Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Monday, September 07, 2009
The Fourth World War
From the front-lines of conflicts in Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Palestine, Korea, and the North; from Seattle to Genova, and the War on Terror in New York, Afghanistan, and Iraq, The Fourth World War is the story of men and women around the world who resist being annihilated in this war.
While our airwaves are crowded with talk of a new world war, narrated by generals and filmed from the noses of bombs, the human story of this global conflict remains untold. The Fourth World War brings together the images and voices of the war on the ground. It is a story of a war without end and of those who resist.
The product of over two years of filming on the inside of movements on five continents, The Fourth World War is a film that would have been unimaginable at any other moment in history. Directed by the makers of This Is What Democracy Looks Like and Zapatista, produced through a global network of independent media and activist groups, it is a truly global film from our global movement.
The Fourth World War by Subcomandante Marcos La Realidad, Chiapas, Mexico
The following text is an excerpt from a talk given by Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos to the International Civil Commission of Human Rights Observation in La Realidad, Chiapas on November 20, 1999. The outline for the talk was published in Letters 5.1 and 5.2 in November of the same year, with the titles "Chiapas: the War: 1, Between the Satellite and the Microscope, the Other's Gaze," and 2, "The Machinery of Ethnocide." Any similarity to the conditions of the current war is purely coincidental. Published in Spanish in La Jornada, Tuesday, October 23, 2001.
Sunday, September 06, 2009
Werckmeister Harmonies (High Quality - Opening Sequence)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Hungarian: Werckmeister harmóniák) is a 2000 Hungarian film directed by Béla Tarr, based on the novel The Melancholy of Resistance (1989), by László Krasznahorkai. Shot in black and white and composed of only thirty-nine languidly paced shots, the film describes the aimlessness and anomy of a small town on the Hungarian plain that falls under the fascist influence of a sinister traveling circus lugging the immense body of a whale in its tow. A young man named János tries to keep order in the increasingly restless town even as he begins to lose his faith in the unnatural and disordered universe from which God Himself seems to have disappeared.
The title refers to the baroque musical theorist Andreas Werckmeister. György Eszter, a major character in the film, gives a monologue propounding a theory that Werckmeister's harmonic principles are responsible for aesthetic and philosophical problems in all music since, which need to be undone by a new theory of tuning and harmony.
Via the bounty that is the orifice of Warren Ellis
Saturday, September 05, 2009
Friday, September 04, 2009
Los Angeles Wildfire
Timelapse - Los Angeles Wildfire from Dan Blank on Vimeo.
Time-lapse footage of burning chaparral in California by Dan Blank, set to music from Brian Eno's Another Green World.
Thursday, September 03, 2009
The Mark of Cain
The Mark of Cain is a hard band from Australia. I used to go and see them play in the early nineties when they came to Sydney from Adelaide. It was not an experience for the faint hearted. The Mark of Gain where like a brutal rhythmic machine that dealt out poetry to those who have been left behind in the great postmodern society of dreams and disasters. Music to stare across a room of blank eyed drinkers in a dark hotel by with minutes to closing time and nowhere to go. The beauty of pain. The Mark of Cain.
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Genesis P-Orridge
At 59, of Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV and Thee Majesty finally seems to have found peace.
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