6/30/09
Roberto Gavaldón - Macario (1960)
«The enigmatic B. Traven is certainly one of the most amazing figures in modern literature, as to this date his true identity remains an unsolved mystery. Better known for having written the novel "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (the basis for John Huston's film), the mysterious writer who claimed to be American (although clues point out to he being German) traveled to Mexico where he became fascinated with the country's rich culture and difficult social situations. "Macario" (or "Der Dritte Gast", literally, "The Third Guest") is probably one of his best known works (after the afore mentioned "Treasure of the Sierra Madre"), and the source novel of one of Mexico's most fascinating and beautiful films.»
Rent party cards from the Langston Hughes Papers
Rent party cards from the Langston Hughes Papers
Langston Hughes
via Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities
6/29/09
Les étoiles et les curiosités du ciel
The Snail and The Cyclops - Les étoiles et les curiosités du ciel
via com papas e bolos se enganam os tolos
Les LeVeque - Backwards Birth of a Nation (2000)
"Backwards Birth of a Nation is a re-editing of D.W. Griffith's 187-minute film, Birth of a Nation (1915), into a pulsating 13-minute black and white phantasm. By means of structural strategies of condensation, the frame by frame inversion of black and white, and playing the resulting work from end to beginning, an apparition is brought forth where images of racism float to the surface and are contextualised as a part of the flow of United States history."
Les LeVeque Videoworks
Michael Jackson - The Beer Hunter (1995)
"Michael Jackson was an English writer and journalist. He was the author of several influential books about beer and whisky."
Tri-Ergon optical sound recording
Tri-Ergon optical sound recording
"In 1922, the Tri-Ergon Light-Tone process, which inscribes sound as a light track on the edge of filmstrips, is first presented in Berlin and becomes in its time one of the leading sound-movie techniques. The name Tri-Ergon refers to its three inventors: Vogt, Massolle und Engl.
One of the first Tri-Ergon-Productions was «Weekend» by Walter Ruttmann and «Hallo! Hier Welle Erdball!» by Friedrich Bischoff and Werner Milch."
