#Nikolaus Geyrhalter

[sacredwhores]

Nikolaus Geyrhalter - The Year After Dayton (1997)

[conatus]

Filme: "Nosso Pão de Cada Dia" (2005), Nikolaus Geyrhalter

“Nosso Pão de Cada Dia”, do diretor Nikolaus Geyrhalter, propõe uma imersão austera e profundamente calculada nos bastidores da produção industrial de alimentos na Europa. Sem narração, diálogos didáticos ou personagens centrais, o filme adota uma postura de observação cirúrgica, apresentando sequências longas e fixas que documentam a rotina de fábricas de processamento de carne, granjas de aves,…

[martinjost]

Na dann gut Nacht

Eine österreichische Doku findet in der Nacht unaufgeregte Bilder für Europa. Schon 2011 bestimmen das Thema Einwanderung und der Riss zwischen Anspruch und Wirklichkeit das «Abendland».

Abendland

Dokumentarfilm ★★★★☆ Österreich 2011 · Nikolaus Geyrhalter (dir), Wolfgang Widerhofer, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Maria Arlamovsky (scr).

(#01083) Grenzpolizisten, die Wärmebildkameras bedienen; Telefonseelsorger*innen in kahlen Büros; Rückkehrberatung in einer Erstaufnahme-Einrichtung für Asylbewerber*innen; Simultanübersetzer*innen im EU-Parlament; Nachtschicht im Pflegeheim; Sexarbeiter*innen vor der Kamera; ein Techno-Konzert in einem Stadion: «Abendland» zeigt Aufnahmen aus dem nächtlichen Europa. Die Kamera bleibt lange an einem Ort und fängt weite Einstellungen ohne viele Schnitte ein.

Der Film verzichtet auf Filmmusik, Interviews oder Kommentare, hat dabei einen gelassenen Rhythmus ohne langatmig zu werden. Typisch für Nikolaus Geyrhalters Dokus ist der Eindruck, dass wir Voyeure im Alltag fremder Menschen sind und es nur eine Frage der Zeit ist, bis wir in unserer Ecke entdeckt werden. Die Bilder und ihre Montage sind schnörkellos und beinahe episch.

Geyrhalter hat in der Nacht europäische Schauplätze aufgenommen, die exemplarisch für Westeuropa stehen können – wohlgemerkt vor der Flüchtlingsrevolution von 2015. Trotzdem zeigt er Migration als Thema, das Europa beschäftigt und ausmacht. Das Selbstbild als humanitäres Staatenbündnis und der Kontrast zum technokratischen, verantwortungsaversen Umgang mit Geflüchteten beherrschen «Abendland» schon damals die EU. Alle Bilder, die «Abendland» findet, erzählen von Entfremdung, Technisierung und Ökonomisierung des Lebens in Westeuropa.

Wir haben «Abendland» in der Nikolaus-Geyrhalter-Retrospektive beim DOK.fest München 2023 gesehen.

[tilbageidanmark]

Movies I watched this week (#170):

2 with French-Algerian actor Ramzy Bedia:

🍿 Youssef Salem Is Successful is a broad French comedy about a failed Algerian writer, who suddenly becomes famous when his tell-all book about his family wins The Prix Goncourt for literature. I liked the score made up of electronic Berber beats, and the two strong female characters, unorthodox and feisty. 7/10.

/ Female Director

🍿 Pecan pie is a 2003 Michel Gondry short-short, made at the same time as 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'. Jim Carrey in pajamas drives a bedmobile while singing an Elvis tune.

🍿

2 more by unique Austrian documentarian Nikolaus Geyrhalter:

🍿 Homo Sapiens (2016) is an eerie, wordless and scoreless vision of post-human abandonment. Without explanations and with a static camera, it visits deserted locations around the world years after the people had given up on them. Derelict concert halls, prison cells, bank vaults and train cabins, from Fukushima, and Chernobyl, and the many other disaster areas people have left behind, surrounding them to the elements, letting the birds and the rain and the weeds take over again. It's hypnotic and transcendental.

It's as if Edward Burtynsky and the Koyaanisqatsi guys had sex with Werner Herzog, but decided not to give the new baby any clues. 💯 score on Rotten Tomatoes. 9/10.

🍿 His 2005 Our daily bread was similar: Without voice over narration or subjectivity, it looks at the insides of giant agriculture factories, massive industrialized farms and high-tech conveyor belt food processing. How do the packages on the supermarket shelves get there? Who picks the tomatoes, the olives, the apples and peaches? Who inseminates the pigs, slaughters the cows, guts the salmons, collects the chickens and the salt in the ginormous mines? Endlessly fascinating. Makes you want to stop eating food.

