Pablo Picasso with his son Claude (August 1948)

Pablo Picasso with his son Claude (August 1948)
Photographer: Robert Capa

Robert Capa, Hungarian-born American, was born in 1913 under the name Endre Friedmann. Soon became famous with the photos on the Spanish Civil War. After the Second World War, which follows as a correspondent in 1947 he founded Magnum Photos with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Seymour, Rodger and Vandivert. Photojournalist, war correspondent adventurous life, portraits of celebrities and ordinary people, soul organizational Magnum, Capa has signed many iconic images of the last century. He died in 1954, Indochina, accidentally killed by a mine.

Bhagwan (1978)

Bhagwan (1978)
Director: Robert Hillmann
Documentary
48 minutes

In 1978 a German film maker visited the Ashram in Poona and created a unique film document about Osho , his Sannyasins and the ashram.
He was the first and only film maker whom Osho ever permitted to film inside the legendary encounter groups.
These pictures shocked the west.
Scenes like this had never been seen before: screaming naked men and women, fighting with each in other in a clumsy little room full of mattresses.
The prudish imagination of middle class couch potatoes went wild.
Significant numbers of celebrities had been visiting this exotic place in India and the tabloids had already labeled Osho as the “Sex-Guru” but nobody had ever seen what was really happening there.
This documentary created an outburst of emotion in the late 1970s and went deep into the common unconsciousness of western societies.
Even though it was the basis of the fanatic condemnation of Osho in the west, it also lead thousands of interested young people to Poona.
This film dominates public discussion to this day about Osho, spiritual search and group therapy.

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The Man in the Bowler Hat (1964)

The Man in the Bowler Hat (1964)
L’Homme au Chapeau Melon

Artist: Rene Magritte
Completion Date: 1964
Place of Creation: Belgium
Style: Surrealism
Technique: oil
Material: canvas


Rene Magritte, two months before his death, wrote Sarane Alexandrian a splendid letter in which he said: "I conceive of the art of painting as the science of juxtaposing colours in such a way that their actual appearance disappears and lets a poetic image emerge. . . . There are no "subjects", no "themes" in my painting. It is a matter of imagining images whose poetry restores to what is known that which is absolutely unknown and unknowable."

Dance of the Witches (2012)

Dance of the Witches (2012)
Installation
Artist: Ludwika Ogorzelec
From the series "Space Crystallization"
Poland


Ludwika Ogorzelec - "sculptor of space"

What you sculpt? - Space.

This is the choice made ​​by the Polish artist Ludwika Ogorzelec  there are now thirty years working space, analyze, recreate to bring the viewer to perceive that n ' is not visible. Creativity materializes in delicate structures and airy, even air, all braided lines, seeming sometimes suspended. Regardless of the material used, wood, glass, metal or cellophane, she has developed throughout his artistic poetic original space. Far as to consider a vacuum or an insulating screen, she sees foremost a volume. These lines, which delimit fragments, cells, components can also suggest areas of energy flows in the cycle as Space Crystallization 

Her approach, initiated at the National School of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, enriched over important meetings, the most significant will be the director J. Grotowski and the sculptor César. Came to France in 1985, both to develop and to show his art to the west, she pursues her undergraduate work, begun in 1981: Instruments of balance . This is research of balance, not a state of equilibrium. Objects constructed of wood lines are crossed space. In this frame of filaments, multiple connections are all volumes energy interacting. There are already present its report to the peculiar nature, nature as well understood in terms of biology, shapes become the interdependence of phenomena as mechanisms of all kinds.

If Instruments of balance was the trunk of the tree, it starts a new cycle in 1990, Space Crystallization would be the branches. While balance Instruments are finite objects, designed to last, the works of Space Crystallization , more abstract, have a fleeting existence. Lines, ubiquitous, often focused on a concrete block hanging on a building facade, or even struck by a tree, soar into space completely recreated by the artist, the result of a long and analysis designed to the other, which will meet the work. Calculations, measurements, plans? The artist defends himself. If science finds resonances in the art, it is during the development, by the working of the material herself she feels she knows where to start, where to stop.

