Heide Hatry: Icons In Ash Ubu Gallery, NYC Through March 7th, 2017
Heide Hatry's show at Ubu Gallery is a series of portraits made from cremated ashes based on photographs of the deceased selected by family members or loved ones who have provided her with their ash remains. These are objects made in the spirit of the Consolatio, the ancient tradition of honoring the dead and consoling the mourners.
The resulting portraits presented in deep shadow-box frames, have a surface both softer and more active than the photo. Granular, like rough cut granite. But these portraits are not "painted", the very tedious, time consuming process uses tiny "dust" particles on wax to create a "mosaic." The solid characteristics of the 'thing' contrasting with the fleeting glimpse of the photo.
She has also released a book publication, Icons in Ash, (which accompanies the show) in which twenty-seven contributing authors, including Siri Hustvedt,...
Heide Hatry's show at Ubu Gallery is a series of portraits made from cremated ashes based on photographs of the deceased selected by family members or loved ones who have provided her with their ash remains. These are objects made in the spirit of the Consolatio, the ancient tradition of honoring the dead and consoling the mourners.
The resulting portraits presented in deep shadow-box frames, have a surface both softer and more active than the photo. Granular, like rough cut granite. But these portraits are not "painted", the very tedious, time consuming process uses tiny "dust" particles on wax to create a "mosaic." The solid characteristics of the 'thing' contrasting with the fleeting glimpse of the photo.
She has also released a book publication, Icons in Ash, (which accompanies the show) in which twenty-seven contributing authors, including Siri Hustvedt,...
- 1/21/2017
- by Millree Hughes
- www.culturecatch.com
With Paula Bernstein writing today about Guy Maddin’s The Saddest Music in the World, I was reminded to post about a cool internet essay/music project by Ander Monson with Megan Campbell, March Sadness. For those a bit blue, and no following college basketball — and, probably, more than a few who do — the month-long series has paired off sad songs for voters to up and downvote, mixing in essays on the music by Rick Moody, Juan Diaz, Megan Campbell and others. Explains Monson: So this March I’ve been running this project called March Sadness. Well, I’m already oversimplifying: we […]...
- 3/29/2016
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
This afternoon, a letter went out to members of the Pen American Center—not an official communique but a letter of dissent, boasting 35 signatories and soliciting many more. It concluded, "We the undersigned, as writers, thinkers, and members of Pen, therefore respectfully wish to disassociate ourselves from Pen America’s decision to give the 2015 Toni and James C. Goodale Freedom of Expression Courage Award to Charlie Hebdo." The list of writers below included Junot Diaz, Peter Carey, Rick Moody, Joyce Carol Oates, and Wallace Shawn. (Most of this story was published before the letter was sent, and has been updated to reflect the developments.) To look at the letter (which appears in full below), the signatories, and the potentially vast list of undisclosed recipients, it's hard to believe nothing of this new campaign existed a week ago. This past Sunday, the day after a calamitous earthquake in Nepal and the...
- 4/29/2015
- by Boris Kachka
- Vulture
Because explaining the glories of a project like this requires a length unsuited for a listicle, my favorite jazz album of 2014 gets an article all to itself. The rest of my list will follow later this week.
Allen Lowe: Mulatto Radio: Field Recordings 1-4 or: A Jew at Large in the Minstrel Diaspora (Constant Sorrow)
Allen Lowe has (at least) a double identity: jazz composer/saxophonist, and scholar of early American jazz and pop. This four-cd set combines those identities even more than usual as it contains a whopping 62 original compositions, many -- perhaps even most; I didn't do the math, but it feels that way -- inspired by the sounds and personalities of early jazz and pre-jazz (both kinds of ragtime, etc.), as detailed vividly in his accompanying notes: Bunk Johnson (we get many movements from a Bunk Johnson Suite), Bix Beiderbecke, Paul Whiteman, Ernest Hogan, James Reese Europe,...
Allen Lowe: Mulatto Radio: Field Recordings 1-4 or: A Jew at Large in the Minstrel Diaspora (Constant Sorrow)
Allen Lowe has (at least) a double identity: jazz composer/saxophonist, and scholar of early American jazz and pop. This four-cd set combines those identities even more than usual as it contains a whopping 62 original compositions, many -- perhaps even most; I didn't do the math, but it feels that way -- inspired by the sounds and personalities of early jazz and pre-jazz (both kinds of ragtime, etc.), as detailed vividly in his accompanying notes: Bunk Johnson (we get many movements from a Bunk Johnson Suite), Bix Beiderbecke, Paul Whiteman, Ernest Hogan, James Reese Europe,...
