meanderings

Joost Rekveld

still from “#37″ (35mm cinemascope, 31 min, 2009)

interview on utube

Our daily bread – Geyrhalter Film

activist, consumption, death, factory, feeding, film

Slavoj Zizek – THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO CINEMA

“The lesson that we should learn, and that the movies try to avoid is that we ourselves are the aliens. Our ego, our psychic agency, is an alien force distorting controlling our body.”

“The ultimate lesson of psychoanalyst is that…emotions as such are deceiving. There are no specifically fake emotions because as Freud puts it literally: the only emotion that does not deceive is anxiety. All other emotions are a fake.”

film, oedipal

Screening Room with Robert Gardner

Screening Room was a 1970s Boston television series that for almost ten years offered independent filmmakers a chance to show and discuss their work on a commercial (ABC-TV) affiliate station. The series was developed and hosted by filmmaker Robert Gardner (Dead Birds, Forest of Bliss), who was Chairman of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies and Director of the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard for many years. This unique program dealt even-handedly with animation, documentary, and experimental film, welcoming such artists as Jan Lenica, John and Faith Hubley, Emile DeAntonio, Jean Rouch, Ricky Leacock, Jonas Mekas, Bruce Baillie, Yvonne Rainer and Michael Snow. Frequently, guests such as Octavio Paz, Stanley Cavell, and Rudolph Arnheim appeared as well. The filmmakers presented on the show are now considered the most influential contributors to modern experimental film, documentary, and animation.

Robert Gardner’s personal website: www.robertgardner.net.