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This week’s film: Rose Hobart by Joseph Cornell
Via ubuweb: a 20-minute film by U.S. surrealist Joseph Cornell, Rose Hobart. Made in 1936, the film is made from a now-forgotten 1931 Hollywood movie, East of Borneo. Most of the parts of the original movie containing action, exposition, and plot development have been removed, the soundtrack and dialogue has been wholly replaced with a…
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UNIT/PITT AGM, Thursday August 30th at 7pm
The Unit/Pitt Society for Art and Critical Awareness, which operates UNIT/PITT Projects, is having its annual general meeting on Thursday, August 30 2012, 7 pm, at 15 East Pender Street, Vancouver.
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Patrick Ready, 1947-2012
We’re sad to hear that artist, writer, and inventor Patrick Ready has died. Our sympathy goes to his friends and loved ones. Here’s some video of Patrick and longtime collaborator Hank Bull in last year’s television project Public Access: 1999 & Beyond (curated by Weekend Leisure). The video is an adaptation of material from the…
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This week’s film: F. W. Murnau’s Faust
Screened on August 15, 2012 This week, our film is based upon a classic German tale; famously adapted in literature by Goethe, but the subject of probably thousands of adaptations and retellings. Murnau, who earlier had created the vampire silent Nosferatu, made this film in 1926, before moving to Hollywood to make Sunrise. You can…
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This week: “buddhist”/rock’n’roll western Zachariah
Screened on August 8, 2012 This week’s film contains a few of cultural strands that ran through late-60s and early-70s “counterculture”. Zachariah comes from a script written by the Firesign Theatre, loosely based upon Herman Hesse’s novel Siddhartha, starring Don Johnson and John Rubinstein as rock’n’roll gunfighters (who seem to be pretty much in love with…