Destricted
''Destricted'' is a British-American anthology film that explores the line where art and pornography intersect. The UK and US film releases had overlapping but different short art-house erotic films. The film collection won awards at a range of international film festivals, including Cannes, Sundance, Edinburgh, Amsterdam and Locarno. Releases The UK version released in 2006 runs at 112 minutes and includes seven short films: * ''Impaled'' ( Larry Clark) - A casting for a porn film, but not with the insecure women often displayed, instead with insecure young men. (37min 28s). * ''Balkan Erotic Epic'' (Marina Abramović) - An erotic comedy about myths from the Balkans about sex organs. (13 min 04s). * ''House Call'' (Richard Prince) - A vintage sex scene recontextualized with edits and music. (12min 29s). * ''Sync'' (Marco Brambilla) - Consists of very fast cuts from different porn films. (2min 15s). * ''Hoist'' (Matthew Barney) - A juxtaposition of sexuality and industrial mach ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Marco Brambilla
Marco Brambilla (born 25 September 1960) is an Italian-born Canadian contemporary artist and film director, known for re-contextualizations of popular and found imagery, and use of 3D imaging technologies in public installations and video art. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA, San Francisco; Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul; the Museum of the Moving Image, New York; Metronóm Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Barcelona, Spain and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Career Style and themes Pop culture as spectacle Jumping off from his experience in Hollywood filmmaking, Brambilla's work explores the history and influence of pop culture through the lens of Guy Debord's "Spectacle (critical theory), spectacle," or how images commodify human experiences by oversaturation. In an interview with ''032c'', Brambilla discussed how Hollywood film has "largely ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Marina Abramović
Marina Abramović ( sr-Cyrl, Марина Абрамовић, ; born November 30, 1946) is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, feminist art, the relationship between the performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. Being active for over four decades, Abramović refers to herself as the "grandmother of performance art". She pioneered a new notion of identity by bringing in the participation of observers, focusing on "confronting pain, blood, and physical limits of the body". In 2007, she founded the Marina Abramović Institute (MAI), a non-profit foundation for performance art. Early life, education and teaching Abramović was born in Belgrade, Serbia, then part of Yugoslavia, on November 30, 1946. In an interview, Abramović described her family as having been "Red bourgeoisie." Her great-uncle was Varnava, Serbian Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Both of her Montenegrin-born par ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sigurjón Sighvatsson
Sigurjón Sighvatsson (born 15 June 1952), also known as Joni Sighvatsson, is an Icelandic Hollywood film producer and businessman. Sigurjon (Joni) Sighvatsson, a veteran producer with over 50 feature films, television series, and documentaries to his credit, is the principal of Palomar Pictures, an independent production company, as well as chairman of Scandinavian film distributor/producer Scanbox Emntertainment. Sighvatsson has worked with some of the most successful filmmakers in the industry, including David Lynch, Kathryn Bigelow, Jim Sheridan, Julian Schnabel and multiple Academy Award nominees and winners. Among his films are '' The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared'', ''Brothers'', ''Z for Zachariah'' and '' Killer Elite'', as well as classics such as '' Wild at Heart'', ''Arlington Road'' and ''Basquiat''. Sighvatsson also continues to be a significant force in the world of art films. After having paved the way for visual artists movin ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Seamus McGarvey
Seamus McGarvey, ASC, BSC (born 29 June 1967) is a cinematographer from Armagh, Northern Ireland. He lives in Tuscany, Italy. He has received two Academy Award nominations for his cinematography, on Joe Wright's 2007 drama ''Atonement'' and his 2012 adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel ''Anna Karenina''. In addition to the Oscar nominations, McGarvey won the British Society of Cinematographers (B.S.C.) award for ''Anna Karenina'' and for ''Nocturnal Animals'', as well as a nomination for ''Atonement'', and earned BAFTA noms for Atonement, Anna Karenina and Nocturnal Animals. He received A.S.C. nods for Atonement and Anna Karenina. ''Atonement'' earned him nominations for the British Independent Film Award, the Chicago Film Critics Association and the Online Film Critics Society, and he received the top honor from the Phoenix Film Critics Society. McGarvey has won three Evening Standard British Film Awards for ''Atonement'', ''Anna Karenina'' and Stephen Daldry's '' The Hours'' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sam Taylor-Johnson
Samantha Louise Taylor-Johnson OBE (née Taylor-Wood; 4 March 1967) is a British filmmaker and photographer. Her directorial feature film debut was 2009's ''Nowhere Boy'', a film based on the childhood experiences of The Beatles songwriter and singer John Lennon. She is one of a group of artists known as the Young British Artists. Early life Samantha Taylor-Wood was born in Croydon, London. Her father, David, left the family when she was nine. Her mother, Geraldine, is a yoga teacher and astrologist. She has a younger sister, Ashley, and a maternal half-brother, Kristian. Taylor-Johnson grew up near Streatham Common in south London until her parents' divorce. The family then moved into an old schoolhouse in Jarvis Brook in East Sussex, and Samantha went to Beacon Community College. She later attended Goldsmiths, University of London. Career Fine art Taylor-Johnson began exhibiting fine-art photography in the early 1990s. One collaboration with Henry Bond, titled '' 26 Oct ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2006 Films
The following is an overview of events in 2006, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Evaluation of the year Legendary film critic Philip French of ''The Guardian'' described 2006 as "an outstanding year for British cinema". He went on to emphasize, "Six of our well-established directors have made highly individual films of real distinction: Michael Winterbottom's ''A Cock and Bull Story'', Ken Loach's Palme d'Or winner '' The Wind That Shakes the Barley'', Christopher Nolan's ''The Prestige'', Stephen Frears's ''The Queen'', Paul Greengrass's '' United 93'' and Nicholas Hytner's ''The History Boys''. Two young directors made confident debuts, both offering a jaundiced view of contemporary Britain: Andrea Arnold's Red Road and Paul Andrew Williams's London to Brighton. In addition the gifted Mexican Alfonso Cuaron came here to make the dystopian thriller '' Children of Men''." He also stated, "In the (Un ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2006 Sundance Film Festival