🍿  

Steve Martin X 6:

🍿 STEVE! (Martin), the new 2-part in-depth documentary about this smart and melancholic comedian-musician. A warm and wonderful run-down through his rich life. He accomplished so much during his extraordinary career, and much of it so well. 9/10.

🍿 My third re-watch of his warm and funny An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life again, a riff on friendship. With friend Martin Short (Excellent in his 'Stepbrother to Jesus' number!). Impeccable comic timing. ♻️

🍿 Shopgirl, a wistful love-triangle, based on his novella and script, about class and romance. A lonely woman living in a Silverlake apartment, works at the glove counter of Saks Fifth Avenue. She is being wooed by two different men, an immature slacker and a sophisticated older Martin. Jason Schwartzman is generally unbearable to watch, but here he is an insufferable loser. Eventually, it's too slight, a perverted fantasy of a rich, white, old man. However, it's always nice to find Screenwriting Symmetry 101 touches, f. ex. when Martin kisses Claire Danes for the first time, it happens exactly at 46:00, one hour before the end of the story. 5/10.

🍿"Excuse me. May I go to the bathroom first?..." Another re-watch: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, an old-fashioned story with 60's sensibilities, which was indeed faithfully re-made of a 1964 Marlon Brando / David Niven vehicle. Mick Jagger and David Bowie were originally supposed to play the Steve Martin and Michael Caine roles. ♻️

🍿 The Absent Minded Waiter short (1977) was his first produced screenplay, directed by his friend and 'Jaws' co-writer Carl Gottlieb.

🍿 All of me, a lame "comedy" that aged poorly. Were the supernatural-themed 1980's nonsense the worst decade for movies? Just terrible. 1/10.

🍿  

2 more by Jean Vigo:

🍿 First watch: L'Atalante, the classic enigma about barge dwellers and incompatible newly-weds and an old skipper who loves cats. I'll need to watch it a second time in order to fully appreciate its beauty. 💯 score on Rotten Tomatoes.

🍿 Jean Vigo directed only 4 movies before dying of TB at the age of 29. His Jean Taris, Swimming Champion was an innovative documentary that introduced some poetic avant-garde effects, slow-mo, underwater reverse shots, innovative freeze frames. (Photo Above).

🍿

2 Eastern European classics from 1965:

🍿 The Oscar-winning WW2 drama The Shop on Main Street, still considered one of the best Czechoslovakian films. A dim-witted, henpecked carpenter in the Fascist Slovak State is appointed "Aryan controller" of a Jewish widow's store. With Ida Kamińska as the confused old lady. Another 💯 score on Rotten Tomatoes.

🍿 Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures was the highest-grossing Soviet comedy in 1965, with 70 million tickets sold. 3 unrelated episodes of weird slapstick featuring some nerdy student named 'Shurik'. Tom & Jerry meet Richard Lester meet The Three Stooges. 2/10.

🍿

2 thrillers with lovely Paraguayan actress Lali González:

🍿 Rest in peace, a new, engaging Argentinian thriller about a debt-ridden industrialist who leaves his loving family behind in order to escape from a dangerous loan shark. Here Lali González plays a sexy young widow. The fancy Jewish wedding reminded me of a similar one in Damián Szifron's terrific film 'Wild Tales'. The ending was weak. 💯 score on Rotten Tomatoes. 7/10.

🍿 "Run, Victor, run!" 7 Boxes (2012), my first thriller from Paraguay. Like the Brazilian 'City of God', it describes a world of acute poverty, which made it a tense watch. It tells of a young pushcart boy at the sprawling Asunción market who has to deliver some wooden boxes with unknown content. This Lali González was a cute teenager here. 6/10.

🍿

3 Temporal Loops:

🍿 Instead of watching my favorite rom-com 'Palm Spring' for the 14th or 15th time, I tried the other acclaimed time-loop story Russian doll, my first anything with Natasha Lyonne. But there was no comparison. The tired NYC hipster atmosphere didn't hold a candle to the sunny flow of Tala and Abe's wedding, and none of the characters were as lovable as Sarah & Nyles. Not even Greta Lee! The first season was hard enough to stay awake through. 2/10.

/ Female Director

🍿 Repeat Performance (1947) is the earliest film featuring the Time Loop Trop. But it works more with the Hollywood concept of 'Destiny', the idea that "If you wish upon a star, all your dreams will become true", no matter how unlikely. However, it's based on a second rate Noir script, made by an unremarkable director, and with uninspiring actors. 3/10.

🍿 12:01 PM came out before 'Groundhog Day', and set up many of the rules for playing 'Time Bounces' from that point forward. An ordinary office Nobody gets stuck but only during the one hour of his lunch break. It was nominated for the 1991 Oscars. 4/10.

🍿

3 shorts by surrealist Kansas City artist Suzan Pitt:

🍿 Asparagus, an avant-garde feminist film, which was shown together with Lynch's Eraserhead. Strangely erotic, psychedelically-fetishist, and politically-ambiguous. A 'Planète sauvage' / R. Crumb sensual nightmare, full of (literal) shit and swallowed phallus symbols.

