Istanbul Teremin Bulusmasi @ garajistanbul

Sanat, bilim ve dinin, ilkel toplumlarda ‘büyü/sihir’ pratiği içerisinde kaynaşmış olduğu ve uygarlık geliştikçe bu üç olgunun birbirlerinden ayrılıp kendilerine ait bağımsız alanlar oluşturduğu kabul edilir.
6 Haziran cuma gecesi garajistanbul’da gerçekleştirilecek ‘Geçmiş Gelecek - Istanbul Teremin buluşması’ ise bilim ile sanatı, sihirin çatısı altında yeniden biraraya getiriyor. İlk elektronik müzik aleti olarak kabul edilen Theremin’e [...]

Conversation by Lenka Clayton

“Conversation” is a fascinating short film on Current TV by Lenka Clayton and James Price about people’s first impressions when looking each other.
A two-screen installation that explores the hidden split-second judgements we form of other people. Filmed with the kind participation of 30 strangers over two days in Dalston, East [...]

American Hardcore

A great music documentary on this years Istanbul Film Festival is American Hardcore, which portraits the Hardcore Punk scene during 1980 and 1986 with interviews and concert footage. Although there’s a lot of criticism to the movie because it isolates the whole movement and doesn’t speak of the LA punk movement before 1980’s and [...]

VBS.TV

While youtube and its ilk give us lots of videos, we’re unfortunately subject to “amateur” content & crap humor most of the time. VBS.TV is the only alternative tv station that has gripped my attention long enough to come back another time. Probably because it’s by the Vice guys who have been providing us great [...]

Social Photography

Stunning social-portraits by a fellow turk, Erdal Kinaci

Corporation on Torrent

The award winning Canadian documentary ‘The Corporation’ has been released on TorrentFreak for free. Filmmaker Mark Achbar just released an updated “official” torrent of it.
One of THE BEST documentaries I’ve ever watched, If you’re into social sciences and want to understand the concept and the complex mechanization of corporations and advance beyond the [...]

Motown 40 - classic soul documentary


Originally
from Mr. Dante Fontana's Visual Guidance LTD

by mrdantefontana@gmail.com (Sebastian)


reBlogged

on Oct 17, 2006, 10:51PM

The Cockettes & Sun-Ra

Two great documentaries featured on Greylodge Pod. The Cockettes showcase the rise and fall of the flamboyant theatrical ensemble who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s. “They were the fist hip drag queens; insane hippie drag queens on and off the stage”. The second one is a documentary about the legendary [...]