Rubix art
22 February 2011While some people rack their head on solving a rubix cube, others make art of it. The French artist Invader created the Rubix Cubism. Amazing !
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Tatarak
29 September 2010
I came across Wajda when he was mentioned in one sentence with Kieslowski on some wikipage. Tatarak looked the most modern of his work, so I decided to watch this movie first.
The film follows Marta, a middle-aged women, who feels the burden of getting older. She's married with a doctor but when she meets Bogus, a young guy, she doubts about the choices she has made. This story is covered in a frame story; therefore the themes in the movie spread out wider than you would expect. Tatarak handles about life and death and in addition you get the inevitable retrospective of the life you've lived.
The frame story is very retiring and sober. Lonely monologues in a mournful, dark room obligate you to listen. It creates the feeling of the main character only talking to you. The story in the story maintains this atmosphere so you never loose the connection with the movie. On top of that some shots are just stunning through their naturalness.
A lot of credits should attributed to the head actress Krystyna Janda. Unless she's a widely-known actress in Poland, she does her job outrageously good. She lost her husband due lungcancer shortly before making this movie; that's why she plays the double role with a horrifying authenticity.
This movie is a pleasant surprise which made me curious to the other work of Wajda.
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Ideas for change
21 September 2010The website of CNN covers a nice article with ten ideas to change the world. Some of are well-known, but others are clever.
On the picture you see the hipporoller, invented to make it easier to transport water. This item is very useful in region without water works.
Kiva is another project with some potential. You lend some money to poor people who use the funds to improve their lives by setting up a business. To set an example I've lent $25 to the Mujeres Virtuosas Group in Paraguay.
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Vinyan
04 September 2010Fabrice Du Welz showed some glances of his talent with his film Calvaire. Vinyan confirms the fact that Du Welz is a great director. A couple lost their son in the tsunami. The woman, struggling with his dead, believes he’s still alive. Jeanne and Paul go on a boat trip in order to search their son in the jungle of Burma. The journey doesn’t go without a hitch. Step by step the situation gets more cluttered, at once one of the strengths of this movie. There’s a great parallel between the unstable mental state of Jeanne and the inauspicious physical environment. As Jeanne loses het connection with reality, the scenes are getting more and more surreal. An overwhelming demonstration of great visuals that have a function, support the story.
Vinyan deals with the mourning process of a young, white and prosperous couple. Inhabitants of south-east-Asia are dealing with the death in a complete other way. With some subtitle images and dialogues we perceive these differences. Inhabitants must chase away the harmful spirits of ancestors by sending some lighted up balloons into the air. This traditional ritual is one of those effective scenes that raise this movie far above the average.
Catalogued as Drama, Horror and Thriller, this movie isn’t really one of them. Vinyan is a mix all three, a total concept, boundless, a piece of art.
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Enter the Void
02 September 2010
Gaspar Noé is one of the directors who lets you wait several years before releasing a new movie. In combination with an impressive previous work, you get extremely high hopes. Concerning the audiovisuals, Enter the Void comes up to the expectations. Noé has done his job outrageously good. Powerful colors stimulate every cone on your retina, resulting in overtime work for your brain.
For the opening scene, where the protagonist has a DMT-trip, Noé even hired the artwork of a certain Glennwiz. Without doubt a provocative scene but it works. You’re immediately introduced in Oscar’s world. He’s a drug dealer in Tokyo, sliding down to become a junky himself. On top of that Oscar has a special relationship with his sister, who he pledged to never leave her. To enforce the first person feeling, the beginning shots are taken with a shoulder cam. As the movie moves forward, the camera gets free and even more shaky. It certainly makes you feel uncomfortable. The restless noisy background sound only boosts that feeling.
Despite the perfect atmosphere, there’s an unbridgeable gap between the spectator and the characters. They’re multiple factors creating this gap. In the first place, the whole story has a very thin psychological ground. You get multiple flashbacks of the car accident in which Oscar and his sister lost their parents. Certainly a traumatic experience but it never succeeds to explain the nihilistic feelings of Oscar and Linda. Furthermore the visualization of the Tibetanian vision of reincarnation feels childlike and is worked out too obvious. The fountain meets 2001: A Space Odyssey, it doesn’t work, the empathy gently flows away. Noé made the movie too long by repeating unnecessarily some of his tricks. Especially the vague aerial shots from Tokyo and the hole-absorbs-the-camera shots are getting boring after a while.
Enter the void would be a better movie if the essence was bundled into a shorter, more powerful movie. Nevertheless, the visuals are so dazzling that this movie is a must see for lovers of experimental cinema.
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