And those who would see his space in analogy with the spider, she replied vehemently that this is a misunderstanding. The spider spins its web to trap its prey, Ludwika Ogorzelec built its spaces to make us more free.

David Sansault, October 2010

 "...I want my sculpture to be like a passing phenomenon springing out of the world of biology, machines and instruments. From an understanding of sculpture as solid and heavy, viewed from the outside and made from lasting materials. I have left myself line expressing itself with the properties of its material and the space which that line encloses..." Ludwika Ogorzelec born and educated in Poland, obtain her master degree at Art Academy in Wroclaw 1983. From 1985 she start her artistic carrier traveling cross the world for her site specific "Space Crystallization" action . She show her work at 55 solo and around 50 curatorial group shows in many deferent places of the world.

The Illuminated Man (1968)

The Illuminated Man (1968)
Photograph
Duane Michals


“How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and people with a reality itself, and believed that a photograph of these appearances to be a photograph of it. It is a melancholy truth that I will never be able to photograph it and can only fail. I am a reflection photographing other reflections within a reflection. To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.”
- Duane Michals

The Pleasure Principle (Portrait of Edward James) (1937)

The Pleasure Principle (Portrait of Edward James) (1937)
Painter: René Magritte
Oil on canvas
79 x 63.5 cm


Edward James was a fascinating person and a passionate supporter of the surrealists. The pleasure principle is a psychoanalytic concept, originated by Sigmund Freud. The pleasure principle states that people seek pleasure and avoid pain. The counterpart is the reality principle, which defers gratification when necessary. Psychologists and neuroscientists believe the pleasure principle is responsible for the pleasurable feeling a person receives after acquiring knowledge or grasping a concept.

Magritte is playing with that emotion by enigmatically turning the subject’s most defining feature - his face - into a brightly glowing fireball. The subject’s pose is also mystifying. Who sits like that? What is his hand doing? The rock is obviously symbolic, but of what? Magritte was usually coy when asked about the meaning of his works. He typically said they are meaningless because they are paintings, not concepts able to be known. By which he was implying that the intended symbolism is less significant than the feeling someone has when looking at the painting. In this case, he wants to invoke that feeling of the frustration when the pleasurable feelings of acquiring knowledge are denied.

Le grand soir (2012)

Le grand soir (2012)
92 min

Directors: Gustave de Kervern, Benoît Delépine
Stars: Benoît Poelvoorde, Albert Dupontel and Brigitte Fontaine

Country: France | Belgium
Language: French

Two brothers who are complete opposites: one is a salesman in a chain store, while the other fancies himself the oldest punk-with-a-dog in Europe... But the happenstances of modern life will reunite them, putting them both on the street. Now confederates of the Punk Attitude, the two men put everything on the line to spark off a new revolution in France...

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Samson Slaying a Philistine (1562)

Samson Slaying a Philistine (1562)
Sculpture
Giambologna
Victoria & Albert Museum
London, UK

The sculpture of Samson Slaying a Philistine is the earliest of the great marble groups by Giambologna (1529-1608), sculptor to the Medici Grand Dukes of Tuscany, and the only substantial work by the artist to have left Italy. It was commissioned in about 1562, by Francesco de Medici for a fountain in Florence, but was later sent as a gift to Spain. The group was presented to the Prince of Wales, later King Charles I, in 1623 while he was in Spain negotiating a marriage contract, and it soon became the most famous Italian sculpture in England. On its arrival in England it was given to the king's favourite, the Duke of Buckingham, and subsequently changed hands three times before coming to the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1954.

The sculpture shows Samson wielding the jawbone of an ass in order to slay one of the Philistines who have taunted him. It is a good example of the multiple viewpoints seen in Giambologna's work; the spiralling movement of the bodies means that there is no main view. The dramatic pose is based on a composition by Michelangelo, who was in his late seventies when Giambologna met him in Rome. The group was carved from just one block of marble, supported by only five narrow points. Although the marble is weathered from three centuries outdoors, it still shows Giambologna's sensitive carving.

