From: Jay McBride (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Jun 10 2008 - 10:29:56 PDT
New Releases
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Street Date: August 26, 2008
Prebook Date: July 29, 2008
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Dali in New York – Available for the First Time on DVD!
On the Ecstasy of Ski-Flying: Werner Herzog in Conversation with Karen
Beckman
Vito Acconci in Conversation at Acconci Studio, New York
Democracy and Disappointment: On the Politics of Resistance Alain Badiou and
Simon Critchley in Conversation
Available at microcinemadvd.com
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Dali in New York
http://www.microcinemadvd.com/product/DVD/764/Dali_in_New_York.html
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$US 34.95 SRP/Edu
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34.95 Euros/£23.99
CATALOG # MC-764
UPC: 635961106722
Documentary
1966 · 57 min
Filmmaker Jack Bond and Salvador Dali got together at Christmas 1965 to make
Dali in New York, a highly entertaining film. Dali devoted two weeks of his
life to creating extraordinary scenes for the film, performing
"manifestations" with a plaster cast. A thousand ants and one million
dollars in cash. When he confronts the feminist writer, Jane Arden, sparks
fly. "You are my Slave! I am not your slave. Everybody is my slave."
Dali recalls his meeting with Freud, "The last human relationship ever"
About his wife, 'But for Gala I would be lying in a gutter somewhere
covered with lice" Jim Desmond's dazzling cinematography captures the great
artist painting as Flamenco virtuoso Manitas de Plata performs. Dali in New
York is a rare treat for anyone who loves film and the living theatre of
Dali's surreal universe.
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On the Ecstasy of Ski-Flying: Werner Herzog in Conversation with Karen
Beckman
http://www.microcinemadvd.com/product/DVD/824/On_the_Ecstasy_of_SkiFlying_We
rner_Herzog_in_Conversation_with_Karen_Beckman.html
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$US 30.00 SRP/Edu
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30.00 Euros/£20.99
CATALOG # MC-824
UPC: 796873076555
Documentary
2007 · 63 min
On the Ecstasy of Ski-Flying: Werner Herzog in Conversation with Karen
Beckman On the Ecstasy of Ski-Flying features a public conversation with
filmmaker Werner Herzog and Karen Beckman about aliens as a fixture of our
imagination, the fundamental achievement of the human race, and the ecstasy
of ski-flying. Includes a booklet with selected writings by Werner Herzog,
and photographs from Fitzcarraldo and Cobra Verde by Beat Presser. During
the 2007-2008 academic year, students in the RBSL Bergman Foundation
Curatorial Seminar at the University of Pennsylvania collaboratively engaged
in research spanning disciplines such as literature, visual culture,
urbanism, geo-politics, and technology. One residue of these endeavors was
this publication that attempts to construct an archive of the temporal-in
particular, this site-specific conversation on October 25, 2007 at Slought
Foundation in Philadelphia.
Born in Munich, director, screenwriter, producer, and actor Werner Herzog
grew up in a remote mountain village in Bavaria and never saw films,
television, or telephones as a child. He started traveling on foot from the
age of 14 and made his first phone call at the age of 17. During high
school he worked the nightshift as a welder in a steel factory to produce
films and made his first film in 1961 at the age of 19. Since then he has
become one of the most influential filmmakers in the world producing,
writing, and directing more than fifty films, publishing more than a dozen
books of prose, and directing as many operas. Werner Herzog has created some
of the most fantastic narratives in the history of cinema, pushing himself
and his crew to unprecedented lengths to achieve the effects he demanded.
His films include:
Little Dieter Needs to Fly, Aguirre, The Wrath of God, The Enigma of Kaspar
Hauser, Nosferatu, Fitzcarraldo, Even Dwarfs Started Small, Grizzly Man,
Rescue Dawn, and Encounters at the End of the World.
