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Written and directed by Aurélia Morali. (2006) // With Clémence Poésy & Adrien De Van // Soundtrack: Au Revoir Simone // In the middle of a wheatfield, a girl throws a paper plane in the air. It falls at a boy's feets...//
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McCABE & Ms MILLER (1971) – THE STRANGER SONG
Robert Altman‘s McCabe & Ms Miller opening sequence, set to Leonard Cohen‘s The Stranger Song.
Turn the sound off and you’ll probably be bored in less than 15 seconds. The sound was always a huge component of Altman’s cinema and this movie is famous for its seemingly messy sound mix. It’s as if you’re plunged into a cacophony of conversations, struggling to hear what’s being said (not in this opening which plays more like a minimalist music video), turning this film in what could best be described as a “reality western”, pierced now and then by flashes of Cohen’s elegiac score.
ALL THE REAL GIRLS (2003)
Haunting scene from David Gordon Green‘s All the Real Girls set to Mogwai‘s Mogwai Fear Satan.
LUCKY THREE : AN ELLIOTT SMITH PORTRAIT (1997)
Part short film and part music video, Lucky Three is, with another short film called Strange Parallels, one of the rare official videos of Elliott Smith.
Directed by Jem Cohen, it’s a kind of ancestor for the take-away shows.
Smith interprets three songs, alone in a room with an acoustic guitar (Between the Bars / Thirteen (a Big Star cover) / Angeles ), intercut with shots of his hometown Portland. The instrumental part in between the songs is from an early version of Baby Britain.
It was shot in 1997 but was only released two years later when it was included on Kill Rock Stars (his label at the time) first video fanzine which quickly came out of print.
This video was rediscovered when the version of Thirteen he sings here was used on the soundtrack of Mike Mills‘ Thumbsucker.
A documentary about him, Searching for Elliott Smith, has started making the rounds at festival but so far no trailer or release dates have been known.
PERILI EV: photo test or short film ?
Found on Vimeo, posted by young turkish photographer Firar Güney Kayran.
The video is credited as : “Canon 7d – 18-55mm is canon lens – 50mm nikon f1.4 lens” (sic) // with a score of great polish composer Zbigniew Preisner (soundtracks for Kie?lowski, J. Becker, L. Malle, C. Miller etc…)
official Preisner website // Firar Güney Kayran web photo gallery
Shoot tests, video, accident or not, watch this as a contemplative tiny film:
CHRISTMAS ON MARS (2008) – TRAILER
For 5 years, Wayne Coyne, singer and spirit of The Flaming Lips, shot a science-fiction movie with some of his friends in his backyard. No budget. No script. No boundaries.
It took 3 more years to come out and in the meantime grew into something of a cult (which stands here for ‘not that easy to watch but with a killer soundtrack and some pretty trippy moments’).
Coyne has described the film as “Maybe Eraserhead or Dead Man crossed with some kind of fantasy and space aspects, like The Wizard of Oz and maybe A Space Odyssey, and set at Christmas-time. The story that unfolds is intended to hint at childlike magic within a tragic and realistic situation.”
The trailer pretty much sums that up nicely as well…
(the poster at the top has been designed by the small stakes)
Experience Mobile Mobile – INSTALLATION
By James Théophane Jnr // Christmas card for an interactive agency
Check the Vimeo page to watch the making of and more.
Bot’Ox – Blue Steel
Directed by the Körner Union @Big Productions
Bot’Ox is Cosmo Vitelli & Julien Briffaz duo.
Label: I’M A CLICHE // www.imacliche.com
GEOMETRY OF CIRCLES – PHILIP GLASS meets sesame street
Sesame street n’a jamais vraiment été une émission pour enfants comme les autres. Non contents d’avoir eu une liste de guest stars surprenante (même le Kronos Quartet y est passé), ils sont allés jusqu’à demander en 1979 à Philip Glass de composer une musique originale pour illustrer leur segment sur les figures géométriques.
Mis bout à bout et sortis de leur contexte éducatif, ils forment un court-métrage expérimental assez hypnotique…
SEABEAR – new single + old music video : I SING I SWIM (2007)
Seabear will release a second album “We built a fire” :
March 2010 @Morr Music / You can LISTEN to 2 tracks and/or buy the single.
Here is a music video directed by Sindri Mar & Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir in 2007 //
From the album “The ghost that carried us away” (2007) /
myspace.com/seabear // Label : Morr Music
Check also THIS POST with “Hands remember” music video.
