Lone Star 2006
DVD Colour 150mins
'Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire' - Slavoj Zizek
THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the greatest movies ever made. Serving as presenter and guide is the charismatic Slavoj Zizek, the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst. With his engaging and passionate approach to thinking, Zizek delves into the hidden language of cinema, uncovering what movies can tell us about ourselves.
THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA offers an introduction into some of Zizek's most exciting ideas on fantasy, reality, sexuality, subjectivity, desire, materiality and cinematic form. Whether he is untangling the famously baffling films of David Lynch, or overturning everything you thought you knew about Hitchcock, Zizek illuminates the screen with his passion, intellect, and unfailing sense of humour. THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA applies Zizek's ideas to the cinematic canon, in what The Times calls 'an extraordinary reassessment of cinema.'
The film cuts its cloth from the very world of the movies it discusses; by shooting at original locations and on replica sets, it creates the uncanny illusion that Zizek is speaking from within the films themselves. Described by The Times as 'the woman helming this Freudian inquest,' director Sophie Fiennes' collaboration with Slavoj Zizek illustrates the immediacy with which film and television can communicate genuinely complex ideas. Says Zizek: "My big obsession is to make things clear. I can really explain a line of thought if I can somehow illustrate it in a scene from a film. THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA is really about what psychoanalysis can tell us about cinema."
THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA is constructed in three parts. Says Fiennes: 'The form of the Guide is a deliberately open one. There are three parts, but there could be more. Zizek's method of thinking is exciting because it's always building. Things relate forwards and backwards and interconnect into a mind-altering network of ideas. The film's title is something of a McGuffin - just a way to get you into this network.' Price: £21.53 Including VAT at 15%
The MIT Press 2005
DVD with 40-page color booklet. ISBN 026213456X
14 x 19 cm English text
What kind of cinema is appropriate for the age of Palm Pilot and Google? Automatic surveillance and self-guided missiles? Consumer profiling and CNN? To investigate this question, Lev Manovich, one of today's most influential thinkers in the fields of media arts and digital culture, paired with award-winning new media artist and designer Andreas Kratky. They have also invited contributions from leaders in other cultural fields: DJ Spooky, Scanner, George Lewis, and Johann Johannsson (music), servo (architecture), Schoenerwissen/OfCD (information visualization), and Ross Cooper Studios (media design).
The results of their three-year explorations are the three "films" presented on this DVD. Although the films resemble the familiar genres of cinema, the process by which they were created demonstrates the possibilities of soft(ware) cinema. A "cinema," that is, in which human subjectivity and the variable choices made by custom software combine to create films that can run infinitely without ever exactly repeating the same image sequences, screen layouts and narratives.
Mission to Earth, a science fiction allegory of the immigrant experience, adopts the variable choices and multi-frame layout of the Soft Cinema system to represent "variable identity." Absences is a lyrical black and white narrative that relies on algorithms normally deployed in military and civilian surveillance applications to determine the editing of video and audio. Texas, a "database narrative," assembles its visuals, sounds, narratives, and even the identities of its characters, from multiple databases. The DVD was designed so that every viewing of each film generates a different version. Price: £23.00 Including VAT at 15%
Palm Pictures 2004
DVD 75 mins English language Region 1
13.5 x 19 cm
The Legend of Leigh Bowery is an exploration of Leigh Bowery's outrageous life, a life he lived as a performance. Bowery was a costume/clothing designer, nightclub impresario, performer, and musician whose vision influenced many of today's important artists. He became known to the world at large as the muse and subject of preeminent British painter Lucian Freud.
Directed by Charles Atlas, the film provides an entertaining, uncensored, and multifaceted portrait of Leigh and of the times in which he lived. With interviews of Boy George, Damien Hirst, Michael Clark, Rifat Ozbek, Bella Freud, Cerith Wyn Evans, and Norman Rosenthal of the Royal Academy of Art, the film paints a fascinating picture of an extraordinary artist and opens a window onto the outrageous fashion, art, and nightclub scenes that defined London in the 1980s.
