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Lencho of the Apes wrote: ↑Wed Jun 01, 2022 7:12 pm Only movies I have on hand are from a package somebody sent out ...
5/When Baldwin and Inga’s next door neighbours complain that a tree in their backyard casts a shadow over their sundeck, what starts off as a typical spat between neighbours in the suburbs unexpectedly and violently spirals out of control.
https://youtu.be/rQ6h-qCIS3M
A woman goes on a journey to the north. When she comes to an abandoned house, she settles there and appropriates the lives of the former inhabitants. We do not know who this woman is, where she came from and why she left. She is an empty figure, completely permeable to the world through which she moves. The light comes and goes. A storm is coming. Everything is in the process of dissolution: identity, home, the border between inside and outside, even the images themselves.
Transcript from post screening Q&A with Kaspar Peters, director of Nordic Grammar, at Slow Film Festival 2019.
This Q&A was led by Emre Çağlayan.
→ https://movingimageartists.co.uk/2020/0 ... ar-peters/
https://vimeo.com/369032389
At the tender age of 70 years, Sigrídur Níelsdóttir starts to publish her music – directly from her living room. This modern Icelandic fairy tale is one of the most beautiful stories to be told about music. In seven years, Grandma Lo-Fi recorded 59 records and wrote more than 600 songs. The creative senior is a cult figure of the Icelandic music scene and thus it seems obvious to go through Grandma Lo-Fi’s life accompanied by artists such as Múm, Sin Fang and Mr Silla.
https://youtu.be/6xCmr7W63o0
Artistic director of the Iceland Dance Company Katrín Hall choreographed the dance for the latest music video to “Did It Again” by pop star Shakira. .. Shakira requested Hall herself because she liked her dance from the short film Burst, made by Hall and director Icelandic Reynir Lyngdal.
in 2019, Woody/Bohumil died.https://vasulkakitchen.org/en/about-us
At the end of 2016, an initiative was established in Brno to found Vašulka Kitchen, an art space referring to the work of the artists Steina Briem Bjarnadottir and Bohuslav Woody Vašulka. In October 2018, in the cooperation with the Vasulkas, we ceremoniously launched the activities of the New Media Art Center in Brno Art House. Our goals are to preserve and mediate the work of the Vasulkas and develop their legacy.
From the end of the 80's and the beginning of the 90's, several (non-profit) artistic initiatives in Czechia dealt with the art of video, electronic media, and later digital art. Today, VKB is one of the few specialized (non-academic) projects in this area. It is important that in the international context it becomes part of a network of institutions focused on the promotion, archiving, research, or distribution of art based on moving images, sound, electronic networks, coding, and performativity as an artistic practice.
Vasulka Kitchen Brno is a place for study and research. It gives the public access to the digital archive, the Vasulka media library and provides accompanying programmes. In cooperation with the Vasulka Chambre at the National Gallery of Iceland, we take care of the archive and the artworks in our collection. We take care of the acquisition and cataloguing of materials related to the work and life of the Vasulka family. We continue to map and reflect on their work in a broader cultural and international context, and we also research and process works by other artists in the field of new/electronic media art. We provide facilities for Czech and international researchers, students, teachers and curators and initiate research projects and conferences.
also, i hope to watch "The Vasulka Effect" (Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir, 2019)...https://vasulkakitchen.org/en/vasulkovi
Steina
Born in Iceland and trained as a violinist, Steinunn Briem Bjarnadottir (Steina) is a major figure in the field of electronic and video art. She received a scholarship in 1959 to study at the Prague Conservatory, where she met Woody Vasulka. They married in 1964 and moved to New York in 1965, where she worked as a freelance musician. She started using video in 1969, and embraced it wholeheartedly when she discovered that, with it, she could control the movement of time. It was the glorious age of the Portapak (used by a number of conceptual artists such as Nam June Paik, Gillette, Nauman, Serra) and of feedback experiments. In 1971, along with Woody Vasulka and Andres Mannik, she founded The Kitchen, a performance space devoted to electronic media.
Her collaborative work with Woody in that period was remarkable for its interworking of audio and video signals: by attaching the Portapak to a synthesizer, they created video images from the audio signal and sound with the video signal (Matrix I & II). The goal of these phenomenological exercises was to explore the essence of the electronic image and sound. Steina's installations often involved electronically manipulated visual and acoustic landscapes. For example, the installation Orka, shown at Iceland's pavilion at the 1997 Venice Biennale, juxtaposed two transformative natural forces - water and fire - which, in their various manifestations (volcanic eruptions, waterfalls, glaciers), reveal the workings of time. In 1991, she undertook a series of interactive performances with a MIDI violin, which let her generate video images as she played (Violin Power).
She performed this piece in analog form from 1971 to 1978. In tandem with Woody, she was awarded the 1992 Maya Deren Prize and, in 1995, the Siemens Media Art prize. In 1992, with Woody and David Dunn she curated the exhibition and catalogue Eigenwelt der Apparate-welt (Pioneers in Electronic Art) at Ars Electronica in Linz. Her installations and videos have been shown throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Since 1980, the Vasulkas have been based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
https://letterboxd.com/film/the-vasulka-effect/
The opening of The Vasulka Effect couldn’t be more apt: Steina Vasulka addresses her husband Woody through various TV screens. He does the same and replies. A perfect image of the relationship between the free-spirited, groundbreaking pioneers of video art. After meeting in Prague in the early 1960s, they relocated from Czechoslovakia to New York, where they later founded The Kitchen, their legendary art and performance gallery.
https://youtu.be/6eJPG205eBk
This illuminating documentary is a comprehensive view of the life and work of Woody and Steina Vasulka, pioneers of electronic art. From the late 1960s in New York, where they founded The Kitchen, to their present home in New Mexico, the Vasulkas trace their involvement with video and their relationship to the technologies they deploy. In fascinating insights, the Vasulkas reveal the sources and philosophical underpinnings that inform their work. For Woody, this focuses on an attempt to expose the inner logic and architecture of the electronic machine, while Steina focuses on images of the world and how they can be manipulated. Shot over a two-year period, this program includes excerpts from the Vasulkas' video works, as well as interviews.
https://youtu.be/uYyR6EWbPC0Steina: Can you fix my motorcycle?
Woody: Marry me! Get me out of here!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_magical_staves
Icelandic magical staves (Icelandic: galdrastafir) are sigils that were credited with supposed magical effect preserved in various Icelandic grimoires, such as the Galdrabók, dating from the 17th century and later.
Draumstafir = to dream of unfulfilled desires.
The way it is used is explained in the Huld Manuscript by Geir Vigfússon from 1860:
“Scratch these symbols on silver or white leather, on St. John’s Night and they who sleep on them dream about what they want when the sun is at its lowest.”
St. John’s Day is known as Midsummer: the Nothern European solstice between 21st and 25th of June.
However, St. John’s Night may refer more specifically to St. John’s Eve: the night before the 24th of June.
