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For some time, I’d been curious about The Invader, a thriller or sorts that did the festival circuit back in 2011. The director, Nicolas Provost, is better known as a video artist. He’s interested in the same things a lot of self-described video artists and experimental filmmakers of the last generation seem to be into: the erosion of film and the projection of narrative, with the key works (to me, anyway) being Long Live The New Flesh, made from a very glitchy DVD-rip of Videodrome, and Plot Point, for which Provost secretly filmed pedestrians, cops, and cabbies around Times Square with a hidden camera and then edited them together into reverse shots, like characters in a thriller. You ...
For some time, I’d been curious about The Invader, a thriller or sorts that did the festival circuit back in 2011. The director, Nicolas Provost, is better known as a video artist. He’s interested in the same things a lot of self-described video artists and experimental filmmakers of the last generation seem to be into: the erosion of film and the projection of narrative, with the key works (to me, anyway) being Long Live The New Flesh, made from a very glitchy DVD-rip of Videodrome, and Plot Point, for which Provost secretly filmed pedestrians, cops, and cabbies around Times Square with a hidden camera and then edited them together into reverse shots, like characters in a thriller. You ...
- 6/2/2017
- by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
Migrating Forms has just revealed the full program for its third edition, running May 20 through 29 at Anthology Film Archives in New York. And it's pretty impressive, so we're going to go the quickest route here and reproduce the release below the jump.
Special Events
Georges Perec Double Bill
Serie Noire Dir Alain Corneau (1979)
Georges Perec wrote dialogue made up almost entirely of cliches and aphorisms for this adaptation of Jim Thompson's A Hell of a Woman. "The only Thompson adaptation to truly express the author's deeply personal darkness." - Moving Image Source
Un homme qui dort (The Man Who Slept) Dir. Georges Perec and Bernard Queysanne (1974)
Adapted from Georges Perec's novel of the same name. Structured as a filmic sestina, Perec and Queysanne reimagine the framework of the novel while maintaining much of the original narration (read by Shelly Duvall in the English version!).
The Art of the...
Special Events
Georges Perec Double Bill
Serie Noire Dir Alain Corneau (1979)
Georges Perec wrote dialogue made up almost entirely of cliches and aphorisms for this adaptation of Jim Thompson's A Hell of a Woman. "The only Thompson adaptation to truly express the author's deeply personal darkness." - Moving Image Source
Un homme qui dort (The Man Who Slept) Dir. Georges Perec and Bernard Queysanne (1974)
Adapted from Georges Perec's novel of the same name. Structured as a filmic sestina, Perec and Queysanne reimagine the framework of the novel while maintaining much of the original narration (read by Shelly Duvall in the English version!).
The Art of the...
- 5/9/2011
- MUBI
Andrew Ruhermann and Shaun Tann (The Lost Thing), Ashlee Page (The Kiss), Hannah Hilliard (Franswa Sharl) and Mathew Bate (Mystery of the Flying Kicks) were the winners at the Melbourne International Film Festival Shorts Awards, held last nihgt.
Almost 100 shorts participated in the official competition; winners are eligible to submit their work for Academy Award consideration.
The winners are:
Emerging Australian Filmmaker: Ashlee Page, South Australia, The Kiss – $5,000 cash and an airfare to the Berlinale 2011. Best Experimental Short Film: Nicolas Provost, Belgium, Long Live The New Flesh – $3, 000 cash. Best Documentary Short Film: Director Matthew Bate and producer Viron Papadopoulos, South Australia, The Mystery of Flying Kicks – $3,000 cash. Best Animation Short Film: Anita Killi, Norway, Angry Man – $3000 prize. Best Fiction Short Film: Director Jonas Selberg Augustsén and producer Freddy Olssonwas, Sweden, Autumn Man from Sweden – $3,000 cash. Erwin Rado Award for Best Australian Short Film: Director Hannah Hilliard and producer Linda Micsko,...
Almost 100 shorts participated in the official competition; winners are eligible to submit their work for Academy Award consideration.
The winners are:
Emerging Australian Filmmaker: Ashlee Page, South Australia, The Kiss – $5,000 cash and an airfare to the Berlinale 2011. Best Experimental Short Film: Nicolas Provost, Belgium, Long Live The New Flesh – $3, 000 cash. Best Documentary Short Film: Director Matthew Bate and producer Viron Papadopoulos, South Australia, The Mystery of Flying Kicks – $3,000 cash. Best Animation Short Film: Anita Killi, Norway, Angry Man – $3000 prize. Best Fiction Short Film: Director Jonas Selberg Augustsén and producer Freddy Olssonwas, Sweden, Autumn Man from Sweden – $3,000 cash. Erwin Rado Award for Best Australian Short Film: Director Hannah Hilliard and producer Linda Micsko,...
- 8/2/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
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