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Taj Mahal Travellers On Tour (1973)

kinostr — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:51:45 GMT

Taj Mahal Travellers On Tour (1973)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdjmQkOOa9A

Takehisa Kosugi was a hippie become avantgarde composer. Born in Tokyo in 1938, and graduated in 1962 at the Tokyo University of Arts, Kosugi founded the Japanese equivalent of the Fluxus movement, called "Group Ongaku", a group devoted to improvisation and multi-media performances. In 1969 he formed the Taj Mahal Travellers, a psychedelic-rock group that played lengthy improvised jams that can be summarized in three principles: a Far-Eastern approach to music as a living organism, an intense electronic processing of instruments and voices, a semi-mathematical overlapping of frequencies. Basically: LaMonte Young on acid. Kosugi mainly played electric violin. The band acquired free-jazz improviser Seiji Nagai, Yukio Tsuchiya on tuba and vibraphone, Ryo Koike on santoor (a hammered dulcimer) and on a horizontal double-bass, Michihiro Kimura, who had begun as designer of LP sleeves and started playing percussion and "singing", and Tokio Hasegawa, another improvised singer, all of them much younger than him. Kosugi was on the road with this group between 1971 and 1972, traveling in a Volkswagen minibus from Holland to the Taj Mahal itself. Two albums were made out of that experience: Taj-Mahal Travellers (Sony, 1972), also known as July 15 1972 (reissued in 2002 by Drone Syndicate) and performed by a seven-unit line-up, and Taj Mahal Travellers (Denon, 1983), also known as August 1974 (reissued in 1998 by P-Vine), four tracks over two LPs performed by eight players, plus one side (two tracks) of the legendary double-LP bootleg Live At Oz (Oz, 1973 - OZ Days, 2001), which also includes live performances by obscure Japanese musicians Acid Seven, Minami Masato and Hadaka no Rallizes.

#documentary #music #kino #kinostr #experimental #noise #documentaries #artstr

Lenz Of Spinoza (short, 1989)

kinostr — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 15:50:19 GMT

Lenz Of Spinoza (short, 1989)

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

Directed by Jun Kurosawa

#art #japan #kinostr #kino #artstr

Hex - Global Chaos (VHS, 1993)

kinostr — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 23:11:25 GMT

Hex - Global Chaos (VHS, 1993)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY7iSW4yKU0

from archiveorg:

'Robert Pepperell founded Hex in 1990 along with Miles Visman and Coldcut members Matt Black and Jon More. We wanted to exploit the creative possibilities of personal computers especially exploring the convergence of distinct media such as music, video, animation and visuals. We developed a number of ground-breaking products in a wide variety of formats over the decade or so Hex was in existence.
Hex went throught many transformations and was finally wound up in 1999 after internal tensions came to a head. However, the name and spirit of Hex continues through its bastard off-spring Hexstatic and the legacy of its audio-visual experiments can be seen in the work of a number of digital artists and performers. Here follows a brief history of the Hex years.
...
In May 93 Hex released "Global Chaos" on vhs, a 1 hour sell-through Rave Video distributed by Imagine and featuring computer graphix so intense you may require shades to watch it! Soundtrax mixed by Coldcut. Global Chaos revolves around the story of the Alien Sphinx's trip to Earth to steal our resources for his own dead planet. On experiencing the Chaos which reigns on Earth and seeing how we have already nearly trashed our World, he realises that the only hope is to combine his psychic powers with the energy of Rave music in an attempt to prevent all-out destruction of everything by malignant Infoviruses and Fascist control freaks.'

#kinostr #music #art #artstr #kino #acid #experimental

The Vampire (short, 1945)

kinostr — Sun, 11 May 2025 20:52:43 GMT

The Vampire (short, 1945)
Director: Jean Painlevé

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuX3BkOcIAg

Jean Painlevé’s short THE VAMPIRE draws the connection between the movie monsters of the same name and the South American vampire bat. The animal’s gruesome feeding habits are on full display.