The visual centerpiece of the film is Leigh himself: appearing on British talk show (including a program hosted by Gary Glitter), performing onstage with the Michael Clark Dance Company (for whom he also designed costumes), singing with his band Minty, "giving birth" to a full grown woman at New York's drag marathon Wigstock, and dancing in London's underground clubs. The film also treats the viewer to a visual feast of Leigh's many fantastic outfits as well as the stunning portraits of Leigh painted by one of Britain's greatest artists, Lucian Freud.
The Legend of Leigh Bowery provides an honest, entertaining, and authentic account of Bowery's work, and explores its impact on a culture of decadence and outrage, an impact that still reverberates in today's art and fashion world. Price: £18.10 Including VAT at 15%
OUT OF STOCK
Simar Films 1973
DVD 89 mins French language (English Subtitles) Region unknown
The extent to which the revolutionary attempt of May 1968 marked the transformation of an epoch, is demonstrated precisely by the simple fact that a book of subversive theory like The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord could be brought to the screen by the author, and that there is a producer willing to finance such an undertaking. Price: £17.61 Including VAT at 15%
Baltic 2005
DVD PAL screen format: 4:3 running time 42"58"
14.5 x 19 cm
Bob & Roberta Smith are an artistic enterprise, sincere in their ambition to bring anarchy to people’s perceptions of art through a conceptual yet playful approach to art and its making. This DVD accompanies their exhibition at BALTIC (11 Dec 2004 – 3 Apr 2005). It includes previously unseen works and a new BALTIC commission, Eileen, made from 58 panels that form the wall of an improvised three-sided shack. It tells the story of a woman whose life is shaped by a series of chance occurrences. The DVD also includes several of their signature text pieces using their ‘inconsistent’ typeface with slogans that lampoon figures from cultural history, politics, fashion and art. Price: £14.67 Including VAT at 15%
Palm Pictures 2003
DVD video
Follow the Entered Apprentice (Matthew Barney) as he advances from the ground floor of the Guggenheim Museum to the top of the spiral in the game of The Order. He must ascend through five degrees, each presenting him with a different opponent or obstacle. Molton Vaseline drips slowly downward from the fifth degree providing the game with its time base. The Entered Apprentice must become initiated before the Vaseline reaches the first degree.
FILM VERSION:
The film version follows the Entered Apprentice as he climbs the spiral wall onto each level of the Guggenheim's rotunda. It is the linear narrative of The Order, re-edited from the feature CREMASTER 3.
MULTI-ANGLE NAVIGATION VERSION:
The multi-angle version is a sequence made up of five simultaneous video and audio tracks, each representing one of the five levels in the game. Using the 'angle' function of the DVD player, the viewer can switch from one degree of The Order to another as the game goes on, discovering images and music not included in the film version.
THE MUSIC:
Composer Jonathan Bepler has created a 5.1 surround score specific to The Order DVD. He has re-written, expanded and remixed material from the film, which includes such varied influences as Orchestral Score, Broadway Musical, Electronica, NY Hardcore and Industrial Percussion. The multi-angle version includes new music for each level. Also included are music-only tracks and 5.1 remixes of songs by Agnostic Front and Murphy's Law.
Level 1: The Order of the Rainbow for Girls
Level 2: Agnostic Front vs Murphy's Law
Level 3: Aimee Mullins
Level 4: Five Points of Fellowship
Level 5: Richard Serra Price: £17.62 Including VAT at 15%
Distributed Art Publishers, New York 2004
82 pages plus DVD Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1891024949
14 x 19 cm English text. Hardcover
Chronicalling a 30 year collaboration between acclaimed documentary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles and the internationally renowned environmental artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The Maysles Brothers have captured the artists’ enduring relationship and the grandeur of their large scale temporary works. The series of award-winning films stands as a permanent document of the process, the political drama, the emotional investment and the transforming effect the finnished works have on all those who come into contact with them. The films have been digitally remastered with new transfers supervised by Albert Maysles. Featuring Christo’s Valley Curtain in the Colerado Mountains and Running Fence. Islands documents the fight to surround eleven islands in Miami’s Biscayne Bay with 6.5 million square feet of bright pink fabric. Christo wrapping Pont Neuf in Paris, Umbrellas in a rice-farming valley in Japan are also included as well as a Dec 2003 interview with Christo, Jeanne-Claude and Albert Maysles. Price: £39.95
Plexifilm 2007
DVD Format: NTSC Region: 1
Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned designers about their work, the creative process, and the choices and aesthetics behind their use of type.
