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Katarina Gryvul with Alex Guevara - SPOMYN from Alex Guevara on Vimeo.

SPOMYN

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RE-FLUO from Francesca Fini on Vimeo.

Video artwork for project RE-FLUO, a photogrammetry installation for Share Festival 2022.

RE-FLUO is a project that investigates the AI-based photogrammetry technology that encounters chaos and error.

What happens when we take a 'selfie' with a 3d scanner? First of all, we have to think that we will no longer be projected, cell by cell, pixel by pixel, on that invisible and two-dimensional screen that ideally separates us from the phone.

We must move, let ourselves be explored slowly, inch by inch. We have to disclose our bodies, and turn around to reveal the interstices. 3D photography is a dynamic, empirical experience: a dance with light that relies on the imperfect intelligence of the device, which interprets, senses, reconstructs and puts together our fragmentary simulacrum.

And what happens if you decide to stress the device towards imperfections and glitches, embracing the beauty of chaos and error?

For example, what happens if I start scanning my face in 'face mode' and then I introduce an inorganic object in the picture, with unnatural colors and a too-perfect shape to belong to Nature? A plastic wreck, a scrap saved from the waste bin?

The software does not know how to interpret and integrate the intruder, the mysterious object, and then elaborates improbable Cronenbergian digital meltings, conceived by the crazy algorithm that stops recording and starts dreaming.

And what happens when these unreal agglomerations of pixel and color are transferred into a 3D software, illuminated with a virtual light, coated with a digital porcelain patina, and rendered with the metaphysical setting of a rendering engine?

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Franko B: I Miss You [extracts] (Tate Modern, London, 2003) from thomas qualmann on Vimeo.

video by Gosma. franko-b.com

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FRANCESCA FINI - PERFORMANCE ART SHOWREEL from Francesca Fini on Vimeo.

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Visual Brain from Fiorella Minnucci on Vimeo.

Come sarebbe trovarsi all’interno del cervello di qualcun altro?

Visual Brain è un’esperienza immersiva in realtà virtuale in cui il fruitore è immerso all’interno del cervello di un’altra persona. Lo spettatore si trova dentro una visualizzazione astratta del cervello umano rappresentato come un enorme spazio senza confini, molto buio, illuminato solo dalla presenza di geometrie 3D. I dati processati riguardano il coinvolgimento, l’eccitazione, l’interesse, il focus, il rilassamento e lo stress della persona che indossa il caschetto neurale.

Software: Touchdesigner - Emotiv BCI - Steam VR Hardware: Pc - Emotiv Insight - HTC Vive

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Posa from Fiorella Minnucci on Vimeo.

Patch creata con Touchdesigner

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Physics #2. Quantum particles. from Andrzej DRAGAN on Vimeo.

facebook.com/andrzejdragan facebook.com/hardweird andrzejdragan.com

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Ashes from Tom Kalin on Vimeo.

A film by Tom Kalin, 2014

Music by Doveman Featuring Craig Paull and the voice of Justin Vivian Bond Commissioned by VISUAL AIDS for the 25th Anniversary of Day Without Art

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Sublime Objective, Mirror Mirror from Tom Kalin on Vimeo.

Director Tom Kalin, uses the elegant dynamism of parkour as a motif for aspiration in Mirror Mirror's Sublime Objective music video. The lyrics speak to striving for a goal, while the music suggests a transcendent state: a relationship that Kalin explores with the use of Shaker-inspired movement, bubbles, and imagery of rainbows and light halos. Sublime Objective is available on Mirror Mirror's LP, Interiors.

A Killer Discoveries Presentation Executive Producers: Killer Films, Searchparty Music, and Stefan Nowicki Produced by Sundial Pictures, Moxie Pictures, RVNG Intl., Myna Joseph and Gelya Robb

Director: Tom Kalin Director of Photography: Chris Teague Production Designer: Markus Kirschner Stylist: Solomon Chase Editor: Tom Kalin Visual Effects: Georgia (Brian Close, Justin Tripp) Parkour Performer: Jose "Vertical" Jimenez Parkour Stunt Coordinator: Owais "Oasis" Khan, New York Parkour Production Manager: Michael Prall First Camera Assistant: Geoffrey T. Womack DIT: John Magary Art Assistant: Alain Nouvel Casting Assistant: / Image Research: Chantal Demorial Locations Scout: Kurt Enger Color Correction: David Wachell Production Assistant: Ougie Pak Production Interns: Ethan Barrett, Andrea DelBene, James Magnum

