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Elad Lassry is one the nominees for this year's deutsche borse photography award. This was the only i wasn't familiar with so i google his name to check his work. Must confess it didn't touch me that much, still i've found a couple of interesting pictures from his gallery website. This one is one of them, curiously enough, not the best image if you wanna represent a bit of his work.

cinema

my movies from last week

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there's an interesting interview with Stephen Shore here.

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The secret of the grain, movie by Abdellatif Kechiche.

Saw it for the first time yesterday and i truly recommend it. Not coming from a cinema backgrounded i found really interesting the way he introduces the movie to the spectator. It's done in a very simple way but very efficient one, without loosing it's beauty - it's simplicity actually enhances it.

First you follow the main carather in his work, then with some fisherman friends, then he visits his wife, one of his daughters, then finally he heads home where he meets his girl. In all these stops his talks with all this caracthers gives you so much information that after 25 minutes you feel you know the story's background. Then, the movie starts...

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Kim Ki Duk.

Last night i saw my first south Korean filmmaker KKD, Address Unknown. Very very recomendable.

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Dolls and Hana-bi. Till yesterday I have only seen 2 of his movies, Boiling Point and Kikujiro, which impressed me a lot. Yesterday night i saw this 2 other movies which made me think of him as a true master of cinema.

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Yorgos Lanthimos is a young film director from Greece. Couple of weeks ago i saw Dogtooth, his movie that won several international awards. I've found the movie very interesting and i tried to find more about him. He has a website that i recommend - besides Dogtooth of course, specially some of the commercials like Aegean Airlines and Free.

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Yorgos Lanthimos é um jovem realizador grego. Há umas semanas atrás tive a possibilidade de ver Dogtooth - Canino na versão portuguesa, o seu ultimo filme que recebeu diversos prémios internacionais. O filme é muito interessante e recomendável. Tentei descobrir mais informação sobre o realizador e encontrei o seu site pessoal com toda a informação sobre o seu trabalho. Particularmente recomendável são alguns dos seus filmes comerciais, Aegean Airlines e Free.

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I didn't know Alex Prager till he was part of this year Moma's nominees. It worth a look at his website.

Documentary

It's not my favourite photographer but i do like this documentary. It reminds me of a certain idea of Portugal I have in mind, and I'm almost sure most of us portuguese have it too. All the other 5 parts can be easily found on youtube.

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Martin Parr não é certamente um dos meus fotografos preferidos, embora me interesse este documentário realizado para a BBC. Lembra-me uma certa imagem que tenho de Portugal e dos portugueses. As restantes 5 partes deste trabalho podem ser faclilmente encontradas no youtube.