June 23, 2006

EN: Fluxus Manifesto

As a very interesting conceptual guideline for the approach Live Cinema could take the Fluxus Manifesto from 1963 written by Maciunas and corrected by Joseph Beys is acting as a nice prototype:

* Purge the world of bourgeois, sickness "intellectual" professional & commercialized culture, PURGE the world of dead art, imitation, artificial art, abstract art, illusionistic art, mathemetical art,
PURGE THE WORLD OF AMERICANISM

* PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART: Promote living art, anti-art promote NON ART REALITY to be grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals.

* FUSE the cadres of cultural, social & political revolutionaries into united front & action.

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April 03, 2006

EN: Funny quotes from the past predicting the future.

Sometimes there needs to be some humour. The site Top 87 bad predictions about the future sports quite a lot of quotes of prominent persons who were dead wrong with their predictions. Yet there are two quotes that are relevant to this side and I do think they might be not too wrong - just a little too shortly time framed.

Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.
Darryl Zanuck, movie producer, 20th Century Fox, 1946.

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
H. M. Warner, co-founder of Warner Brothers, 1927.

Well yes I do believe that some actors should rather shut up and I do think that people will get bored JUST staring at plywood/plastic boxes every night not very much into the future....

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March 28, 2006

DE: Goethe über das alle Sinne umfassende Gesamtkunstwerk. Film oder LiveCinema?

"... Da ist Poesie, da ist Malerei, da ist Gesang, da ist Musik, da ist Schauspielkunst, und was nicht noch alles! Wenn alle diese Künste und Reize von Jugend und Schönheit an einem einzigen Abend, und zwar auf bedeutender Stufe, zusammenwirken, so gibt es ein Fest, das mit keinem anderen zu vergleichen."

Johann Peter Eckermann, Gespräche mit Goethe in den letzten Jahren seines Lebens. 1823-1832, Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 1956, S. 173. Zitierte Bemerkung ist vom 22. März 1825 gefunden in "Geschichte des Film" v. Jerzy Toeplitz.

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March 27, 2006

EN: What is a music video?

Michael Shore (1984: 98–99) concludes that Music video is:

recycled styles ... surface without substance ... simulated
experience ... information overload ... image and
style scavengers ... ambivalence ... decadence ... immediate
gratification ... vanity and the moment ... image
assaults and outré folks ... the death of content ... anesthetization
of violence thorough chic ... adolescent male
fantasies ... speed, power, girls and wealth ... album art
come to turgid life ... classical storytelling’s motifs ...
soft-core pornography ... clichéd imagery ...

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March 20, 2006

DE/EN: Quotes of the day

I will post quotes that I come across from time to time that I think are valid for Live Cinema. Todays quotes come from the aforementioned website:

DE: Wir hatten Gesichter. Wir brauchten keine Worte.

EN: We had faces. We didn´t need words.

-- Goria Swanson als exzentrische Ex-Stummfilmdiva
in Billy Wilders Sunset Boulevard (1950)


DE: Der Begriff (Stummfilm) selbst stößt die Leute ab. Sie glauben, daß sie etwas sehen werden, dem die Unterhaltung fehlt und daß es daher langweilig sei.

EN: The word (silent movie) itself turns people off. They believe that they will see something that does not have any entertainment value and that it will be rather boring

-- Kevin Brownlow, britischer Filmhistoriker

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