- 1/5/2015
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
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David Bowie recruited some all-star talent for his latest music video, which features Marion Cotillard as a prostitute suffering from a severe case of stigmata and Gary Oldman as a less-than-pious bishop. Bowie himself stars as well, offering parlor entertainment in this church-run sex-for-money scheme.
We're told Bowie himself conceived of the treatment for the video, which was directed by Floria Sigismundi ("The Runaways"). It's a lush visual, and it's nice to see that the 66-year-old Bowie hasn't lost his edge.
"The Next Day" is the second video off the album which shares the same title. "Where Are We Now?" -- Bowie's comeback single -- debuted with its own video.
Bowie recently broke his long and very serious silence about the album by sending writer Rick Moody 42 word about the project.
Take a look above and let us know what you think in the comments.
We're told Bowie himself conceived of the treatment for the video, which was directed by Floria Sigismundi ("The Runaways"). It's a lush visual, and it's nice to see that the 66-year-old Bowie hasn't lost his edge.
"The Next Day" is the second video off the album which shares the same title. "Where Are We Now?" -- Bowie's comeback single -- debuted with its own video.
Bowie recently broke his long and very serious silence about the album by sending writer Rick Moody 42 word about the project.
Take a look above and let us know what you think in the comments.
- 5/8/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: May 21, 2013
Price: DVD $29.99
Studio: Zeitgeist
One of the many photographs seen in Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters.
The 2012 documentary Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters chronicles the work of acclaimed Brooklyn-born photographer.
With his filmmaker-like sense of visual composition, Crewdson has created some of the most striking and gorgeously haunting pictures of the past two decades. His meticulously mounted, large-scale images offer strong narratives of small-town American life—elaborately detailed moviescapes crystallized into a single frame. While the photographs are staged with crews that rival many feature film productions, Crewdson takes inspiration as much from his own dreams and fantasies as the worlds of Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Edward Hopper and Diane Arbus. Crewdson’s imagery has also infiltrated the pop culture landscape—including his memorable ads for HBO’s Six Feet Under and his album art for the band Yo La Tengo.
Directed by Ben Shapiro and shot...
Price: DVD $29.99
Studio: Zeitgeist
One of the many photographs seen in Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters.
The 2012 documentary Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters chronicles the work of acclaimed Brooklyn-born photographer.
With his filmmaker-like sense of visual composition, Crewdson has created some of the most striking and gorgeously haunting pictures of the past two decades. His meticulously mounted, large-scale images offer strong narratives of small-town American life—elaborately detailed moviescapes crystallized into a single frame. While the photographs are staged with crews that rival many feature film productions, Crewdson takes inspiration as much from his own dreams and fantasies as the worlds of Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Edward Hopper and Diane Arbus. Crewdson’s imagery has also infiltrated the pop culture landscape—including his memorable ads for HBO’s Six Feet Under and his album art for the band Yo La Tengo.
Directed by Ben Shapiro and shot...
- 5/6/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
David Bowie has been in self-imposed media lockdown in recent months, even around the release of his newish album, The Next Day. He’s been in a couple of music videos, but he hasn’t given any interviews, nor said much of anything publicly. That all changed this week when The Rumpus writer Rick Moody asked Bowie to illustrate his “work flow diagram” for the record, prompting Bowie to turn in a list of 42 separate, obtuse words that supposedly influenced the new record—words like “effigies,” “osmosis,” “chthonic,” and “funereal.” The full list is below. Moody then turned Bowie ...
- 4/26/2013
- avclub.com
One of the great European literary figures of the past half century was the German writer W.G. “Max” Sebald (1944-2001), a late bloomer who fused essay, history, memoir, and meditative fiction into an unclassifiable weld of eloquently bewitching prose in four major works (Vertigo, The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Austerlitz), all written over the last decade of his too-abbreviated life. Sebald’s solitary narrators, given lightly autobiographical shadings, wander landscapes as far-flung as the Suffolk coast or the Slovakian countryside like melancholic revenants dwelling on the fate of individuals lost to war or time, the operation of memory, and other seemingly arbitrary recollections triggered by the encounter with a physical environment. Although the surfeit of stories and micro histories in his work often return us in unanticipated ways to his principal preoccupations — the Holocaust and the Allied bombing raids that decimated Germany during World War II — Sebald’s...
- 5/9/2012
- by Damon Smith
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
David Plakke Media NYC Author Mark Leyner
Perhaps you know Mark Leyner as the brazen satirical writer whose absurdist novels inspired a generation of comic novelists, including Sam Lipsyte and Gary Shteyngart. Or perhaps you know him as the author of the bestselling popular medical book, “Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You’d Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini.”
