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THE ODYSSEY —Jeff Burns In nine minutes, this short film makes Homer’s 2,800-year-old double-epic utterly contemporaneous. We believe this should be required viewing for human beings. It’s also pretty damn funny, too. Tangents: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/26/opinion/26thu2.html |
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CHANGES —Lorcan Finnegan, music by Graham Newcombe It’s all so sweet and delightful at first, but love bites. And that’s when it gets good. This Dublin-based producer/musician team has created something with a unique visual aesthetic. Tangents: Giving Requires Humility |
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LOVE’S THEOSOPHY —by Gigantic Music, NYC: Music by Seedy Gonzales, designed/animated by James Dunlap One minute and fifteen seconds of ingenuity that will make you want to kiss the next person you see. Theosophy is a movement of religious philosophy founded by Madame Blatavsky in the 1870s. TS Eliot thought it a joke. WB Yeats was entranced by it. Yeah, like you care. |
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Basin Street Blues —Turntablism by Kid Koala, video by Monkmus Genius DJ/turntablist Kid Koala and Monkmus collaborate on this poignant, beautiful, and cathartic embrace of New Orleans’s jazz funerals. This was recorded and produced in 2004, but it ought to be among the great memorials for a city under water. Featured with permission by Kid Koala. Tangents: On Global Warming |
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Caligari & The Eclipse of the Moon—DD Wigley What if it doesn't come back? Oh my God! What if the moon doesn't come back? |
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Servos Form Warefare—Erin Snyder Transformers: The Movie: The plot is lacking, the characters are simple, and the design's uneven... but such metrics have no place here. Cartoons require a subtler approach to gauge their quality. |
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| The Great Flood —BlowedupTruck “The earth was filled with violence. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth… And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.” What a card this God person is! You just have to laugh. Tangents: On Global Warming |
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Become of Me: David Lynch's "Inland Empire"—Carmiel Banasky If you haven't seen it yet, don't worry. There are no plot spoilers here, because Lynch has shredded to nonsensicality any notion of plot. |
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Bruce Willis Number Gap—Max Evry Bruce Willis. Numbers. What’s the connection? |
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Hollywood —AWB The Kid Stays in the Picture, makes “The Godfather” and “Midnight Cowboy,” and shrugs his shoulders at the concept of identity. |
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| The Great White Bronco —BlowedupTruck Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is a really long book. Why should anyone bother with hundreds of pages that obsessionally detail one peg-legged geezer’s monomania? Ah, but each age has its saga of The One that Got Away. Sing along with Dizzy Gillespie while considering the monsters of the mind. Tangents: In Search of the Great White Bronco Endangered Species Always Taste Better Comeuppance Police |
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The Adventures of James Joyce —Jack Feldstein James Joyce wrote a very big important book that no one can understand any more. It’s about sex, religion, politics and your brain. What was Jimmy J. doing? This short film throws Modernism into a metempsychotic blender with a pint of beer. Tangents: |
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| Ted's Bread —Written by Jay Hapeman/James Dunlap. Narrated by Steve Dalachinsky. Designed and Animated by James Dunlap. New York Poet Steve Dalachinsky puts words to music in this short animation about comeuppance. Tangents: Three Poems The Comeuppance Police A Cartoon Network |
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Doll Face —Written and Directed by Andy Huang sound and music by Andy Huang Starring: Christina Frenzel Summary: A machine with a doll face mimics images on television screen in search of a satisfactory visage. Doll Face presents a visual account of desires misplaced and identities fractured by our technological extension into the future. Tangents: Essay on Man Torture a Dialogue |
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