LINKS :: James BENNING

James BENNING (born 1942; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA) = 67 yold in 2009

42 films (20 feature length) / 6 screenplays (1st film: 1971/latest film: 2009)
INSPIRED BY : Henry David Thoreau, Andy Warhol, Bill Traylor, Michael Snow, Hollis Frampton, George Landow, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Smithson?
C.C.C. films (strict model in red) : 13 Lakes; Ten skies; RR; Ruhr;
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Ruhr (2009) 120' IMDb -

• "Duisburg 09: ‘Ruhr’ radikal – James Benning" By: Michael Sennhauser (Sennhausers film blog; 3 Nov 2009) [GERMAN]
• "Der Fernseher als Aquarium: James Bennings Ruhr auf 3Sat" By: tfunke (Kein Blut, Rot!; 4 Nov 2009) [GERMAN]
• "Ruhr (James Benning, 2009)" By: miguel (punto de partida; 22 Nov 2009) [SPANISH]
  
• "Ruhr" By: Mark Peranson (Cinema Scope, #41, Winter 2010)
• "Long shots" By: Blake Williams (R and G and B, 19 June 2010)
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RR (2007) 112' IMDb -

• "RR location list" By: James Benning (New Filmkritik, 25 Feb 2008)
  
• "Berlinale 2008: 'RR' Benning (USA)" By: Daniel Kasman (The Auteurs, 22 Feb 2008) also at Unspoken Cinema
  
• "Trainspotting with James Benning" By: Mark Peranson (cinemascope, #34)
• "RR (2007)" By: Darren Hughes (Long Pauses, 9 Sept 2008)
  
• "RR" By: Leo Goldsmith (Not Coming to a Theatre Near You, 24 Sept 2008)
  
• "RR (Vancouver International Film Festival)" By: Jonathan Rosenbaum (JonathanRosenbaum.com, 3 Oct 2008) part 1 & 2
  
• "NYFF08: "RR" (Benning, USA)" By: David Phelps (TheAuteurs, 5 Nov 2008)
  
• "Train of Toughts of Basic Training" (La Lectora Provisoria)
  
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Casting a Glance (2007) 87' IMDb -

• "Park City Dispatch. 7" By: Brian Darr (GreenCine Daily, 26 Jan 2008)
• "Bomen klimmen met James Benning" By: Petra Kleyn (filmkrant, #296, Feb 2008) [DUTCH]
  
• "Casting a Glance" Roundtable with James Benning, Raymond Bellour, Cyril Neyrat, Antoine Thirion (Jeu de Paume, Paris; 24 Oct 2009) [FRENCH/ENGLISH] 21' + 1h47' video
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One Way Boogie Woogie/27 Years Later (2005) 120' IMDb -

• "Benning x 2 + 27" By: Dennis Harvey (San Fransisco Bay Guardian online, ?)
  
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Ten Skies (2004) 102' IMDb -

• "Lakes and Skies" By: Brian Darr (Hell on Frisco Bay, 12 Sept 2005)
  
• "Lost Landscapes, Found Paintings. Two new films by James Benning" By: Ian Haydn Smith (Vertigo UK, Autumn/winter 2005)
  
• "Ten Skies, 2004" By: acquarello (Strictly Film School, 26 Feb 2007)
  
• "James Benning’s 13 Lakes and Ten Skies, and the Culture of Distraction" By: Scott MacDonald (in "James Benning" ed. by Barbara Pilcher & Claudia Slanar; FilmmuseumSynema-Publikationen, vol. 6, Vienna, 2007)
  
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13 Lakes (2004) 133' IMDb -

• "Lakes and Skies" By: Brian Darr (Hell on Frisco Bay, 12 Sept 2005)
• "Lost Landscapes, Found Paintings. Two new films by James Benning" By: Ian Haydn Smith (Vertigo UK, Autumn/winter 2005)
• "13 Lakes, 2004" By: acquarello (Strictly Film School, 25 Feb 2007)
• "James Benning’s 13 Lakes, Landscapes, and a brief note on Mt.Mayon" By: Alexis Tioseco (Concentrated Nonsense, 6 Dec, 2007)
• "Nudging the Mind: James Benning's 13 Lakes" By: Andrew Chan (The House Next Door, 8 Jul 2007)
  
• "James Benning’s 13 LAKES and TEN SKIES, and the Culture of Distraction" By: Scott MacDonald (in "James Benning" ed. by Barbara Pilcher & Claudia Slanar; FilmmuseumSynema-Publikationen, vol. 6, Vienna, 2007)
  
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Sogobi (2001) 90' IMDb -

• "On Future Arrivals of Container Drivers. Five Brief Comments on One Image from James Benning’s ‘California Trilogy’, expanded" By: Nils Plath (in "James Benning" ed. by Barbara Pilcher & Claudia Slanar; FilmmuseumSynema-Publikationen, vol. 6, Vienna, 2007)
  
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Los (2000) 90' IMDb -

• "On Future Arrivals of Container Drivers. Five Brief Comments on One Image from James Benning’s ‘California Trilogy’, expanded" By: Nils Plath (in "James Benning" ed. by Barbara Pilcher & Claudia Slanar; FilmmuseumSynema-Publikationen, vol. 6, Vienna, 2007)
  
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El Valley Centro (2000) 90' IMDb -

• "On Future Arrivals of Container Drivers. Five Brief Comments on One Image from James Benning’s ‘California Trilogy’, expanded" By: Nils Plath (in "James Benning" ed. by Barbara Pilcher & Claudia Slanar; FilmmuseumSynema-Publikationen, vol. 6, Vienna, 2007)
  
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UTOPIA (1998) 91' IMDb -

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Four Corners (1997) 79' IMDb -

• "James Benning's Four corners" By: Jonathan Rosenbaum (Chicago Reader, 12 Dec 1997; Essential Cinema, 2004)
  
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Deseret (1995) 81' IMDb -

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North on Evers (1992) 87' IMDb -

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Used Innocence (1989) 94' IMDb -

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Landscape Suicide (1986) 93' IMDb -

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O Panama (1985) 28' short IMDb -

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American Dreams (lost and found) (1984) 55' IMDb -

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Him and Me (1982) 87' IMDb -

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Last Dance (1981) IMDb -

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Double Yodel (1980) IMDb -

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Oklahoma (1979) IMDb -

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Four Oil Wells (1978) IMDb -

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Grand Opera (1978) 84' IMDb -

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11 x 14 (1977) 80' IMDb -

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One Way Boogie Woogie (1977) 60' IMDb -

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A to B (1976) 2' short IMDb -

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Chicago Loop (1976) 9' short IMDb -

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3 Minutes on the Dangers of Film Recording (1975) 3' short IMDb -

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9-1-75 (1975) 22' short IMDb -

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An Erotic Film (1975) 11' short IMDb -

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Saturday Night (1975) 2' short IMDb -

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The United States of America (1975) 27' short IMDb -

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Gleem (1974) 2' short IMDb -

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8 1/2 X 11 (1974) 32' short IMDb -

