Kategorie: MOVE
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Paris In a Ferrari.
On an August morning in 1976, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris.
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Empire of Light.
“Film. It’s just static frames, with darkness in between,” Toby Jones’ projector operator character says at one point in a voiceover. But if run at 24 frames per second, an illusion of light and motion results on the cinema screen. “An illusion of life, so you don’t see the darkness.” (Empire of Light, Director Sam…
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City Symphony.
Walther Ruttmann’s documentary film from 1927 describes a day in the big city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into living and working conditions at that time. Ruttmann conceived his film as a documentary work of art intended to portray the big city of Berlin as…
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For a city to come.
It is the invisible structure of urban environment – hidden from view in the same manner as the blackness of film negative conceals the whiteness of positive print – that disrupts the emergence of new forms of thinking, or acting, and thus causes any form of artistic practice to be either complicit or impossible. […] corridors…
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Alors on danse.
Breaking, Bboying – Krump, Electro Dance, House? Litefeet, Waacking? Punking, Voguing, Locking? Tutting, Shuffling? Videos taken during BOMA MUTU BATTLE DE DANSE at Le 6b, Saint Denis, April 9, 2023 A brief overview of some of the dance styles you mentioned put together by AI Chat GPT: Breaking/Bboying: Breaking originated in the Bronx in the…
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Thinking through walking.
To live, every being must put out a line, and in life these lines tangle with one another. This book is a study of the life of lines. Following on from Tim Ingold’s groundbreaking work Lines: A Brief History, it offers a wholly original series of meditations on life, ground, weather, walking, imagination and what…
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Making something.
In »Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing«, 1997, Francis Alÿs pushed a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City for 9 hours until it completely melted.
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Birdman.
Birdman director Alejandro G. Iñárritu originally conceived the film as a comedy filmed in a single shot set in a theatre following the character of Riggan Thomson, a faded actor famous for playing a superhero named Birdman in a film trilogy from 1989 to 1992. While the film used camera tricks and illusion to make…
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Walk in Konohana.
»A walk with Henguchi« Henguchi is a Japanese artist and poet, who introduced us to Konohana, a local district in Osaka, quite central, near the harbor, surrounded by rivers and water. Some years ago we very briefly met British sociologist Iza Kavedžija on a street in Konohana who did some research there for her paper …
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Move: 84 KM en banlieue.
Other than the official marathon route our personal ultra-marathon took us through the banlieue not along the ‚landmark sites‘ of Paris. These banlieue which are currently experiencing big transformations and where some major Olympic arenas and stadiums are build. These banlieue where the Hip Hop Culture in France started which is now an olympic discipline…
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Freeze: 185 km de voies olympiques.
Freeze in a different way: L’organisation des Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques risque de perturber fortement la circulation en Île-de-France pendant plus de deux mois, entre juillet et septembre 2024. Au total, 185 km de voies en région parisienne seront réservées aux personnes accréditées, aux transports et aux secours. read more »»
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Dérive.
For the Situationists, the dérive was a revolutionary technique to combat the malaise and boredom of the society of the spectacle. Dérives are necessary, according to Situationist theory, because of the increasingly predictable and monotonous experience of everyday life in advanced capitalism.
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Périphérique compressed.
When you are in the Banlieue of Paris, and there is a massive strike. What to do?Video by Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber. March 25, 2023. 12:05 pm – 12:45 pm
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Drive and Listen.
Driving through cities worldwide on your computer-screen, by car, on motorcycles or by bicycle – not only in Paris or Tokyo. visit »»
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Towards the City.
Towards the City by Yutaka Takanashi published in 1974 is a book about economics, consumption and the inevitable price paid for the economic boom in polluted skies and a land strewn with waste and detritus.The striking disc on the front of the large book presumably represents the rising sun of Japan, or the rising sun of…
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Écrire la danse.
Dance has its own systems of notation. The Romans already wrote down their dance steps, but the first writing systems proved to be insufficient. And it was not until the 20th century that not only the dance but all movement was recorded. Connected association: Catherine Anahid Berberian was an American mezzo-soprano and composer based in…
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Moonwalk.
The moonwalk, also known as the back-slide, is a breakdance style dance move consisting of a backward sliding step. The first person to perform a similar dance step was the French mime Etienne Decroux in the 1930s.
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Du sale.
The director Marion Siéfert created in collaboration with the dancer Janice Bieleu and the rapper Laëtitia Kerfa a. k. a. Original Laeti the theatrical work DU SALE ! (Real Shit!) and provides a stage for their complex biographies. The concentrated staging tells the story of harsh realities and gentle dreams, of beauty, hope and a…
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Metro swaggers.
with Emelyne Hivanhoé, Rizlaine Terraz, Amira Majeri, Julie Moreau, Johanna Faye and Marion Motin from SWAGGERS, and all female dance crew from Paris (Charenton); filmed by Yoram Savion, Kash Gaines and Benjamin Tarquin.
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In the Bronx Museum
»Since Baudelaire’s poetry -in poems such as A une passante– the streets of modern cities have been a recurrent subject in both literature and visual arts. With the arrival of avant-garde movements, the streets became a privileged space for trying experiments heading towards the socialization of art. The attempt of integrating art and life, initiated…
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Gerry.
Two friends, both named Gerry, drive in silence through a seemingly endless landscape. When they see the sign “Wilderness” they get out and start hiking to see a “thing” at the end of the trail. They walk, talk, smoke and run – but when they decide they’ve had enough, they realize that they are lost.…
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Peripherie Wanderung.
Already during his studies, Peter Piller realized his first peripheral walks, first in Hamburg in 1994, later in the Ruhr Region, Barcelona, Graz and Bonn. These walks are recorded in pictures, writing and sound. Piller is particularly interested in the transition between civilisation and nature, city and village, built-up and unsettled land, as well as…
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Universal Tongue.
