En lisant JS tout récemment, je me suis souvenu du prochain festival international du cinéma documentaire à Nyon et le projet Reprocessing Reality.

Selon les mots de la commissaire d'exposition Claudia Spinelli "l'intérêt des milieux cinématographiques et artistiques pour la réalité sociale et politique n'a été jamais aussi grand qu'aujourd'hui." JS dit plutôt le contraire - en tout cas en ce qui concerne les cinéastes -, n'est-ce pas? (ah comme j'adore ce "n'est-ce pas" gombrowiczien). Et comme il va bientôt prendre le chemin de Nyon, je suis assez curieux de ce qu'il va rapporter de cette exposition...

Google comes up with a Video Search.



Example : matches for the word "condom" in the Desperate Housewives Pilot.
Though If you want to see some videos excerpts you better go to the Desperate Housewives ABC Site

PS: SF DRS starts with "Desperate Housewives" on Monday, April 4 at 21:30 on SF2 replacing "Six Feet Under"

Via Blogdex

It's not a moving image, but it's moving (émouvant) - this bag-uette (L.C.)

Would Barthes agree, if I say it's a punctum? No I guess not. It is simply too salient, too saillant. It could possibly be a punctum if I would look at this photo at the time it was taken by Eugène Atget (around 1900). But today this suitcase for a bread is simply too incongruent.
But is it a suitcase... probably not. It's just a well-baked baguette. So then we can reconsider it as a punctum.

As Barthes says about the punctum:
Ainsi le détail qui m'intéresse n'est pas, ou du moins n'est pas rigoureusement, intentionnel, et probablement ne faut-il pas qu'il le soit ; il se trouve dans le champ de la chose photographiée comme un supplément à la fois inévitable et gracieux; il n'atteste pas obligatoirement l'art du photographe; il dit seulement que le photographe a été là [...] Qu'il soit cerné ou non, c'est un supplément : c'est ce que j'ajoute à la photo et qui cependant y est déjà.

If you can read this image, you can guess the title of the film...
If not, here is one more hint:

Sandrine from Contrechamp posted recently her favorite films list. I will try to do the same, but instead of listing them all, I will take some time and add them one by one slowly. Below I try to figure out how to come to this small number of ten.

1) Canyon Passage (Tourneur)
3) (probably) Videodrome
4) (probably) Being John Malkovich
10) Ganja and Hess (1973) directed by Bill Gunn
The only film of this list I have never seen, but I am still dreaming about. I read the screenplay (Screenplays of the African American Experience edited by Phyllis Rauch Klotman, ISBN 0-253-33145-5). By the way, Ganja and Hess was the critic's choice at the 1973 Cannes Festival. See also this essay.



2) A film of Ozu or Kitano or Wong Kar-Wai or Hou Hsiao-Hsien or Edward Yang or one of all of them:
Ozu: I guess Tokyo Story. I have seen it again recently (Criterion) and it is splendid. I also like David Bordwell's book about Ozu
Kitano: Hana-Bi or his second one, Boiling Point aka 3x4 10月
Wong Kar-Wai: Days of Being Wild or Fallen Angels
Hou Hsiao-Hsien: The Puppetmaster
Edward Yang: Yi Yi
5) Pursued (Raoul Walsh) or The Beguiled (Don Siegel) or Heaven's Gate (Cimino)
6) A Godard definitely: Sauve qui peut la vie? Prénom Carmen? Nouvelle Vague?
7) Sans Soleil or Le Tombeau d'Alexandre from Chris Marker? Le Bonheur from Medvekine? The first two films of Kira Muratova? Boris Barnet?
8) Peau d'Âne (Demy) which I rediscover with my kids? There is another film for kids which is french and totally crazy, but I do not remember its title nor its director. A Miyazaki?
9) The Red Shoes or Black Narcissus (Powell and Pressburger) or Badlands de Terence Malick or Andrei Roublev (Tarkovski)

Video made with a Sharp GX-20.
Nothing particular - just the houses in front ouf our office. This works well with Quicktime Player 6.5 with 3GPP Support.

If you have a GX-20 or GX-30 or any other 3GPP phone, you can also watch it directly from your mobile. Go to:
http://roger.kaywa.ch/mobile

See also:
Quicktime for mobile (L.C.)

A friend who is librarian, sent me the above picture this morning. He needs to know from which film it is.



What he knows about the photo (which is from Edy Meyer):
On the photo's right side, you have Edy Meyer (1877-1967), the one who gets interviewed because he knew Lenin during his stay in Switzerland. On the left, we have probably the interviewer or the director.

On IMDB there is one film which could be the one, its title Lenin in Switzerland (1965). The director of the film is Grigori Aleksandrov, who is also the author of the swiss film Frauennot - Frauenglück: Das Hohelied der ärztlichen Kunst , a film which shows that it should be legal to have an abortion. Grigori Alexsandrov is well known for his collaboration with Sergei M. Eisenstein on almost all his films.

So it could be that the man on the left is Grigori Aleksandrov. Does anyone have a photo of Aleksandrov?

See also:
Sozialarchiv, Personennachlässe: Edy Meyer