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I-94 (1974) 3' short IMDb -

• "Vinyl is Podcast #9 : Dreamlands of the Night" By: Ryland Walker Knight and Brian Darr (Vinyl is Heavy, 18 Dec 2008) audio 43'
  
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57 (1973) 7' short IMDb -

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Honeyland Road (1973) 8' short IMDb -

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Michigan Avenue (1973) 6' short IMDb -

• "Vinyl is Podcast #9 : Dreamlands of the Night" By: Ryland Walker Knight and Brian Darr (Vinyl is Heavy, 18 Dec 2008) audio 43'
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Art Hist. 101 (1972) 17' short IMDb -

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Ode to Muzak (1972) 3' short IMDb -

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Time and a Half (1972) 17' short IMDb -

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Did You Ever Hear That Cricket Sound? (1971) 1' short IMDb -

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GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

• "James Benning (USA)" By: Jon Jost (Framework, #13, 1980)
• "James Benning: “Reeling in Utah: The Travel Log Trilogy”" By: Dick Hebdige (Afterall, #8, Autumn/Winter, 2003)
  
• "Taking Position. did you ever hear that cricket sound? (1971) to 3 minutes on the dangers of film recording (1975)" By: Claudia Slanar (in "James Benning" ed. by Barbara Pilcher & Claudia Slanar; FilmmuseumSynema-Publikationen, vol. 6, Vienna, 2007)
• "An Iconography of the Midwest. 8½ u 11 (1974) to Grand Opera (1979)" By: Barbara Pichler (in "James Benning" ed. by Barbara Pilcher & Claudia Slanar; FilmmuseumSynema-Publikationen, vol. 6, Vienna, 2007)
• "Milwaukee’s Finest" By: Sharon Lockhart (in "James Benning" ed. by Barbara Pilcher & Claudia Slanar; FilmmuseumSynema-Publikationen, vol. 6, Vienna, 2007)
• "Walking and Talking" By: Sadie Benning (in "James Benning" ed. by Barbara Pilcher & Claudia Slanar; FilmmuseumSynema-Publikationen, vol. 6, Vienna, 2007)
• "“I’ll sneak in the back door.” Installations in the Art World: 1978–1985" By: Claudia Slanar (in "James Benning" ed. by Barbara Pilcher & Claudia Slanar; FilmmuseumSynema-Publikationen, vol. 6, Vienna, 2007)
• "American Dreams, American Nightmares. Him and Me (1981) to Used Innocence (1988)" By: Barbara Pichler (in "James Benning" ed. by Barbara Pilcher & Claudia Slanar; FilmmuseumSynema-Publikationen, vol. 6, Vienna, 2007)
• "Using the Earth as a Map of Himself. The Personal Conceptualism of James Benning" By: Julie Ault (in "James Benning" ed. by Barbara Pilcher & Claudia Slanar; FilmmuseumSynema-Publikationen, vol. 6, Vienna, 2007)
• "Into the Great Wide Open. North on Evers (1991) to UTOPIA (1998)" By: Barbara Pichler (in "James Benning" ed. by Barbara Pilcher & Claudia Slanar; FilmmuseumSynema-Publikationen, vol. 6, Vienna, 2007)
• "Reeling in Utah: The Travel Log Trilogy" By: Dick Hebdige (in "James Benning" ed. by Barbara Pilcher & Claudia Slanar; FilmmuseumSynema-Publikationen, vol. 6, Vienna, 2007)
• "Looking and Listening" By: Amanda Yates (in "James Benning" ed. by Barbara Pilcher & Claudia Slanar; FilmmuseumSynema-Publikationen, vol. 6, Vienna, 2007)
• "Landscape, History and Romantic Allusions. El Valley Centro (1999) to RR (2007)" By: Claudia Slanar (in "James Benning" ed. by Barbara Pilcher & Claudia Slanar; FilmmuseumSynema-Publikationen, vol. 6, Vienna, 2007)
• "Encyclopedia Americana. James Benning: Times, Places, Perceptions" By: Volker Pantenburg (in "James Benning" ed. by Barbara Pilcher & Claudia Slanar; FilmmuseumSynema-Publikationen, vol. 6, Vienna, 2007)
• "James Benning, musician" By: Michael Pisaro (in "James Benning" ed. by Barbara Pilcher & Claudia Slanar; FilmmuseumSynema-Publikationen, vol. 6, Vienna, 2007)
• "RR JB" By: Allan Sekula (in "James Benning" ed. by Barbara Pilcher & Claudia Slanar; FilmmuseumSynema-Publikationen, vol. 6, Vienna, 2007) / Translated in French (Vertigo FR, #36, Sept 2009) [FRENCH]
• "James Benning : bienvenue dans la wilderness" By: Antoine Thirion (Cahiers du cinéma, #644, Apr 2009) [FRENCH]
  
• "The James Benning Experience" By: Stephane Audeguy (Vertigo FR, #36, Sept 2009) [FRENCH]
  
• "Beginning Benning. Voyage à Benning (with robert Smithson on my Mind)" By: Carlos Muguiro (Vertigo FR, #36, Sept 2009) [FRENCH]
  
• "L'étendue qui dure" By: Yannick Haenel (Vertigo FR, #36, Sept 2009) [FRENCH]
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BOOK on James BENNING

• "James Benning : American Filmmaker" edited by Barbara Pilcher & Claudia Slanar (FilmmuseumSynema-Publikationen, vol. 6, Vienna, Nov 2007) 263 p. [GERMAN] table of content PDF
  
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GENERAL ONLINE ARTICLES

• "Talking About Seeing: A Conversation with James Benning" By: Danni Zuvela (Senses of cinema, #33, 2004)
  
• "Water. Sky. Film." By: J. Hoberman (The Village Voice, 5 Jun 2007)
  
• "James Benning: American Filmmaker" (Film Museum, Vienna, 30 Nov 2007) [GERMAN]
  
• "James Benning: When Film Has Shown Almost Everything" By: Nil Baskar (18th LIFFe, Ljubljana International Film Festival, Nov 2007)
  
• "Things to like about looking" By: David Bordwell (Observations on film art, 5 Dec 2007)
  
• "James Benning. edited by Barbara Pichler and Claudia Slanar" book review By: Vera Brunner-Sung (Senses of cinema, #47, 2008)
  
• "Las múltiples facetas de James Benning" By: Cynthia Sabat (Había una vez una chica; 2 Apr 2009)
• "James Benning" By: Careful (Inland Ravioli, 24 Sept 2009)
  
• "James Benning Retrospective. 20 Octobre 2009 - 10 Janvier 2010" Gallerie du Jeu de Paume; 38e Festival d'Automne à Paris; Independencia PDF
  
• "De James Bolex à H.D. Benning. intervention #4" By: Antoine Thirion (Independencia, Feb 2010)
• "Crossing paths: James Benning" By: Jon Jost (Jon Jost's Weblog, 5 March 2011) 
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INTERVIEW

