PERSUADERS (2002, PETER SIMON, A+++++)

http://theaestheticsofloneliness.blogspot.com/2007/01/romancing-pizza.html

เพิ่งเคยไปกินพิซซ่า SCOOZI ที่ ESPLANADE เมื่อไม่กี่สัปดาห์ก่อน อร่อยดี มันมีพิซซ่ารสเผ็ดด้วย พอดีวันนั้นจะไปดูหนังเรื่อง A BATTLE OF WITS ซึ่งมันเข้าฉายแค่ไม่กี่โรง ก็เลยได้ถ่อไป ESPLANADE เป็นครั้งแรกในชีวิต

http://riverdale-dreams.blogspot.com/2006/12/jules-and-jim.html

ชอบฉากอ่านจดหมายใน TWO ENGLISH GIRLS และใน THE AGE OF INNOCENCE เหมือนกัน ไม่เคยสังเกตมาก่อนว่าสองฉากนี้คล้ายกัน แต่สองฉากนี้มันให้ความรู้สึกที่เชยแต่น่ารัก ซึ่งเข้ากับหนังแนวพีเรียดเป็นอย่างมาก


--เพลงก่อนตาย
http://filmsick.exteen.com/20070203/music-k-8-enola-1?page=1#

คุณ THE AESTHETICS OF LONELINESS แสดงความเห็นไว้ในบล็อกของคุณ FILMSICK ว่า “ตอนก่อนจะตายเป็นช่วงเวลาที่สำคัญที่สุดในชีวิตนะครับ จิตสุดท้ายก่อนจะดับไป เขาบอกว่ามันจะกำหนดภพภูมิที่เราไปเกิดใหม่”

ก็เลยทำให้ตอนนี้ตัดสินใจได้ว่า ก่อนที่ดิฉันจะสิ้นใจตาย ดิฉันจะฟังเพลง LET ME BE YOUR UNDERWEAR ของวง CLUB 69 เพื่อที่ว่าตายไปแล้วจะได้ไปเกิดเป็นกางเกงในชายแบบในคลิปวิดีโอเพลงนี้
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofkKOz8WJhI

ว่าแต่ว่าก่อนตายจะมีใครเลือกฟังเพลง “ปอบ” ของวงอาหารหูบ้างไหม จะได้ไปเกิดเป็นปอบ
http://musicstation.kapook.com/newmusicstation/play.php?id=6748


--หนังต้นฉบับที่อยากดู

คุณ THE AESTHETICS OF LONELINESS บอกว่า BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974, BOB CLARK) ต้นฉบับมีขายในรูปแบบดีวีดีในราคา 59 บาทตามร้านแมงป่อง ดิฉันอยากดูมากๆ เลยค่ะ เพราะได้ยินว่า MARGOT KIDDER (SISTERS, SUPERMAN) เล่นหนังเรื่องนี้ด้วย
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000IMUYJM.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

หนังอีก 2 เรื่องที่อยากดูต้นฉบับ แต่ยังไม่ได้หามาดู คือ

1.THE WICKER MAN (1975, ROBIN HARDY)
http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000JVT1U0.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

2.THE TOOLBOX MURDERS (1978, DENNIS DONNELLY)

A lunatic runs around an apartment complex, apparently home only to attractive flight attendants with a tendency towards exhibitionism. While there, the lunatic tries to kill all the tenants with the contents of a toolbox. Based (probably quite loosely) on a true story.
http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000096I9W.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg


--ภาพยนตร์ที่ได้ดูซ้ำในวันนี้ ที่ห้องสมุดมหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์

1.ATTENTION – RESPECT (2001, MICHAEL BRYNNTRUP, A+++++)

2.RACK (2000, VOLKER SCHREINER, A+)


--ภาพยนตร์ที่ได้ดูรอบแรกในวันนี้ ที่ห้องสมุดมหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์

ข้อมูลภาษาอังกฤษจากเว็บไซท์ของสถาบันเกอเธ่
http://www.goethe.de/ins/in/mum/en2008455.htm

1.PERSUADERS (2002, PETER SIMON, A+++++++++++++++)

In approaching that which is unknown a question arises. The people who appear in the video attempt to convince themselves of what they perceive. The moment of doubt holds a delightful fascination and at the same time it makes us insecure and fearful. What the protagonists see and which object they focus on remains a secret. Is it the observer who causes this reaction or is it the relationship between that which is observed and those doing the observing? A threatening atmosphere develops, mixed with aggression and revulsion. What it is about does not become clear—the emotional states reflected in the faces are not clearly discernable. The confusion is intensified even more by the appearance in a scene of two identical persons whose movements are executed in a reciprocal manner. The performers’ disturbed state is transmitted to the viewers and every one tries to find outfor him-/herself what he/she sees and understands. Emotion and fact – knowledge grows with conviction.


