Puisqu’on fait dans le off-road :
Ceci est un message enregistré
Jean-Thomas Bédard, Canada, 1973, 10 min 10 s
Animation réalisée à partir de journaux et de magazines. Les coupures, groupées et soumises à un mouvement fragmenté, font ressortir la réalité qui se cache sous l’image fallacieuse, dont la publicité incarne le pire des abus.
CONFESSION : Un post un peu hors-sujet, une histoire un peu trop longue à raconter. En gros c’est ma faute si il n’y a plus de films de Lipsett disponibles sur Ubuweb (‘Removed by request of the copyright holder’) … Tout ce qu’il en reste c’est ce vidéo qu’on avait ‘posté’ sur un autre blog – ‘reposté’ ici (par miracle toujours fonctionnel). Je demande pardon.
Free Fall
Arthur Lipsett, Canada, 1964, 9 min 15 s
An experimental film from Arthur Lipsett, Free Fall is an assortment of film trimmings assembled to make a wry comment on humankind in today’s world. It evokes a surrealist dream of our fall from grace into banality.
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Arthur Lipsett (May 13, 1936 – May 1, 1986) was a Canadian avant-garde director of short experimental films.
In the 1960s he was employed as an animator by the National Film Board of Canada. Lipsett’s particular passion was sound. He would collect pieces of sound and fit them together to create an interesting auditory sensation. After playing one of these creations to friends, they suggested that Lipsett put images to it. He did what his friends suggested, and the result became the 7 minute long film Very Nice, Very Nice which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects in 1962. Despite not winning the Oscar, this film brought Lipsett considerable praise from critics and directors. Stanley Kubrick was one of Lipsett’s fans, and asked him to create a trailer for his upcoming movie Dr. Strangelove. Lipsett declined Kubrick’s offer. Kubrick went on to direct the trailer himself; however, Lipsett’s influence on Kubrick is clearly visible when watching the trailer.
Lipsett’s film 21-87 was a profound influence on director George Lucas who included elements from 21-87 in THX 1138, his Star Wars films and also American Graffiti. The film 21-87 has been credited by Lucas as the source of the « The Force » in Star Wars. Lucas never met the filmmaker but tributes to 21-87 appear throughout Star Wars. For example, the holding cell of Princess Leia in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope on the Death Star is cell No. 2187.
Lipsett’s success allowed him some freedom, but as his films became more bizarre, this freedom quickly disappeared. He suffered from psychological problems. Later in his life he is said to have done strange things like taking a taxi from Toronto to Montreal (costing several hundred dollars). Lipsett committed suicide in 1986, two weeks before his 50th birthday.
Plus de détails sur Lipsett ici.
Aussi de Lipsett :
Very Nice, Very Nice (1961) ici.
21-87 (1964) ici.
A Trip Down Memory Lane (1965) ici.
Re-post du 1er avril 2009
Le cerveau mystique
Isabelle Raynauld, Canada, 2006, 52 min 15 s
Documentaire qui explore les états de grâce vécus par les mystiques et les personnes en état de méditation. Une occasion d’accéder au cœur du chapitre le plus récent de la recherche scientifique portant sur ce phénomène. Des carmélites et des moines bouddhistes ont accepté de se prêter à l’expérience : le film présente les travaux exploratoires d’une équipe de l’Université de Montréal.
Re-post du 1er avril 2009
The Burning Times
Donna Read, Canada, 1990, 56 min 10 s
This documentary takes an in-depth look at the witch hunts that swept Europe just a few hundred years ago. False accusations and trials led to massive torture and burnings at the stake and ultimately to the destruction of an organic way of life. The film questions whether the widespread violence against women and the neglect of our environment today can be traced back to those times. Part two of a series of three films on women and spirituality, which includes Goddess Remembered and Full Circle.
Re-post du 20 avril 2009
Femmes et religieuses… Épouses de Dieu
Lucie Lachapelle, Canada, 1999, 48 min 11 s
Ce premier volet d’une série documentaire historique trace le portrait nuancé de religieuses. Tourné au Québec, en France et à Haïti, le film puise sa richesse dans l’authenticité des témoignages, la rigueur de la recherche historique, la variété des documents d’archives inédits et la beauté des scènes de reconstitution. Jean-Claude Labrecque signe les images sur une musique de Louise Courville et une narration de Mario Tifo.
