Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI, and sign up for our weekly email newsletter by clicking here.REMEMBERINGInauguration of the Pleasure Dome.Kenneth Anger has died at the age of 96, as reported this morning by his gallery. "Anger forged a body of work as dazzlingly poetic in its unique visual intensity as it is narratively innovative," wrote Maximilian Le Cain of the pioneering avant-gardist (and devoted occultist) for Senses of Cinema. "Anger’s films are cinematic manifestations of his occult practices. As such, they are highly symbolical, either featuring characters directly portraying gods, forces and demons or else finding an appropriate embodiment for them in the iconography of contemporary pop culture."The Austrian actor Helmut Berger died last week aged 78. He was best known as Luchino Visconti’s muse, unforgettable in The Damned (1969), Ludwig (1973), and Conversation Piece (1974). Among his additional...
- 5/24/2023
- MUBI
Art made with technology, no matter how cutting-edge, always has a way of becoming kitsch. Think Nam June Paik’s cathode televisions or Cory Arcangel’s self-consciously obsolete video of hacked Super Mario clouds. A work becomes successful when it can both incorporate the technology and exploit it for its ephemerality. Artist Tabor Robak, born in 1986 and certainly part of a millennial technological cohort, hits a sweet spot.The uniform slickness of Robak’s computer-graphics renderings of sometimes-mundane, sometimes-extraordinary objects and technological interfaces might look recognizable from contemporary video-games. But in reality, they are exponentially more elaborate. Robak models his videos by hand, exploring the medium of CGI the way Michelangelo did marble. It’s an arduous, individual process — one hand on one mouse — but it’s executed in a way possible only in the 21st century. Rather than crunching them himself, Robak sends his enormous files, so large precisely because they’re hand-modeled,...
- 5/7/2015
- by Kyle Chayka
- Vulture
Milla Jovovich with her sidekicks Milla and Milla
Whenever an artistic medium dares to cheat on its loyal fanbase by scurrying over to another, anger and thinkpieces likely follow. Technology has amped up an uncanny-valley-sort of realism in video games. Movies have added more CGI to its blockbuster spectacles and animation. Thus, the previously distinct media have drawn blurrier lines with consumers none too pleased. Games like Quantic Dreams’ Heavy Rain earn the title of “cinematic”, either as mere descriptor or complaint. A quick gameplay video affirms this: most of the action simply propels the player through a grounded narrative with only a few promptly-timed button mashes driving what looks like an animated movie. Cinema-goers as well have lambasted recent multi-million-dollar projects like Gravity for sequences of first-person, graphics-laden action, not unlike a Call of Duty cut-scene (the latest of which, by the way, features CGI-fied Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey...
Whenever an artistic medium dares to cheat on its loyal fanbase by scurrying over to another, anger and thinkpieces likely follow. Technology has amped up an uncanny-valley-sort of realism in video games. Movies have added more CGI to its blockbuster spectacles and animation. Thus, the previously distinct media have drawn blurrier lines with consumers none too pleased. Games like Quantic Dreams’ Heavy Rain earn the title of “cinematic”, either as mere descriptor or complaint. A quick gameplay video affirms this: most of the action simply propels the player through a grounded narrative with only a few promptly-timed button mashes driving what looks like an animated movie. Cinema-goers as well have lambasted recent multi-million-dollar projects like Gravity for sequences of first-person, graphics-laden action, not unlike a Call of Duty cut-scene (the latest of which, by the way, features CGI-fied Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey...
- 1/1/2015
- by Zach Lewis
- SoundOnSight
The 6th annual Migrating Forms will be returning to the BAMcinématek in Brooklyn, New York on December 10-18 for a full week of new and classic experimental media.
The fun kicks off with the lyrical portrait of North Korea, Songs From the North, for which filmmaker Soon-Mi Yoo compiled footage from popular films, state-organized demonstrations and home video from her own visits to the country.
Highlights of the fest include a three-film retrospective of documentarian William Greaves, Still a Brother, The Fight and Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One; a new consumerist exploration by Cory Arcangel, Freshbuzz (www.subway.com); the oblique narrative Don’t Go Back to Sleep by Stanya Kahn; and the Hong Kong experimental post-apocalyptic The Midnight After by Fruit Chan.