2.MARK MORRISSOE – POLAROIDS 1959-1989 (2002, CURTIS BURZ, A+++++++++++++++) หนังเกย์

I Mark Morrisroe swear
To codly use and manipulate every one
Who can help my career
No matter how much I hate them
I will pretend that I love them
I will fuck any one who can help me
No matter how appealing they are to me.

Born 1959, Boston, USA. My mother was a drug-addicted prostitute. I left home at the age of 13 and began hustling. One of my disgruntled contacts shot me and I carried a bullet in my chest for the rest of my life. I won a scholarship of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, but I led a disrupted life involving drugs, cross-dressing and exhibitionism. Most of my photographs were self-portraits and formed a visual diary of my life.

I contracted HIV and towards the end of my life I spent so much time in hospital that I set up a dark room in the ward shower. When I died 2000 polaroids were found along with Super-8 films. That’s something, isn’t it?


3.S (2002, ATHANASIOS KARANIKOLAS, A+++++++++++++++) หนังเกย์

นำแสดงโดย SUPERMARKY
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/132/379121443_673bb2f891_o.jpg


4.JIVAN, UP THERE (2002, MARC COMES, A++++++++++)

The passion of a 13-year-old boy called Jivan is recounted in Marc Comes’s work. Water as violence, mechanics, a futuristic tub as an amniotic sac, intensities of light. Jivan opens his eyes. He folds his felt mat and steps out into the open. “up there” is a psychological work of art in the tradition of the European experimental film in which sound and picture form a close intermedia relationship. The film successfully employs new aesthetic means of expression for traditional poetic forms of filmmaking. The work changes surfaces and materials in a masterly way and transforms them into moments of perception and consciousness. (Werkleitz Award 2003, press report) “In my dreams, in my whole behaviour, something of my existence before I was born lives on, something of swimming blissfully in my mother’s womb. I know that I already existed then.” (Pier Paolo Pasolini)


5.FALCON (2003, KARO GOLDT, A+++++)

An orange-red field of colour with a graphic design that is not immediately recognisable, accompanied by electronic sounds on the audio track: “falcon”begins with a static and visually arresting image which is soon transformed. The colour turns to white and then pink, yellowish green changes to orange and red. This takes place parallel to the vibrating soundtrack. Various parts of the picture are affected by these modulations of colour causing them to stand out in differing intensities. Thus it only gradually becomes clear that the strange symbol represents the abstract image of an aeroplane cockpit because “falcon”not only refers to a bird of prey but is also the name of the F-16 fighter bomber.

Karo Goldt’s work is modelled on a real image, a photograph that has been edited on a computer. Reduction and abstraction are used to enhance the symbolic character of the subject. At the same time the result resembles x-ray images or thermography and thus points to the existing relationship to other imageproducing devices. (Claudia Slanar)

เกิดความผิดพลาดในระหว่างการฉายหนังเรื่องนี้ ทำให้หนังกลายเป็นขาวดำ และแทบไม่เห็นสีอะไรทั้งสิ้น แต่ก็รู้สึกว่าดูเพลินมาก


6.LAND UNDER (LANDUNTER) (2003, CORNELIUS KIRFEL, A+)

The film was the result of a seminar that dealt with conceptions of utopia. The idea for the film and the music, however, already existed. In the film itself neither a utopia nor a counter-utopia is developed. There is also no intended reference to things in the future or in the past which is why the sentence “If I could change the world, I wouldn’t do anything” appears in the introduction of the film. We follow the image of a street; a light during the night until the early morning.


7.LITTLE FLOWER (BLUEMCHEN) (1994, SEBASTIAN JOCHUM, A+)


8.DRAMA, STRINGS AND HORNS (1998, GUNTER KRUEGER, A+)


The starting point for this film was a 60-second reel produced by the German Democratic Republic television network in 1968. The label on the container indicated clearly what it was about: POIWNO8575 Another report about the terror in West Germany:The police club demonstrators, 16.4.68, 21:45. A classical but silent propaganda film typical of the Cold War period, with victims and culprits and even more victims ... By dividing the film into sequences of different lengths and constantly repeating, adding to and interrupting the chronology and content the film is reconstructed and given a different meaning. If at the beginning one expects the story to be resolved in the form of a victim or a cause, in the course of time this expectation is reversed. Now it is purely cinematic suspense with which one awaits the next sequence to evolve from the previous ones.


