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Rosler & Representation
Via artinfo.com
May 2012
“I’ve been obsessed by questions of representation,” Martha Rosler says of her antiwar and feminist art. “It’s one of the guiding themes of my work, an interest in representation itself as a way in which our world is formed for us.”
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Still Dots #44
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May 2012
Adrift amongst melancholy memories, Anna sits fiddling with one of her bedknobs (which Jeremy surmised might contain hidden secrets) until Holly Martins interrupts her reverie. Holly seems to have a chipper air about him, perhaps because the porter had promised to divulge more secrets regarding Harry Lime’s death later that evening—a promise that’s nullified with the offscreen murder of the…
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Godard 3-D
Via thefilmstage.com
May 2012
French New Wave pioneer Jean-Luc Godard is going where Wim Wenders, Martin Scorsese, and James Cameron have gone before: into the realm of 3-D film. Currently in production, his Farewell to Language uses the technology.
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Dean’s Quietude
Via thedailybeast.com
May 2012
The “quietude” in Tacita Dean’s film Five Americans—which includes meditative footage of artists including Claes Oldenburg, Merce Cunningham, and Julie Mehretu—”is hard-won, achieved with as much labor as any oil by Vermeer,” writes Blake Gopnik.
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Still Dots #43
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May 2012
Were zither chords visible, a jangly milleu would still hang over this frame from the chord marking the end of our poor porter’s life. His clear eyes turn and look to an unknown assailant, and hang suspended behind Anna in cross-dissolve limbo. Is it one of the four men who met on the bridge last week? Or perhaps some dastardly assassin hired by the group? Whoever it is, the porter’s eyes tell…
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Ying Liang in Exile
Via edmundyeo.com
May 2012
Ying Liang, whose film Good Cats screened at the Walker in 2009, says that because of his new film he’ll be arrested if he returns to China. Now in Hong Kong, his When Night Falls is about the case of a Shanghai man executed in 2008.
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Shooting Stalker
Via nybooks.com
May 2012
A Ukrainian game developer’s first-person shooter game adaptations of Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 film Stalker have “subpar graphics, horrid writing, abysmal voice-acting, tasteless menus, and tediously clichéd music.” Yet to Gabriel Winslow-Yost they’re “remarkable.”
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Still Dots #42
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May 2012
This ghostly image is an ominous portent of things to come: here, Dr. Winkel is preparing to bike to “the bridge,” a meeting point to which Popescu has called his cohorts (Baron Kurtz, Popescu, and the unknown Third Man are also en route) in order to address the situation with Harry’s former porter. Having foolishly informed Popescu that the porter saw the mysterious Third Man ushering Harry’s…
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Bird Brains
Via artinfo.com
May 2012
Struck by their penchant for pageantry, Nathalie Djurberg—whose Walker-organized show of avian sculptures and films opens at the New Museum May 2—notes how birds’ “outward parade or display is really an inward search for all these funny rituals and emotions.”