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

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