Shakers: Todd Brooks, Simão Cayatte, Casey Ellison, Brandon Galosi, Eliot Glass, Christopher Glockson, Victor Jeffreys, Shakil Joseph, Caitlin MacBride, James Magnum, Courtney Malick, Satsuki Okawa, Rammy Park, Patrik Sandberg, Sara Zandieh

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Geoffrey Beene Trailer from Tom Kalin on Vimeo.

GEOFFREY BEENE 30

GEOFFREY BEENE 30 - FASHION FILM

COMMISSIONED BY AMERICAN FASHION DESIGNER GEOFFREY BEENE TO CELEBRATE HIS THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY AS A DESIGNER, GEOFFREY BEENE 30 RETURNS TO THE ERA OF SILENT BLACK AND WHITE FILM. THREE LOOSELY STRUCTURED NARRATIVES UNFOLD WITHOUT DIALOGUE, IN AN ASSOCIATIVE LANDSCAPE INSPIRED BY THE GERMAN EXPRESSIONIST FILMMAKERS OF THE 1920S, THE WORK OF COCTEAU, INGMAR BERGMAN’S SAWDUST AND TINSEL AND THE PABST/LOUISE BROOKS FILM DIARY OF A LOST GIRL AMONG OTHERS. FEATURING AN ENSEMBLE CAST INCLUDING MARCIA GAY HARDEN, RUSSELL WONG, CLAIRE DANES AND THE REMARKABLE SWEDISH ACTRESS VIVECA LINDFORS IN ONE OF HER FINAL ROLES, GEOFFREY BEENE 30 REUNITES MANY OF KALIN’S COLLABORATORS FROM HIS FIRST FEATURE, SWOON.

“A LOVER’S STOLEN KISS, A VISION OF MADNESS THROUGH A KEYHOLE, A WOMAN FLEEING IN THE NIGHT – THESE ARE IMAGES FROM KALIN’S REMARKABLE FILM ABOUT BEENE’S CLOTHES. WITHOUT DIALOGUE, AND NO MORE THAN A THIN STORY LINE ABOUT WOMEN MEETING LOVERS AND WOMEN BEING WOMEN – CAPRICIOUS, BEAUTIFUL AND ESSENTIALLY INSCRUTABLE – THE FILM EVOKES THE TENSION IN BEENE’S WORK BETWEEN WHAT IS SEEN AND WHAT IS IMAGINED, BETWEEN WHAT IS REVEALED AND WHAT IS HIDDEN.”

CATHY HORYN WASHINGTON POST

“30 IS A MODEL OF RESTRAINT. [A] COCTEAUESQUE TALE OF JEALOUSY AND REVENGE PLAYED OUT IN A CASTLE AND ITS GROUNDS. IMAGINE THE STORY LINE OF LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD, THE SURREAL TOUCH OF FELLINI, A SILENT-MOVIE CAST COSTUMED IN ELEGANT EVENING DRESSES SPANNING BEENE’S WORKING LIFETIME AND YOU GET THE GRAPHIC PICTURE.”

SUZY MENKES INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE

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TRUE BELIEVER from Tom Kalin on Vimeo.

DOVEMAN + TOM KALIN

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YOU'RE THE PUPPET from Tom Kalin on Vimeo.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: RELEASE YOUR TAX RETURNS

Without his returns, Americans are in the dark about Trump's conflicts of interest, his foreign entanglements, and whether he even pays any taxes at all.

SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 2017

Nationwide - March to Demand He Release His Taxes HE WORKS FOR US NOW.

taxmarch.org/

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The Weight of Things, The Gloaming from Tom Kalin on Vimeo.