9.THE ORAL THING (2001, BJORN MELHUS, A+/A)

“The Oral Thing” is a short fable about the embarrassing confessions heard on so-called daytime chat shows. The promise of redemption of those presenting themselves to millions of television viewers, however, is rarely kept; more than this it satisfies the desire for sensation of an entertainment culture that is used on the part of the networks as a medium for advertising products. Bodily activities which are the preferred topics treated on these shows usually appear detached from the presented bodies and are reduced to the language of the “Talking Heads” of an oral TV culture.

In a kind of ritual, a mixture of religious TV programme, musical and quiz show, a chat show host gives birth to two candidates who have no abdomen or arms, eliciting confessions about incestuous love, sex and violence from them which are commented on by a studio audience in a moralising tone. Interrupted by a repeatedly recurring TV logo marking the commercial breaks the initial dialogue-like character of the show becomes more and more a recitative that brings the ritual to a close.

Just as in his earlier works all the figures appearing in the video are played by Melhus himself; the restructured voice fragments are extracts from the American television programme Maury Povich Show.

ดูหนังล้อเลียนรายการทีวีเรื่องนี้แล้วทำให้นึกถึงภาพยนตร์เชคเรื่อง ONE HAND CAN’T CLAP (2003, DAVID ONDRICEK, A+) ที่มีตัวละครเป็นพิธีกรรายการทีวีชิบหายๆเหมือนกัน
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366635/


10.THE SOURCE (2002, TIM COE, A+/A)

An overgrown garden: Out of the distance comes a solitary person, then another one and another one. We see this coming and going of people in a series of short shots. Ultimately we see a street corner with many people walking in all directions. It has, however, gradually become apparent that all the people are the same person—this place is entirely populated by identical replicas. The confrontation with a world populated by replicas of just one person creates mixed feelings. Is this egoism on the part of the artist (since he has populated the world with replicas of himself)? There is an innate drive to reproduce and pass one’s own genes on to the next generation. This seems to have been forced here to the extreme of megalomania. A strange variation on the solipsistic idea that the only being I know to be a thinking, feeling consciousness is myself.

ดูหนังเรื่องนี้แล้วทำให้นึกถึง COPY SHOP (2001, VIRGIL WIDRICH, A+) และ TEKNOLUST (2002, LYNN HERSCHMAN-LEESON, A+/A) ที่เกี่ยวกับคนที่ก็อปปี้ตัวเองเหมือนกัน


11.NO SUNSHINE (1997, BJORN MELHUS, A)


12.PRIVATE PHYSICS (PRIVATPHYSIK) (1998-2003, FELIX HOEFLER + HERWIG WEISER, A)

After successfully attempting to establish a new genre called “theory video” in a work about the painter Francis Bacon, the artists’ intention here is in a similar way .First to pay tribute to the scientist and visionary Otto Roessler and then to reflect on his unique way of conveying knowledge. The main focus, though, is not so much a documentation of his theories or a portrait of him or even a translation of his lectures and writings into moving images but rather an attempt to comprehend Roessler’s world on more of an emotional level and recompose it in the special language of theory video.

Emotional knowledge, in contrast to intellectual knowledge, is the only deeply comprehending form of knowledge and starting from a level of abstraction can thus be transposed very effectively into the greatest variety of media. And this is precisely where “Privatphysik” begins.

Excerpts of Otto Roessler’s writings and lectures in the form of manipulated language are only dimly perceived and interweave to form a common complex with the image.


13.UTRECHT HUT (2002, FRANZ HOEFNER, A-)

This all-round unit combines contemporary functionality with traditional charm. It takes little room and thus creates additional storage space for your living-room. Even the smallest flat can become gigantic. With the Utrecht hut you will experience how it feels to live in a country-house-style dwelling and learn to use living space differently. It can be realized quite easily and requires little craftsmanship. The Utrecht hut is a home that adapts to you.

The video loop shows the transformation of a wall unit called
“Utrecht” into the “Utrecht hut” on the ground-plan of a living room.


14.ONE AFTER ANOTHER (2002, ANNA ANDERS, A-)