May 9 2011

Pocket cinema: Peter Kubelka’s lectures during 25FPS

Combining the mastery of experimental film making and the chemistry of cuisine, Peter Kubelka is certainly more than interesting person to listen to about the art of cinema, celluloid and the sound.

Thanks to peeps from 25FPS – International Festival of Experimental Film and Video we can enjoy two short footages from Kubelka’s lectures Metric Cinema and Metaphoric Cinema held in September, 2010.

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Photo above: Peter Kubelka by Viktor Groschedl (c)
Taken from www.kunstverein.de
Photo bellow: from ‘Arnulf Rainer’ by Peter Kubelka (c)
Taken from prehysteries of new media

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Nov 8 2010

25FPS interview with Joost Rekveld

Joost Rekveld was a jury member at this year’s edition of 25FPS – International Festival of Experimental Film and Video… Rekveld is internationally acknowledged experimental filmmaker and kinetic & light installation artist.

He has collaborated with choreographer and dancer Emio Greco on Purgatorio, whose motto is ‘exploring the connection between body and mind rather than being limited to the physical possibilities of the dancing body.’

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Nov 4 2010

Pocket cinema: The Magic Sun by Phill Niblock

What a nice discovery on the web… really nice… Here’s experimental film The Magic Sun (1966) by Phill Niblock featuring the magical Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra… For those hooked up to the outer limits of visuality and aerial jazzy sounds…

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Sep 19 2010

Pocket cinema: Robert Seidel’s experimental films

Robert Seidel is an award winning experimental film maker and visual artist… His films simply mesmerize by recalling psychedelic motifs in new digital environments and soundscape territories…

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Robert Seidel: excerpts from ‘_grau’ and ‘passion pit’ (c)

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May 11 2010

25FPS interview with Jana Debus on Gregor Alexis

I’m back! After short hiatus due to some private reasons, I’m ready to blog in more then three lines, dear readers. Here we have a short video interview with film maker and photographer Jana Debus made in the production of 25FPS  International Festival for Experimental Film and Video.

Jana Debus made a short experimental film ‘Gregor Alexis’ in 2008. The film covers a story on her schizophrenic brother at the edges of genres, interlacing jointly with photography based frames, documentary elements. Gregor Alexis was recorded with 8mm camera.

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Feb 9 2010

Pocket cinema: Experimental films by Semiconductor

The genre of experimental film has always had its audience, people who shared passion for experiments in celluloid as well as in digital projections. Experimental film is one of the luckiest genres in cinematography because with all technology development the scene around this really mesmerizing genre is capable to express the most stunning artworks and shapes…

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