The Animated World is a regular feature spotlighting animation from around the globe. Lewis Klahr's Circumstantial Pleasures is exclusively showing on Mubi starting June 23, 2021 in many countries in the Undiscovered series. Circumstantial Pleasures Collage refuses known systems of meaning, instead sifting through the detritus of cultural production in order to orchestrate accidental insights into human experience. Its heyday was the early 20th century when modernists and surrealists harnessed its power to manifest the unconscious and juxtapose familiar objects into strange new landscapes. Artists like Hannah Hoch, Joseph Cornell, Kurt Schwitters, John Heartfield, and Marcel Duchamp created unique and perplexing works that some found disturbing, or, as famously labeled by the Nazis, degenerate. Their work often unleashed new possibilities, visual puns, erotic undercurrents and hidden political realities. Collage has lost none of its relevance over the years and continues to resonate, with filmmakers joining in as well—especially animators like Larry Jordan,...
- 7/6/2021
- MUBI
Guided By Voices thumbed their noses at the ongoing pandemic last Friday when they performed a lengthy, high-energy live-streamed show in an empty venue in Dayton, Ohio.
According to frontman Robert Pollard, it was the most-watched event on the NoonChorus platform to date. Still, not content to rest on their laurels, the band has announced yet another new album, Styles We Paid For, which will drop in November — just a few months after the album before that, Mirrored Aztec, out August 21st.
Pollard spoke with Rolling Stone about the band’s recent show,...
According to frontman Robert Pollard, it was the most-watched event on the NoonChorus platform to date. Still, not content to rest on their laurels, the band has announced yet another new album, Styles We Paid For, which will drop in November — just a few months after the album before that, Mirrored Aztec, out August 21st.
Pollard spoke with Rolling Stone about the band’s recent show,...
- 7/23/2020
- by Brenna Ehrlich
- Rollingstone.com
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