The Powers of Ten is a cult short-film made on 1977 by Charles and Ray Eames for IBM.
Scale matters, if you have any doubt ask a quantum physics expert like this amazing man.


powers of ten :: charles and ray eames from bacteriasleep on Vimeo.

Here’s a beautiful beautiful Gucci commercial directed by David Lynch.
Look at the lights, the colour palette, the atmosphere ...and Blondie’s Heart of Glass is the soundtrack!!


And the behind the scenes...

As you supposed I’m a huge Tropicalia fan, yesterday saw a great documentary about it from the BBC “Brasil Brasil” series.
You can see the whole documentary on YouTube as well, embedded below is part 3.
Enjoy it and have a nice day*

Weeks ago saw “Lynch One” the first of a documentary series created by shooting for 2 years the life of Mr David Lynch.
My boyfriend and I were astonised because of the truly working man is shown on the film.
Lynch is a non-stop omnidirectional artist and craftsman!
I believe in holistic creativity too :)

Check this teaser from the documentary and let me know what do you think.

This is a delirious scene from one of my favourite movies: The Taste of Tea, directed by Katsuhito Ishii.

Two weeks ago I saw Lagerfeld Confidentiel, liked the documentary very much... the character is more similar to Andy Warhol than I previously thought!
Uploaded to YouTube a clip from a Chanel fashion show that really impressed me on the film.
Karl saw it in his dreams, every single detail, then he brought it to reality.
Beautiful.

Have a nice Sunday!

Tomorrow we are going to the Sitges film festival to attend two movies I want to see badly!
Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)

and
Tokyo! (Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, Joon-ho Bong)


I’m really excited! love the directors and adore matinée time movies!!
:)

I wanted to post today a little bit from the new drawings I’ve been doing these days, but my scanner has decided he doesn’t want to work more and all the images are appearing with lots of lines and glitches. :/ So, in the meantime while I buy a new one I’ll talk a little bit about David Lynch.

Last week my boyfriend and I started watching Twin Peaks again, we are total fans (the greatest Lynch masterpiece!).
The series is full of amazing characters, but Agent Dale Cooper is a deeply brilliant one by the zen/positive view of life itself, his intuition and heterodoxal methods he uses to solve the cases and many other things, I think only an awaken spiritual person can communicate this sensation with little details on TV.
Maybe you know how deep is David Lynch into trascendental meditation or maybe not... the video I paste below is an introduction to meditation by him.



and here’s one of our favourite Twin Peaks scenes...



...and have good sunday*

Two weeks ago I saw “Les demoiselles de Rochefort” and I still can’t take out of my mind the main song from the movie composed by le grand Michel Legrand. Catchy tune, great choreography and endless beauty by sisters in real life Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac.

See the video below, and if you haven’t seen the movie yet, run and go for it ;)




*also highly recommended “Les Parapluies de Cherbourg” directed by Jacques Demy too!

I loved this idea for the Harvey Nichols opening in Bristol!
Bristolians Wallace & Gromit are always so cool...for years I’ve been a total Aardman fan.
And looking at Gromit with that Paul Smith scarf on the 3rd picture made me laugh instantly!
Don’t forget the crackers!
;)

Via Creative Review.






I couldn’t resist from pasting a Creature Comforts video about art (from Aardman too..).

Harry Benson is a must, I know, but I love these pictures he took of Jack Nicholson a lot...
Well... maybe is an edipical issue... Did I tell you that my father has always been a little bit Jack Nicholson lookalike?
:D



And two more Harry Benson pictures...amazing both of them.

All three parts from The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema by filosopher Slavoj Zizek is a must if you have sense of humor and you love cinema.
You will never see some movies like before...

Good morning everyone*

Once again Gandules is back in town!
The open-air cinema at CCCB (Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona) starts next tuesday! So start checking the line up...
See you there!

