Slingshot Hip Hop 

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

If you’re not a fan of hip hop, break dance, rap and so… don’t make a mistake by clickin’ the ‘next’ button, because this documentary that I’m gonna blog about today is more than just a cinematix document on a particular music genre… this is more movie on struggle then movie on boyz wearing basketball [...]

Christopher Doyle… photographer who changed cinematography

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

When it’s about Christopher Doyle’s photography, most of the time I’m speechless… I think, it’s better than to leave Doyle to speak for himself… with photographs and wordz… at least for tonight…
‘I have the most wonderful job in the world because I’m looking. Every day I notice the light on your face.’

Photo: Christopher Doyle (c)
‘I think [...]

Salim Baba – street cinema in Calcutta

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

Another analogue, but this time unconscious street VJ from India, my dear virtual travellers…
Documentary film Salim Baba directed by Tim Sternberg with cinematographer Francisco Bello is a small character study and almost an anthropological vignette lasting only for 15 minutes… but the film is a great unintentional comparison between the birth of cinema and today’s [...]

Belgians dancing Rumba…

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

After seeing ‘Rumba‘ at ZFF, my first thought was that this film would make Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin altogether… laughing, thinking, crying or even, Latino dancing.
Luis Bunuel would probably be jealous on the screenplay, Dziga Vertov ought to still their colours, Eugene Ionesco re-writing again and again his plays, while the [...]

The Red Race by Chao Gan

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

This year Zagreb Film Festival offers very interesting selection in the section for documentary films, so I was literary rooted on the chair of the cinema every day from 5pm to 8pm . Exceptions were made only when I decided to see also the feature films, which means that I just stayed sitting for the [...]

Ciao Anna!

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Um… I think, I’m stuck now… My fingers are dancing around the keyboard for how many minutes? 25 or 30… while trying to start writing… my wrists are almost red and totally furbished from heavy reclining at my table…
How to make a cool blog intro for such an actress as cool as Anna Magnani was?!

Magnani [...]

Lafoxe: yes, baby! analogue… cinematix… psychedelic…

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

One of the heaviest and nicest experiences I had lately in a way of moving me forward optically and artistically was live act ‘Performance for four 16 mm projectors’ by duo Lafoxe from France I saw at 25fps.
Real psychedelic journeys through the history of cinematography, showing at the same time how vulnerable celluloid film can [...]