November 2010
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Connections (1978) - a BBC documentary by James...
Jame’s Burke’s Connections series appears as fresh in its ideas today as it did when it was first aired in 1978. Episode 1, The Trigger Effect, is a fantasy dystopia in the form of a news report. Like the Otolith Group [see the post next to this one], Burke asks a similar “What If?” question. My interest is aroused by the juxtaposed film sequences of machines, which reminds...
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WatchThe Otolith Group
This collective uses science fiction to question the nature of documentary.
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Watch John Tagg
In conversation with Steve Edwards.
Explores historical, sociological and aesthetic issues related to the photographic representation of work. It coincided with Tate Modern’s major exhibition Cruel and Tender.
24.06.2003
Eins, Zwei, Polizei recorded by Mo-Do in 1994....
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WatchScience Friction 1959
Stan VanDerBeek
16mm, colour, sound, 9min
“A social satire aimed at the rockets, scientists, and competitive mania of our time.” Stan VanDerBeek
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WatchHarun Farocki
Interviewer: writer and curator Sophia Phoca.
Tate Modern 14.11.2009
Farocki uses found footage and edits it in a structuralist way (as opposed to realist, surrealist, or expressionist, for example) in order to foreground ideology. For example, he tends to adopt a microscopic approach to his films, an exercise in extreme close reading. Film of this sort works by a kind of...
The Muppets Show theme copied German 1930s swing
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J.G. Ballard
“I’ve always wanted really to be a painter,” wrote J.G. Ballard in 1975.“My interest in painting has been far more catholic than my interest in fiction … I’ve said somewhere else that all my fiction consists of paintings. I think I always was a frustrated painter.” “I didn’t see exhibitions of Francis Bacon, Max Ernst, Magritte and Dalí as displays of painting,”...
Tacita Dean.
Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4,...
Margaret Atwood“I do sketches of just about...
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