A Sunday in Hell (1976)

The agony of Paris-Roubaix spring classic

The film follows the French Paris-Roubaix spring classic, notorious for the hellish paves or cobbled roads of the north "which are no longer used for traffic but only for transporting cattle - and for cycle races". We are there from the dawn preparations and rituals on the outskirts of Paris and through the rigours of the race with special focus on a number of prominent cyclists to the final outcome on the Roubaix cycle track - followed by the filthy riders taking their showers. There is also an eye for life among the spectators and the media event as such. The film alternates among different kinds of shot with a view to establishing the most suitable view of the narrative: shots from motorcycles, which are able to convey the motion of the race and provide close ups of the riders in the style of television cycle race reporting; fixed cameras stationed at strategically important points along the route, where viewers can watch riders passing in real time and thus gain a clear overview of the distance between the leaders and the main field: and the Olympian eye of the helicopter shots.

Money, luxury and fame - the new super-rich of India | DW Documentary

The mega-rich of India are only getting richer in the strange mix of Nationalism, Religion and Neo-liberalism that has dominated the enormous nation since the election of the Narendra Modi government in 2014. Only the US and China currently have more billionaires than India. Some of them are as famous as pop stars and enjoy similar adulation.

Their social media accounts have millions of followers - in a country where more than half the population lives below the poverty line and has no electricity or fresh water. India’s super-rich have been dubbed the "new maharajas." The sources of their seemingly unlimited wealth are almost as varied as their values and lifestyles. 23-old Evan Luthra uses his father's seed capital to invest in new ideas in the software industry. He loves luxury, meets the young moneyed elite in fashionable destinations around the world, and is active on all the social networks. Abhimanyu Alsisar, nephew of the Maharajah of Jaipur, runs a chain of luxury hotels in the ancient palaces of India and invests in music events. Kalpana Saroj comes from the lowest caste in India and has worked her way up from destitution to become a multimillionaire - but she never forgets her background, and helps impoverished farmers in her homeland with medical care and gifts of money. Vijay Mallya even bought his own Formula 1 racing team, but faces a long prison sentence for fraudulent bankruptcy and tax evasion should he return to India. The documentary is the result of six months of investigative research and offers a deep insight into the everyday and professional lives of India’s super-rich.



                                                 

Moor Mother on Sampling, Afrofuturism and Collaboration

Moor Mother is a Philadelphia-based artist, musician and activist who utilizes her multi-genre practice to speak to consciousness, identity, blackness and the sociopolitical global landscape. She started to record and release music in 2012 as a solo project under the porous, playful rubric of self-defined sounds like “project-housing bop,” “slaveship punk” and “blk girl blues,” and her output is a patchwork quilt of spoken word, poetry and fractured lyricism alongside guttural electronics, dissonant textures and fragments of instrumentation. Her discography is vast and expanding, with albums like 2016’s Fetish Bones and 2017’s The Motionless Present critically acclaimed exercises in power electronics and intense vocalizations.

Moor Mother discussed her upbringing in Maryland, Black Quantum Futurism, being addicted to collaboration and the writing process in her lecture at RBMA Berlin 2018. #RBMA20 #afrofuturism #sampling

TOPICS:
6:15 – Growing up in Aberdeen, Maryland
14:46 – Stumbling into Afrofuturism
20:45 – Moving to Philadelphia and finding new scenes
33:26 – Writing and sampling approaches
39:55 – The Black Quantum Futurism collective and project
51:44 – The need for collaboration

MUSIC:
30:34 – Moor Mother – “Programma”
35:47 – Moor Mother – “Creation Myth” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm93dYZIVIo
47:06 – Moor Mother – “The Autonomy of Shori”
1:00:20 – Irreversible Entanglements – “Fireworks” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4joenjtD6w

Fushitsusha 不失者 @ St John-at-Hackney 2012 Full Set

I could write pages about Fushitsusha and the incredible Keiji Haino....but let us instead turn to the music....and let that teach us....

Zizek vs Peterson Debate

Bestselling author and psychologist Jordan Peterson debates “Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism” with Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek, in an event that was more than a year in the making.

Hokusai Old Man Crazy to Paint (BBC 2017)

"Until the age of 70 nothing I drew was worthy of notice. When I reach 80 years I hope to have made progress with the line" - Hokusai