From: maría palacios cruz (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Apr 08 2008 - 00:50:44 PDT
David Claerbout "Arena" (basketball)
Uri Tzaig "Play" (football)
Harun Farocki "Deep Play" (football - installation)
Cécile Fontaine "Golf-entretien" (golf of course)
Jacques Faton "Bess Bobu", "Can86", "Entre Deux Cadres" (football -
series of documentaries on collective memory and football in Africa
and Europe)
there was a yugoslav filmmaker Branko Kalacic who did a series of very
aesthetic documentaries on water-related sports (swimming, fishing,
etc). One of them "Na vez" was shown at Cannnes in 1961
....
best
maría
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Nicky Hamlyn
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> This is very interesting. Put's "Zidane" into perspective, hopefully. George
> Best was an exceptionally talented but volatile figure. If you want to know
> how big he was, look at his Wikipedia entry. He also played for clubs in LA
> and Detroit by the way.
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> No-one has mentioned Olympia Part 2, by Leni Riefenstahl. She may not have
> been very marginal, but it's an amazing, quasi-abstract montage of athletic
> activity, and it should be shown even if only for historical context,
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> Nicky Hamlyn.
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> On 8 Apr 2008, at 02:18, Tom B Whiteside wrote:
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> Brett Kashmere's VALERY'S ANKLE from just a year or so ago is one.
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> Another is the quite amazing FOOTBALL AS NEVER BEFORE by Helmuth Costard
> from maybe 30 years ago - many many cameras follow one player very closely
> through a game, it is cut in real time (so it is a feature, 90 minutes, I
> can't remember if the halftime is included) and it resolutely does not show
> the rest of the field. The player was George Best, so I am assuming this was
> English Premiere League. It is an experimental film, goes completely against
> the grain of the way soccer is usually shot and edited, and it makes you
> rethink all assumptions of both the subject and its conventional handling.
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> - Whiteside
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