Looking for images I bump on a blog (http://iconicionic.wordpress.com/) and in this blog a link to this film. A pearl :) Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase. Created entirely in clay by Joan Gratz. Not enough Boccioni in it, but what can we do :)

Enjoy

Performance by Helmer Andersen from 17th until 24th august, Myrthuegard and Blaavand, Denmark.
And keep notice: Memories and expectations are only possible with a sense of time! See you on the 16 th of july 2014 near the island of Langeland, in the country of Denmark.

Check out what poetry is…
A new poem by Helmer Andersen have been spoken out. It leaved traces around, and specials thread in red wire that you might bump into in your own unconscious. You can follow Helmer’s threads to see what they do to you. If in one of these rides with Helmer into your own poetic dreams you find a brass key and a broken lock, those might be mine, please return them :)

best!

My friends in moskito scored high:
CREPUSCULE HAS BEEN SELECTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM 2009 IN THE MAIN PROGRAM.

Crepuscule is the film I talk about in this post.

So many compliments for Maartje, Nellie and Victor…

:)

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As usual we foresaw it. The world is due to an end. And that’s a fact. Well and the exact date? That’s subject to controversy.
Before the last forecast, due to the black hole produced by the Adron Supercollider in CERN. Old story by now….

for curious you can check here if the world has ended already… (thanks to Salsaman for the link monitoring activity. He promised me to send me a mail if the link says that the world has ended.

BUT

the big story is that WE KNEW AND WE SAID IN TIME
see this film by Alex Fisher and me made in Montevideo last january, with 9 month of advance (eh, 9 being the magic number here).

see the proof here: The Black Rider (9mb .mp4) a short film in which the whole story is explained and the profecy is fulfilled.

Just few minutes ago, breaking news, Arnofsky wins the Golden Lion.
He made two films that changed my life. Both.
The first PI. I was floating in a antigravity chair in a room of a house 100 mt. away from the colosseum. Pi. About all I had studied for 4 years and let behind. Opening windows on stuff I had no idea about. A black and white that cuts like a razor and a rhythm that was a VJ nightmare on speed. I loved that film. I loved it.

Requiem for a dream. The same friends house, now relocated in Paris. I am on the flight. Floating like a turd on the water of Shengen’s Europe, now in Paris banlieue, their guest, tomorrow maybe in Amsterdam, maybe not. It was 2002. I had a dream I was olding on too. The dvd had been stolen at FNAC near the Centre Pompidour. It got his revenge. On the climax, in the moment of maximum frenzy, were every one of them has it’s dream shuffled down the throat it stopped. We rewind. Another time the pain of watching. It stopped again, in the same moment. “A requiem for a dream” as far as I am concerned still have no ending, left me there in the darkness floating on the water.

Out alone, following a dream. I was shattered.

The tree of Life I have missed. Maybe a love story I was not ready for. Now Aronofsky is back again and takes all in Venice, by the hands of a jury that is lead by Wim Wenders. He must be the man. By the way, he tries to have a blog, hereand we are born the same year, 1969. What the fuck, I should be editing my shit now, or else, stop floating in the dark and cook myself a meal

Hello,
Back from a week in Italy. Nice time for some sun you might think eh?
Well… I was in Piombino, a industrial city by the sea, a harbor and a location for a festival of electronic arts called eXPerimenta.

The task was to support the performance of Gianluca Becuzzi and Benedetta Mazzotti with some little magic. Not an easy thing to do.

The idea for the magic is the following: take tree old 50 liters glass jars, fill them to the half with water. Put them on a subwofer and light them appropriately. Feed the sub with a pulse around 20 hz (depends by the amount of water) and look to the static waves figures not only in the jar but also in the light reflexed by the jar onto the walls and the staircase.
The Chaldni patterns onto the water sourface are quite sensitive to fractions of hertz while close to resonating point, giving quite a lot of different possibilities. Also the control, made through sound with a pd (pure-data) patch and a battery of car amps connected to a RME was quite straight forward. I think that my setup was the ultimate “let’s kill ants with hammers” set. A Fireface to send sine waves! But this way I had 8 independent channels…


To top this I have used the excellent OSC remote (http://hexler.net/touchosc) controller on my ipod to pilot the cues and intensity of the effect from the light board, that was 50 mt away from the computer. Tuning the bowls and preparing some cues was easy, then all worked fine.

