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Modulations - Cinema for the Ear (1998)

kinostr — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:58:58 GMT

Modulations - Cinema for the Ear (1998)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icpDt6aQDww

Modulations is a feature-length documentary that captures a moment in history where humans and machines are fusing to create today's most exciting sounds. It traces the evolution of electronic music as one of the most profound artistic developments of the twentieth century. By cutting back and forth between avant-garde composers, Kraftwerk's innovative synthesizer drones, Giorgio Moroder's glacial Euro-disco, Afrika Bambaataa's electro-funk, and Prodigy's current worldwide superstarstardom, Modulations celebrates, replicates, and illuminates the nomadic drift of the post-human techno sound. The film examines the kids who have turned the turntable into a musical instrument, disillusioned disco lovers who created acid house out of primitive synthesizers, Motor City mavericks who saw the drum machine as their escape route out of urban neglect, and a generation of British youth who transformed these blips and bleeps into dance floor anthems of their own alienation. Modulations provides a sense of history and context in which today's electronic music can be understood. It entertains the converted and remixes the mindset of electronica's nay-sayers. Featuring a stunning collage of interviews, cutting-edge visuals, in-studio footage, and live performances, Modulations moves at a pace that matches the energy and innovation of the music.

Soundtrack:

Donna Summer | "I Feel Love"

Afrika Mambaattaa | "Planet Rock"

Juan Atkins/Model 500 | "No Ufo's Remix"

LFO |"Simon From Sydney

Derrick May | "Strings of Life"

Jesse Saunders | "Yeah"

Aprodite | "Amazon 2 - King of the Beats"

Panacea | "Stormbringer"

Goldie & Rob Playford | "The Shadow"

Ryoji Ikeda | "Luxus 1-3"

Coldcut | "Atomic Moog 2000"

To Rococo Rot | "Kritische Masse 1"

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August in the Water (1995)

kinostr — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 21:06:20 GMT

August in the Water (1995)
Director: Gakuryū Ishii

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNYywDdpBz0

A teenage diving champion (Rena Komine) senses a supernatural connection to some unusual meteor showers after she has a diving accident.

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Melancholia (short, 2003)

kinostr — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 14:16:48 GMT

Melancholia (short, 2003)
Directors: William Basinski, James Elaine
Duration: 3mins30s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL_pi8fhWfw

Super-8/video, USA, 2003

"All the world is melancholy, every member in it."
–Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy.

"Melancholy is a way of thinking, a way of thinking about thinking, and it needs to consume the sufferer and thus needs layers and strata and veneers in perpetuity in which to cloak and conceal itself." –Rick Moody, The Black Veil.

In Melancholia, one is immediately transfixed by the lilting, repetitive piano melody of Basinski's "The Saddest Melody Ever Heard". Drawn slowly through the dark veil of a lonely tunnel of trees, eventually the world is revealed, shining deceptively. Immediately one begins a bumpy journey around a dull and hollow shell, before being drawn back, away through the encroaching black veil that cloaks and colors all perception. Shot in Super-8 at the World's Fairgrounds in Flushing Meadows, Queens, NY, Elaine & Basinski's Melancholia is a concise, darkly romantic psalm, an elegy, a love letter to a broken world.

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