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Gandules 08 looks at the theme of interculturality, taking as its starting point an essential film principle: the viewpoint. In the form of fiction, essay and documentary, the films shown during Gandules 08 present works from the West and beyond which deal with two major themes that question the point of view: journeys that lead to another culture and situations of coexisting cultures in a single place.
Gandules 08 extends this year to provide a space for creation, inviting four young filmmakers to make a short film that dialogue with the programme.

NOTE: All the movies begin at 22:00, free admission (but limited capacity!).

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Week 1

Tuesday 5 August

*Óscar Pérez, If the Camera Blows Up / 2008 / 13'Óscar Pérez lends his camera to a Pakistani so he can send his family his view of Barcelona: his colleagues, a walk in the park... The domestic images he records, sometimes lyrical, sometimes full of humour, rediscover the city and our points of view.
Johan van der Keuken, To Sang Fotostudio / 1997 / 35'To Sang's photo studio in Amsterdam is visited by traders from every corner of the world: Dutch from Hollywood Hair wig shop, Chinese jewellers, Pakistanis from the Sari Centre, Kurdish restaurateurs, the Surinamese from Capricho travel agency...
Martin Scorsese, Italianamerican / 1974 / 49'Scorsese films a portrait of his parents, Italian immigrants in New York. While his mother, Catherine, picks him up on his badly formulated questions and shows him how to make meatballs, his father tells stories of things that happen outside the home. An intimate and humorous family film.

Wednesday 6 August

Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Le voyage du ballon rouge / 2007 / 113' In his first film shot in Europe, Hou Hsiao-Hsien tells the story of an actress (Juliette Binoche) who works with a puppet company, a Chinese student in Paris, the little boy she looks after and the imaginary world they share.
Thursday 7 August
Rainer W. Fassbinder, Ali, Fear Eats the Soul / 1974 / 93'Emmi, a 60-year-old widow and cleaner, meets Salem, a 30-year-old Moroccan, in an immigrants' bar. They start going out together, leading to Emmi's rejection by her children, neighbours and colleagues.
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Week 2

Tuesday 12 August
**Werner Herzog, Encounters at the End of the World / 2007 / 99'. Spanish premiere!!!!!Herzog travels to one of the Earth's most remote, sparsely populated corners: Antarctica. There he meets its exotic, solitary inhabitants: naturalists, geologists, philosophers and scientists who live with penguins and seals, threatened by climate change. This is a humanistic, funny and sensitive portrait of one of the last natural reserves. Cultures in a territory without culture.

Wednesday 13 August
Serge-Henri Moati, Les cow-boys sont noirs / 1966 / 15'A taxi-driver, a mechanic and workers film the first African western. Moati filmed the making of this wild and woolly project.
Aki Kaurismaki, La vie de bohème / 1992 / 100'A painter (Rodolfo), a writer (Marcel), a musician (Schaunard) and a dog (Baudelaire) are what remains of Parisian bohemia. They live in poverty but without renouncing their ideals or their friendship-between Boris Vian, Mozart and rock, between comedy and tragedy.

Thursday 14 August
*Lope Serrano, Akemi Negishi / 2008 / 2'A piece of animation featuring the face and body of Akemi Negishi, the actress who plays Keiko in The Saga of Anatahan.
Josef von Sternberg, The Saga of Anatahan / 1953 / 92'A group of shipwrecked Japanese soldiers reach an island that is apparently deserted, but home to a beautiful woman and her husband. The woman awakens the desire of the men, who start competing to win her. When they receive a communiqué informing them of the end of the war and Japan's defeat, they choose to believe it is a trap laid by the enemy and continue their obsessive dispute for Keiko. The camera and voice of Sternberg mark out the rhythm of this mythical film about the men's fascination with the woman.

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Week 3

Tuesday 19 August

Chris Marker and Alain Resnais, Les statues meurent aussi / 1953 / 30'A condemnation of colonialism and the perverting influence of Western eyes on African art, this documentary was banned by the French censors for over a decade.
Ousmane Sembène, La noire de... / 1966 / 65'Diouana, an illiterate woman, works in Dakar looking after the children of a white bourgeois couple. This is post-colonial Senegal. When her employers ask her to accompany them to Antibes, where they are spending their holidays, her situation changes: a France she is exploited and forced to do all kinds of household chores. Jean Vigo Prize at Cannes.

