Tom Dissevelt and Dick Raaijmakers
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Some pointers to other Dutch avant-garde.
Via Mixtuur.
All of his films will be shown, click the image to find out more.
The weather is soft. To the right approaches a man, to the left a woman. They will meet within ten to fifteen seconds. His will glance upwards stealthily. She will look straight ahead, knows that she is being looked at. She will only half enjoy this, but she would not want to miss it. It is a gift she refuses, but it has to be offered to her. –Adapted from K. Schippers‘s opening lines on Balthus in Eb.
Collage by Indian artist Rajan c k.
Pop Surrealism: The Rise Of Underground Art (2004)
American Kirsten Anderson, founder of Roq La Rue Gallery, and co-founder of BLVD Gallery, editor of the book Pop Surrealism (depicted above) has been blogging for a while at Right Some Good. She notes that “This blog is mainly to showcase art that I’m currently enamoured with,” which includes posts on Caspar David Friedrich, Gustave Moreau, Richard Dadd and Leon Bakst.
From her blogroll also these interesting blogs:
Tip of the hat to Paul Rumsey.
“You think I’m gorgeous” from Miss Congeniality.
I’ve seen the film twice. The film’s been bugging me (in a good way) for the last couple of weeks, when I started thinking about world peace (remember Bullock’s reluctance at the beginning of the film to wish for it, and than after she’s won, concedes to do so?). World peace brought to mind a passage by Georges Bataille on the impossibility of world peace which I can’t seem to re-find.
Then, when finding the clips (in nice filmed-from-a-TV-set mode) above, I was reminded of how much I had enjoyed the film and its good-natured romanticism. In such is the state of feminism I’ve defended another fluff film for its ability to portray part of the man-woman relationship in the 21st century.
So, will this remain a guilty pleasure, or get a promotion to World Cinema Classic? I’ll have to think about it.
I’ve posted about these two buildings before, but the similarities are to substantial to let it pass over not to post them juxtaposed. Find out more by clicking on the buildings.
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“Big Onion”, 2004
It would appear that the Pubahs are the true heirs of Dr. Funkenstein.
The clip above is obviously indebted to Richard D. James (aka Aphex Twin) Windowlicker persona, see YouTube and stills.
Cover of a German edition of the Pentameron
Les Cent Nouvelles nouvelles also deserves mention here.
See also: Toward a Motif-Index of Erotic Humor
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The Banishment (2007)
A woman loses her life through sophistry, a man loses his wife through lack of communication and a baby is never born.
It’s a slow film, beautifully shot, with an interesting score, parts filmed in Belgium where I live. It stars Maria Bonnevie.