Twerking, vogue, Fortnite, flash mobs, a Sufi or musical chairs. Visual artist Anouk Kruithof is fascinated by dance as a form of self-expression and empowerment, which has led her to research dance styles from all over the world. The dance-conclave and video installation Universal Tongue leads us through the jungle of the internet. It explores…
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لا شيء يزعجني مع دنغل
Video by Middle Eastern Rapper The Synaptik. With Dancer & Choreographer Amina Abuelghar. more about The Synaptic»» more about Amina Abuelghar »»
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Rize.
Rize is a 2005 American documentary film by David LaChapelle, and starring Lil‘ C, Tommy the Clown and Miss Prissy. It documents the culture and competition surrounding two dance forms known as Clowning and Krumping.
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Aktuel Force.
Aktuel Force is a historic French group that has left its mark on hip hop dance. From the underground to choreographic creation, from transmission to events, Aktuel Force embodies the French touch. It has imposed its virtuoso, fluid style, combining strength, smoothness and polyrhythm in France and abroad.
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How to …
»As an introduction, a conversation in a café to situate the first experiences. Everything then takes place in the Ménagerie de Verre in Paris where Junior Almeïda, Gabin Nuissier and other members of Aktuel Force and the Boogies Lockers show, in a few chapters, the development and maturity of a dance style that has both…
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Youth and Death.
In four abstract minutes Marcel Marceau progresses through the seven ages of man, relying on nuances of gait and posture to convey each stage. Youth, Maturity, Old Age, and Death (1965).
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Keine Party.
Video by Deichkind and Lard Eidinger: Performance intervention in the city.
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Thinking without Words.
In her book »Paul Celan und der chinesische Engel« Yoko Tawada writes: Walking is Thinking without Words. more about Yoko Tawada »»
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From here to here.
Jim Jarmusch’s Permanent Vacation follows two and a half days in the life of Aloysious Parker in New York, a young wanderer with no home, no school, and no job. At the age of sixteen, Allie drifts into and out of strange encounters with other misfits; almost all of them exiles from the daily, working…
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Dancing in Peckham.
Dancing in Peckham shows Wearing dancing for 25 minutes without music in a London shopping centre. She had seen a woman dancing by herself, completely unselfconsciously, at the Royal Festival Hall and, unable to capture the moment, decided to recreate it. The film explores the idea of acting as if in private while in a…
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Long Distance Runner.
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe, published in 1959 focuses on Smith, a poor Nottingham teenager from a dismal home in a working class area, who has bleak prospects in life and few interests beyond petty crime. The boy experiences social alienation and turns to long-distance running as a method of both…
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Go Home Polish.
Michał Iwanowski came across some graffiti in Cardiff that said: ‘Go home, Polish.’ So he did. The 105-day slog almost broke him – but it restored his faith in a volatile, fractured Europe. read more »»
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Dance a Painting.
French artist Louis-Kantigui (kanti) Dembélé »avait parfois le sentiment que la danse breaking, avait une place à part dans le monde de la culture.« more »»
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Chariots of Fire.
Chariots of Fire tells the story of two very different men who compete as runners in the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell believes that his athletic abilities are a gift from God, and that using that gift to win the gold medal will be his way of repaying that gift. Harold Abrahams is an English…
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東京オリンピック
Tokyo Olympiad (東京オリンピック), is a 1965 Japanese documentary film directed by Kon Ichikawa about the 1964 Summer Olympics. The film was considered a cinematographic milestone in documentary filmmaking.
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Massive Walk
The accompanying music video to the song »Unfinished Sympathy« by Massive Attack (directed by Baillie Walsh) was a single continuous shot of the singer Shara Nelson walking through a Los Angeles neighbourhood, oblivious to her surroundings.
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Teneriffa.
Düsseldorf Düsterboys. Walking through Essen.
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No Walk No Art.
Since the early 1970s Hamish Fulton (born 1946) has been labelled as a sculptor, photographer, Conceptual artist and Land artist. Fulton, however, characterises himself as a ‚walking artist‘. read more »»
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Landscape Theory.
»Masao Adachi […] decided to film the story of a 19-year-old boy who murdered four people in four different cities for no apparent reason. To do so, in A.K.A. Serial Killer he created a new approach: fukeiron, or landscape theory. […] The film, with a voiceover by Adachi and a free jazz score, relates the life…
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Japanese Lesson.
Since 2011 Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber have been exploring various phenomena of the Japanese present under the title Japanese Lesson, dealing with subcultures, activism and protest or the political landscape of the major cities of Tokyo and Osaka. In 2019 they developed several walks in districts on the one hand still struggeling with stigmatization…
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Walking — Moving.
In 1977 Japanese artist Norio Imai, former member of the Gutai group, walked through his neighborhood Sumiyoshi in Osaka. (Walking Event/Scene at the Corner ウォーキング･イヴェント/曲り角の風景, 1977) Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber followed his walk in 2019.
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Peripheren.
In their works, Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber address questions about the structure of cities and the links between urban and social boundaries. Their photographs reveal a particular interest in areas and neighborhoods that are marginalized or carry a certain stigma in the eyes of society. more»»
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Eyes on Paris.
Paris is considered to be the cradle of photography. Paris with its artists, scientists and craftsmen proved to be the ideal breeding ground for the medium. Without a doubt Paris is the most photographed city in the world. read more»»
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William Klein.
William Klein‘s »Dance Happening June 1961« in collaboration with Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio.
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Drawing Lines.
Yanase Anri, Drawing Lines (Practices for encountering complex and ambiguous worlds, 2015-16. more »»