Wednesday 20 August
*Andrés Duque / No es la imagen, es el objeto / 2008 / 10'"How long could you spend looking at this picture card?", Pedro P. asks José Sirgado in Arrebato. "I've also kept my favourite childhood album. It's called ‘Hombres, razas y costumbres'. Each page provides me with new interpretations, sometimes imprecise and strange, about who we are and what the world is." (A. D).
Youssef Chahine, Destiny / Al-Massir / 1998 / 125' In 12th-century Andalusia, Averroes is pursued by fundamentalists. A film about mixed race, full of sensuality, inebriation, dance, singing and love interest. A musical, an adventure film, a melodrama; a hedonistic mix of genres and styles that condemns today's fundamentalism and celebrates freedom of thought.

Thursday 21 August
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, The Promise / 1996 / 93'Igor is 15 and apprenticed as a mechanic to his father, who exploits illegal immigrants in exchange for false papers. One day, Igor makes a promise: that he will look after the wife and son of a Ghanaian worker. One of the most realistic and sensitive portraits of immigration in European society.

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Week 4

Tuesday 26 August

*Isa Campo and Isaki Lacuesta, Alpha and again / 2008 / 22'Alpha is a political refugee from Darfur who lives in Melbourne. His personal experience shows us a series of unending digressions in a country built by immigrants, where the refugee camps and detention centres are worthy of a Kafka short story.
Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson, Black Harvest / 1992 / 90'Joe, mixed-race son of an Australian gold prospector and an aborigine from New Guinea, sets up a coffee plantation with his step-brothers of the Ganiga tribe. Over a series of years, Connolly and Anderson filmed the thrilling and fascinating story of a project to reconcile two cultures which gradually breaks down. Wednesday 27 August

Octavio Cortázar, Por primera vez / 1966 / 9' The inhabitants of a village in Cuba who have never seen a motion picture discover the cinema with the showing of Chaplin's Modern Times.
Jean Rouch, La pyramide humaine / 1961 / 90'Rouch suggests that a group of European and African students from a school in Abidjan (Ivory Coast) make a film together. This shared cinematographic experience helps them discover a way of expressing their political and sentimental conflicts. A film full of invention, in which the youngsters play themselves in all the fleeting beauty of youth.

Thursday 28 August
Joâo César Monteiro, À flor do mar / 1986 / 133'An Italian translator and her children, a shipwrecked North American man, a house overlooking a bay on the Portuguese coast, a hot summer. Somewhere between adventure story, romanticism, melancholy and satire, between Rossellini and Godard, this is a film full of light and air. * In-house productions commissioned to young directors.

Yesterday had the chance to see a classic movie called “Picnic at Hanging Rock”... knew some things about it but was stunned by the cinematography and the overall beauty. Amazing scenes, light games and psychedelic effects.
Felt like watching Sofia Copula's inspiration before making The Virgin Suicides...The soundtrack is mostly pan-pipe music but if they were changed into synths could have been made by Air easily.

A perfect sunday aussie movie.

Ohh... I’m are dying to see Synecdoche, New York... the directorial debut by Charlie Kaufman.
Adaptation, Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind & Being John Malkovich are three of our favourite movies of all time...

Heard that it received a 5 minute standing ovation at Cannes premiere...!

We saw yesterday "30 century man" a documentary about Scott Walker, we loved him already, but after the film we adore him even more...

You have to see Ghostbusters sweded...

really beautiful movie, braver story...

Astonishing images, experimental cinema, great song selection (warning: not from Daft Punk!) ...




*the last scene image reminded me the famous Boccioni sculpture from Futurism avantgarde.

I love Wes Anderson & friends, totally recommend his latest film, The Darjeeling Limited.

(And the OST is great! :)