The full lineup for the 2014 Migrating Forms is below:
December 10
8:00 p.m.: Songs From the North, dir. Soon-Mi Yoo. This portrait of North Korea has been crafted...
The fun kicks off with the lyrical portrait of North Korea, Songs From the North, for which filmmaker Soon-Mi Yoo compiled footage from popular films, state-organized demonstrations and home video from her own visits to the country.
Highlights of the fest include a three-film retrospective of documentarian William Greaves, Still a Brother, The Fight and Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One; a new consumerist exploration by Cory Arcangel, Freshbuzz (www.subway.com); the oblique narrative Don’t Go Back to Sleep by Stanya Kahn; and the Hong Kong experimental post-apocalyptic The Midnight After by Fruit Chan.
The full lineup for the 2014 Migrating Forms is below:
December 10
8:00 p.m.: Songs From the North, dir. Soon-Mi Yoo. This portrait of North Korea has been crafted...
- 12/10/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
There are other names that come more readily to mind when one thinks of compositions for the piano: Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Debussy. And while the world of classical music tends to remain entrenched in an era long gone, there have been some undeniable additions to the piano canon with the advent of electronic keyboards — from everyone and everywhere like Madonna to Detroit techno — however flimsy a contribution they may be. Leave it to wunderkind artist Cory Arcangel to consider this more closely with a set of new compositions entitled “24 Dances for the Electronic Piano,” which he recently released on SoundCloud and will be performed tomorrow night at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with pianist and accomplished composer Chris d’Eon.It’s easy to forget that Arcangel started out as a student at Oberlin Conservatory for Music, even though his interest in the electronic piano is perfectly in line with much...
- 11/21/2014
- by Thessaly La Force
- Vulture
This Previously Undiscovered Andy Warhol Artwork Has Been Trapped on Floppy Disks for 30 Years Classics from decaying disks. by Liam Mathews Cory Arcangel had a hunch: after seeing this video of Andy Warhol demonstrating the 1985 Commodore Amiga 1000's image-editing software, he guessed that some old Amiga stuff lying around the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh may have some hidden treasure inside of it. He hooked up with the Carnegie-Mellon University Computer Club, a student group that restores vintage computers. They determined that even reading the data on the floppy disks could cause irreparable damage, so they had to devise complicated and unorthodox methods of computer wizardry to extract the delicate data. After months of trying, they determined that some of the disks contained image files saved by Warhol himself, and managed to unearth 28 never-before-seen images, 11 of which were signed. They include Warholiana like self-portraiture and Campbell's soup cans. A [...]...
- 4/25/2014
- by Liam Mathews
- Nerve
London, April 25: Lost computer art work of American artist Andy Warhol has been recovered from 30-year-old Amiga disks.
The discovery was made by Carnegie Mellon University's computer club over a period of three years since the images were saved in an obscure data format, the BBC reported.
Warhol, who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art, had produced the art in 1985 for the creator of the Amiga computer to aid the launch of the Amiga 1000.
The project's leader and self-confessed Warhol fanatic Cory Arcangel said in a statement that what's amazing is that by looking at the images, they.
The discovery was made by Carnegie Mellon University's computer club over a period of three years since the images were saved in an obscure data format, the BBC reported.
Warhol, who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art, had produced the art in 1985 for the creator of the Amiga computer to aid the launch of the Amiga 1000.
The project's leader and self-confessed Warhol fanatic Cory Arcangel said in a statement that what's amazing is that by looking at the images, they.
- 4/25/2014
- by Diksha Singh
- RealBollywood.com
Turns out Andy Warhol was as handy with a computer screen as he was with a silk screen.
Back in 1985, the artist was commissioned by computer and electronics manufacturer Commodore International to show off the Amiga compute’s graphic arts capabilities. He saved his artwork on an Amiga floppy disk, but the files were inaccessible — until the Carnegie Mellon University Computer Club stepped in this year.
The extraction process began when artist Cory Arcangel discovered a video of Warhol creating a portrait of Debbie Harry on an Amiga computer. Arcangel later followed up with Pittsburgh curator Tina Kukielski, and the...
