Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?May is an interesting time for a film festival. In a sense, the calendar year for cinema is starting over in May, since that’s when two major international festivals occur—Cannes and Oberhausen. Where Cannes showcases the latest work from global arthouse auteurs—your Almodóvars and von Triers and Hanekes and the like—Oberhausen specifically focuses on short films, some of them by the world’s most prominent avant-garde filmmakers. A significant portion of what screens at both Cannes and Oberhausen will set the agenda for other film festivals in the coming year, in terms of which films and filmmakers ought to be shown.San Francisco’s Crossroads happens during May as well, and this puts it in a unique position with respect to other, larger festivals. Artistic director Steve Polta is able to assemble an experimental film festival comprised of older,...
- 5/19/2017
- MUBI
Title: Troublemakers The Story of Land Art First Run Features Director: James Crump Writer: James Crump Cast: Michael Heizer, Walter De Maria, Robert Smithson, Dennis Oppenheim, Nancy Holt, Willoughby Sharp, Carl Andre, Vito Acconci Running Time: 72 min Rated: Unrated (Language) Special Features: Discussion with director James Crump and Philipp Vergne (45mn); The Artist Bios; Director Bio Available On DVD & VOD 05/17 The life of artists in the late 1960s and early 1970s was apparently quite difficult. This documentary features a handful of New York artists that were tired of being boxed into a gallery, and sought out larger venues to showcase their creativity and came up with “land [ Read More ]
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- 6/12/2016
- by juliana
- ShockYa
From the Spiral Jetty to creations on the scale of Stonehenge, James Crumb’s fascinating documentary pays tribute to the real outsider art
Related: Deserts and dynamite: my journey to the cosmic heart of land art
James Crump’s engrossing documentary concerns the American pioneers of “land art” or “earth art” who in their 1960s heyday sought to escape the fiddly little world of art galleries with their fancy-price-tag objects and instead create gigantic site specific monoliths in desert or wilderness spaces using the natural materials thereabouts: huge creations to be compared to Stonehenge or the pyramids. Among them was Robert Smithson, who created Spiral Jetty, a massive sculpture in Utah’s Great Salt Lake, fashioned out of crystals and rock.
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Related: Deserts and dynamite: my journey to the cosmic heart of land art
James Crump’s engrossing documentary concerns the American pioneers of “land art” or “earth art” who in their 1960s heyday sought to escape the fiddly little world of art galleries with their fancy-price-tag objects and instead create gigantic site specific monoliths in desert or wilderness spaces using the natural materials thereabouts: huge creations to be compared to Stonehenge or the pyramids. Among them was Robert Smithson, who created Spiral Jetty, a massive sculpture in Utah’s Great Salt Lake, fashioned out of crystals and rock.
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- 5/11/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Focusing on Robert Smithson, Walter De Maria and Michael Heizer, this documentary explores the artists who decided to make huge works in the open air – a modern-day equivalent of Stonehenge
Early in James Crump’s Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art one of his talking-head subjects, Charles Ross, reminisces back to the early 1970s to tell how he picked the location for his site-specific earthwork sculpture Star Axis. When the movie ends we learn that 40 years later, Star Axis is still a work in progress. These people are not fooling around.
Beginning in the late 1960s, a group of artists got the itch to find a larger canvas and sling a little mud at the established gallery structure. Heading west, these likeminded pioneers traded paintbrushes for heavy machinery, creating gashes in the ground, erecting structures and manipulating the very landscape toward their own sometimes difficult-to-define goals.
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Early in James Crump’s Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art one of his talking-head subjects, Charles Ross, reminisces back to the early 1970s to tell how he picked the location for his site-specific earthwork sculpture Star Axis. When the movie ends we learn that 40 years later, Star Axis is still a work in progress. These people are not fooling around.
Beginning in the late 1960s, a group of artists got the itch to find a larger canvas and sling a little mud at the established gallery structure. Heading west, these likeminded pioneers traded paintbrushes for heavy machinery, creating gashes in the ground, erecting structures and manipulating the very landscape toward their own sometimes difficult-to-define goals.
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- 1/8/2016
- by Jordan Hoffman
- The Guardian - Film News
The 52nd annual Ann Arbor Film Festival will be a jam-packed experimental feature and short film screening event running for six days and nights, this time on March 25-30.
Opening Night will feature a reception and an after-party, and stuffed between those will be a block of nine short films, including new ones by Bryan Boyce, Michael Robinson, Jennifer Reeder and Martha Colburn, as well as a never-before-released work by the legendary Bruce Baillie called Little Girl in which Baillie captured scenes of natural beauty.
Special Events scattered throughout the festival include a retrospective of indie filmmaker Penelope Spheeris that will feature her rock ‘n’ roll-based work, including the original The Decline of Western Civilization, plus The Decline of Western Civilization Part III, her influential punk film Suburbia (screening twice) and a collection of short films.
There will also be several films and presentations by filmmaking scholar Thom Andersen, such...
