Samhain‘He-Who-Can-Not-Be-Named’ de l’album Initium (1984)
C’est fait. ‘Plugger’ Samhain, bientôt l’Halloween tout ça. En fait on s’obstinait entre ‘Archangel‘ et ‘Casket Garden‘ de Dismember … Le Mois des Morts, les tombes: des associations thématiques d’une rare finesse. On l’avait déjà mis – ‘Casket Garden‘ – sur le blog de Cyclop par contre … Ça reviendra pas l’année prochaine ni jamais. Des jokes avec le band ‘Helloween’ non plus, c’est une promesse. Croix de bois, croix de fer, si je mens je vais en enfer.
‘We follow photographer Sarah Sudhoff as she works on her series titled At the Hour of Our Death. In the series Sudhoff creates large-scale color photographs of stained fabrics from trauma scenes and discusses the invisibility of death in our culture. Learn more about the filmmakers at walleyfilms.com. Learn more about the artist at sarahsudhoff.com‘.
Couverture bricollée (Gil Nault & Amanita Bloom) à partir d’illusrations de Fritz Eichenberg, celles réalisées pour ‘Wuthering Heights‘ d’Emily Brontë et pour ‘Jane Eyre‘ de Charlotte Brontë.
Étienne et Dominic (d’Amanita Bloom) ont ensuite composé le mobilier à partir de fragments des gravures d’Eichenberg.
Chauds remerciements additionnels à l’endroit d’Annie-Ève Dumontier, Christian Ouellet et Olivier Maguire, l’étoile du match. L’album est paru mardi dernier sur l’étiquette Machette Records. Nos salutations à toute l’équipe.
‘TV documentary about controversial satanic ritual abuse / recovered-memory / multiple personality disorder and the underground worldwide satanic network conspirators herding everybody back to church’. … ‘This aired on the British ITV network, and the United States on HBO. It has recently come into rotation on the US Arts and Entertainment cable network’.
Early Abstractions (1946-57)
Short animations by HARRY SMITH
‘Harry Everett Smith (29 May 1923, Portland, Oregon – 27 November 1991, New York City) was an American archivist, ethnomusicologist, student of anthropology, record collector, experimental filmmaker, artist, bohemian and mystic. Smith is a well-known figure in several fields. People who know him as a filmmaker often do not know of his 1952 Anthology of American Folk Music, while folk music enthusiasts often do not know he was « the greatest living magician » according to Kenneth Anger’ – WIKI
Film Number 1 – A Strange Dream (ca. 1946-48) color; hand-painted 35mm stock photographed in 16mm; soundtrack: « Manteca » by the Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra; 2:20 min.
Film Number 2 – Message from the Sun (ca. 1946-48) color; hand-painted 35mm stock photographed in 16mm; soundtrack unknown; 2:15 min.
Film Number 3 – Interwoven (ca. 1947-49) color; hand-painted 35mm photographed in 16mm; soundtrack: « Guarachi Guaro » by the Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra; 3:20 min. (reportedly edited down from ca. 30:00 min.) (Part1
Film Number 4 – Fast Track (ca. 1949) color (shot of painting depicting the recording « Manteca » by the Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra) and black & white (superimposition experiment); 16mm; silent; 2:16 min.
Film Number 5 – Circular Tensions (Homage to Oskar Fischinger) (ca. 1950) color; 16mm; silent; 2:30 min.
Film Number 7 – Color Study (ca. 1950-51) color; 16mm; silent; 5:25 min.
Film Number 10 – Mirror Animations (ca. 1957) color; 16mm; soundtrack unknown; 3:35 min.