February 2010
WatchThe Operation 1995
The Operation is an adult film shot entirely in infrared video. It’s a deliciously rich fusion of art, sci-fi, and porn: there is no dialogue, only motion and ambient, ethereal, whirring sound. It’s explicit and erotic, but the choice to shoot in infrared transforms the human bodies onscreen into incandescent, glass-like forms. Tight shots of the film’s two...
WatchAll My Loving
Originally broadcast on the BBC back in 1968, filmmaker Tony Palmer’s groundbreaking rock documentary features vintage performances by such legendary rock and roll acts as The Beatles, The Who, Pink Floyd, Cream, and Jimmy Hendrix. Additional insight by such revered artists as Frank Zappa offers a telling snapshot of a truly revolutionary moment in time.
WatchDown and Dirty Duck, promoted under the abbreviated title Dirty Duck, is an adult-orientedanimated film directed by Charles Swenson and starring Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan (Flo & Eddie) as the voices of a strait-laced blue collar worker named Willard and an unnamed duck, among other characters. The plot consists of a series of often abstract sequences, including plot material created by...
Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing
Elmore Leonard: Using adverbs is a mortal sin
1 Never open a book with weather. If it’s only to create atmosphere, and not a charac ter’s reaction to the weather, you don’t want to go on too long. The reader is apt to leaf ahead looking for people. There are exceptions. If you happen to be Barry Lopez, who has more ways than an Eskimo to describe ice and snow in his book Arctic...
WatchLogorama
presents us with an over-marketed world built only from logos and real trademarks that are destroyed by a series of natural disasters (beginning with a hurricane, cyclone, tidal wave…). logotypes are used to describe an alarming universe (similar to the one that we are living in) with all the graphic signs that accompany us everyday in our lives. this over-organized universe is...
WatchPassage à l’acte (1993) uses several seconds of the film To Kill a Mockingbird to create a bizarre story of aggression and tension within a traditional American family by Martin Arnold.
WatchLightnin Sam Hopkins - Instrumental