Or perhaps you’ve never heard of him at all. Leyner, who in the 1990s was...
Perhaps you know Mark Leyner as the brazen satirical writer whose absurdist novels inspired a generation of comic novelists, including Sam Lipsyte and Gary Shteyngart. Or perhaps you know him as the author of the bestselling popular medical book, “Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You’d Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini.”
Or perhaps you’ve never heard of him at all. Leyner, who in the 1990s was...
- 3/27/2012
- by Alexandra Alter
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Amy Monaghan, first known to most of us as the cinetrix, is high-tailing it from Boston, where she presented a paper at Scms, to New York for this afternoon's launch of the new issue of Black Clock, the literary journal edited by novelist Steve Erickson. You've got to love the promo blurb they've written for themselves:
In a movie issue like no other, Black Clock 15 features Geoff Nicholson's meeting of two film pioneers in "Buster Keaton: The Warhol Years," David Thomson's journey up the Amazon with Warren Beatty, and Anthony Miller's history of the cinema — from Dw Griffith's adaptation of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (presenting Louise Brooks as Lady Brett) to Don Siegel's 60s cult B-movie Bonnie and Clyde with Tuesday Weld and Clint Eastwood, to the 2010 Academy Award-winning portrayal by Chris Farley of silent comedic actor Fatty Arbuckle in Milos Forman's The Life of the Party.
In a movie issue like no other, Black Clock 15 features Geoff Nicholson's meeting of two film pioneers in "Buster Keaton: The Warhol Years," David Thomson's journey up the Amazon with Warren Beatty, and Anthony Miller's history of the cinema — from Dw Griffith's adaptation of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (presenting Louise Brooks as Lady Brett) to Don Siegel's 60s cult B-movie Bonnie and Clyde with Tuesday Weld and Clint Eastwood, to the 2010 Academy Award-winning portrayal by Chris Farley of silent comedic actor Fatty Arbuckle in Milos Forman's The Life of the Party.
- 3/25/2012
- MUBI
"The tragic destiny of the sculptor Camille Claudel will be the focus of Bruno Dumont's seventh feature, which will start shooting next February in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence," reports Fabien Lemercier at Cineuropa, where he notes that "the project has just been selected by Arte France Cinéma which will support it through co-production and pre-acquisitions. For the first time in his career, the director of Outside Satan (unveiled on the Croisette in May) and two-time winner of the Grand Prize at Cannes (in 1999 with Humanity and in 2006 for Flanders) has cast a star: Juliette Binoche (set to be seen next year in Malgorzata Szumowska's Elles, David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis, Sylvie Testud's The Life of Another and Marion Lainé's A Monkey on My Shoulder)."
Lemercier reminds us that when Isabelle Adjani played Claudel for Bruno Nuytten in 1988, she scored a Silver Bear in Berlin, a César and an Oscar nomination. And...
Lemercier reminds us that when Isabelle Adjani played Claudel for Bruno Nuytten in 1988, she scored a Silver Bear in Berlin, a César and an Oscar nomination. And...
- 11/25/2011
- MUBI
While conservatives like to knock Hollywood for its supposed liberal bent, one columnist in England thinks that its films are promoting quite the opposite viewpoint.
Writing for the Guardian, Rick Moody jumps off comic and film writer/director Frank Miller's harsh condemnation of Occupy Wall Street and argues that movies promote a "cryptofascist" agenda.
"Miller's hard-right, pro-military point of view is not only accounted for in his own work, but in the larger project of mainstream Hollywood cinema," Moody writes. "American movies, in the main, often agree with Frank Miller, that endless war against a ruthless enemy is good, and military service is good, that killing makes you a man, that capitalism must prevail, that if you would just get a job (preferably a corporate job, for all honest work is corporate) you would quit complaining."
Using action heroes and noted conservatives such as Chuck Norris, Clint Eastwood, Arnold Schwarzenegger...
Writing for the Guardian, Rick Moody jumps off comic and film writer/director Frank Miller's harsh condemnation of Occupy Wall Street and argues that movies promote a "cryptofascist" agenda.
"Miller's hard-right, pro-military point of view is not only accounted for in his own work, but in the larger project of mainstream Hollywood cinema," Moody writes. "American movies, in the main, often agree with Frank Miller, that endless war against a ruthless enemy is good, and military service is good, that killing makes you a man, that capitalism must prevail, that if you would just get a job (preferably a corporate job, for all honest work is corporate) you would quit complaining."