Interviewees in HELVETICA include some of the most illustrious and innovative names in the design world, including Erik Spiekermann, Matthew Carter, Massimo Vignelli, Wim Crouwel, Hermann Zapf, Neville Brody, Stefan Sagmeister, Michael Bierut, David Carson, Paula Scher, Jonathan Hoefler, Tobias Frere-Jones, Experimental Jetset, Michael C. Place, Norm, Alfred Hoffmann, Mike Parker, Bruno Steinert, Otmar Hoefer, Leslie Savan, Rick Poynor, Lars Müller, and many more.
"Like its seemingly neutral Swiss-born subject, the film says a great deal without raising its voice, lending wit and grace to an inquiry regarding the way a medium, a squiggle or the precise space between two letters affects a million different messages and a billion different eyeballs. The real achievement of the picture, though, is the way it sharpens your eye in general and makes connections between form and content, and between art and life. By rounding up a great group of eloquent obsessives eager to explain their feelings about a font, Hustwit has come up with 80 unexpectedly blissful minutes." - Chicago Tribune
"Funny to think that a font movie would have the potential to restore one's faith in art and its myriad meanings, but it does." - Minneapolis City Pages
"With beautiful cinematography, a kickass soundtrack, and one delightfully quotable interview after another, this little doc about a font is truly a work of art." - Austin Chronicle Price: £17.61 Including VAT at 15%
Centro Galego Arte Contemp., Santiago de Compostella 2004
24 pages ISBN 844533753X
21 x 21 cm English text. Hardcover
The population of Lars Arrhenius’s The Street, seem to display a civil obedience that permeates their very essence. Their behaviour appears to be dictated entirely by location and time of day, over-riding the pull of individualism or even the irrepressible force of fate. In the disco, they dance, in the hospital they give birth, at home they sit on the toilet, eat at the table, watch the television or have sex. Deviation is impossible. These endless urban cycles of depersonalised activity however can be seen as a celebration, a whimsical audio-visual choreography of post-war jubilant Paris, rather than a waste-land of vain activity set in a post-industrial world of purile existence. Price: £24.00
DVD ISBN 3883757527
Raymond Pettibon (born 1957, Tuscon, Arizona) is perhaps the most prominent contemporary American artist to concentrate on drawing as his primary medium. With this new dvd he moves into different territory, showing he is equally as confident working in the film and video arena.
These low-tech films were produced in Los Angeles in the summer of 2002 from scripts by the artist. In addition to performances by his friends, Raymond Pettibon himself participates as an actor.
Liz, Marlon and Dean 11:25 mins
On the Bed 24:12 mins
Double Sucy 16:08 mins
Snowman 4:53 mins Price: £21.05 Including VAT at 15%
Hatje Cantz 2003
DVD-video 80 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3775712674
17 x 23 English/German text. Hardcover
Buckle up for a bumpy ride down history lane! Welcome to the world's first unofficial chronicle of international sky-jacking. This pre-9/11 documentary will take you on an alternately frisky and subversive tour of terrorism: From the idealistic heyday of the romantic hijacker revolutionaries of the sixties and seventies to the state-sponsored, anonymous parcel bombs of the nineties. Blending archival footage with personal home movies, this film investigates the media politics within the "imagination of disaster". Inspired by Don DeLillo's novel Mao II, it is a riff on Delillo's motif, "Home is a failed idea". Director Johan Grimonprez unwraps our complicity in the urge for ultimate disaster, as the spectacle of international terrorism and the desire for extreme chaos invades our living rooms and threatens domestic bliss. New York composer David Shea provides the original soundtrack to this eccentric rollercaster ride through history.
dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, premiered at the Museum of Modern Art, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, was acclaimed as the most exceptional entry at the documenta X in Kassel. The film was awarded the Golden Spire at the San Francisco Film Festival and the Director's Choice at Images, Toronto.
