Manuela De Laborde's short film As Without So Within, which has played at the Toronto International Film Festival, won the Grand Prix at Zagreb's 25 Fps Festival, competed for the Tiger at Rotterdam, and will next screen at New Directors/New Films, is an utterly remarkably, vividly calm work that blends sculpture and filmmaking into a cosmic exploration of physical material transformed by the flatness of the cinema screen. Using ingenious objects made by De Laborde that variously resemble moon rocks, bones, and additional unidentifiable shapes, and by filming them against black backgrounds, awash in precise colored lighting and at different scales, these strange pieces loom or are dwarfed, come into or go out of focus and perceptibility. Sometimes the film feels like a kind of astronomic research report, tactile and scientific in its observation, even seemingly scanning or plunging deep the molecular makeup of these evocatively recognizable, yet alien shapes.
- 3/18/2017
- MUBI
If you were a kid long enough ago — or if your parents stowed their childhood playthings in the attic and produced them a few decades later — you might remember Multiway Rollway. You’d erect elaborate structures of wooden slats, then send a marble gliding along cylindrical grooves, changing directions in hollowed-out corner blocks, and dropping through circular holes on their way to the floor and under the bed. Or perhaps you’ve seen the The Way Things Go, by Peter Fischli and David Weiss, a 30-minute video from 1987 of a jury-rigged machine self-destructing in exquisitely timed phases: Rolling cogs tip chairs that flip seesaws, releasing balls, pouring liquids, and lighting fuses.That fascination with wackadoodle contraptions energizes the Danish composer and installation artist Simon Steen-Andersen, who opened Miller Theater’s concert season by turning the whole place into a giant noisemaker. He fitted out the hall and the backstage area...
- 9/22/2015
- by Justin Davidson
- Vulture
The Swiss duo's witty, irreverent work has influenced both contemporary art and car ads. Following the death of David Weiss, Jeremy Millar pays tribute to a unique partnership
It is a small black book and, among the dark pages, hand-written in white, are questions. Like nocturnal doubts, they don't seem to expect an answer, and are offered up to the void more in hope than expectation – and that hope soon dissolves. The book is called Will Happiness Find Me? and is the work of Peter Fischli and David Weiss, two Swiss artists who, over the past 30 years, have made some of the most important, most unexpected and funniest art of our time. Weiss died of cancer in April at the age of 66. "Am I doomed to wander through the vale of tears as a clown?" the book asks. "Is my being filled with serenity?"
While the book might be considered...
It is a small black book and, among the dark pages, hand-written in white, are questions. Like nocturnal doubts, they don't seem to expect an answer, and are offered up to the void more in hope than expectation – and that hope soon dissolves. The book is called Will Happiness Find Me? and is the work of Peter Fischli and David Weiss, two Swiss artists who, over the past 30 years, have made some of the most important, most unexpected and funniest art of our time. Weiss died of cancer in April at the age of 66. "Am I doomed to wander through the vale of tears as a clown?" the book asks. "Is my being filled with serenity?"
While the book might be considered...
- 6/5/2012
- by Jeremy Millar
- The Guardian - Film News
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly Ioncinephile profile (read here), we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their top ten list of favorite films. This month we profile Michelangelo Frammartino. His award-winning film, Le Quattro Volte was among our top three back on the Croisette and it receives a theatrical release via Lorber Films -- beginning in Gotham's Film Forum and then expanding into other markets in North America commencing this weekend. Again we tried our best to translate from Michelangelo's native tongue. Here are his Top 10 Films of All Time (as of April 2011). Aurora - Cristi Puiu (2010) "The most extraordinary leadership skills in working with actors that I've ever seen." The Mouth of the Wolf (La bocca del lupo) - Pietro Marcello (2009) "A great Italian talent that everyone should know." Damnation...
- 4/1/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
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