 

Chidambaram (1985)

Chidambaram (1985)

Director: G Aravindan
Story: CV Sreeraman
Screenplay: G Aravindan
Music: P Devarajan
Cinematography: Shaji N Karun
Starring: Bharath Gopi, Smita Patil, Sreenivasan

Country: India
Language: Malayalam

Chidambaram (Malayalam: ചിദംബരം) is a 1985 Malayalam film written, directed and produced by G. Aravindan. It is the film adaptation of a short story by C. V. Sreeraman. The film explores various aspects of relations between men and women through the lives of three people living in a cattle farm. Themes of guilt and redemption are also dealt with. Bharath Gopi, Smita Patil, Sreenivasan and Mohan Das play the lead roles. It won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film and five Kerala State Film Awards including Best Film and Best Direction.(IMDB)


Chidambaram is a temple town of Tamil Nadu. "Chit" means mind and "Ambaram" means space, thus the name Chidambaram.

The legend is that Lord Shiva came here to perform his dance. This region was already under the custody of Kali and naturally a quarrel ensued. It was mutually agreed that the winner in a dance competition should possess the region. The game commenced; with the Thandava of Shiva and Lasya of Kali. Shiva resorted to a stratagem. He lifted one leg high up in the air, which Kali could not do, because of modesty. Shiva won and became the Lord of Chidambaram.

Chidambaram is based on a short story by noted Malayalam writer C V Shriraman. The film is a deeply symbolic exploration of the man-woman attraction leading to betrayal and eventually to the purgatory of guilt.

The story develops mainly around three characters, Muniyandi (Sreenivasan), his wife Shivakami (Smita Patil) and the office superintendent of a farm, Shankaran (Gopi). Muniyandi, a labourer in the farm, believes and respects Shankaran. Muniyandi brings Shivakami to the farm after marrying her. She soon befriends Shankaran. But one day Muniyandi catches Shankaran red-handed with his wife Shivakami. Broken hearted, Muniyandi commits suicide. The extreme feeling of guilt forces Shankaran to leaves the place. He tries alcohol, spirituality and all other possible methods to escape from this mental torment, but fails. Finally he reaches the temple town of Chidambaram. There he finds Shivakami as a shoe keeper in the temple.(Cinema of malayalam)

"Compared to my other films Chidambaram had a sustained story line. Then there were well known artists appearing in this film. These may be some of the reasons for its popularity."- G Aravindan


Awards
National Film Award for Best Feature Film
Kerala State Film Award for Best Film[4]
Kerala State Film Award for Best Director
Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor - Bharath Gopi

Daca bobul nu moare (2010)

Daca bobul nu moare (2010)
If The Seed Doesn't Die (2012)
113 min


Country: Serbia | Austria | Romania
Language: Romanian


Director: Sinisa Dragin
Stars: Ioana Barbu, Alexandru Bindea and Franz Buchrieser

Two fathers, a Romanian searching for his daughter who was forced into prostitution in Kosovo, and a Serbian seeking the body of his son killed in a car accident in Romania, meet on the river Danube. A boatman recounts the 200 year-old legend of Romanian peasants struggling unsuccessfully to move an old wooden church up the hill to their village at a time when building Orthodox churches was prohibited. Written by Anonymous  (IMDB)

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Ramkinkar (1975)

Ramkinkar (1975)
Documentary

Country: India

Director: Ritwik Ghatak

Ramkinkar Baij (or Ramkinkar)- is an incomplete personality study or documentary on sculptor Ramkinkar Baij created by legendary filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak. He started creating the film in 1975. The film was almost complete but it still remained unfinished for the death of Ritwik Ghatak.
In July 1975 Ghatak commenced shooting on the sculptor at Shantiniketan for a stretch of four days. The movie is a biographical (personality study) film where Baij has been featured as a political icon too. In the film, Ramkinkar Baij speaks about the problems that he faces in his life. He speaks about how he has shielded his dripping roof with his oil paintings. Ghatak asks him what he is going to do for the show that is coming soon. Ramkinkar answers to this question: “As the paintings are made by oil on canvas water will not do any damage to them. I can pull them out for the show. But my worry is what I will replace them with to stop the rainwater. It costs hundred rupees to buy grass for thatching. It is very expensive."(Wikipedia)

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Photographs by Rimantas Dichavičius

Photographer: Rimantas Dichavičius
Lithuania

Rimantas Dichavičius - a famous country artist and photographer, exalting a woman's body and gave him the sacred meaning. Twenty years ago, it acts photography album "Rings among the rings" was far from unambiguous response, while a huge public interest not only in Lithuania but also throughout the former Soviet Union.