• "Lost Landscapes, Found Paintings. Two new films by James Benning" By: Ian Haydn Smith (Vertigo UK, Autumn/winter 2005)
• "Testing your patience" By: Scott MacDonalds (Artforum, Sept 2007)
  
• "James Benning’s 13 Lakes, Landscapes, and a brief note on Mt.Mayon" By: Alexis Tioseco (Concentrated Nonsense, 6 Dec, 2007)
• "Trainspotting with James Benning" By: Mark Peranson (cinemascope, #34)
  
• "James Benning in Pampelona 2009" By: Independencia (Feb 2009) video 3'28" (vimeo)
  
• "Mirar y Escuchar" By: Manuel Yanez Murillo (Cahiers du cinéma España, April 2009) [SPANISH]
  
• "Outsider. Entretien avec James Benning" By: Cyril Neyrat, Antoine Thirion (Vertigo Fr, #36, Sept 2009) [FRENCH] part 1 & 2 (at Independencia) [SPANISH]
  
• "Casting a Glance" Roundtable with James Benning, Raymond Bellour, Cyril Neyrat, Antoine Thirion (Jeu de Paume, Paris; 24 Oct 2009) [FRENCH/ENGLISH] 21' + 1h47' video
• "Darkest Americana & Elsewhere: Ruhr: A Few Questions For James Benning" By: Michael Guillen (Twitchfilm, 2 March 2010)
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TEXT BY James BENNING

• "James Benning on Place" By: James Benning (Framework, #13, 1980)
  
• "Off Screen Space/Somewhere Else" By: James Benning (in "James Benning" ed. by Barbara Pilcher & Claudia Slanar; FilmmuseumSynema-Publikationen, vol. 6, Vienna, 2007)
  
• "Life in Benning" By: James Benning (Frieze, #111, Nov-Dec 2007) also at Invisible Cinema ; Translated in Dutch (filmkrant, #304, Nov 2008) [DUTCH]
  
• "Life is finite" By: James Benning (Warhol exhibition, Waxxner Center, Colombus, Ohio, Aug 2008); republished in French (Vertigo FR, #36, Sept 2009)
  
• "Knit & Purl" By: James Benning (Cinema Scope, #40, Fall 2009)
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WEBSITES

• IMDb
  
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DOCUMENTARY ON James BENNING

• James Benning: Circling the Image (2003/Reinhard Wulf/Germany), produced by WDR – Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Germany. IMDb
  
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Sushi-conveyor filmmaking

Lost in a moment | Shrift (1998/Dennis Wheatley/Stefan McClean) 4'56"

"one take impromptu film made in Tokyo by Dennis Wheatley and Stefan McClean.
We were sitting in this sushi bar pondering how best to set up a camera to film things all by itself whilst we were in Tokyo.
Take our hands out of the equation... let the camera have its own journey.
I'd taken a cannibalised record turntable with me from the UK with the idea of filming slow panoramas but it was painfully bumpy and stopped every minute.
Then we had our eureka moment and filmed this.
A few years later I was working on a piece of music and married the two together.
The music is all about that feeling when you're half asleep in the sun.. the ambiance of foreign voices becomes a lullaby to dream away.
There's something beautiful in not understanding a language.. it becomes abstract, musical.
Opera is so much better when you can't understand the words!
What we loved about watching this film back was the space that the camera was able to enter.. extremely personal and scrutinising but not too lingering."
dennis

The music is 'lost in a moment' by 'shrift' from the album of the same name.

Related 回転寿司 (Kaiten sushi):

• Sushi-conveyor filmmaking playlist on YouTube 

LINKS :: Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL

Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL (born 16 July 1970; Bangkok, Thailand) = 39 yold in 2009

5 (feature) films / 4 screenplays (1st film: 1993/latest film: 2009)
INSPIRED BY : ?
C.C.C. films (strict model in red) : White Malady?; Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives; A Letter to Uncle Boonmee; Mobile Men; Luminous People; Emerald; The Anthem; Syndromes and a Century; Worldly Desires; Tropical Malady; Blissfully Yours; Mysterious Object at Noon; Thirdworld; Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves
INFLUENCE ON : ?

Quick scroll : BIBLIOGRAPHY | BOOK | ONLINE ARTICLES | INTERVIEW | WEBSITES | DOCUMENTARY

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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) 113' part of the installation The Primitive IMDb - Cannes 2010

• Press kit [PDF] | Wikipedia
• Press conference in Cannes [41' video], [MP3]; interview [12' video]
• "Hors d'œuvre" By: Antoine Thirion (Independencia, 13 May 2010) [ENGLISH] [FRENCH]
• "Lo absoluto" by Fernando Ganzo (eLumière.net, May 2010) [SPANISH] [FRENCH]
• "La nuit est rouge" by Antoine Thirion (Independencia, 23 May 2010) [FRENCH]
• "Klassenkampf: Apichatpong Weerasethakul im Gespräch" interview by Alexander Horwath (Cargo, 25 May 2010) MP3 22' [ENGLISH]
• "Ne plus rien reconnaître" by Stéphane Delorme (Cahiers, n°657, Juin 2010) [FRENCH]
• "une conversation avec apichatpong weerasethakul et wallapa mongkolprasert (4 juin 2010)" avec : Christelle Lheureux, Aliosha Herrera, Cyril Neyrat, Raya Martin, Eugenio Renzi et Antoine Thirion (Independencia; été 2010) [THAI] [ENGLISH] [FRENCH] videos 1 (13') - 2 (17') - entracte (4'39") - 3 (11')
• "Uncle Boonmee who can recall his past lives" By: Mariska Graveland (Filmkrant, #325, Oct 2010) [DUTCH]
• "El cielo está sobrevalorado" By: Laura Menédez (Transit, #6; Sept-Oct 2010) [SPANISH]
• "Extraordinary Joe" By: Adrian Martin (Sight and Sound, Dec 2010) 
• "Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" by: Miguel Blanco, Francisco Algarín Navarro, Fernando Ganzo, Miguel García Moisés Granda (Lumière nº4, Nov 2010) video 10'50" [SPANISH] [ENGLISH] 
• "On ne se baigne jamais deux fois dans le même fleuve" by: Mathieu Dupré, Thomas Fioretti, Arthur Mas, Martial Pisani, Antoine Thirion (Independencia, fév 2011) [FRENCH] 

A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (2009) 17'40" short from installation The Primitive IMDb -

• Kick The Machine (official website)
  
• Animate Projects (official website)
  
• "Crónica 3 : La verda es simple" By: Miguel García (elumiere.net, Jul 2009) [SPANISH] [FRENCH]
  
• "Phantoms of Nabua / A Letter to Uncle Boonmee" By: Ed Howard (Only the cinema, 25 May 2010)
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Phantoms of Nabua (2009) 10'40" short from installation The Primitive -

• Kick The Machine (official website)
• Animate Projects (official website)
  
• Phantoms of Nabua (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand / Germany) By: Michael Sicinski (Academic Hack, Feb 2009)
  