Using action heroes and noted conservatives such as Chuck Norris, Clint Eastwood, Arnold Schwarzenegger...
- 11/25/2011
- by Jordan Zakarin
- Huffington Post
Fans were shocked when Batman writer Frank Miller furiously attacked the Occupy movement. They shouldn't have been, says Rick Moody – he was just voicing Hollywood's unspoken values
A sturdy corollary emerges in the wake of the graphic artist Frank Miller's recent diatribe against the Occupy Wall Street movement ("A pack of louts, thieves, and rapists … Wake up, pond scum, America is at war against a ruthless enemy"), available for perusal at frankmillerink.com). That corollary, of which we should be reminded from time to time, is this: popular entertainment from Hollywood is – to greater or lesser extent – propaganda. And Miller has his part in that, thanks to films such as 300 and Sin City.
Perhaps you have had this thought before. Perhaps you have had it often. I can remember politics dawning on me while watching a Steven Seagal vehicle, Under Siege, in 1992. I was in my early 30s. The...
A sturdy corollary emerges in the wake of the graphic artist Frank Miller's recent diatribe against the Occupy Wall Street movement ("A pack of louts, thieves, and rapists … Wake up, pond scum, America is at war against a ruthless enemy"), available for perusal at frankmillerink.com). That corollary, of which we should be reminded from time to time, is this: popular entertainment from Hollywood is – to greater or lesser extent – propaganda. And Miller has his part in that, thanks to films such as 300 and Sin City.
Perhaps you have had this thought before. Perhaps you have had it often. I can remember politics dawning on me while watching a Steven Seagal vehicle, Under Siege, in 1992. I was in my early 30s. The...
- 11/25/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Hugh Grant, who was lauded for his appearance at the Leveson inquiry this week, had some arguments to air about the film promotion circuit
The big story
This week saw actor Hugh Grant deliver his testimony to the Leveson phone hacking inquiry. Grant, a vocal opponent of invasive press behaviour for many months, gave a thoughtful and measured performance. He no longer appeared "the foppish stereotype Brit," according to the Guardian's Michael White. "More high-minded Gary Cooper in Mr Deeds Goes to Town."
Part of Grant's argument centred on the impression that film stars ought to offer themselves up to promote their films. It was, he said, part of your responsibility to a project to do interviews around it ("If you didn't do a little bit of publicity you'd be a monster"), but far from essential. Grant estimated that around 5% of a film's success came down to whether or not he gave interviews,...
The big story
This week saw actor Hugh Grant deliver his testimony to the Leveson phone hacking inquiry. Grant, a vocal opponent of invasive press behaviour for many months, gave a thoughtful and measured performance. He no longer appeared "the foppish stereotype Brit," according to the Guardian's Michael White. "More high-minded Gary Cooper in Mr Deeds Goes to Town."
Part of Grant's argument centred on the impression that film stars ought to offer themselves up to promote their films. It was, he said, part of your responsibility to a project to do interviews around it ("If you didn't do a little bit of publicity you'd be a monster"), but far from essential. Grant estimated that around 5% of a film's success came down to whether or not he gave interviews,...
- 11/24/2011
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
The 49th New York Film Festival has announced their Masterworks and Special Anniversary screenings that will show between the festival’s seventeen days, September 30th – October 16th. The Masterworks program and the festival’s additional programming will provide audiences with exciting opportunities to explore new film-making styles and storytelling events. To learn more about the Masterworks and Anniversary films, please check out below for full synopsis and details.
Masterworks And Special Anniversary Screenings
Masterworks: The Gold Rush
Chaplin’s personal favorite among his own films, The Gold Rush (1925), is a beautifully constructed comic fable of fate and perseverance, set in the icy wastes of the Alaskan gold fields. Re-released by Chaplin in 1942 in a recut version missing some scenes, and with added narration and musical score, The Gold Rush will be presented in a new restoration of the original, silent 1925 version. In this frequently terrifying and always unpredictable universe of...
Masterworks And Special Anniversary Screenings
Masterworks: The Gold Rush
Chaplin’s personal favorite among his own films, The Gold Rush (1925), is a beautifully constructed comic fable of fate and perseverance, set in the icy wastes of the Alaskan gold fields. Re-released by Chaplin in 1942 in a recut version missing some scenes, and with added narration and musical score, The Gold Rush will be presented in a new restoration of the original, silent 1925 version. In this frequently terrifying and always unpredictable universe of...