Video by Tom Kalin

Meáchan Rudaí | The Weight of Things (extract) words by Liam ó Muirthile

Mo mheáchan i do bhaclainn sa phictiúr dínn beirt i Fitzgerald’s Park, agus mise in aois a trí. Ár meáchan araon. Ár gcómheáchan. Meáchan do hata anuas ar do gháirí. Mo mheáchan is tú dom iompar ar feadh naoi mí. Meáchan suí agus luí agus éirí. Do mheáchan féin nár ardaíos riamh ó thalamh ach chun tú a chur i dtalamh. Do mheáchan beo. Do mheáchan marbh. Meáchan na bhfocal ag éirí is ag titim eadrainn mar a bheadh sciatháin scuaine ealaí. Trom-mheáchan urnaí. Cleitemheáchan daidh-didil-dí. Meáchanlár fáinne fí na gcuimhní

Meáchan cheol do ghutha ón tuath sa chathair. Meáchan do bheoldatha ag luí ar do liopaí ag aeráil ghutaí. Meáchan do chumhrachta i seomra na hiarbhreithe. Meáchan do thuirse máthartha á rá liom bheith amuigh go cneasta

Meáchan do ghaolta. Meáchan muinteartha. Meáchan sinseartha. Meáchan comharsan. Meáchan seanchais. Meáchan an tsaoil mhóir. Meáchan sagart. Meáchan bráithre. Meáchan óil. Meáchan staire. Meáchan do ghrinn. Meáchan na ndaoine a thug na cosa leo. Meáchan an tsaoil eile. Meáchan do chreidimh. Meáchan duairc do chuid sceoin. Meáchan do náire.

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The Weight of Things (extract) translation by Gabriel Rosenstock.

The weight of me in your arms. A photo of the two of us in Fitzgerald’s Park. Three years of age I was. The weight of the pair of us. Our weight together. The weight of your hat shading your laughter. My weight as you bore me for nine months. The weight of sitting, getting up, lying down. Your weight that I never lifted from the ground – before burying you in the ground. Your living weight. Your dead weight. The weight of words rising and falling between us, the wingbeat of swans. The heavy weight of prayers. The feather weight of lilting. The middle weight of memory, ancient spiral.

The weight of the music of your country voice in the city. The weight of the lipstick on your lips airing vowels. The weight of your fragrance in the bedroom after giving birth. The weight of your maternal weariness asking me kindly to go outside.

The weight of your relations. The weight of intimacy. The weight of ancestry. The weight of neighbours. The weight of tribal lore. The weight of the great world. The weight of priests. The weight of brothers. The weight of drink. The weight of history. The weight of humour. The weight of those who got away. The weight of the otherworld. The weight of your faith. The sorrowful weight of your fear. The weight of your shame.

The weight of the two of us as we met for lunch in the city. The weight of my patience waiting for you at the chapel door. The weight of your patience waiting for me to enter. The weight of your praying. The weight of the crosses of the world. The weight of your appetite. The weight of your lingering over food. The airy weight of a girl stepping it out at a dance. The weight of the accordion on your shoulders. The weight of your two knees keeping time with the dances.

The weight of your corpse as we waked you three nights and three days

The weight of the terror in your eyes as they called to you from the other side. The weight of your refusal to go. The weight of the anchor from yonder as it took a firm hold of you. The weight of secrets that had nowhere now to hide. The weight of unspoken love that death’s call freed in you. The weight of confusion that had your head in a merry-go-round. The weight of life draining away. The weight of my last visit.

The weight of country folk making their way to the city. The weight of their murmurings. The weight of your conversation with us from beyond. The weight of things you said when alive and continued to say in death. The weight of your language, still. The weight of the shower that didn’t allow us to stand very long at the mouth of the grave.

The lightness of your soul that covered us like the silk sheet on your bed after we buried you.

After we buried you. After.

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COURAGE from Tom Kalin on Vimeo.

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SOMETIMES I WONDER from Tom Kalin on Vimeo.

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Tom Kalin on his new film, Savage Grace from Xtra Magazine on Vimeo.

Directed by Tom Kalin and starring Julianne Moore and Stephen Dillane, Savage Grace is a shocking tale of obsession and codependency that explores the shadowy margins of human sexuality. The film made its Canadian premiere at the Inside Out Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival on May 18. See story here: http://bit.ly/16xQbev

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Meatball_Concrete from Alessandro Bracalente on Vimeo.