Opening Night will feature a reception and an after-party, and stuffed between those will be a block of nine short films, including new ones by Bryan Boyce, Michael Robinson, Jennifer Reeder and Martha Colburn, as well as a never-before-released work by the legendary Bruce Baillie called Little Girl in which Baillie captured scenes of natural beauty.
Special Events scattered throughout the festival include a retrospective of indie filmmaker Penelope Spheeris that will feature her rock ‘n’ roll-based work, including the original The Decline of Western Civilization, plus The Decline of Western Civilization Part III, her influential punk film Suburbia (screening twice) and a collection of short films.
There will also be several films and presentations by filmmaking scholar Thom Andersen, such...
- 3/18/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
To the extent that there can be a household name in contemporary avant-garde cinema, James Benning would be that guy right now. On paper, his work can sound harrowingly vapid; the worst case scenario for anyone who’s ever accused art house cinema of being ‘slow’ and ‘boring’. The thing is, they’re not. At all. In the same way that spending an hour at the beach, visiting the Grand Canyon, or having a meditation session could never be anything close to a ‘tedious’ experience, Benning’s films present patient viewers with all the grandeur, sublimity, and exhilaration of a first-hand encounter with the natural and material world. They also happen to be extremely complex and intelligent with regards to phenomenology, cinema history, and American ethnography.
In Edition Filmmuseum’s new 2-disc set – the second of a thorough project that will see the release of many of Benning’s key...
In Edition Filmmuseum’s new 2-disc set – the second of a thorough project that will see the release of many of Benning’s key...
- 7/3/2012
- by Blake Williams
- IONCINEMA.com
Meteorite Men: Geoff Notkin Previews Season Three Premiere
Fans of smart, adventurous, documentary-style reality shows will be happy to learn that on Monday, November 28th, the Meteorite Men return to TV with their third season premiere on the Science Channel. I became a fan based on my affinity for all space-related topics and because they had their 'Meteorite Bike' built on another of my favorite reality shows, American Chopper. The Meteorite Men are Geoff Notkin and Steve Arnold, two 'rock stars' in the space-rock hunting world.
Geoff Notkin is an accomplished science writer and photographer, entrepreneur, musician (who'll be performing with rock band Feed on December 17th for a charity concert in Tucson), as well as meteorite hunter and show host. Born in NYC, Geoff spent his formative years with his parents in England. As a young child interested in science, a visit to London's Geological Museum awoke a...
Fans of smart, adventurous, documentary-style reality shows will be happy to learn that on Monday, November 28th, the Meteorite Men return to TV with their third season premiere on the Science Channel. I became a fan based on my affinity for all space-related topics and because they had their 'Meteorite Bike' built on another of my favorite reality shows, American Chopper. The Meteorite Men are Geoff Notkin and Steve Arnold, two 'rock stars' in the space-rock hunting world.
Geoff Notkin is an accomplished science writer and photographer, entrepreneur, musician (who'll be performing with rock band Feed on December 17th for a charity concert in Tucson), as well as meteorite hunter and show host. Born in NYC, Geoff spent his formative years with his parents in England. As a young child interested in science, a visit to London's Geological Museum awoke a...
- 11/25/2011
- by Nightfly
- TVovermind.com
Photograph by Dean Kaufman
Photograph by Dean Kaufman
The landscape architect shares the tools and inspirations that help him breathe life into the artificial.
Ken Smith is not one to blend in. The New York -- based designer moves beyond earth and stone in his work, often employing surprising elements such as bright synthetic flowers and plastic rocks. "Landscapes are made up of all sorts of synthetic things, and most people try to hide it," he says. "I don't."
1. Plastic Rock
Pieces like this hollow rock, which Smith is proposing for a roof garden atop a new Conrad hotel in New York's Financial District, make sculptural statements while sidestepping weight restrictions. ($131, lowes.com)
2. Model Off-highway Truck
Smith's business-card holder is a model of a Caterpillar truck normally reserved for earth-moving jobs. "I'm always pushing things around, so this appeals to me." ($69, shopcaterpillar.com)
3. Reference Book
"The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces,...
Photograph by Dean Kaufman
The landscape architect shares the tools and inspirations that help him breathe life into the artificial.
Ken Smith is not one to blend in. The New York -- based designer moves beyond earth and stone in his work, often employing surprising elements such as bright synthetic flowers and plastic rocks. "Landscapes are made up of all sorts of synthetic things, and most people try to hide it," he says. "I don't."
1. Plastic Rock
Pieces like this hollow rock, which Smith is proposing for a roof garden atop a new Conrad hotel in New York's Financial District, make sculptural statements while sidestepping weight restrictions. ($131, lowes.com)
2. Model Off-highway Truck
Smith's business-card holder is a model of a Caterpillar truck normally reserved for earth-moving jobs. "I'm always pushing things around, so this appeals to me." ($69, shopcaterpillar.com)
3. Reference Book
"The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces,...
- 3/23/2011
- by Tim Mckeough
- Fast Company
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