Joer 1995 - 348

Live At The Cambridge, Newcastle 1995.

A garishly colourful political rap video from Italy. Politics, business and daily life are poisoned by the influence of Mafia and Camorra. Fight da faida! Fight blood vengeance!

Film critic and scholar Helmut Färber analyzes the final scene of Eisensteins "October: Ten Days That Shook the World"

Three songs for one video here.

Longplay comedy with the subtitle "The Work of Jára Cimrman in the Hands of a Clever Trinity - A Film Made About You and For You". The four-hour film was made improvised by the method of "dried humor", i.e. an attempt to destroy each newly emerging gag by diluting it, explaining it or just making it wrong. 1995: The young amateur theater director Petr Hobby (P. Marek) places an advertisement for the founding of the Cimrman theater ensemble. The two young men who join him - Jiří Nezájem (J. Nebeský) and Jiří Zájem (J. Nezhyba) - will then experience with him during the effort to start rehearsing the performance of an incredible blow of fate, culminating in a shift in time by thirty years. The dilemma is: to return or stay in 2023?

"Guitar Grind" opens abruptly with an overhead shot of Parrino, clad in sunglasses and a T-shirt, as he begins sliding his bass guitar—positioned facedown like a violin bow—against a guitar resting atop its case, causing a somewhat unholy racket. Occasionally reaching up to tweak the amplifier or manipulate the guitar pedal to produce screeching and howling feedback, Parrino uses the instruments unconventionally so that together they project a discordant noise. The artist masterfully draws the listener in to hear repetitions, subtle variations, and musical gestures in the unusual sonic palette. Shot by a lone cameraperson, the visuals of Parrino's performance become increasingly abstract as the music develops into a more familiar and alluring language.

With the act of capturing the strange worlds on film, one's own presence is unveiled as exotic.

In the guise of chronicling the final moments of three polar explorers marooned on an ice floe a century ago, Baron's film investigates the limitations of images and other forms of record as a means of knowing the past and the paradoxical interplay of film time, historical time, real time and the fixed moment of the photograph. Marrying matter-of-fact voiceover and allusive sound fragments, evidence and illustration, in Baron’s words, "meaning is set adrift".

"A world of pain and sorrow even while the cherry trees are in bloom." Haïku d'Issa (18th century).

Playful course on a goose-body game.

1995 film

When Paula discovers that her neighbor/love interest has a boyfriend she plots her revenge.

A documentary directed by Ateyyat Al Abnoudy

"undertow" is an experimental short film which explores how the loss of family and culture can affect one's body consciousness and sexuality. It juxtaposes one adopted woman's reconstructed search for her birth mother (through a bleak urban landscape towards a phone booth) with the attempt to connect mind and body. Through multi-layered incorporation of text, dramatic and documentary footage, voice-over body movement, the internal challenges of crawling back into a murky past are revealed. "undertow" represents the pain and struggle of fighting against the forces--or currents (the undertow)--which seek to trap us and prevent us from knowing ourselves.

When the crowd finishes applauding the participants of the AIDS Walk in Central Park, NYC, the crowd disperses across the lawns. Then a friendly celebration begins with picnics and live music. I observe the mood of the different people gathered here in the stifling heat, who, carried away by the music, begin to dance.

"One can visit a military ship in New York harbour. A diverse mass of people stream on to the ship and patiently queue for admittance to the gargantuan structure. Proud sailors take groups around, functioning as tour guides on board. The crowds revel in this Sunday treat, with the New York skyline in the background." —Milena Gierke

SUNDAY APRIL 9, 1995 C.B.G.B NEW YORK CITY