Manifestations
Daniel KasmanA report from the retrospective on the Oberhausen Manifesto’s 50th anniversary, at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.
A report from the retrospective on the Oberhausen Manifesto’s 50th anniversary, at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.
Also: Farocki, Amos Poe, Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins, Barbara Hammer, Fritz Lang and a busy season for admirers of Sherlock Holmes.
An overview of Farocki’s first American exhibition, at the MoMA, and a simultaneous retrospective in New York.
Also: Robert Breer, Harun Farocki, Silvia Kolbowski and experimental film in Los Angeles.
Also: Ben-Hur, restored. Tahrir documents the Egyptian revolution. Patience (After Sebald). And Rin Tin Tin.
Tuesday, DVD roundup day, is a fine day for taking a look at the new Summer 2011 issue of Cineaste, particularly since, among the online samplings this time around, DVD reviews outnumber all other types
The exhibition Harun Farocki: Comparison via a Third is on view through March 3 at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow and, for Artforum, Ed Halter listens to Farocki discuss his own work
Trypps / Let Each One Go Where He May (Ben Russell) Russell calls his on-going Trypps project, available online at Vimeo, “psychedelic ethnography,” the first word signaling an internal trip (head
Above: This land is ours: Revolutionary war re-enactors in Deborah Stratman’s O’er the Land. Time is precious these days, and audiences are busy and cynical. Who has time for the two and a half hour