Our Agents have been roused from their cryo-preservation units and are currently being assigned codebooks and techint. Inputs are being wired and private communiques are being processed. Once agents are thoroughly scattered, we expect to be lousy with new reports of the glamorous criminal operatives and sophisticated deviants who furnish our covert community. New dispatches shortly.
Category: Film
WHOLLY COMMUNION – Peter Whitehead’s 1965 Beat Poetry Film
Peter Whitehead caught the world’s top poetic intellects in what was called Great Britain’s first full-scale “happening.”
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS IN WAX – Unseen Footage From David Blair’s Classic Cult Film
Like most cult film, David Blair‘s 1991 cyberpunk odyssey WAX or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees carries a world of odd trivia and unexpected connections behind it.
DARK LIGHT – Documentary Showcases the Art of Blind Photographers
DARK LIGHT – Documentary Showcases the Art of Blind Photographers. Often relegated to a realm of gimmick and novelty, blind photography is rarely exhibited outside the realms of its nature.
NOTES ON TRACY + THE PLASTICS – Wynne Greenwood Archives Her Performance Art Punk Band
Wynne Greenwood‘s one-woman punk performance art act, Tracy + the Plastics, consists of three characters (all played by Greenwood) enacted through multimedia performance of video and music.
HALL OF ICE – Diego Barrera’s New Video for Lebanon Hanover
HALL OF ICE – Diego Barrera’s New Video for Lebanon Hanover Avant-garde duo Diego Barrera and Julieta Triangular form Celestial Twins Productions, a cinematic collaboration filled with ghostly seduction. These Spanish newcomers’ shorts and music videos have hailed comparisons to Alejandro Jodorowsky, Kenneth Anger, Ira Cohen, Maya Deren, amongst others, and have collaborated…
CURATING FILM ONLINE – Exclusive Interview with the CEO of Fandor, Dan Aronson
We spoke to Fandor CEO Dan Aronson about their latest project, Journey Into Film, a thematically concentrated and curated series.
LISTEN AND REPEAT – Installation Work Questions Social Media by Rachel Knoll
Social media is used to connect but concurrently serves as a disconnect from social life outside of the virtual world.
SOUND?? – 1966 FILM JOHN CAGE ROLAND KIRK (+ 1974 Interview w/ Cage, Merce Cunningham, Louise Nevelson)
1966 film from director Dick Fontaine starring Rahshaan Roland Kirk, John Cage, David Tudor, and Merce Cunningham.
THE FALL OF COMMUNISM THROUGH GAY PORNOGRAPHY – A Video By William E. Jones
William E. Jones has a history of smartly appropriating or deconstructing footage.