🍿 Joy Street (1995), a journey of a depressed woman from suicide to a colorful healing.

🍿 Pinball (2013), a drug induced, dissonant, nearly-abstract headache, played fast to the discordant Ballet Mecanique (1952 revision).

/ Female Director

🍿

My second (after 'The Bigamist') directed by film pioneer Ida Lupino, The Hitch-Hiker. It was "the first American mainstream film noir directed by a woman" and, interestingly, portrayed the two men who were taken hostages by a psychotic killer as helpless and emasculated.

/ Female Director

🍿

2 directed by Demetri Martin:

🍿 "Crest Atheist Formula..." Demetri Martin: Demetri Deconstructed, his latest stand up. The first five minutes were weak, but the rest was hilarious and funny.

🍿 Dean, his 2016 directorial debut, a low-key comedy about overcoming loss, was apparently a semi-biographical attempt to deal with the death of his father. Similar Indie vibes to 'People, Places, Things' and many other stories about young Brooklynite illustrators grappling with love, parents, and growing up. His clever drawings (here and elsewhere) are really lovely. 7/10.

🍿

2 Danish Oscar contender shorts:

🍿 This Charming Man won the 2003 Oscar for best shorts. It's a terribly outdated comedy of errors about racism and micro-aggressions and about a Dane who got mistaken for an Pakistani immigrant. 1/10.

🍿 The sentimental On my mind was nominated in 2022 for the Best Live Action Short. I actually forgot that I've seen it before. ♻️

🍿

The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob, my second (and last!) flimsy, nervous comedy with Louis de Funès. When I was 10, I thought he was the funniest man alive, but in hindsight, he's just not. 1/10.

🍿

The Orchard End Murder (1981), a uneasy and unpleasant English story about two weirdos complicit in the senseless murder of an innocent girl on top of a heap of apples. 1/10.

🍿  

(My complete movie list is here)

[filmes-online-facil]

Assistir Filme CERN Online fácil

Assistir Filme CERN Online Fácil é só aqui: https://filmesonlinefacil.com/filme/cern/

CERN - Filmes Online Fácil

A cern na Suíça é um centro de pesquisa onde tentam recriar o Big Bang. Nikolaus Geyrhalter segue a infraestrutura do centro e atende às pessoas que criaram o "grande colisor de Hadron".

[litafficionado]

Matter Out of Place(2022) dir. Nikolaus Geyrhalter

[maiathebee]

Humankind doesn’t learn, neither from history or anything else. I don’t know why.

Earth (2020) dir. Nikolaus Geyrhalter (Austrian)

[chefro]

© Nikolaus Geyrhalter

[stainedglassgardens]

Homo Sapiens (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2016)

[newsamstuff]

Homo Sapiens

Een documentaire van Nikolaus Geyrhalter waar hij het publiek beelden toont door mens gemaakte plekken die nu verlaten zijn. Commentaar en muziek zijn niet aanwezig, alleen de geluiden die na het filmen zijn gemaakt.

Het zijn stilstaande shots gefilmd op statief waar de enige beweging van het landschap zelf moet komen. Nikolaus Geyrhalter gebruikt ook vaak het Gods perspectief wat een perspectief is dat hoger ligt dan het normale lengte van een persoon. Dit geeft een overzichtelijker gevoel.

Persoonlijk vind ik het maf hoe hij zo’n composities kan maken. Het kan niet makkelijk zijn om 94 minuten aan beeld materiaal te hebben waar elk shot super esthetisch is. Het is ook echt maf om te denken dat ik tijdens het kijken niet verveeld raakte. Elke keer dat er een nieuw shot kwam was het een avontuur voor mijn ogen waar ze een heel nieuw beeld konden analyseren. 

[foxfoodblog]

Homo Sapiens by Nikolaus Geyrhalter (2016) - via @galiagrin

[sacredwhores]

Nikolaus Geyrhalter - Abendland (2011)

[conatus]

Filme: "Homo Sapiens" (2016), Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Nikolaus Geyrhalter nos transporta para um mundo sem nós em ‘Homo Sapiens’, um documentário que observa pacientemente paisagens e estruturas que um dia foram o epicentro da atividade humana, agora vazias e silenciosas. O filme de Nikolaus Geyrhalter é uma coleção de planos fixos, longos e meticulosos, que registram locais abandonados e desocupados ao redor do globo: aeroportos inativos, bunkers…

[thisobscuredesireforbeauty]

Homosapiens (Dir. Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2016). Source

[behcette]

The Border Fence (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2018)

[pacingmusings]

Seen in 2020:

Earth (Nikolaus Geyrhalter), 2019