for those that are curious about the B&L film selections
we're not sharing the films we're using for the B&L show in our promo posts because we want to stay away from the appearance of charging people to watch movies that we don't have the legal rights to show for that purpose. however, locked down here in my lj i thought i would share the selections with those that are curious. yeah i know that this all legally dubious, and i'm not interested in discussing the merits and flaws of my logic. ;)
set 1
Zbigniew Rybczynski's "Tango" 1981
"Thirty-six characters from different stages of life - representations of different times - interact in one room, observed by a static camera."
"A Night on Bald Mountain" from Fantasia 1940
"It is Walpurgis Night and, using the powers of darkness, Chernabog raises ghosts, skeletons, demons, witches, harpies, goblins, and zombies from a nearby town and cemetery. He then summons fire and lava and makes the damned and the other creatures in his control dance and fly around, much to his delight, before he destroys them."
a selection of work by Bruce Bickford ~1980
"Much of his work depicted fast-moving, fluid-like transformations of human figures and disfigured faces into odd beasts on surreal structural settings with impressive camera effects."
Zbigniew Rybczynski's "Stairway to Lenin" from The Orchestra 1990
"The rules of the game are always the same: the multiplication of the characters, their uninterrupted passing of the baton, disappearing and reappearing, crossing the boundaries between one spatial context and another, in the fluidity of the action that finishes only with the end of the musical piece and with the change of scene."
Kenneth Anger's "Invocation of my Demon Brother" 1969
"The shadowing forth of Our Lord Lucifer, as the Powers of Darkness gather at a midnight mass. The dance of the Magus widdershins around the Swirling Spiral Force, the solar swastika, until the Bringer of Light- Lucifer- breaks through."
Salvador Dali's "Un Chien Andalou" 1928
"...probably the most renowned surrealist film....intended as "a desperate and passionate appeal to murder," was immediately acclaimed for its poetry and beauty. The film's disturbing imagery and transformation of narrative and continuity conventions help account for its appeal..."
Stanley Kubrick's "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite" from 2001: A Space Odyssey
"It disappears and turns space inside out, and we are soon traveling through time and space. We pass exploding stars and new galaxies and alien worlds. This was Kubrik's vision for the future, a euphoric, revolutionary concept: that mankind would eventually rise above the physical realm to a level of existence incomprehensible to us at the present point in time."
set 2
Baraka 1992
"Baraka is an incredible nonverbal film containing images of 24 countries from 6 continents. The film has no plot, contains no actors and has no script. Instead, high quality 70mm images show some of the best, and worst, parts of nature and human life."
set 1
Zbigniew Rybczynski's "Tango" 1981
"Thirty-six characters from different stages of life - representations of different times - interact in one room, observed by a static camera."
"A Night on Bald Mountain" from Fantasia 1940
"It is Walpurgis Night and, using the powers of darkness, Chernabog raises ghosts, skeletons, demons, witches, harpies, goblins, and zombies from a nearby town and cemetery. He then summons fire and lava and makes the damned and the other creatures in his control dance and fly around, much to his delight, before he destroys them."
a selection of work by Bruce Bickford ~1980
"Much of his work depicted fast-moving, fluid-like transformations of human figures and disfigured faces into odd beasts on surreal structural settings with impressive camera effects."
Zbigniew Rybczynski's "Stairway to Lenin" from The Orchestra 1990
"The rules of the game are always the same: the multiplication of the characters, their uninterrupted passing of the baton, disappearing and reappearing, crossing the boundaries between one spatial context and another, in the fluidity of the action that finishes only with the end of the musical piece and with the change of scene."
Kenneth Anger's "Invocation of my Demon Brother" 1969
"The shadowing forth of Our Lord Lucifer, as the Powers of Darkness gather at a midnight mass. The dance of the Magus widdershins around the Swirling Spiral Force, the solar swastika, until the Bringer of Light- Lucifer- breaks through."
Salvador Dali's "Un Chien Andalou" 1928
"...probably the most renowned surrealist film....intended as "a desperate and passionate appeal to murder," was immediately acclaimed for its poetry and beauty. The film's disturbing imagery and transformation of narrative and continuity conventions help account for its appeal..."
Stanley Kubrick's "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite" from 2001: A Space Odyssey
"It disappears and turns space inside out, and we are soon traveling through time and space. We pass exploding stars and new galaxies and alien worlds. This was Kubrik's vision for the future, a euphoric, revolutionary concept: that mankind would eventually rise above the physical realm to a level of existence incomprehensible to us at the present point in time."
set 2
Baraka 1992
"Baraka is an incredible nonverbal film containing images of 24 countries from 6 continents. The film has no plot, contains no actors and has no script. Instead, high quality 70mm images show some of the best, and worst, parts of nature and human life."