Back in 1985, the artist was commissioned by computer and electronics manufacturer Commodore International to show off the Amiga compute’s graphic arts capabilities. He saved his artwork on an Amiga floppy disk, but the files were inaccessible — until the Carnegie Mellon University Computer Club stepped in this year.
The extraction process began when artist Cory Arcangel discovered a video of Warhol creating a portrait of Debbie Harry on an Amiga computer. Arcangel later followed up with Pittsburgh curator Tina Kukielski, and the...
- 4/24/2014
- by Ariana Bacle
- EW.com - PopWatch
The Andy Warhol Museum has recovered artwork Andy Warhol made in the mid-1980s on a Commodore Amiga home computer. It all started with a YouTube clip of Andy Warhol at the Amiga launch event, making a portrait of Debbie Harry. Artist Cory Arcangel saw the clip and embarked on trying to find the images. Working with curators from the Carnegie Museum of Art and the Warhol Museum's chief archivist, they found Amiga floppy disks. Fortunately, Carnegie Mellon University Computer Club is known for its "collection of obsolete computer hardware" and was able to easily extract many doodles, photographs, and riffs on classic Warhol images like the banana, Marilyn Monroe, and, as you can see below, the Campbell's soup can. Also, below you can see a self-portrait and a three-eyed Birth of Venus. Even though it's only been a few hours since they've been made public, Jay Z has already...
- 4/24/2014
- by Jesse David Fox
- Vulture
Although the latest Turner prize went to a video artist, the 12 Years a Slave director shows that the art form is just a finishing school for serious film-making
The rise of video and film art appears irresistible. The Turner prize has just been given to a video for the second year in a row.
Yet in spite of the successes of Laure Prouvost and Elizabeth Price, the triumph of video art is an illusion. It is not a stable, enduring art form; it may not even be an art form at all. It is in reality an experimental space at the margins of a much bigger culture of the moving image – a place for talented film-makers to mess around with a freedom they could never enjoy in commercial cinema or mainstream television, but which the true artists among them hunger to apply in those bigger, more important arenas.
For it...
The rise of video and film art appears irresistible. The Turner prize has just been given to a video for the second year in a row.
Yet in spite of the successes of Laure Prouvost and Elizabeth Price, the triumph of video art is an illusion. It is not a stable, enduring art form; it may not even be an art form at all. It is in reality an experimental space at the margins of a much bigger culture of the moving image – a place for talented film-makers to mess around with a freedom they could never enjoy in commercial cinema or mainstream television, but which the true artists among them hunger to apply in those bigger, more important arenas.
For it...
- 12/6/2013
- by Jonathan Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
The director talks artists' film and video, from advances in technology to moving-image art being taken more seriously
Hi Steven, can you tell us a little bit about Film and Video Umbrella?
Film and Video Umbrella (Fvu) produces, presents and promotes artists' work with the moving image. The projects we commission are made more for gallery exhibitions than the cinema circuit, and by people who probably went to art school rather than film school! But that distinction aside (and it's not an absolutely hard-and-fast one) our brief is pretty wide-ranging, stretching from the experimental fringes of the film avant-garde to the new horizons opened up by the internet, social media and digital technology.
I've been director for just over 20 years and, in that time, the organisation has grown from a small-scale two-person operation to become the leading commissioners of artists' film and video in the country, with almost 200 projects to our name now,...
Hi Steven, can you tell us a little bit about Film and Video Umbrella?
Film and Video Umbrella (Fvu) produces, presents and promotes artists' work with the moving image. The projects we commission are made more for gallery exhibitions than the cinema circuit, and by people who probably went to art school rather than film school! But that distinction aside (and it's not an absolutely hard-and-fast one) our brief is pretty wide-ranging, stretching from the experimental fringes of the film avant-garde to the new horizons opened up by the internet, social media and digital technology.
I've been director for just over 20 years and, in that time, the organisation has grown from a small-scale two-person operation to become the leading commissioners of artists' film and video in the country, with almost 200 projects to our name now,...
- 9/12/2013
- by Matthew Caines
- The Guardian - Film News
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