Nostalgia for the Light (2010)

Nostalgia for the Light (2010)
Nostalgia de la luz (original title)
90 min
Documentary


Director: Patricio Guzmán
Writer: Patricio Guzmán
Stars: Gaspar Galaz, Lautaro Núñez and Luís Henríquez


Country: Chile
Language: Spanish | English

In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning the origins of life. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones, dumped unceremoniously by Pinochet's regime. Written by Anonymous  (IMDB)

Rating: 100% (Rotten Tomatoes)

Gandu (2010)

Gandu (2010)
Asshole

Director: Kaushik Mukherjee
Stars: Anubrata Basu, Joyraj Bhattacharya and Rii

Country: India
Language: Bengali

Gandu hates his life. He hates his mother. Gandu raps out his hate, anger, dirt and filth of his existence. He and his rickshawpuller friend enter the world of smack, rap, porn and horror. Reality and fiction, surreal and bizarre come together. Can Gandu survive?

Gandu is a 2010 black-and-white Bengali film directed by Q. (Qaushik Mukherjee) who has described the film as a "rap musical". It features Anubrata, Joyraj, Kamalika, Silajit, and Rii in the lead roles. The film's music is by the alternative rock band Five Little Indians.Gandu previewed at Yale University before making its international premiere on October 29, 2010 at the 2010 South Asian International Film Festival in New York City. Gandu was an official selection at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival and was also screened at the Slamdance Film Festival.
Gandu has received mainly positive reviews from critics. John Reis called it "a stunning visual and narrative feast"while Variety said it is "a happily transgressive rhyme-fueled romp".The film has caused some controversy because of language and scenes of full frontal sex. Media outlets have reported audience walkouts during sex scenes and it has not been publicly released in India

The spider love, Mexico (1934)

L'araignée d'amour, Mexico 1934
The spider love, Mexico (1934)
Photographer: Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. He was an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the "street photography" or "life reportage" style that has influenced generations of photographers who followed.(Wikipedia)

Love in India (2009)

Love in India (2009)
91 min
Documentary

Country: India


Directors: Qaushiq Mukherjee (Q)
Writer: Qaushiq Mukherjee
Stars: Rituparna Sen

Love in India is a passionate look at the way passion is perceived in India. It's a personal film, designed with fragments of the romance between the filmmaker and his girlfriend. But soon, the film spills on to the chaos that is India. Old or new? Love or sex? Love in India is a volatile story of confusion, dichotomy and revelation. A story of repressed moral values in a country with a timeless tradition of spiritual sexuality. The film is a search for the roots of romance and the eternal orgasm. Written by Anonymous  (IMDB)

Website: http://www.loveinindia.in/

Optical Distortion, Paris (1965)

Optical Distortion, Paris (1965)
Photographer: Robert Doisneau
France


"I’ve made every possible mistake. Because I don’t like to obey orders and I always question what I’m told. So I have to try out everything for myself, and that has lead me into many dead ends."

- Robert Doisneau

Die Umarmung (1917)

Die Umarmung (1917)
Egon Schiele
Austria

The painting "The Embrace (Lovers II, Man and Woman)" by Austrian painter Egon Schiele, from 1917 (a year before Schiele's death) is painted in oil on canvas and measures 100 x 170 cm. It is unmarked and located in the Belvedere in Vienna.

