photography

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.

cinema

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.

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Julian Schnabel has a exhibition in Toronto. Even-though he is not an artist that i follow that much, i must confess his paintings of big waves touched me and made me fly to Toronto. Unfortunately there isn't much information about them on the net.

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Julian Schnabel tem uma nova exposição em Toronto. Apesar de não seguir o seu trabalho de forma consistente, devo admitir que gostei sobremaneira dos seus quadros com surfistas em ondas grandes, provavelmente retiradas de Mavericks, o grande spot californiano. Infelizmente não existe muita informação na net sobre os mesmos.

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I'm a deeply sorry but it took me a bit longer than August to start posting here. I'll try to correct that. And I would like to start by talking about Nina Nastasia. I saw her for the first time a week ago here in Lisbon. I truly recommend watching her live. In between, there's 4 records available.

this blog goes on holiday in August.

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Mobile Home has brought me some art discoveries. One of the most interesting ones is this video from polish artist Zbig Rybczynski made in 1980. "Thirty-six characters from different stages of life - representations of different times - interact in one room, moving in loops, observed by a static camera. I had to draw and paint about 16.000 cell-mattes, and make several hundred thousand exposures on an optical printer. It took a full seven months, sixteen hours per day, to make the piece. The miracle is that the negative got through the process with only minor damage, and I made less than one hundred mathematical mistakes out of several hundred thousand possibilities. In the final result, there are plenty of flaws ® black lines are visible around humans, jitters caused by the instability of film material resulting from film perforation and elasticity of celluloid, changes of colour caused by the fluctuation in colour temperature of the projector bulb and, inevitably, dirt, grain and scratches.”

- Zbig Rybczynski –Looking to the Future - Imagining the Truth,” in FranÐois Penz, Maureen Thomas, Cinema& Architecture. Mþliús, Mallet-Stevens, Multimedia, BFI, London, 1997

summer in London / londres no verão

3 weeks ago i was in London working. I still managed to see 3 wonderful exhibitions that i truly recomend. Francis

Alys at Tate Modern, Wolfgang Tillmans at Serpentine Gallery and finally Sally Mann at Photographers Gallery -

i'm truly fond of her Family Series.

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3 semanas atrás visitei Londres em trabalho. Tive a oportunidade de ver 3 exposições que recomendo para quem passar pela capital inglesa este Verão. Francis Allys na Tate Modern, Wolfgang Tillmans na Serpentine Gallery e finalmente Sally Mann na Photographers Gallery.

random picture / instalation

gabriel orozco

a beautiful work from gabriel orozco.

No way back, a very recent movie from Ari Marcopoulos, a photographer

that i like. It seems to me this movie was shot with the 5dmkII.

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These are 2 movies i have seen last week. You can recognize where Hurt Locker

comes from. There's Hollywood in every single shot which obvious deslikes me.

But the movie also assumes war, from a soldier point of view, as a game and

specially as an addition. I'm not a war movie buff or anything but i think this might

be the first time war is showed like this. I liked that, it made me think.

The music room is in a all different league. It was my first Satyajit Ray's movie ever,

himself Kurosawa's "buddy". He's considered the best Indian movie maker. The mo-

vie is, in fact, very beautiful and poetic and it was clear to me it touched deep Indian

society issues. There is obvious much much more to say about this movie, which i

totally recommend.

mobile home 2010

I'm applying for Mobile Home art residency this year. It's going

to happen in the city of Loulé, in Algarve region, south of Portugal.

From July, the 5th to August, the 1st.

Andrew Phelps "720" from Andrew Phelps on Vimeo.

this is the latest self-published book from Andrew Phelps. I founded it very beautiful and poetic. It's edition is limited to 100 copies and you can buy it through Andrew's personal website (www.andrew-phelps.com).

to start with...

photo @ Susanna ray (susannahray.com), from The Right Coast Series.

Days ago i found this picture. I was completely mesmerised since the first minute i saw it for the resonance with the work i have been doing in scandinavia. I had a better look at the work from new york based photographer Susanna Ray which gladly has nothing to do with mine, quite different actually. Still, i thought it was a great picture to start my photography blog...