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Werckmeister Harmonies (2000/Béla Tarr) 

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Werckmeister harmóniák, 2000. Tarr.

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Werckmeister harmóniák, 2000. Tarr.

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Werckmeister Harmonies

Béla Tarr

2000

A favourite

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The end of Werckmeister Harmonies brings us back to  the hospital, where János - motionless and silent in his white shirt, his gaze extinguished - is seated facing us, his naked legs hanging off the edge of a hospital bed. János is now enclosed in the universe that Andras, the nurse, had  dismissed at the beginning of The Outsider. Next to him, however, is Eszter - draped in his  black 60 coat, kicked out of  his house  and, simultaneously, returned to his classic temperament - who came to give him his daily meal and reassurance. The roles are reversed, but even without the cosmos, the fellowship of the stars remains. This is perhaps what Bela Tarr wants to say when he assures us that his films are  messages  of hope. They do not speak of hope. They are this hope.

Jacques Rancière Béla Tarr, The Time After

THANX TO marzipandildo

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Werckmeister Harmonies (Werckmeister Harmóniák), Béla Tarr, 2000

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Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)

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Werckmeister Harmonies’s japanese poster.

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The Werckmeister Harmonies

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By 1964 Bob Dylan started spending more and more time with beat poets like Allen Ginsberg. It’s Alright, Ma is a perfect early example of a new, experimental and three-dimensional song Dylan would start writing in the following years.

Lyrics: http://bobdylan.com/songs/its-alright-ma-im-only-bleeding/

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It was to be the honest truth of perception. For example, in Man with a Movie Camera, two trains are shown almost melting into each other, although we are taught to see trains as not riding that close, Vertov tried to portray the actual sight of two passing trains. Mikhail spoke about Eisenstein's films as being different from his and his brother's in that Eisenstein, "came from the theatre, in the theatre one directs dramas, one strings beads."

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Harrell was born in Draper's Valley, Wythe County, Virginia and from his early teens worked in various textile mills. In early 1925, when Harrell was already 35 years old, he went to New York and recorded four tracks for Victor Records, among them "New River Train" (made famous by Bill Monroe) and "The Roving Gambler". He recorded for OKeh later that year, including a version of "The Wreck of the Old 97" and "I Was Born 10,000 Year Ago" (the latter often known as "The Bragging Song" and recorded by Elvis Presley, The New Christy Minstrels, Odetta and several others).

He made more records for Victor in 1925, 1926, 1927 and 1929. "The Butcher's Boy" and "I Wish I Was Single Again" on Victor 19563 on 1/7/25. "The Dying Hobo" (1926) is a variant of the traditional English folksong "George Collins". "My Name Is John Johannah" was recorded in 1927 at RCA Victor's studios in Camden, NJ, with Posey Rorer on fiddle, Alfred Steagal on guitar, and R.D. Hundley on banjo. Bob Dylan used the tune of "John Johannah" as the basis of his song "Long Time Gone". In a prose piece, "For Dave Glover" (Newport Folk Festival programme 1963), Dylan writes: "I can't sing "John Johannah" cause it's his story an his people's story."

After 1929, his recording career came to a halt, owing to his inability to play an instrument—Harrell always required backing by other musicians, and the Great Depression had so damaged the recording business that Victor was unwilling to pay the cost of hiring backup musicians.

Harrell's "My Name Is John Johannah" appeared on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music (1952), which was extremely influential on the folk revival of the 1950s-60s. Harrell's complete recorded music was reissued by Bear Family on a triple-LP set in the 1970s, and he is also represented by an LP on the County label. More recently, Worried Blues was released 2006

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One of the experimental abstract animation films by Hans Richter named Rhythmus 23, among others in Rhythmus series, some of them lost.