Praised by Jonas Mekas as the "the most important North American avant-garde filmmaker to emerge during the 1980s," Canadian filmmaker and critic R. Bruce Elder's work places images of nature and the body within rigorous theories on art, spirituality, and philosophy. Now playing for free on Nomadica (hosted by the Laba Libera Academy of Fine Arts) until May 30, his 1982 film Illuminated Texts is one chapter of his magnum opus, the film cycle The Book of All The Dead. In fact, Illuminated Texts only makes up three hours of the cycle's 46 hours, which consists of 20 films made between 1975 and 1994. But the questions that the encyclopedic film raises about image-making technology, forms of knowledge, and the discord of human history, are wholly realized. Illuminated Texts begins with a satirical opening involving a pushy professor who imposes false mathematical teachings onto his all-too-willing and dim-witted pupil. This forceful institutional pedagogy is challenged by the film's subsequent chapters,...
- 5/24/2021
- MUBI
At the movies, this year appeared to begin like any other: With winter releases in cinemas and Rotterdam, Sundance, and Berlin unveiling exciting new premieres, the shape of the year's cinema started to be defined.This all turned out to be false start, and too good to be true. Starting in March, the ways movies were released—if they were released at all—and how we watched them radically changed. Our end of year poll, now in its 13th edition, remains the same in conception: Asking 2020's Notebook contributors how they would program new premieres into double features with older movies watched this year. But, of course, how our many contributors encountered movies in 2020, what they had access to and what their normal viewing habits were—these have shifted dramatically. This year the fantasy double feature, pairing new and old viewings, have become an even more acute snapshot of how people watched movies,...
- 1/4/2021
- MUBI
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