This painting depicts, as the name suggests, naked lovers on a crumpled white cloth, which runs diagonally from the upper right corner to the lower left corner and on a not-defining yellow-brown background is. A white-skinned, lying on his back, the woman replied embrace of a black-skinned man who is only seen from behind. Neither person looks directly at the viewer. The couple are completely focused on himself.
Schiele's paintings looks very dynamic, mostly diagonal or oblique lines are identifiable. Even the wild brush strokes and the tangled folds of the blanket underline the dynamic. Especially the dirty yellow-brown background is very restless. The dark hair of the woman form a light-dark contrast with the white cloth. But the two bodies in their different skin colors relate to each other in contrast. The couple and their support act very vividly, because the body is very well prepared. The background contrast effect surface. By duplication, as seen for example in the drapery, the image is spatially ( except for the background ). Particularly striking in the image plane is the contact between two people with different skin colors. That the two parties are shown together in an embrace, suggesting that the. Two accept and respect each other They are not distinguished. Also, the fact that they are both naked and so vulnerable to certain manner, indicates equality. It is also worth mentioning that the work was written during the First World War. But not only the sad war sentiment, but Schiele's personal melancholy have been incorporated into the image. Maybe the two protagonists sad and embrace reason for consolation - that could be a possible interpretation, because the people do not look to the viewer. The passionate attitude is limited. Rather cramped. Even the unnatural strongly crumpled cloth may be a hint to Schiele and his inner agitation on the chaos caused by the war. 1910 Schiele wrote about his hometown: " In Vienna's shadow, the city's black ... "*. Perhaps the white cloth could also stand as a symbol of security, as the pair is placed in the center and on all sides by protected material is protected by the nondescript yellow-brown ground is ( the couple is soft bedded ). Because of the wild brush rhythm and dynamics can classify the painting in the expressionism. The relatively edged contours ( especially the body ) have this period to and is in contrast to the otherwise curved decorative lines secessionist which at the same time ( especially in Vienna was popular). Other typical features of Expressionism, such as extreme colors met, the painting is not. Of a " doomsday scenario "can be considered in turn. ( quote from PAN 7/86, Articles of Dichand)(Farbwahn.blogspot.in)

Are All Men Pedophiles? (2012)

Are All Men Pedophiles? (2012)
70 min
Documentary


Director: Jan-Willem Breure
Writer: Jan-Willem Breure
Stars: Jan-Willem Breure, Dick Swaab and Corine de Ruiter


Country: Netherlands
Language: English

For the first time a documentary examines the global impact of pedophilia from a cultural and professional perspective. We live in a society that condemns pedophiles, though biological instinct and world cultures throughout history suggest that an attraction to adolescents is unavoidable. The fashion industry on the one hand sexualizes ever-younger girls while those who act on these instincts are reviled. The apparent hypocrisy at the heart of society forces the question: What do we mean when we talk about Pedophilia? The film also explores the many dangerschildren face and exposes the systematic violation of children rights by societies and how the pedophilia hysteria has led to the mass incarceration of adults and children. In conclusion, we are faced with both the contradiction of a society which sexualizes youth and the question: Are All Men Pedophiles? * Winner of the Mediaprize - Best Documentary of 2012 * Written by Jan-Willem Breure  (IMDB)

Marathon in the university street (1959)

Marathon in the university street (1959)
Photographer: Antanas Sutkus (Lithuania)


Antanas Sutkus (born 27 June 1939 in Kluoniškiai, Kaunas district) is a renowned Lithuanian photographer and recipient of the Lithuanian National Prize and Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas. He was one of the co-founders and a President of the Photography Art Society of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos fotografijos meno draugija).
Sutkus's series People of Lithuania is considered one of his most important works. It is a continuing project begun in 1976 to document the changing life and people of Lithuania. Working at the time when Lithuania (as the Lithuanian SSR) was part of the Soviet Union, Sutkus focused on black and white portraits of ordinary people in their everyday life rather than the model citizens and workers promoted by Soviet propaganda. Sutkus had an opportunity to spend time with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in 1965 when they visited Lithuania. One image, taken against the white sand of Nida, is highly regarded as capturing Sartre's ideas.(Wikipedia)


“There are images and there are counter-images. A counter-image is produced as an act of resistance against a dominant, official and public image. The vast archive of 700,000 photos by Antanas Sutkus, collected between 1956 and 1989 on the daily life of the communist Lithuania, is one of the most important archives of counter-images ever produced in the world. Each photo of Sutkus, to paraphrase Orwell, is “a pinch of a counter-revolution”, an act of opposition against the visual ideology of the regime.”

