November 2011
15 posts
WatchCanadian artist Jeremy Rotsztain pays homage to Jackson Pollock and Jackie Chan with his Action Painting project. He has written a program that organizes and processes audio data “the end result [of which] is an artwork that looks like painting, but feels (and is edited) very much like cinema. Actually, when exhibited, the videos are are projected in high definition onto canvases, echoing...
Capsule Collection: Summer/Fall 2011 Viewing, 2011... →
5700+ words and 22 double-spaced pages later, my catch up on my screening log entries is finished with blurbs about 2011’s Melancholia, Midnight In Paris, Sucker Punch, Take Shelter, and X-Men: First Class.
Capsule Collection: Summer/Fall 2011 Viewing, 2011... →
Don’t worry, I’m almost caught up and then there won’t be quite so many of these links to new blog posts with little capsule reviews. This entry is for films from 2011 including Attack the Block, Bellflower, Captain America, Drive, The Future, and Hobo With A Shotgun.
Capsule Collection: Summer/Fall 2011 Viewing, <... →
Estranged from myself by productivity, three days and three clumps of capsule reviews. Another entry on my blog to finish up the film’s I’ve watch from before 2011: Predator 2, Silent Night Deadly Night 2, Strangers On A Train, The Third Man, and Videodrome.
Capsule Collection: Summer/Fall 2011 Viewing, <... →
Part two in my quest to catch up on my screening log is here with capsule reviews for The Dead Zone, Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods, Lost Highway, The Man Who Fell to Earth and Shi (Poetry).
Capsule Collection: Summer/Fall 2011 Viewing, <... →
Clawing my way back to being caught up on my screening log, here are five capsule reviews for some films before 2011.
Erica Baum's 'Dog Ear' →
A long-winded and not entirely lucid - as per usual - review of Erica Baum’s collection Dog Ear that I wrote has been featured on Sina Queyras’ literary blog Lemon Hound.
“The air itself is one vast library, on whose pages are for ever written all that...”
– from Charles Babbage’s The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise, chapter 9.
Lisa Robertson's 'The Venus Problem' →
Triple Canopy showcases a new essay in poetry and prose by the inimitable Lisa Robertson. Robertson weaves prose excerpts from sources such as Marx through her own distinct verse that is as thoughtfully sensual and tactile as ever in lines such as,
The I-speaker On her silken rupture Spills into history.
Her critical thinking forms itself equally as sharply, informing the reader’s...
“Because words today are cheap and infinitely produced, they are detritus,...”
– from Kenneth Goldsmith’s “Provisional Language” in Uncreative Writing.
“Lying there trying to sleep, a little light coming through the curtains from the...”
– from Lydia Davis’ “Liminal: The Little Man” in The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis. 