She invited musicians, professional puppeteers, dancers from Alvin Ailey dance company, filmmaker Ed Lachman and the actress Meryl Street to join her for the occasion.
LES HOMMES SANS GRAVITE: Within the crumbling walls of a house in ruins two young men - a lord and a gypsy - get to know each other. Bodies and decor are filmed as echoes of one another, gracefully and languidly, as they continually threaten to to disappear into a narrative abyss, only to be saved in extremis by a volley of dialogues which are themselves nourished by the characters' own faint yet sustained curiosity for each other. Through a mise en scene between frailty and persistence, Eleanore Weber's film follows desire in motion.
IN THE WAKE OF A DEADAD: Following the death of his father, Andrew Kottling made a giant blow-up doll bearing his father's traits and filmed himself deploying it in places where the deceased could no longer set foot. Alone or with family or friends, the English filmmaker creates a frame, both literally and figuratively, and thus allows his deceased father to be reborn. More than simply the sum of its various installations, the film, set between documentary, happening and intimate short story, is an extremely moving and poetic reflection on the role and meaning of images in filiation and the greaving process.
Languages: English and French
Subtitled in English and French
Bonus Features: Trailer
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"RE:FRAME" is EXCLUSIVELY DISTRIBUTED by Microcinema DVD. To order this DVD and/or other Microcinema titles, go to: www.microcinemadvd.com.
RE:FRAME is a selection of seven films from a contemporary cinema, removed from Bollywood, that testifies to the richness of creativity in India. Oscillating between documentary, v...ideo art, experimental film, and animation, this compilation explores the means with which the texture of memory is incorporated within post-colonial Indian society's individual journeys as well as the national psyche; within private circles as well as public spaces. It allows for contrasting points of view regarding the country's situation and its unanswered question: when the past has yet to catch up with the present, is it a threat or an alternative to the present?
DVD Extras: Interviews / Biographies / Text
Subtitles: French, English and German
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Microcinema International Microcinema DVD's "In Search of Mozart" gets a mention on CBS Morning News where it is listed as a recommended gift for this holiday season!!
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Written by MARCUS WOHLSEN The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO -- For centuries, the "Mona Lisa" has beguiled art buffs unable to resist speculating on its origins and meaning...
Aurora Picture Show Sharing an article on avant-garde cinema DVDs coming out with a mention of our very own Aurora DVD Label friend and neighbor Microcinema International
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The concept of avant-garde, however vague, is rendered admirably concrete in three recently released DVDs.
November 23 at 7:39pm
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Jonas Mekas' Walden reviewed.
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The concept of avant-garde, however vague, is rendered admirably concrete in three recently released DVDs.
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All About Prints is a documentary that invites novices and experienced collectors alike to explore the art of printmaking from the perspective of influential curators, coll...ectors, dealers, printmakers, and artists.
Shot in Hi-Def video at museum print rooms, print fairs, galleries, and print workshops in America and Europe, All About Prints explores the collaborative nature of printmaking, the democratic character of multiples, and the deep-rooted traditions of the art form. These ideas come to life through the exploration of masters of the 19th century like Homer and Whistler; the important contribution of Edward Hopper; the influence of Mexican muralists; the formative years of the Federal Art Project of the WPA; the excitement of the 60's print boom; and the ever-evolving techniques of contemporary artists such as Kiki Smith who carry on the tradition.
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Microcinema International Big news to share! "Walden - Diaries, Notes and Sketches" by Jonas Mekas will be reviewed in the New York Times! The review will be featured in the Arts section of this coming Sunday's paper. Be on the look out for it!
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Here are just some highlights from "Brand, Iconography and Culture. The Art Guys in conversation with David Wenger"
"So we enjoy looking at things that are ubiquitous in this throw-away society. Those objects, like a lawn mower, are something that we can use as materials in art." -JM
“But now people recognize The Art Guy...s far more so than they recognize us as individuals. Technically it is a brand, we have trademarked The Art Guys as a conceptual artwork with the idea of then selling it.” -MG
“We actually think of The Art Guys as a project unto itself,so that everything we do is under the guise of art. And it doesn’t really matter who our own identities are anymore.” -MG
Continue reading or listening to the full interview at the link below.
Brand, Iconography and Culture. A Conversation with The Art Guys. « ID University: Brands, Markets &
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My first encounter with The Art Guys was around 1998 as they were launching their SUITS project. Michael Galbreth and Jack Massing, aka The Art Guys, leased advertising space on business suits designed ...
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Written by David Wenger October 29, 2009 “That’s an important methodology for us, to take a wrong-headed idea and take it to the Nth degree.” My first encounter with The Art Guys was around 1998 as they were launching their SUITS project. Mich...