-Ben Lewis’ foreword in the catalog of Sutkus’ exhibition in the Château d’Eau Gallery of Paris, March 2011

Chez Fraysse, Rue de Seine, Paris' (1958)

Chez Fraysse, Rue de Seine, Paris' (1958)
At Fraysse, Rue de Seine, Paris (1958)
Photographer: Robert Doisneau


"The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street."
 -Robert Doisneau

He Who Must Die (1957)

He Who Must Die (1957)
Celui qui doit mourir (original title)
122 min

Country: Italy | France
Language: French



Director: Jules Dassin
Writers: Ben Barzman, Jules Dassin, Nikos Kazantzakis (novel "O Hristos Xanastavronetai"),André Obey
Stars: Jean Servais, Carl Möhner and Grégoire Aslan

Greece, in the 1920's, is occupied by the Turks. The country is in turmoil with entire villages uprooted. The site of the movie is a Greek village that conducts a passion play each year. The leading citizens of the town, under the auspices of the Patriarch, choose those that will play the parts in the Passion. A stuttering shepherd is chosen to play Jesus. The town butcher (who wanted to be Jesus) is chosen as Judas. The town prostitute is chosen as Mary Magdalene. The rest of the disciples are also chosen. As the movie unfolds, the Passion Play becomes a reality. A group of villagers, uprooted by the war and impoverished, arrive at the village led by their priest. The wealthier citizens of the town want nothing with these people and manipulate a massacre. In the context of the 1920's each of the characters plays out their biblical role in actuality. Written by Sarvananda Bluestone <sarv@mhv.net>  (IMDB)

Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
L'année dernière à Marienbad (original title)
94 min

Director: Alain Resnais
Writer: Alain Robbe-Grillet (scenario and dialogue)
Stars: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi and Sacha Pitoëff

Country: France | Italy
Language: French

L'Année dernière à Marienbad is a 1961 French film directed by Alain Resnais from a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet.
The film is famous for its enigmatic narrative structure, in which truth and fiction are difficult to distinguish, and the temporal and spatial relationship of the events is open to question. The dream-like nature of the film has fascinated and baffled audiences and critics, some hailing it as a masterpiece, others finding it to be incomprehensible.

At a social gathering at a château or baroque hotel, a man approaches a woman. He claims they met the year before at Marienbad and is convinced that she is waiting there for him. The woman insists they have never met. A second man, who may be the woman's husband, repeatedly asserts his dominance over the first man, including beating him several times at a mathematical game (a version of Nim). Through ambiguous flashbacks and disorienting shifts of time and location, the film explores the relationships among the characters. Conversations and events are repeated in several places in the château and grounds, and there are numerous tracking shots of the château's corridors, with ambiguous voiceovers.
The characters are unnamed in the film; in the published screenplay, the woman is referred to as "A", the first man is "X", and the man who may be her husband is "M".(Wikipedia)

Awards:
The film won the Golden Lion at the 1961 Venice Film Festival. In 1962 it won the critics' award in the category Best Film of the Syndicat Français de la Critique de cinéma in France. The film was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 34th Academy Awards in 1962, but was not accepted as a nominee.However, it was nominated for the 1963 Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay (Alain Robbe-Grillet) and it was also nominated for a Hugo Award as Best Dramatic Presentation.
The film was refused entry to the Cannes Film Festival because the director, Alain Resnais, had signed Jean-Paul Sartre's Manifesto of the 121 against the Algeria War.