• "Phantoms of Nabua" By: Michael Sicinski (Cargo, 2009) [GERMAN]
  
• Phantoms of Nabua By: CN, AT, ER (Independencia, Jul 2009)
  
• "Crónica 3 : La verda es simple" By: Miguel García (elumiere.net, Jul 2009) [SPANISH] [FRENCH]
• "Phantoms of Nabua / A Letter to Uncle Boonmee" By: Ed Howard (Only the cinema, 25 May 2010)
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Mobile Men (2008) 3'15" segment in Stories on Human Rights IMDb -

• Kick The Machine (Official website)
  
• "Beyond The Frame: Mobile Men" By: Rob Dennis (Vertigo UK, Vol.4 No.3, Spring/Summer 2009)
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Sud Vikal / Vampire (2008) 19' Short Louis Vuitton -

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Unknown Forces (2007) Installation

• Kick The Machine (official website)
  
• "Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Gallery at RedCat. CalArts, Apr 18-Jun 17" By: Matthew Wilder (Artforum; 2007)
  
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Luminous People (2007) 15'22" segment in O Estado do Mundo IMDb - Cannes 2007

• Kick The Machine (official website)
  
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Morakot / Emerald (2007) 11'50" short -

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The Anthem (2006) 5' Short - Frieze Art Fair 2006

• Kick The Machine (official website)
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Sang sattawat / Syndromes and a Century (2006) IMDb - Venice 2006

• Kick The Machine (official website)
• "Syndromes and a century" By: Leo Goldsmith (Not coming to a theatre near you, 27 Sept 2006)
  
• "(Non)Sense Memory" By: J. Hoberman (The Village Voice, 10 April 2007)
  
• "Inside the Beauty of Romance, a Sometimes Mysterious and Illogical Affair" By: A.O.Scott (NYT, 18 Apr 2007)
  
• "Syndromes and a century" By: Daniel Kasman (d+kaz, 18 Apr 2007)
  
• "“New Crowned Hope” films from Asia: Strengths and weaknesses" By: Richard Phillips (WSWS, 10 July 2007)
  
• "Syndromes and A Century. Cinema of Impermanence" By: Kong Rithdee (Criticine, 9 Aug 2007) from the New Crowned Hope catalogue
  
• "Operas for the 21st Century: Mozart’s New Crowned Hope" By: Christoph Huber (cinemascope, #28, 2007?)
  
• "Syndromes and a century" By: J.J. Murphy (j.j. murphy on independent cinema, 6 Oct 2007)
  
• Links By: David Hudson (GreenCine Daily, 11 Apr 2007)
  
• "Syndromes and a century" By: Gareth (gareth's movie diary, 21 Apr 2008)
  
• "Syndromes and a century" By: Nicolas Bouche (Etudes, Jun 2007) [FRENCH]
• "Syndromes and a century" By: Jean Baptiste Morain (Les Inrockuptibles, #602, 12 Jun 2007) [FRENCH]
• "Le charme opère" By: Louis Guichard (Télérama, #2996, 13 Jun 2007) [FRENCH]
• "Souvenirs et médecines douces" By: Jacques Mandelbaum (Le Monde, 13 Jun 2007) [FRENCH]
• "In Loving Memory" By: Tony Rayns (Signt&Sound, Oct 2007)
  
• "Stranger Than Fiction?" By: Keith Griffiths (Filmmaker blog, 12 Mar 2008)
  
• "Syndromes and a century: Thailand's edition or when 'Babette's Feast' meets 'Salo'" By: celinejulie (Limitless Cinema, 14 Apr 2008)
  
• "Dialogue vs. Duplicity: Notes on Syndromes and a Century and I Don't Want To Sleep Alone" By: Ryland Walker Knight (The House Next Door, 18 Jul 2009)
  
• "Syndromes and a Century" By: James Quandt (in Apichatpong Weerasethakul, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen; Vol. 12; Vienna; April 2009)
  
• "Texte zu Weerasethakul. Eine Sammlung" A collection of texts by Weerasethakul By: Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Cargo, ?) [GERMAN]
  
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Ghost of Asia (2005) 9' Short with Christelle Lheureux IMDb -

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Worldly Desires / Memories to the Jungle 2001-2005 (2005) 42' Short with Pimpaka Towira IMDb -

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Sud pralad / Tropical Malady (2004) IMDb -

• Kick The Machine (official website)
• "Ivres de la jungle" By: Dider Péron (Libération, 19 May 2004) [FRENCH]
• "Course mythologique à travers la jungle à la poursuite d'un homme tigre" By: Jean-François Rauger (Le Monde, 20 May 2004) [FRENCH]
• "Traque chamanique dans la jungle du désir" By: Jacques Mandelbaum (Le Monde, 24 Nov 2004) [FRENCH]
• "La magie opère" By: Louis Guichard (Télérama, #2863, 24 Nov 2004) [FRENCH]
• "Moins on est de fous, mieux on filme" By: Annick Peigné-Giuly (Libération, 25 Apr 2005) [FRENCH]
  
• "Tropical drive, Mulholland Malady" By: Hervé Aubron (Vertigo FR, #27, Mar 2005) [FRENCH]
  
• "Un trou dans le mur" By: Charles de Meaux & Cyril Neyrat (Vertigo FR, #27, Mar 2005) [FRENCH]
• "Tropical Malady" By: James Quandt (in Apichatpong Weerasethakul, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen; Vol. 12; Vienna; April 2009)
  
• "The Strange Story of a Strange Beast. Receptions in Thailand of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Sat Pralaat" By: Benedict Anderson (in Apichatpong Weerasethakul, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen; Vol. 12; Vienna; April 2009)
  
• "Texte zu Weerasethakul. Eine Sammlung" A collection of texts by Weerasethakul By: Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Cargo, ?) [GERMAN]
• "The Rupture. A Thai interpreter of Malady explains his split decisions" By: Chuck Stephens (The Village Voice, 21 Jun 2005)
  
• "For those who have seen Tropical Malady" By: Brian Darr (Hell On Frisco Bay, 8 Apr 2007)
  
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46664 / Give 1 Minute of Your Time To AIDS (2003) 1' Short -

• Kick The Machine (official website)
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Hua jai tor ra nong / The Adventures of Iron Pussy (2003) IMDb -

• Kick The Machine (official website)
• "The Adventure of Iron Pussy and other collaborations" By: James Quandt (in Apichatpong Weerasethakul, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen; Vol. 12; Vienna; April 2009)
  
• "Texte zu Weerasethakul. Eine Sammlung" A collection of texts by Weerasethakul By: Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Cargo, ?) [GERMAN]
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Second Love in Hong Kong (2002) Installation with Christelle Lheureux

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Sud sanaeha / Blissfully Yours (2002) IMDb -

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• "Extase thaï" By: Philippe Azoury (Libération, 17 May 2002) [FRENCH]
  
• "Un moment de bonheur arraché à la jungle" By: Thomas Sotinel (Le Monde, 18 May 2002) [FRENCH]
  
