…directed by Pablo Trapero (Argentina)
“While working alongside his long-time friend and colleague in building a hospital for the residents of a Buenos Aries shantytown, a troubled priest finds solace in a young, atheist social worker.”
– IMDB
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Check out the IMDB page here
The trailer doesn’t really do it any justice but it was insightful in as much as it was difficult to watch, for me.
Discovered at TIFF
…directed by Andrew S Allen (Seattle, Washington)
“The cipher, concocted by the human mind to conceal, to puzzle, hold the truth. It was that which I sought.”
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Discovered via the Toronto After Dark Film Festival
Check out the website here
And Andrew S Allen’s site here
…is a Cinematographer / Director of Photography / Director from Cairo, Egypt
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Check out his Youtube here
And his Vimeo here
…is a french fantasy film directed by Leos Carax (Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France)
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A lot of people walked out midway and ridiculed the film. In fairness, I can see why.
It is pretty ridiculous if we’re looking at the standard story arc but, to me, it broke plenty of rules in all the right ways.
The cinematography is amazing. I feel like you can literally take each frame from the movie and slap it on a couture and/or art magazine.
Everything and everyone we encounter in our entire lives become an integral part of who we are. We live different paradigms of life everyday.
This was about a man whose job is to literally live different paradigms of life each day (9 in this movie, to be exact)… and given the different kinds of headspaces we all get into in a day, sometimes within an hour, or a minute, even seconds – I’d say there’s nothing out of the ordinary, in terms of the premise, at all.
I discovered this at the Toronto International Film Festival several years back.
Check out Leos Carax’s IMDB here
…directed by Diplo, as Wesley Pentz (USA) and Leandro HBL (Brazil)
“For 20 years, a subculture has emerged in Brazil under society’s radar. It is the culture surrounding ‘funk carioca’, a musical rhythm which mixes the American electronic funk of the 1980’s with the most diverse influences of Brazilian music. ‘Baile funk’ is one of the most interesting musical movements in the world, but it comes from what is at times, one of the most violent and poorest places in the world: the slums of Rio de Janeiro (favelas). this music is the personalization of the raw element. Bombastic rhythms coming from the American Miami Bass and samples are fused with powerful rap vocals using Brazilian slang. This documentary tells stories of sex, love, poverty, and pride among Rio’s marginalized people. They have their own language, style, and heroes. It’s a film that’s fast, heavy, and violent like the city itself.”
– Written by Mad Decent
favela on blast – us version – with english subtitles from joonspoon on Vimeo.
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Check out Mad Decent’s (Diplo) site here
And Mosquito Project (Leandro HBL) here
And check out the flick’s IMDB page here
…directed by Alan Holly (Dublin, Ireland)
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“Take me in your arms. I wish to see the sky and feel the weather on my skin…
I wish to hear the sea and smell the damp woods…Look at the ants…
Show me fire’s burning…I wish to be among people…
Grant me something hidden, something shared…
Show me many things, so that I remember.”
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Check out the film’s site here
And Maps and Plans studio’s site here
…pseudonym of Gyula Halász (1899 – 1984, Romanian/French) was a street artist, photographer, sculptor, writer, and filmmaker.
Street Art/Graffiti
“Many viewers of Brassaï’s work found it easier to accept his photographs of graffiti as art than to accept the graffiti itself. In this sense, his work encouraged audiences to look at graffiti on the street in a new light: as framing devices for the world, as a parallel voice of the city, and as a modern primitive art that is all around us if we just care to look…”
– Street Art, Cedar Lewisohn
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I found a series by him called “Transmutations” that I love, love, love. These days you can probably render a similar/the same kind of effect with Photoshop or Illustrator or AfterEffects, but they didn’t have that back then so they were using photographic glass plates. Very manual, analog type way of doing things. Most avant-garde artists these days still do the analog thing and combine it with digital stuff to enhance their works.
“In 1934, directly inspired by his collaboration with Pablo Picasso who he had been working with for two years, Brassaï decided to experiment with the technique of engraving onto glass photographic plates. He worked on thirty or so negatives of female nudes dated from 1931 to 1935, printing around 150 proofs covering the various states of the photographs at different moments in the process of altering the original material.” – museoreinasofia.es
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Check out Brassai’s Wikipedia entry here
…by Erick Oh (originally from Korea, currently based in California, USA)
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Check out his site here
And his Vimeo here
I forget which film fest I discovered it from but it was one of those shorts they show before the feature.
…translated “Drop of Gold” by Christophe Peladan (from Toulose, France currently based in Viborg, Denmark)
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Check out the film’s site here
And the IMDB here
More about Christophe on this webpage
And his IMDB
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