Essays by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Johan Grimonprez, text by Slavoj Zizek and Vrääth Öhner Price: £24.95
200 pages Colour and B&W reproductions DVD-ROM. ISBN 0968469310
15 x 19 cm French text. Hardcover
Digital Snow is an application for exploring Michael Snow's work. Based on an excerpt from the 1974 film Rameau's Nephew by Diderot (thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen, the Table Sequence is used as a table of contents and incorporates the intuitive metaphor of the computer desktop in which the object IS the search criterion.
The search engine linked to the database contains 4685 entries on the artists' works. 60 video excerpts including So Is This, Wavelength and La Region Centrale, 30 reconstructions or presentations of installations including Two Sides to Every Story and an entire section dedicated to the Walking Woman works.
Minimum system requirements: MAC G4 400MHz OS9/OSX or PC PentiumIII 800MHz WIN2K Price: £57.50 Including VAT at 15%
DVD
the first edition on the onedotzero dvd label is now available. Features exclusive work from shynola, unit9, lynn fox and tim hope, and music from fc kahuna, plaid and prefuse 73 Price: £17.61 Including VAT at 15%
Video tape VHS PAL 30 minutes (approx.)
Informative interview with the artist, surveying her career to date, and addressing fundamental ideas in her works. Price: £11.73 Including VAT at 15%
Illuminations/The Eye 2003
Informative interview with the artist, surveying his career to date, and addressing fundamental ideas in his works. Price: £11.73 Including VAT at 15%
Gasbook 2002
DVD Video, 42 min, NTSC, Regional Code ALL
Beyond the boundary of a magazine, Berlin's bimonthly street culture magazine also releases video magazines and publications. Not only a collection of re-edited video works "super lo8", which were shot from 1996 to 2000, but also the interview and many graphic scenes are featured. Price: £28.88 Including VAT at 15%
DVD Video, 15 min, NTSC, Regional Code ALL
A group of 25 artists from NY and Japan, Barstormers present large scale collaborative paintings, motions and performances. Thirteen artists including Rostarr and Mike Ming participated in this DVD with David Ellis as leader. The live paintings were shot with a camera on the ceiling over a period of days. Witness the progress of how the paintings evolved and changed in this ingeniously edited video. Price: £28.88 Including VAT at 15%
Editions a Voir 2002 Price: £25.44 Including VAT at 15%
DVD Video, 62 min, NTSC, Regional Code ALL
Absorbing the Hip-Hop and Electro music movements in London, Hextatic attracted many people by synchronizing music and motions in front of a VJ, inventing the genre. This DVD features "Natural Rhythm", which was used in a campaign for Green Peace, sampling "Ninja Tune". Price: £28.88 Including VAT at 15%
DVD Video, 34 min, NTSC, Regional Code ALL
From a postage stamp to a large-scale exhibition and an installation design, Why Not Associates have worked across a wide range of projects. They are now dealing with publications, company IDs, and public arts. This DVD contains many of their important works, such as TV advertisements and the opening titles for Nike, BBC and TV stations, VP for "Tortoise". Price: £28.88 Including VAT at 15%
DVD Video, 21 min, NTSC, Regional Code ALL
Groovisions are graphic artists who also create motion graphics and art direct projects in sound, film and fashion. But for all their wide ranging activities, Groovvision began as video artists. This new DVD finds them pairing up with musician Yukihiro Fukutomi for a 20-minute tag team assault based on their previous video GRV0312.
Price: £28.88 Including VAT at 15%