• "Apichatpong Weerasethakul, l'endémoniste" By: Brice Pedroletti (Le Monde, 18 May 2002) [FRENCH]
• "Septième ciel" By: Amélie Dubois (Les Inrocks, 9 Oct 2002) [FRENCH]
  
• "Blissfully Yours" By: Louis Guichard (Télérama, #2752, 9 Oct 2002) [FRENCH]
  
• "Sensuellement hypnotique" By: Annie Coperman (Les Echos, 10 Oct 2002) [FRENCH]
• "Si singulier 'Blissfully Yours'" By: Didier Péron (Libération, 19 Oct 2002) [FRENCH]
• "Love in the Afternoon" By: J. Hoberman (The Village Voice, 1 Jun 2004)
  
• "A Sewer Rash, a River in Eden and a Stream of Tears" By: Manohla Dargis (NYT, 24 Sept 2004)
  
• "Une maison dans les bois" By: Catherine Ermakoff (Vertigo FR; #31; 2007) [FRENCH]
  
• "FOCUS: Blissfully Yours. Towards the Wondrous Void" By: Tony Rayns (Vertigo magazine UK, Vol. 3 No. 4, Winter 2007) PDF
  
• "Blissfully Yours" By: James Quandt (in Apichatpong Weerasethakul, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen; Vol. 12; Vienna; April 2009)
  
• "Texte zu Weerasethakul. Eine Sammlung" A collection of texts by Weerasethakul By: Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Cargo, ?) [GERMAN]
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Haunted Houses Project Thailand (2001) 60' -

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Masumi Is a PC Operator (2001) 6' Short from installation Narratives IMDb -

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Dokfa nai meuman / Mysterious Object at Noon (2000) IMDb -

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• "Un jeu d'enfant" By: Cyril Neyrat (Vertigo FR, #27, Mar 2005) [FRENCH]
  
• "Mysterious Object at Noon" By: James Quandt (in Apichatpong Weerasethakul, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen; Vol. 12; Vienna; April 2009)
  
• "Texte zu Weerasethakul. Eine Sammlung" A collection of texts by Weerasethakul By: Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Cargo, ?) [GERMAN]
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Boys at Noon (2000) 23' Short IMDb -

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Malee and the Boy (1999) 25' Short IMDb -

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Windows (1999) 17' Short -

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Goh Gayasit / Thirdworld (1997) 17' Short IMDb -

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Mae Ya Nang / Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves (1994) 22'37" Short IMDb -

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GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

• "Les surprises du cinéma thaï" By: Seno Joko Suyone, Arif Firmansayah, Akmal Nasery Basral (Courrier International, #720, 19 Aug 2004) [FRENCH]
  
• "Sur les traces de Tropical Malady" By: Jean-Marc Lalanne (Les Inrockuptibles, 24 Nov 2004) dossier 8p. [FRENCH]
  
• "Un trou dans le mur. Entretien avec Charles de Meaux" By: Cyril Neyrat (Vertigo FR, #24, 5 Dec 2004) PDF
  
• "Tropical drive, Mulholland Malady" By: Hervé Aubron (Vertigo FR, #27, Mar 2005) [FRENCH]
  
• "Un coup dans la machine. Apichatpong Weerasethakul" By:Antoine Thirion (Vertigo Fr, #30, Apr 2007) [FRENCH]
  
• "Two Letters" By: Mark Cousins & Tilda Swinton (in Apichatpong Weerasethakul, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen; Vol. 12; Vienna April 2009)
  
• "Resistant to Bliss: Describing Apichatpong" By: James Quandt (in Apichatpong Weerasethakul, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen; Vol. 12; Vienna; April 2009)
  
• "Cinema of Reincarnations" By: Kong Rithdee (in Apichatpong Weerasethakul, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen; Vol. 12; Vienna; April 2009)
  
• "Touching the Voidness. Films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul" By: Tony Rayns (in Apichatpong Weerasethakul, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen; Vol. 12; Vienna; April 2009)
  
• "A Man Who Can Recall His Past Lives. Installations by Apichatpong Weerasethakul" By: Karen Newman (in Apichatpong Weerasethakul, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen; Vol. 12; Vienna; April 2009)
  
• "AUTEUR, AUTEUR: After Tropical Malady" By: Graeme Hobbs (vertigo UK, Vol.4 No.3, Spring-Summer 2009)
  
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BOOK on Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL

• "Apichatpong Weerasethakul" By: James Quandt (FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen; Vol. 12; Vienna April 2009; 256 p.) Table of content PDF - Wallflower Press / review in Undercurrent April 2010 / review in Cineaste Spring 2011 
  
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GENERAL ONLINE ARTICLES

• "Mysterious Objects: On the early works of Apichatpong" By: Suparp Rimtheparthip (Criticine, 24 Oct 2006) on early work
  
• "Ghost World" By: Bert Rebhand (Frieze, #103, Nov-Dec 2006)
  
• "Blissfully His" By: Nathan Lee (The Village Voice; 1 Jan 2008)
  
• "To Munich and back with Apichatpong Weerasethakul…" By: Karen Newman (the FACTblog, 23 Feb 2009) on The Primitives installation
  
• "Exquisite Corpus" By: Mark Peranson (Moving Image Source, 30 Apr 2009)
  
• "Puzzling Polymath" By: Dennis Lim (Artforum, 12 Jun 2009)
  
• "Apichatpong Weerasethakul connections" By: Brian Darr (Hell On Frisco Bay, 5 July 2009)
  
• "Sound & Vision" By: Apichatpong Weerasethakul & Yang Fudong (Film comment, Sept 2009)
  
• "Apichatpong et la Thaïlande" By: Aliosha Herrera (Independencia, 23 May 2010) 
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INTERVIEW

• "Et pourtant, ils tournent" By: Louis Guichard (Télérama, #2733, 29 May 2002) [FRENCH] on Blissfully Yours
• "La simplicité est la clé de tout" By: Philippe Azoury (Libération, 19 Oct 2002) [FRENCH] on Blissfully Yours
• "Weerasethakul et la maladie d'amour" (Figaro, 18 May 2004) [FRENCH] on Tropical Malady
• "Une film se ressent avec le corps tout entier" By: Samuel Douhaire (Libération, 20 May 2004) [FRENCH] on Tropical Malady
• "Weerasethakul et Gatlif : Deux dissidences" By: Philippe Piazo (Cinéma, 8 Sept 2004) [FRENCH] on Tropical Malady
  
• "Not an ordinary Joe: Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Tropical Malady" By: Alissa Simon (Facets, ?) on Tropical Malady
  
• "Blissfully Ours: A Talk With Apichatpong Weerasethakul" By: Jonathan Marlow (GreenCine, 14 Feb 2005)
  
• "Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye. A Conversation with Apichatpong Weerasethakul" By: Michael Koresky (reverse shot online, summer 2005)
  
• "A Conversation with Apichatpong Weerasethakul" By: Thunska Pansittivorakul (criticine, 30 Apr 2006)
  
• "Five Questions for . . . Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul" By: Nathan Lee (The Village Voice, 10 Apr 2007)
  
• "Thai Cinema—The Evening Class Interview With Apichatpong Weerasethakul" By: Michael Guillen (The Evening Class, 13 Apr 2007)
  
• "Why and for whom do you film today?" By: Alexis A. Tioseco (Criticine, 23 Aug 2007)
  
• "Who can save my flying saucer?" By: Phil Hoad (The Guardian, 14 Sept 2007) on Syndromes and a century
  
• "Change the World: An Interview with Apichatpong Weerasethakul" By: S. Mickey Lin and Genevieve Yue (Reverse Shot, #20, ?)
  