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Vito Acconci in Conversation at Acconci Studio, New York
http://www.microcinemadvd.com/product/DVD/825/Vito_Acconci_in_Conversation_a
t_Acconci_Studio_New_York.html
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$US 30.00 SRP/Edu
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30.00 Euros/£20.99
CATALOG # MC-825
UPC: 796873061377
New Media
2007 · 74 min
Vito Acconci in Conversation at Acconci Studio, New York features a
conversation between the artist and architect Vito Acconci and undergraduate
students at the University of Pennsylvania. During the 2007-2008 academic
year, students in the Halpern-Rogath Seminar in the Department of the
History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania explored Vito Acconci's
engagement with the experience of power, understood through the activation
of specific bounded zones. These have included the page, streets in New
York, a basement, galleries, and public environments. Acconci's earliest
forays into the realm of architecture in the 1980s marked a major shift in
his work from an emphasis on the individual body (often his own) to the
social body in an urban context. At the same time, the artist's focus on
architecture, the built environment, and relevant social systems has emerged
as a natural extension of his earlier interests in probing idiomatic
language, the boundaries of the body, and the unstable delineations between
private and public spaces. Recognizing the fact that architecture has the
power to control the body and the rhythms of daily life, Acconci visualizes
structures that perpetuate instability and the possibility of choice on the
part of the user. The projects, which are collaborative undertakings with a
team of designers and architects, focus on the creation of dynamic
circulation systems that bend, twist, ooze, flow, bulge, and ripple across
an existing landscape or a body. The course culminated in the exhibition
Power Fields: Explorations in the Work of Vito Acconci at Slought
Foundation, Philadelphia.
Vito Acconci (born 1940) currently lives and works in New York. His early
work took the form of fiction and poetry; his last poems reduced words to
indices of the writer's and reader's travel across the page. In the late
1960's and the early 1970's, his artworks used performance, photos, film and
video as instruments of self-analysis and person-to-person relationships.
His audio and video installations of the mid-1970's turned exhibition-spaces
into community meeting-places, and his architectural games of the early
1980's made performative spaces for viewers. In the mid 1980's, his work
crossed over into architecture, landscape, and industrial design, and in
1988 he started Acconci Studio, a theoretically-oriented design workshop.
The studio treats architecture as an occasion for activity, making spaces
fluid, changeable, and portable.
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Democracy and Disappointment: On the Politics of Resistance
http://www.microcinemadvd.com/product/DVD/823/Democracy_and_Disappointment_O
n_the_Politics_of_Resistance.html
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$US 30.00 SRP/Edu
European List Prices:
30.00 Euros/ £20.99
CATALOG # MC-823
UPC: 796873057523
Political / Social
2007 · 105 min
Democracy and Disappointment features a conversation between Alain Badiou
and Simon Critchley addressing the politics of resistance in DVD video
format, with a brochure featuring their recent philosophical writings about
politics, heroism, and poetics. During the 2007-2008 academic year,
students in the RBSL Bergman Foundation Curatorial Seminar at the University
of Pennsylvania collaboratively engaged in research spanning disciplines
such as literature, visual culture, urbanism, geo-politics, and technology.
One residue of these endeavors was this publication that attempts to
construct an archive of the temporal-in particular, this site-specific
conversation on November 15, 2007 at Slought Foundation in Philadelphia.
Alain Badiou (1937) taught philosophy at the University of Paris VIII from
1969 until 1999, and then at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS). Much of
Badiou's life has been shaped by his dedication to the consequences of
events of May 1968. Long a leading member of Union des jeunesses communistes
de France (marxistes-léninistes), he remains with Sylvain Lazarus and
Natacha Michel at the center of L'Organisation Politique, a post-party
organization concerned with direct popular intervention in a wide range of
issues (including immigration, labor, and housing). He is the author of
several successful novels and plays as well as more than a dozen
philosophical works. In the 1980s, Badiou published a series of technical
and abstract philosophical works such as Théorie du sujet (1982), and his
magnum opus, Being and Event (1988). In the last decade, an increasing
number of Badiou's works have been translated into English, such as Ethics,
Deleuze, Manifesto for Philosophy, and Metapolitics.
Simon Critchley (1960) is Professor of Philosophy at the New School for
Social Research, New York, since 2004. Like many of his generation, defined
by punk, generalized nihilism, and the disappointments that followed 1968,
he was politicized by the Miners' Strike in 1984-85 and worked as a local
activist throughout the 1980s and early 1990s before becoming disaffected
with mainstream party politics. He is the author of many books, including
Very Little... Almost Nothing (Routledge, 1997),
Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity (Verso, 1999), On Humour (Routledge, 2002), and
Things Merely Are (Routledge, 2005). Infinitely Demanding (Verso, 2007), the
topic of the conversation featured in this publication, extends into
political theory and political analysis by way of an extended engagement
with Marx and an argument for an ethically committed political anarchism.
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