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hamano's TV and Documentary (and Experimental Film) blog
	Topic by: hamano Posted: October 1, 2003 - 9:11 PM PDT Last Reply: October 29, 2003 - 6:22 AM PST

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hamano	post #1  on October 1, 2003 - 9:11 PM PDT   I admit I actually BOUGHT a CD of one of the songs they use on the Mitsubishi car commercials! Just Breathe by Telepopmusik How about you?
hamano	post #2  on October 1, 2003 - 9:20 PM PDT   My favorite TV commercials now are the "Frankenstein" ads for Osteo Bi-Flex. It cleverly plays off the original Karloff movie as well as those other pain medicine ads featuring stuff like people REALLY ENJOYING practicing Tai Chi outdoors! The first time I saw it I was rolling around on the floor laughing. I wish there was a website where I could download these ads. Incidentally, this forum is an interactive pseudo-blog that emerged from another discussion about the Forum Categories. Anyone is welcome to write about anything they want here!
hamano	post #3  on October 1, 2003 - 9:24 PM PDT   Hey, I just saw the season premier of ALIAS and I swear in the soundtrack they used Blondie's cover of Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" with Robert Fripp on electric guitar. I have this song on a bootleg vinyl LP I bought back in college. I don't think the version was ever before released commercially. That's so cool!
hamano	post #4  on October 1, 2003 - 9:30 PM PDT   I wonder why there aren't any Kenneth Anger films out on DVD... He's still alive and active, I think. I found a link to a website with his name that's still under construction.
hamano	post #5  on October 1, 2003 - 9:46 PM PDT   GreenCine has Criterion's compilation of some films by Stan Brakhage If you wanna see some beautiful visual poetry of the "huh?" variety, you should take a look at these. There are so many films he made I don't know which is which. I remember one film where he created a panning camera effect by putting a house set on a platform that could be moved back and forth. The camera stays in place, and "panning" shots were created by actually moving the entire set from side to side. Oh, here's a guide to finding info by or about Brakhage.
hamano	post #6  on October 1, 2003 - 10:59 PM PDT   Anyone who saw the American horror remake The Ring should know that the surreal images in the death video are inspired largely by Luis Bunuel's early film Un Chien Andalou (The Andalusian Dog) and also by the films of Maya Deren. Un Chien Andalou is apparently not available on DVD, but if you're curious you should definitely check out Maya Deren: Experimental Films. I don't know if Deren made any non-experimental films, though. She looks pretty hot on the cover.
dwhudson	post #7  on October 2, 2003 - 5:53 AM PDT   > I don't know if Deren made any non-experimental films, though. No, not really. > She looks pretty hot on the cover. She keeps wafting into books and drifting right back out again. She has a speaking part, for example, in James Merrill's poetic cycle, The Changing Light at Sandover, and here she is again in Anatole Broyard's Kafka Was the Rage: "...Maya was also an avant-garde filmmaker, an avant-garde everything. Short, stocky, with a dark red, before-its-time Afro, she looked like a Little Orphan Annie who had been kidnapped once again, this time by art. "While Dylan Thomas was the proclaimed guest of honor, Maya was always the real guest of honor at her parties. She had made sure of this with the tapes of Haitian drumming, because none of the poets and literary camp followers she had invited seemed willing to get out on the floor with her." "So it was mano a mano between Maya and Caitlin [Thomas, Dylan's Mrs, who's opted for a dance of her own, the description of which I've opted not to transcribe onto this family-friendly discussion board]. I had yet to see Caitlin's angry, intellectual milkmaid's face. I hadn't realized who it was beneath the dress until I asked a slender, elegant young man next to me. That, he said, with an irony that was the chief ingredient of the new American poetry, is Caitlin Thomas. "It was like a war of the worlds out there on the floor: the child-bearing, cottage-keeping, pub-crawling wife of the Welsh bard against a rising star of Greenwich Village. Caitlin relied on the immemorial argument of the bump and grind, while Maya, who wore trousers, danced not exactly to the tapes but to the different drummer of the American art establishment. I wondered who would win and where Dylan was. Was he hiding his face, too?"
hamano	post #8  on October 2, 2003 - 6:36 AM PDT   ....yes....dwhudson....thank you....I....feel....so....much....better.... all work and no play makes hamano a happy boy all work and no play makes hamano a happy boy all work and no play makes hamano a happy boy all work and no play makes hamano a happy boy all work and no play makes hamano a happy boy all work and no play makes hamano a happy boy all work and no play makes hamano a happy boy all work and no play makes hamano a happy boy all work and no play makes hamano a happy boy all work and no play makes hamano a happy boy all work and no play makes hamano a happy boy all work and no play makes hamano a happy boy all work and no play makes hamano a happy boy all work and no play makes hamano a happy boy all work and no play makes hamano a happy boy
hamano	post #9  on October 2, 2003 - 7:24 AM PDT   > On October 1, 2003 - 9:46 PM PDT hamano wrote: > --------------------------------- > GreenCine has Criterion's compilation of some films by Stan Brakhage If you wanna see some beautiful visual poetry of the "huh?" variety, you should take a look at these. There are so many films he made I don't know which is which. I remember one film where he created a panning camera effect by putting a house set on a platform that could be moved back and forth. The camera stays in place, and "panning" shots were created by actually moving the entire set from side to side. > --------------------------------- hamano, you were dropping too much acid when you were going to those exp. film clubs! You're talking about the film <------> (Back and Forth) by Michael Snow. Brakhage was the one that was experimenting with rhythm and drawing/scratching directly on the film emultion!
hamano	post #10  on October 2, 2003 - 7:28 AM PDT   > On October 2, 2003 - 7:24 AM PDT hamano wrote: > --------------------------------- > hamano, you were dropping too much acid when you were going to those exp. film clubs! You're talking about the film <------> (Back and Forth) by Michael Snow. Brakhage was the one that was experimenting with rhythm and drawing/scratching directly on the film emultion! > --------------------------------- Oy, you're right! Thanks hamano, for that correction. Remember that film we drew on 35mm with a Sharpie? That project took a loooooong time! Whew!
hamano	post #11  on October 2, 2003 - 7:45 AM PDT   GreenCine has 3 films by Jon Jost... I think these are his feature length films. Has anyone who's seen these think they're worth renting? My favorite Jost film is a documentary short called "Uncommon Senses". He set up a camera at the Four Corners marker which is located at the intersection of the Utah/Colorado/New Mexico/Arizona borders. Interviews with visitors alternate with shots of tourists getting down doggy-style to take pictures on the marker. This film is ALMOST as funny as Errol Morris' "Vernon, Florida".
hamano	post #12  on October 29, 2003 - 6:22 AM PST   Note to self: Heard on NPR This documentary sounds really sad and horrific. I wonder if it will ever appear on DVD, and I wonder if anyone will ever buy/rent it? Is a documentary about sex sexploitative? Burma interview (8 :00) (1.9MB WMA file) Director producer Gayle Ferraro risked her life to document the life of child prostitutes in Burma. The result is a film called "Anonymously Yours," an illustration of how the international sex trade affects individual lives. The director tells host Lisa Mullins of the terrifying experience of getting the film made.