• "Apichatpong Weerasethakul: interview" (Time Out London, ?)
  
• "Interview with Apichatpong Weerasethakul on 'Mobile Men'" (Art of The World, 16 Jan 2009) on Mobile Men
  
• "Exquisite Corpus. An Interview with Apichatpong Weerasethakul" By: James Quandt (in Apichatpong Weerasethakul, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen; Vol. 12; Vienna; April 2009)
  
• "Integration, not distinction. Weerasethakul im Gespräch" By: Maximilian Linz (Überbau, 5 Apr 2009) on Syndromes and a century
  
• "ArtCinema - Apichatpong Weerasethakul im Gespräch" (Cargo, 31 Mar 2009) [ENGLISH] [GERMAN] 7 parts video 28'48"
• "Primitive (o el intersticio)", By: Francisco Algarín Navarro & Fernando Ganzo, (Lumière nº3, 2010) [SPANISH]
• "Nuestro siglo: Apichatpong Weerasethakul" By: Francisco Algarín Navarro (Lumière n°3, 2010) [SPANISH]
• "Hors d'œuvre" By: Antoine Thirion (Independencia, 13 May 2010) [ENGLISH] [FRENCH] on Uncle Boonmee
• "Klassenkampf: Apichatpong Weerasethakul im Gespräch" interview by Alexander Horwath (Cargo, 25 May 2010) MP3 22' [ENGLISH] on Uncle Boonmee
• "Différentes réalités" By: Stéphane Delorme & Jean-Philippe Tessé, Cannes 13 mai 2010 (Cahiers, n°657, Juin 2010) [FRENCH]
• "une conversation en six parties avec apichatpong weerasethakul et wallapa mongkolprasert (4 juin 2010)" avec : Christelle Lheureux, Aliosha Herrera, Cyril Neyrat, Raya Martin, Eugenio Renzi et Antoine Thirion (Independencia; été 2010) [THAI] [ENGLISH] [FRENCH] videos 1 (13') - 2 (17') - 3 (11') - 4 (?) - 5 (?)
• "Joe over Uncle Boonmee..." By: Ronald Rovers (Filmkrant, #325, Oct 2010) [DUTCH]
• "Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Meet the YouTube Play Jury" (YouTube Play biennale at Guggenheim, 20 Oct 2010) 
• "Masterclass Apichatpong Weerasethakul" (FC4+1; 12 Nov 2010) [ENGLISH] [SPANISH] video (2h32') 1-2
• "Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" by: Miguel Blanco, Francisco Algarín Navarro, Fernando Ganzo, Miguel García Moisés Granda (Lumière nº4, 23 Nov 2010) video 10'50" [SPANISH] [ENGLISH] 
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TEXT BY Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL

• "Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Syndromes and a century. Carnet d'un cinéaste" (Cahiers du cinéma, #618, ?) [FRENCH]
  
• "Ghosts in the Darkness" By: Apichatpong Weerasethakul (in Apichatpong Weerasethakul, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen; Vol. 12; Vienna; April 2009)
  
• "Texte zu Weerasethakul. Eine Sammlung" A collection of texts by Weerasethakul (Cargo, ?) [GERMAN] on Mysterious Object At Noon, Blissfully Yours, The Adventure of the Iron Pussy, Tropical Malady, Syndromes and a century
  
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WEBSITES

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DOCUMENTARY ON Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL

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Werckmeister Harmonies

Pick up the ordinary film that chronicles the rise of fascism prior to the second world war and you know what to expect – a nation penalized for the first war, a corporal in resentment, his becoming a key figure, formation of ideology, those mesmerizing speeches, rise to power and finally, the ruthless extermination of humans. Well, you know the routine. Rare is the case that such a film is historically inaccurate or morally flawed, but what is troubling is that a single person is made the focal point of such monumental passages of history – as if satisfying our need for a villain as we do for a hero. Not that I am in defense of any such individual, but how on earth can a single person independently cause the galvanization of a whole nation? However convincing his words and however significant his moves are, it is finally the mass and the intentions that run through it that make it possible. From what can be seen as an adversarial position, Béla Tarr’s Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) chillingly exposes the other side of the loudspeaker – a film that is to the ordinary documentary what Goodfellas (1990) is to The Godfather (1972).

Like most films by Tarr and similar directors, Werckmeister Harmonies does not rely heavily on its plot. Based on a book, The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies plays out in an unnamed town in an unnamed country in an unspecified year (though images indicate a year in the eighties). The whole town seems to be in a state of total fear and insecurity after the arrival of a certain circus whose performers include a dead white whale and a man called The Prince. Unrest ensues as the town mailman János Valuska (Lars Rudolph) witnesses the place fall apart, unable to do anything about it. János is the epitome of curiosity and learning about nature and creation for him seems to bring abundant joy. He often attends to György Eszter (Peter Fitz), a music theorist whose interest lies in exposing mistakes of the past. At this terrible time, Tünde Eszter (Hanna Schygulla) – the Satan figure of the story – tells Valuska that she would restore “order and cleanliness” within the town if only he gets her ex-husband, the theorist, to gather a few important signatures. But “order” too, seems to be a subjective term.

Werckmeister Harmonies does form an interesting companion to Tarr’s magnum opus Sátántangó (1994) in some ways. While Sátántangó is about the disintegration of a collective will due to fear, passivity and plain ignorance, Werckmeister Harmonies is about the formation of one because of the same factors. The characters, too, seem to repeat themselves across the films. The working class in Werckmeister Harmonies (the foreign workers) succumbs supposedly to the speeches of The Prince owing to its ignorance and social condition whereas, in Sátántangó, the same group (farmers) buckles under the conflict between personal and collective will and, simply, the inability to adhere to an objective. The inebriate doctor – the only sign of intelligence in Sátántangó – is not much different from the music theorist here. Tarr teases us with questions about the role of intellectuals in revolution in both films. Both the doctor and the music theorist, perhaps disillusioned by the state of the affairs, force themselves to become apolitical and into a personal shell out of which they come out only in order to maintain it so (The doctor leaves the house to get his quota of booze whereas the theorist, to avoid the return of his wife to his house). And the only “sane” person – Futaki in Sátántangó and János here- who sees the misfortune coming is completely helpless and battered about by the mindless workers and the spineless intelligentsia.