The 2006 Sundance Film Festival was held in Utah from January 19, to January 29, 2006. It was held in Park City, with screenings in Salt Lake City; Ogden; and the Sundance Resort. It was the 22nd iteration of the Sundance Film Festival, and the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Sundance Institute. The opening night film was ''Friends with Money''; the closing night film was ''Alpha Dog''. Award winners The official announcement of the winners can be founhere *Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - ''God Grew Tired of Us'' *Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - ''Quinceañera'' *World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary - '' In The Pit'' *World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic - '' 13 Tzameti'' *Audience Award: Documentary - ''God Grew Tired of Us'' *Audience Award: Dramatic - ''Quinceañera'' *World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary - ''De Nadie'' *World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic - '' No. 2'' *Documentary Directing Award - James Longley director of ''Iraq in Fragments'' *Dramatic Directing ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Neville Wakefield
Neville Wakefield (born 1963) is an art curator. Life and work Wakefield was born in England, United Kingdom. He is the curator and artistic director of Desert X. Personal life He lives and works between the Isles of Scilly and Harlem, New York. See also * POSTmatter (magazine) * Helmut Lang (artist) * Destricted * The Cremaster Cycle ''The Cremaster Cycle'' is a series of five feature-length films, together with related sculptures, photographs, drawings, and artist's books, created by American visual artist and filmmaker Matthew Barney. ''The Cremaster Cycle'' was made over a ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Wakefield, Neville Living people 1963 births British art critics British art curators Cultural historians ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Eric Voake
Erik Voake is an American filmmaker and photographer born in Yorba Linda, California in 1973. Education Voake attended Western State College of Colorado where he studied Outdoor Leadership. He lived in the town of Crested Butte, CO. He purchased an Arriflex 16mm motion picture camera and focused on whitewater kayaking. After traveling to Peru, West Virginia and all through Colorado he put together his first action sports documentary titled ''The Fix''.whitewatervideo.com/loaded While in production on ''Off the Deep End'' Voake began co-creating his next action sports film series titled ''Slednecks''. Slednecks is an action sports film that focuses on the sport of freestyle snowmobiling and is now one of the biggest draws of the winter X Games on ESPN. While making Slednecks Voake was introduced to fellow action sports filmmakers and, creators of the highest selling action sports film series to date, ''Crusty Demons of Dirt''. He went on to segment produce, film and edit 5 ''Cr ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gaspar Noé
Gaspar Noé (, ; born 27 December 1963) is an Argentine filmmaker based in Paris, France. He is the son of Argentine painter, writer, and intellectual Luis Felipe Noé. In the early 1990s, Noé along with his wife Lucile Hadžihalilović were the co-founders of a production company Les Cinémas de la Zone. He has directed seven feature films: '' I Stand Alone'' (1998), ''Irréversible'' (2002), ''Enter the Void'' (2009), ''Love'' (2015), ''Climax'' (2018), '' Lux Æterna'' (2019), and ''Vortex'' (2021). Early life Noé was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His father Luis Felipe Noé is of Spanish, Italian, and French-Basque descent while his mother, Nora Murphy is of Irish and Spanish descent. He has a sister named Paula. He lived in New York City for one year as a child, and his family emigrated to France in 1976 to escape the political situation in Argentina at the time. Noé graduated from Louis Lumière College in France. Artistry His work has been strongly associated w ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Larry Clark
Lawrence Donald Clark (born January 19, 1943) is an American film director, photographer, writer and film producer who is best known for his controversial teen film ''Kids'' (1995) and his photography book ''Tulsa'' (1971). His work focuses primarily on youth who casually engage in illegal drug use, underage sex, and violence, and who are part of a specific subculture, such as surfing, punk rock, or skateboarding. Early life Clark was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He learned photography at an early age. His mother was an itinerant baby photographer, and he was enlisted in the family business from the age of 13. His father was a traveling sales manager for the Reader Service Bureau, selling books and magazines door-to-door, and was rarely home. In 1959, Clark began injecting amphetamines with his friends. Clark attended the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he studied under Walter Sheffer and Gerhard Bakker. Career In 1964, he moved to New York City to freelance, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sante D'Orazio
Sante D'Orazio is an American photographer. D'Orazio exhibited in the Kunsthaus Munich, Kunsthauswien Vienna, the L.A. County Museum, Kahmann Gallery (Amsterdam), Stellan Holm Gallery (New York), Cameraworks Gallery (Berlin) Hilario Galguera Gallery (Mexico City), and NRW Forum in Düsseldorf. His publications include: ''A Private View'', ''Sante D'Orazio Photographs'', ''Pam: American Icon'', ''Katlick School'', ''Gianni and Donatella'', and ''Barely Private''. Books *''A Private View''. Penguin Books, 1998. . Photographs and diary pages covering his photography career. *''Sante D'Orazio Photographs''. Arena Editions, 2000. Photographs from his professional and personal work. *''Pam: American Icon''. Schirmer/Mosel, 2005. . Photographs of Pamela Anderson *''Katlick School''. teNeues, 2006. *''Gianni and Donatella''. teNeues, 2007. *''Barely Private - A Diary Book 1997-Present''. Taschen, 2009. Exhibitions *''2010 Scratch This, Hiliario Galuera Gallery, Leipzig, Germany (s ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |