Kimsooja
To Breathe/Respirare
La Fenice, Venice
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I’ve always hated CGI in film, but the fact that it has been shown to make children cry is unexpected material for my argument. Computer graphics will never be the same as watching an actor!
ON THE MEDIA: The Uncanny Valley
For the animators of films and video games, creating a truly human looking and acting character has long been the holy grail. But making characters close-to-real and yet not-real-enough leaves them in what’s called the ‘uncanny valley’ where audiences find those characters unsettling, unnatural and zombie-like. OTM producer Jamie York looks at how the entertainment industry has dealt with this issue and what the ‘uncanny valley’ tells us about ourselves and our future.
Speaking of cool things people can do with the voice, check out the “Neanderthal” language in Catherine Sullivan’s TRIANGLE OF NEED. Elvish, Navi… all this makes me want to make-up my OWN language. I would eliminate “S”
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Inuit Throat Singing, from UbuWeb. This website is amazing.
I’m so into this site TheAuteurs - you must check it out. Amazing, undistributed stuff from upcoming directors as well as gorgeous classics, all streaming. Just saw the beautiful Russian documentary THE MOTHER. Great.
rent interesting plays!
Read that the artists are getting 50% of sales. Exciting times for the ADD theater goer.
Americana Kamikaze
I saw an incredibly spooky show last night featuring the very talented Yuki Kawahisa in a funny/terrifying performance directed by Kenneth Collins. The show had the dreamy silver feeling of cinema with the proximity and heat of a live show. It worked - I was completely upset at one point, and then drawn in again by the noir dialogue which kept circling and repeating like an orderly, deadly lullaby. Check it out.
In Ancient Dramas, Vital Words For Today's Warriors by ELIZABETH BLAIR
I was so privileged to meet Bryan Doerries and Phyllis Kaufman of the Philoctetes Project today. I admire their project intensely.
The readings and discussions of ancient plays that they have brought before soldiers, inmates, and civilians are hilarious and tragic reminders that nothing is new, that no one is alone, that our problems go as far back as humanity.
I missed Doug Aitken’s SLEEPWALKERS at MoMA, back when. Happy to discover this compelling document of the event. Better late than never.