The element that seems to be a new addition in Werckmeister harmonies is the tangible presence of a middle class. Leftist filmmakers have maintained that the prime reason for the rise of fascism is the complacent nature of the bourgeoisie and the political and social passivity that it seems glad to wallow in. Here too, the bourgeois seems unwilling to give up that position. They are never seen outdoors in the film, they are contented with having sex and delivering monologues about the state of the world. Neither are they desperate and active enough to be The Prince’s followers nor do they seem capable of pursuing higher interests. The doctor notes about the farmers in Sátántangó: “They haven’t a clue that it is this idle passivity that leaves them at the mercy of what they fear most”. But here, it seems like it is the middle class that is too short-sighted to see the doom heading towards them and hence too happy maintain status quo.

In the film, The Prince apparently quotes that people who are afraid do not understand. Tarr too seems to be concerned with the notion of fear, ignorance and violence being stimulants of fascism and presents them as the three sides of a triangle with each one perpetuating the others. Being the Wong Kar Wai of monochrome, Tarr employs black and white colours extensively and in an expressionistic fashion to juggle with the ideas of ignorance and knowledge, fear and courage and war and peace. János’ shuttling between his desire to learn and the inertia imposed upon him by the townsfolk culminates in his witnessing of the inevitable streak of violence. In what may be one of the most effective and chilling depiction of violence in cinema, we see the rabid folks enter a hospital and put down its inhabitants. There is complete detachment by the camera which continues to track away as ever to leave a lump in your throat. It’s a sequence that is so stunningly choreographed that it almost deserves to be called beautiful despite its nature.

In his superb article on the ontological entities of the filmic medium, Mani Kaul reflects upon the Deleuzian theory of time and movement in cinema. Watching Tarr’s later films, now, seems like a practical demonstration of the theory. It is a unanimous opinion that it is Tarr’s shot composition – seemingly endless, rich in detail and “atmospheric” – that captures the attention of the viewer first. Where other films subordinate time to the action and space under consideration, Tarr’s sequences have time as the primary axis on which movements are choreographed. Instead of questions like ‘What will he do next?’, we are forced to ask questions like ‘When will this motion end?’. What this does in essence is to make each second of the sequence precious and the audience conscious of the same. And why this seems to work exceedingly well in films like Werckmeister Harmonies is because it provides that sense of impending doom – of the inevitability of a massacre – throughout the film.

Tarr presents us an utterly bleak world where death seems to be the only destination for all its inhabitants. He creates a colourless land that is flat, barren and infinite – an isolated world where almost no two social classes are seen in the same frame, except János himself who seems to percolate everywhere. In my favorite of the 39 shots in the film, János and the theorist walk without speaking a single word for a long time. Tarr, unusually, frames them both, in profile, in the same frame such that they seem stationery with the world moving behind them – choking them into the frame and sealing the fate of their journey. The world in Werckmeister Harmonies is devoid of any notions of Faith and Karma. It’s a Godless universe like Tarr’s own (as the director has claimed in interviews). But perhaps there is God here, but not one that goes by the conventions. Towards the end, when János tries to flee the town, an enigmatic black helicopter – a possible nod, along with the army tank in the town, to the Spider God of Through a Glass Darkly (1961) and Silence (1963) respectively – forces him to return back. It’s worse than God’s indifference, it is Satan’s Tango. It is in this instability where people like The Prince – a distorted version of the circus director, whose troupe is the whole town – take advantage, create a symphony of destruction and well, play God.

But that is the exact kind of narrative that seems to suit our “ordinary documentary”. The Prince can easily be called the root cause of the entire disturbance, but that would only be too easy. We actually never know if The Prince (or the whale) is responsible for it at all. The whale is dead and hence a mute observer and The Prince, who speaks in a foreign language and whose words we obtain only secondhand, isn’t even seen in the film. In what may be a “whale” of a Macguffin, Tarr tempts us to pin the blame on the two foreign entities. But it eventually becomes evident that it is the people themselves – the workers and Tünde Eszter – who are the fascists, taking the mute and the invisible “guests” as pretext for violence. Violence that exterminates the apathetic bourgeois, persuades the hermetic clerisy out of its shell and makes the working class the pawns of a power game. One may remember Tarr’s sarcastic take on “Let there be Light” in Sátántangó, where the doctor seals off every possible entry of light into his hut (and where this film seems to take off from, in a way). At the end of Werckmeister Harmonies, the only survivor in this war, Tünde Eszter, who is the most patient and diabolically thoughtful of all the characters in the film, goes on to rule. I can see Mr. Tarr chuckling as he quotes “Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth”!

LINKS :: Albert SERRA

Albert SERRA (born 1975; Banyoles, Girona, Cataluña, Spain) = 34 yold in 2009

3 films / 3 screenplays (1st film: 2003/latest film: 2008)
INSPIRED BY : Richard Fleischer; Andy Warhol; Rainer Werner Fassbinder; Lisandro Alonso ?
C.C.C. films (strict model in red) : Birdsong ; Quixotic
INFLUENCE ON : ?

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Fiasco (2008) Short YouTube 4'16"

• "¿Y esto?" By: Quintín (la lectora provisoria, 27 Nov 2008) [SPANISH]
  
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El Cant dels Ocells / Birdsong (2008) IMDb link - Cannes 2008

• "Un tournage, comme une incantation" By: Mark Peranson (Cahiers du cinéma, #634, May 2008) [FRENCH]
  
• "Por los confines de la tierra mítica" By: Àngel Quintana (Cahiers du cinéma España, #12, May 2008) [SPANISH]
  
• "Albert Serra, drôle d'oiseau" By: Gérard Lefort (Libération, 21 May 2008) [FRENCH]
  
• "C is for Cine-discoveries" By: David Bordwell (Observations on film art, 15 July 2008)
  
• "El cant dels ocells (Albert Serra, Spain/France)" By: Robert Koehler (cinemascope, #35, Summer 2008)
  
• "As High As The Eagles. On the set of El Cant Dels Ocells" By: Mark Peranson (cinemascope, #35, Summer 2008) PDF
  
• "Birdsong and Waiting for Sancho: an interview with Mark Peranson" By: Allan MacInnis (Alienated in Vancouver, 3 Oct 2008)
  
• "En tres direcciones" By: Gonzalo de Pedro (Cahiers du cinéma España, #18, Dec 2008) [SPANISH]
  
• "Albert Serra en son royaume" By: Emmanuel Burdeau (Cahiers du cinéma, #641, Jan 2009) [FRENCH]
• "Bonne Augure" By: Antoine Thirion (Cahiers du cinéma, #641, Jan 2009) [FRENCH]
• "Le chant des oiseaux d'Albert Serra" By: Jacky Goldberg (Les Inrockuptibles, #686, 20 Jan 2009) [FRENCH]
• "Les Rois mages, vieux paysans mal rasés" By: Isabelle Regnier (Le Monde, 21 Jan 2009) [FRENCH]
  
• "Les rois barges de Serra" By: Olivier Séguret (Libération, 21 Jan 2009) [FRENCH]
• "Cinéma : 'Le Chant des oiseaux', d'Albert Serra" By: Guillemette Odicino (Télérama, 23 Jan 2009) podcast 2'01" [FRENCH]
  
