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Home by Olaf Breuning
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Fall – Patrick Jolley
Fall – Patrick Jolley. 16mm. 2008
Tedium breeds its own reverie. Here becomes like there becomes like could be anywhere. This forms a coincidence with the generic: Repetitions erode sense of place and make buildings seem less substantial. The logic of these displacements causes things to come adrift. Little houses sink and burn. Furniture smashes in an empty car park. Events of small destruction. pathetic yet momentarily cathartic.
Eleven minute film or single channel installation.
Sound Design and Music – Brian Crosby and Nick Seymour
Editor – Bobby Good
Cinematographer – Denise Woods
via Website Patrick Jolley – > Fall.
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Parc Central – Hong Kong Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBw7W3_e25s&w=480&h=390]
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Tony Hill – Films
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Bruce Nauman – Get Out of my Mind, Get Out of This Room
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5lqH40YoqM&w=480&h=390]
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Speech bubble – Adam Leech
speech bubbleduration: 5 minute loop
projection with 4 speakers
4/3, PAL, color, sound
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The documentary real
It has been a number of years that the so-called ‘documentary turn’ has become a frequent phenomenon in many artists’ films. The talk will be a comparative look into recent documentary practices that diverge from the orthodoxy of documentary as ‘factual’ film’, a notion which contemporary artists have repeatedly challenged of late. These artists working from a documentary point of departure use multiple strategies to reveal known or hidden ‘truths’, sometimes weaving fictional elements into their stories. Many of them demonstrate that ‘truth value’ does not lie in mere representation but may emerge even more forceful through artistic abstraction, translation, filtering and interpretation and that nowadays the borderline between documentary and fiction, or reality and fantasy is often becoming hard to distinguish. The talk aims to illustrate that the notion of the ‘documentary real’ is continuously evolving and cannot now be pinned down to a single definition or delineated through specific boundaries. Indeed it aims to show that some of the most interesting documentary practices are those which I call documentary ‘with a twist’, i.e. films that interweave the political with the poetic, and navigate between different filmic categories to arrive at highly individualistic hybrid documentary forms where the notion of realism is in constant renewal and the idea of ‘fact’ or ‘truth’ may be encoded into ambiguous but no less potent forms.
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The Real
If the mind penetrates deeply into the facts of aesthetics, it will find more and more, that these facts are based upon an ideal identity between the mind itself and things. At a certain point the harmony becomes so complete, and the finality so close that it gives us actual emotion. The Beautiful then becomes the sublime; brief apparition, by which the soul is caught up into the true mystic state, and touches the Absolute, the Real. It is scarcely possible to persist in this Esthetic perception without feeling lifted up by it above things and above ourselves, in an ontological vision which closely resembles the Absolute of the Mystics. (E. Récéjac, “Fondements de la Connaissance Mystique,” p. 74)
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Friction
Friction is the force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and/or material elements sliding against each other. It may be thought of as the opposite of “slipperiness”.
There are several types of friction:
* Dry friction resists relative lateral motion of two solid surfaces in contact. Dry friction is subdivided into static friction between non-moving surfaces, and kinetic friction between moving surfaces.
* Fluid friction describes the friction between layers within a viscous fluid that are moving relative to each other.[1][2]
* Lubricated friction is a case of fluid friction where a fluid separates two solid surfaces.[3][4][5]
* Skin friction is a component of drag, the force resisting the motion of a solid body through a fluid.
* Internal friction is the force resisting motion between the elements making up a solid material while it undergoes deformation.[2]
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Aesthetics
Aesthetics (also spelled æsthetics or esthetics) is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty.[1] It is more scientifically defined as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste.[2] More broadly, scholars in the field define aesthetics as “critical reflection on art, culture and nature.”[3][4]
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