- 8/28/2011
- by Christopher Clemente
- SoundOnSight
Release Date: Nov. 8, 2011
Price: Blu-ray $59.95
Studio: Criterion
The wonders of a family are illuminated for Bertil Guve in Fanny and Alexander.
Ingmar Bergman’s (The Magician) 1982 film Fanny and Alexander weaves its lengthy tale of the loves, dramas and passions of an extended family through the eyes of 10-year-old Alexander (Bertil Guve), one of the youngest members of the sprawling bourgeois Ekdahl clan of early 20th century Sweden.
Bergman intended the fantasy-mystery movie as his swan song, and it is the legendary director’s warmest and most autobiographical film, a four-time Academy Award-winning triumph that combines his trademark melancholy and emotional intensity with immense joy and sensuality.
Like Criterion’s previously released DVD version of Fanny and Alexander, the three-disc Blu-ray edition presents both the theatrical release and the original five-hour television version of this work. Also included in the box set is Bergman’s own feature-length documentary The Making of Fanny and Alexander,...
Price: Blu-ray $59.95
Studio: Criterion
The wonders of a family are illuminated for Bertil Guve in Fanny and Alexander.
Ingmar Bergman’s (The Magician) 1982 film Fanny and Alexander weaves its lengthy tale of the loves, dramas and passions of an extended family through the eyes of 10-year-old Alexander (Bertil Guve), one of the youngest members of the sprawling bourgeois Ekdahl clan of early 20th century Sweden.
Bergman intended the fantasy-mystery movie as his swan song, and it is the legendary director’s warmest and most autobiographical film, a four-time Academy Award-winning triumph that combines his trademark melancholy and emotional intensity with immense joy and sensuality.
Like Criterion’s previously released DVD version of Fanny and Alexander, the three-disc Blu-ray edition presents both the theatrical release and the original five-hour television version of this work. Also included in the box set is Bergman’s own feature-length documentary The Making of Fanny and Alexander,...
- 8/24/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
I don’t need any special encouragement to blog about a new book by Rick Moody…. especially when it has to do with a “blocked writer… whose major success is winning the right to author the novelization of the remake of the 1963 horror flick The Crawling Hand.” And when it has a pretty great trailer that took me back to Saturday afternoons watching Channel 20 in Washington, D.C. when I was growing up. (Hat tip: The Rumpus.)...
- 7/3/2010
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Rick Moody on A Single Man's era of oppression, boozing and sleeping around
I remember when I first heard the term "politically correct". I was an undergraduate at Brown university, in the early 1980s. Brown was a hotbed of political correctness if ever there were one. And this was during the first term of Ronald Reagan, cowboy president. If ever there were a time for such a thing, that was it. Originally, though, politically correct was a comical term. The daily conduct of my fellow labourers in the trenches of the Ivy League was anything but politically correct: sleeping around, stealing other people's drugs, being too white. These were all things that we joked about. We had failed to live up to our lofty leftist principles.
These days, though, there seems to be a growing cultural interest in an earlier historical moment, a time when things were simpler and more callous.
I remember when I first heard the term "politically correct". I was an undergraduate at Brown university, in the early 1980s. Brown was a hotbed of political correctness if ever there were one. And this was during the first term of Ronald Reagan, cowboy president. If ever there were a time for such a thing, that was it. Originally, though, politically correct was a comical term. The daily conduct of my fellow labourers in the trenches of the Ivy League was anything but politically correct: sleeping around, stealing other people's drugs, being too white. These were all things that we joked about. We had failed to live up to our lofty leftist principles.
These days, though, there seems to be a growing cultural interest in an earlier historical moment, a time when things were simpler and more callous.
- 1/28/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
All you mixtape lovers out there might find this book of interest:
Cassette From My Ex: Stories and Soundtracks of Lost Loves will be in stores next week on Tuesday October 27th! You can pre-order on Amazon now or head to your favorite indie bookstore next week to be the first to grab a copy.
The brand-new anthology compiles sixty hilarious, nostalgic and heartbreaking stories about crushes and mixtapes from amazing writers and musicians: author Rick Moody,&nbRead More...
Cassette From My Ex: Stories and Soundtracks of Lost Loves will be in stores next week on Tuesday October 27th! You can pre-order on Amazon now or head to your favorite indie bookstore next week to be the first to grab a copy.
The brand-new anthology compiles sixty hilarious, nostalgic and heartbreaking stories about crushes and mixtapes from amazing writers and musicians: author Rick Moody,&nbRead More...
- 10/23/2009
- by kevinjohns@gmail.com
- CultureMagazine.ca
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