• "Le Chant des oiseaux" By: Samuel Douhaire (Télérama, 24 Jan 2009) [FRENCH]
  
• "Le chant des oiseaux" By: Elise Domenach (Etudes, Fev 2009) [FRENCH]
  
• "Le chant des oiseaux" By: JLL (Cine-club de Caen, 2 Feb 2009) [FRENCH]
  
• "Birdsong, Albert Serra's Legend of Three Kings" By: J. Hoberman (The Village Voice, 24 Feb 2009)
  
• "Birdsong - Travelin’ Men" By: Michael Tully (Hammer to Nail, 25 Feb 2005)
  
• "Three Wise Men, Bumbling Their Way to Bethlehem" By: A.O. SCOTT (NYT, 25 Feb 2009)
  
• Links By: David Hudson (The IFC Daily, 25 Feb 2009)
  
• "Birdsong" By: Andrew Schenker (The Cine File, 27 Feb 2009)
  
• "Birdsong (El cant des ocells)" By: Jeremy Stone (Pandalous, 5 Apr 2009)
  
• "Birdsong" By: Lesley Chow (World Film Festivals, 19 Apr 2009)
  
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Honor de Cavalleria / Quixotic (2006) IMDb link - Cannes 2006

• "El cielo del Quijote" By: Daniel V. Villamediana (Letras de Cine, #11 - 2006) [SPANISH]
  
• "Albert Serra, Quichotte et sang chaud" By: Jean-Philippe Tessé (Cahiers du cinéma, #613, Jun 2006) [FRENCH]
  
• "Playing with Fire: The Craziness of the Quinzaine des réalisateurs" By: Christoph Huber (cinemascope, #27, 2006)
  
• "Contemplative cinema and Honor of the Knights" By: Doug Cummings (Film Journey, 8 Jan 2007)
  
• "C'est Don Quichotte qui vous appelle" By: Emmanuel Burdeau (Cahiers du cinéma, #621, March 2007) [FRENCH]
  
• "Honor de Cavalleria d'Albert Serra" By: Serge Kaganski (Les Inrockuptibles, 13 Mar 2007) [FRENCH]
• "Le mythe de Don Quichotte resitué dans un film idéaliste" By: Isabelle Regnier (Le Monde, 15 Mar 2007) [FRENCH]
• "Tracking Shots" By: Scott Foundas (The Village Voice, 11 Sept 2007)
  
• "Reflections of Don Quixote" By: Matt Zoller Seitz (NYT, 21 Sept 2007)
  
• "Le monde à 360 degrés. Honor de cavalleria d’Albert Serra" By: Cyril Neyrat (revue Vertigo, #30, Sept 2007) [FRENCH]
  
• "'Glory Knight' and positive anti-Yoshichika" By: ? (Malka y Mafalda, 25 Jun 2008) [JAPANESE]
  
• "Honor de cavalliera d’Albert Serra" (sic) By: Elina Lowensohn (Objectif Cinema, ?) [FRENCH]
  
• "Honor de Cavalleria" By: Albert Serra (Capricci, May 2010) [FRENCH]
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Crespià, the film not the village (2003) IMDb link - Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya

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BOOK on Albert SERRA

• "Honor de Cavalleria" By: Albert Serra (Capricci, May 2010) [FRENCH] shot-by-shot analysis
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GENERAL ONLINE ARTICLES

• "Join the band: An introduction to the universe of Albert Serra" By: Quintín (cinemascope, #35, Summer 2008)
• "Lo dejo o no lo dejo" By: Antoni Peris i Grao (Transit, #6; Sept-Oct 2010) [SPANISH]
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INTERVIEW

• "Europanet Making of Honor De Cavalleria" (Cineuropa, June 2005) 7 videos [SPANISH] translated in English
  
• "La glorificación del Mini DV" By: Daniel V. Villamediana (Letras de Cine, #11 - 2006) [SPANISH]
  
• "Entrevista amb el director de cinema Albert Serra" By: vilaweb (YouTube, 4 Jul 2006) [català] 3'10" on Quixotic
  
• "Quichottesque" By: Emmanuel Burdeau & Jean-Michel Frodon (Cahiers du cinéma, #621, Mar 2007) [FRENCH]
  
• "Don qui charme" By: Philippe Azoury (Libération, 17 Mar 2007) [FRENCH] on Honor de Cavalleria
  
• "Entretien avec Albert Serra" By: Cyril Neyrat (revue Vertigo, #30, Sept 2007) [FRENCH] PDF
  
• "Tras el misterio de lo mítico" By: Àngel Quintana (Cahiers du cinéma España, #12, May 2008) [SPANISH]
  
• "Albert Serra, cineasta 'underground'" By: TV3 (3 May 2008) [català]
  
• "Entrevista amb el director de cinema Albert Serra" By: vilaweb (YouTube, 15 May 2008) [català] 5'30" on Birdsong
• "Birdsong (El Cant Dels Ocells, 2008)—The Evening Class Interview With Albert Serra and Mark Peranson" By: Michael Guillen (The Evening Class, 23 Oct 2008)
  
• "¿Y esto?" By: Quintín (la lectora provisoria, 27 Nov 2008) [SPANISH]
• "Où va le cinéma?" (Centre Pompidou, Dec 2008) video 5' [FRENCH] (translation at Unspoken Cinema)
  
• "Penser puis acter #1 : Albert Serra" By: Robert Cantarella & Thierry Lounas (CentQuatre, 30 Jan 2009) 1h17'17" [FRENCH]
  
• "Albert Serra" By: Laure Adler (L'Avventura, France Culture, 4 Feb 2009) radio 45' [FRENCH]
  
• "Albert Serra, Mazoni, Isabel Clara-Simó" By: TV3 (10 Mar 2009) [català]
  
• "Albert Serra'" By: el tigre de ciberia (YouTube; 16 Apr 2009) [català] part 1 : 6'46" / part 2 : 1'47" / part 3 : 2'43"
  
• "Albert Serra: 'Tal com està el món, la fama et permet fer coses'" By: TV3 (20 Apr 2009) [català]
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TEXT BY Albert SERRA

• "Barcelona" By: Albert Serra (Ekran Untranslated, Apr-May 2007) [SPANISH]
  
• "Le chant des oiseaux documents" By: Albert Serra (Cahiers du cinéma, #641, Jan 2009) [FRENCH] note d'intention + scenario of El Cant dels Ocells
  
• "Pourquoi travailler avec des amateurs ?" leçon de cinéma, Moulin d’Andé-Céci, Editions Capricci, 2009 video 13'47"
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WEBSITES

• IMDb
  
• Wikipedia [català]
  
• Andergraun Films [català] [es] [fr] [en]
  
• Cine club de Caen [fr]
  
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DOCUMENTARY ON Albert SERRA

• Waiting For Sancho (2008/Mark Peranson/Canada) 105' IMDb
  
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