Rating: 95% (Rotten Tomatoes Critics)

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Koormavatara (2012)

Koormavatara (2012)
aka The Tortoise, an Incarnation
125 min

Country: India
Language: Kannada

Director: Girish Kasaravalli

Writers: Amaresh Nudgoni, Girish Kasaravalli
Starring: Dr. Shikaripura Krishnamurthy, Jayanthi, Apoorva Kasaravalli
Music: Issac Thomas Kottukapally

Koormavatara (Kannada: ಕೂರ್ಮಾವತಾರ) is a 2011 Kannada film directed by noted Kannada film director Girish Kasaravalli. It is based on a Kannada novel written by Kum Veerabhadrappa with the same title name. The film cast includes Dr. Shikaripura Krishnamurthy, Jayanthi, HG Somasekhara Rao, Goa Datthu among others and received positive reviews from the film critics.
It won several national and international awards. It won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Kannada for the year 2012.(Wikipedia Page)

A low-level civil servant finds himself cast in the role of Ghandi in a television serial because of his physical resemblance to the legendary leader.(IMDB)

Venus in the Garden (2011)

Venus in the Garden (2011)
I Afroditi stin avli (original title)
63 min


Country: Greece | Germany
Language: Greek


Director: Telémachos Alexiou
Writer: Telémachos Alexiou
Stars: Athina Mathiou, Alex Vardas and Stavros Svigos

Mid-summer heatwave. Nikos and Alain, two male prostitutes and a female pimp, Monica, get tangled in a peculiar relationship after meeting in a dark street called POUTANA. They fall in love, play with guns and talk about card games, money and theatre castings. Is this a game of role playing the three of them have invented to pass their time in a remote, empty summer house? Have they been reading Jean Genet? Whether a mirror image of the characters’ reality or an elliptic depiction of their distorted, dream-like perception of it, I Afroditi Stin Avli, by juxtaposing disparate literary and art references, leads its isolated characters towards dissolution. And yet, in its strange language, it presents this dissolution as a triumph.

Things are Queer (1973)

Things are Queer (1973)
Photographer: Duane Michals
Nine silver gelatin prints with hand applied text. (Köln: Ann and Jürgen Wilde, Zülpich, 1973).

Duane Michals (born February 18, 1932) is an American photographer.[1] Michals's work makes innovative use of photo-sequences, often incorporating text to examine emotion and philosophy.

Awards:

Honorary Fellowship of The Royal Photographic Society, 1991.
Gold medal for photography, National Arts Club, 1994.
Masters Series Award, School of Visual Arts, 2000.

Mother’s Hands

Mother’s Hands
Artist: Robin Eley
Oil on Belgian linen
410mm x 305mm

Eley was born in London in 1978 to an Australian father and Chinese mother. In 1981, the family returned to Australia where he completed his secondary education. In 1997 he travelled to the US to attend Westmont College, earning his BA in Fine Arts and captaining the basketball team. His work was recently recognised in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize (highly commended runner-up in 2010 and highly commended 3rd place in 2011). His debut solo exhibition Singularity recently concluded at Hill Smith Gallery in South Australia. He now lives in Adelaide with his wife, Rachel.

To Rome with Love (2012)

To Rome with Love (2012)
112 min


Country: USA | Italy | Spain
Language: English | Italian


Director: Woody Allen
Writer: Woody Allen
Stars: Woody Allen, Penélope Cruz and Jesse Eisenberg



To Rome with Love is a 2012 romantic comedy film written by, directed by, and starring Woody Allen. The film is set in Rome, Italy. The film was released in Italian theaters on April 13, 2012, and opened in Los Angeles and New York City on June 22, 2012.
The film features an ensemble cast, and Allen himself in his first acting role since 2006's Scoop. The story is told in four separate vignettes: a clerk who wakes up to find himself a celebrity, an architect who takes a trip back to the street he lived on as a student, a young couple on their honeymoon, and a funeral director who has a talent for singing in the shower.(Wikipedia)


Set in the romantic city of Rome. The intertwining stories of a worker who wakes up to find himself a celebrity, an architect who takes a trip back to the street he lived on as a student, a young couple on their honeymoon, and a frustrated opera director who has a talent for discovering talented singers.(IMDB)

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Happy
Artist: Rejani Sen

Le gai savoir (1969)