The location a nice staircase, in a huge complex courtyard for a XIX century elementary school.

Some background observation after the performance:

Arriving on location I see:
a) the place is 3 times bigger than expected
b) the sound will come only from behind the spectators ears because for budget problems two different sound settings for the evening will not be possible
c) the main performer, Gianluca, will not be available for any rehearsal, neither he seems to be happy to give Benedetta an me any help in figuring out what he plans to do beforehand (for example giving us the base on which he plans to improvise his percussion on the staircase set.

well…

The idea of the glass bowl worked very nicely, might have needed a little more time to fix the light upon and more watts to have nice reflections. At the end I could not light the whole performance just with the bowls… the audience was far and the light was not strong enough. I fixed a extra red light, that maybe I used too much, a sort of “help me to give some dynamics to this thing please” effect…

Benedetta (the dancer) did a great job, and was really scary to see her on highest points dancing on small pieces of iron.

I added to the original plan some manipulation of water, and consequently water sound and smashing glasses (round mirrors, that I hope it will not bring me bad luck that I broke during the set)…

It went ok.
Benedetta an I agree that we want more.

We will see :)

SOME MORE PICTURES HERE the pictures of the performance are to be credited to the great Francesco from Piombino, that took my camera while I was busy. THANKS!

Shooting is over.

A week of long hours, night shootings, creative solutions and not-too-many-compromises independent no-budget production.
Too long the list of credits and thanks, we keep it for the end titles and now I sink into the editing room…

Just a remark on a very good news: Firefox 3.1 will support Ogg-theora video. Details on the net for the non techies, but this means that I will publish the film on a free codec, for you to d/l and view directly in the browser without the need of installing plugins. Free as in freedom.

kisses from underground

Hello!

Last week of August is ahead. On the still high wave of enthusiasm for the first “CINESOL” short film, KAOS, I am about to embark myself in “yet another” short adventure: DOPPIO NERO.

The plan is to start shooting the last week of July, with a good crew this new, but less unusual of “Cinemasolubile” productions.

While casting is closed, and we have big stars for our roles, we are at the moment busy with pre-production, location scouting and crew gathering. In particular if you think you are a good sound or catering gall/guy you are the woman/man, mail me!

The film (around 20′) will be no budget, shot using mixed media techniques, lo-fi and recycled film/video/photo machinery and DIY-Guerrilla strategies.

More news in the near future in this same channel.

Yesterday I went to the Film Academie, here in town, to see Pjotr (follow this link for the film web site) a film by Jan Jap Kuiper at the annual graduation festival.

I had met Jan on the set of another documentary of his, on the dodgy subject of underground music dreamers and harsh realities. The film about my friend Ivica Kosavich and the music realm of “Gone Bald”. It was a special evening, and we kept remembering one each other.

I was very pleased yesterday to see his new work.
I must say that I was moved. Is a beautiful doc. The set is a classic: some letters long forgotten in a drawer from a man died in a Gulag long time ago. A old woman, his daughter, and a young woman, the great grandchild. The film does not indulge in tricks, tells the story. I felt a deep respect
in the way the content has been treated. Heartbreaking is the moment of disillusion of the old woman, straightforward the anger of the nice and epidemically could be felt the anti-human brutality of history’s mechanics.
A mechanics that scramble people into numbers expressed through the walk of the girl in nowhere-land were some crosses with a T or a S and a number and some ruins are all that is left of the forced labour that killed thousands.

I loved the way Jan have kept it minimal, fading the camera to a
observing presence and not indulging in cinematic tricks that often are a trademark of over enthusiastic filmschool projects. Still I loved some touches: the train shot seeming like a sort of dream machine, and a careful work did with sound.

For sure by a mile ahead of the other things I saw in the group.

Thanks Jap for the invitation, and do it again!