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Director: Raoul Peck

Ernest Cole, fotógrafo sudafricano, fue el primero en exponer al mundo los horrores del Apartheid. Su libro 'House of Bondage', publicado en 1967 cuando sólo tenía 27 años, le llevó a exiliarse en Nueva York y Europa durante el resto de su vida, sin encontrar nunca su rumbo. Raoul Peck relata sus andanzas, su agitación como artista y su rabia, a diario, ante el silencio o la complicidad del mundo occidental frente a los horrores del régimen del Apartheid. También cuenta cómo, en 2017, se descubrieron 60.000 negativos de su obra en la caja fuerte de un banco sueco. (FILMAFFINITY)

new-to-me #966 - Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

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Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Tres jóvenes (Odile, Arthur y Franz) se conocen en clase de inglés e inmediatamente se hacen amigos. Los tres comparten su interés por la literatura criminal. (FILMAFFINITY).

Bande à part

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My Silks And Fine Array by  William Blake

My silks and fine array, 

         My smiles and languish'd air, 

By love are driv'n away; 

         And mournful lean Despair 

Brings me yew to deck my grave: 

Such end true lovers have. 

His face is fair as heav'n, 

         When springing buds unfold; 

O why to him was't giv'n, 

         Whose heart is wintry cold? 

His breast is love's all worship'd tomb, 

Where all love's pilgrims come. 

Bring me an axe and spade, 

         Bring me a winding sheet; 

When I my grave have made, 

         Let winds and tempests beat: 

Then down I'll lie, as cold as clay. 

True love doth pass away!

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Los restos del pasar.

Directores: Luis (Soto) Muñoz, Alfredo Picazo.

Antonio narra su infancia en un remoto pueblo cordobés durante la celebración de la Semana Santa. Es un niño solitario y curioso que un día conoce a Paco, un pintor de anciana edad. Antonio tiene muchas dudas y las volcará en Paco, sobre todo las relacionadas con la muerte y la religión. Paco enseñará a Antonio no solo a pintar, sino también a observar y a entender la vida como estancia transicional (FILMAFFINITY).

Bastante emotiva, me tocó varias fibras!

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Shing-a-ling rub-a-dub

Shing-a-ling es lo que traigo yo

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The Human Hibernation.

Director: Anna Cornudella

The Human Hibernation es una película sobre la naturaleza humana si hubiera sido diferente. Partiendo de la desaparición de Erin, una niña que despierta prematuramente de su hibernación, Clara, su hermana mayor, nos llevará en un viaje de búsqueda de respuestas y confrontación con las narrativas preestablecidas por la sociedad en la que vive, que hiberna durante los meses más fríos del año. Una reflexión sobre el ser humano, la contradicción y la condición animal. (FILMAFFINITY)

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Now that I've watched also the PBS documentary about STAX, my mind came across such all the sadness, the pain, the struggle, the talent, the hope, the happiness, the sorrow, the desires of all the people that were involved in this, it was somewhat spooky.

Also, I've given some thoughts regarding on how the sender and the medium can be accommodated to accomplish underlying things that, at first sight they can appear to be just music or novelty, but in reality, in the cruel reality, the sender transformed the medium to be accomplish something more obscure.

I'd like to think that the people behind the initial creation of STAX were doing it like any person would bring their business, with a financial goal perhaps, to some extent totally understandable, but if the intent was anything far more evil from that, I just cannot take it.

Dreamed lot of strange things after seeing both documentaries, obviously related to the social struggle, the music and events portrayed there, with people telling me things from other world perhaps. Remember one instance of the dream, of being in a bus, I was accompanied by some entity, I feel the bus was moving all dark, I cannot see people sitting, along the the way I stood up and bumped into what I believed was an empty seat, it was not, someone else was there, then the bus lighted up so I can see all the people, they were singing, I was not scared. What scared and awakened me, was the fact that this all happened, and as of today that struggle is still happening.

From now on, I will approach this music carefully, taking into account that what we are hearing is not just pretty voices, pretty poesy, neat arrangements, but also lot of real pain embodied into music.

Watch HBO Docuseries Stax: Soulsville U.S.A. Trailer

Stax: Soulsville U.S.A. is an HBO original documentary about the record label that helped shape the course of American music in the '60s and '70s. Jamila Wignot is the producer and director of the four-part series which is a production of Laylow Pictures and White Horse Pictures in association with Concord Originals, Polygram Entertainment, and Warner Music Entertainment. Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Johnnie Taylor, Booker T. & The M.G.'s and Wilson Pickett are some of the artists who called Stax home.

Jim Stewart and his sister Estelle Axton founded the label in 1957 as Satellite Records. By 1961 the name was changed to Stax. Rufus Thomas and his daughter Carla created the label's first regional hit with "Cause I Love You" in 1961. Otis Redding put Stax in the national spotlight in the early '60s thanks to "These Arms Of Mine" and "Respect" which Aretha Franklin made her own. At the height of the label's success, their artists commemorated the Watts Rebellion by playing the 1972 Wattstax benefit concert. 

The label's story is told through archival footage and insight from the founders, singer Carla Thomas, Isaac Hayes, Otis Redding, Stax’s director of publicity; David Porter, Booker T. Jones, Stax singer and songwriter; Sam Moore, and more. Stax: Soulsville U.S.A. will debut on Monday, May 20th at 9 PM ET on HBO with the first two episodes.  Episodes three and four will air the next day at the same time. 

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The B-52's - Give me back my man

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Desgarrador.

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Agnès Varda

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Aphex Twin, Windowlicker, 1999

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Ian Curtis's handwritten lyrics to Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart"

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Think for yourself : question authority

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New Order

Fine Time (1989)