Joy of Learning (1969)
Le gai savoir (original title)
95 min
Country: France | West Germany

Language: French


Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Writers: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (text)
Stars: Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Léaud and Jean-Luc Godard

How do we learn? What do we know? Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris's student revolt, the Vietnam War, and other events of the late 1960s, along with posters, photographs, and cartoons, are backdrops to their words. Words themselves are often Patricia and Emile's subject, as are images, sounds, and juxtapositions. In addition to the two characters' musings, the soundtrack includes narration, music, news clips, and noise. The result is a montage, a meditation, a reflection on ideas and how words and images mix - and how filmmaking is a path. (IMDB)

Joy of Learning (French: Le Gai savoir) is a 1969 film by Jean-Luc Godard, started before the events of May 68 and finished shortly afterwards. Coproduced by the O.R.T.F., the film was upon completion rejected by French national television, then released in the cinema where it was subsequently banned by the French government. The film was entered into the 19th Berlin International Film Festival. The title references Nietzsche's The Gay Science.(Wikipedia)

Tour cycliste du canal Paris (1989)

Tour cycliste du canal Paris (1989)
Photographer: Marie Babey

Killed the Family and Went to the Movies (1969)

Killed the Family and Went to the Movies (1969)
Matou a Família e Foi ao Cinema (original title)
78 min


Country: Brazil
Language: Portuguese

Director: Júlio Bressane

Writer: Júlio Bressane

Stars: Márcia Rodrigues, Renata Sorrah and Antero de Oliveira

There are many concurrent plots in this film. The main one being the one in which a desperate guy kills his parents with an open razor and then goes to the movies. At the same time, other violent events happen when two girls realize they are in love with each other.(IMDB)

This uneven feature combines suicide, torture, violence and Lesbianism in this satirical comedy. The director attempts to show the problems and moral dilemma faced by members of the middle class as they express their concerns over social issues. There is no discernible plot in this verbose film plagued by audio and video problems. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi

Pablo Picasso Light Drawings with Gjon Mili (1949)

Pablo Picasso Light Drawings with Gjon Mili (1949)
Artists: Pablo Picasso, Gjon Mili (Photograpger)

When LIFE magazine’s Gjon Mili, a technical prodigy and lighting innovator, visited Pablo Picasso in the South of France in 1949, it was clear that the meeting of these two artists and craftsmen was bound to result in something extraordinary. Mili showed Picasso some of his photographs of ice skaters with tiny lights affixed to their skates, jumping in the dark — and the Spanish genius’s lively, ever-stirring mind began to race.

“Picasso” LIFE magazine reported at the time, “gave Mili 15 minutes to try one experiment. He was so fascinated by the result that he posed for five sessions, projecting 30 drawings of centaurs, bulls, Greek profiles and his signature. Mili took his photographs in a darkened room, using two cameras, one for side view, another for front view. By leaving the shutters open, he caught the light streaks swirling through space.”

This series of photographs, known ever since as Picasso’s “light drawings,” were made with a small electric light in a darkened room; in effect, the images vanished as soon as they were created — and yet they still live, six decades later, in Mili’s playful, hypnotic images. Many of them were also put on display in early 1950 in a show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

Finally, while the “Picasso draws a centaur in the air” photo that leads off this gallery is rightly celebrated, many of the images in this gallery are far less well-known — in fact, many of them never ran in the magazine — but they are no less thrilling, after all these years, than the iconic picture of the archetypal creative genius of the 20th century crafting, on the fly, a fleeting (albeit captured forever on film) work of art.

A note on the last image in the gallery: An excerpt from a 1968 special issue of LIFE, devoted entirely to Picasso, describes a typical scene at his home: “Putting on a mask is sometimes enough to set Picasso off into a kind of witch-doctor frenzy. He roars and writhes behind his gorilla mask, dances away to the mirror, returns in a rubber devil’s mask to swoop down on his daughter Paloma. Picasso was one of the first European artists to recognize the magic and beauty of African masks, and his own masks show the enduring power of that early influence.” (Life Magazine)