After a look at some strange creatures, the narrator and camera take us to the Chaco forest, on the borders of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil, where a vampire bat lives, desmodus rotondus, attacking wildlife and domesticated creatures, killing small ones by draining all their blood and killing large ones by leaving a parasite in their bloodstream. Four inches long, with a 12-inch wingspread, we see it walk, approach a victim, pull out a patch of fur large enough for it to engage its teeth, then lap six or seven ounces of blood. Its saliva may be an anesthetic keeping its victims from waking. A stub nose and harelip contribute to its efficiency and its hideous look.

#documentary #art #filmstr #artstr #kinostr #french

Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream…

kinostr — Mon, 05 May 2025 19:25:39 GMT

Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Broken Hearted (1990)
Director: David Lynch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p02WKbar-qg

The film tells the story of a heartbroken woman (played by Laura Dern) who floats over an industrial wasteland and sings ballads of love after her boyfriend (Nicolas Cage) leaves her. Made before the unprecedented success of his cult-classic TV show Twin Peaks, it is the footage from an original play which was presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1989. The experimental work is named after a series of complex mosaics in geometric shapes designed by Lynch. He made them while he was studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and called them Industrial Symphonies.

Often seen as a spiritual companion to his 1990 film Wild at Heart because it also co-stars Dern and Cage, Industrial Symphonies No. 1 is a hallucinatory dream that explores the concepts of love and pain in the modern dystopia. Julee Cruise plays “the dreamself” of the heartbroken woman who sings beautifully, even singing from the inside of a trunk of a car at one point. Many of the songs from the musical were recycled in Twin Peaks, including two of Julee’s recordings “Rockin’ Back Inside My Heart” and “The World Spins”.

#davidlynch #musical #drama #fantasy #music #kinostr #films #artstr #filmstr

Twisted Issues (1988)

kinostr — Sun, 04 May 2025 20:44:39 GMT

Twisted Issues (1988)
Director: Charles Pinion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLq-uZ1m0F0

A murdered skateboarding teen rises from the grave on his trusty board, unleashing a wave of outrageous revenge on those who wronged him.

'Twisted Issues is the debut film from underground art-barf filmmaker Charles Pinion. It has a killer with a skateboard attached to his foot and girls screaming. So, you could label it as a “slasher” without sounding like an ass. But the face-crushings and impalements are just there to anchor us. Pinion wasn’t interested in narrative or logic. He was interested in documenting the punk/skate/thrash scene of Gainsville, Florida in the late 1980s. So Twisted Issues feels like an issue of Destroy All Monsters that was created with a camcorder instead of a Xerox machine — non sequitur after non sequitur overlap to create a snapshot of someone’s life. One that is scored by Mutley Chix and Hell Witch....'

full review on Bleeding Skull:
http://bleedingskull.com/twisted-issues-1988/

#trash #bmovies #kinostr #artstr #punk #skateboarding #horror #films #filmstr #thrash #music

The Shock of the New (TV…

kinostr — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 16:58:37 GMT

The Shock of the New (TV mini series, 1980)
Written and presented by Robert Hughes

Ep 1:

full series:
https://archive.org/details/bbc.-the-shock-of-the-new-robert-hughes-1980-hq

Complete eight-part documentary television series about the development of modern art written and presented by art critic and author Robert Hughes (1938-2012)

#art #documentary #artstr #kino #kinostr #documentaries

Kenneth Clark: In the Beginning (TV…

kinostr — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:50:31 GMT

Kenneth Clark: In the Beginning (TV episode, 1975)
Director: Michael Gill
Writer: Kenneth Clark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T7QqabluHA

a few years after completing Civilisation Lord Clark filmed a kind of standalone prequel episode covering Ancient Egypt ("Civilisation: Episode Zero," as it were) -- a one-hour video which adopts the same themes, language, and cinematographic approach as does Civilisation proper.

#documentary #kino #kinostr #filmstr #art #artstr #films #documentaries

David Lynch: The Art Life (2016)

kinostr — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 12:09:47 GMT

David Lynch: The Art Life (2016)
Directors: Rick Barnes, Jon Nguyen, Olivia Neergaard-Holm

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

A rare glimpse into the mind of one of cinema’s most enigmatic visionaries, David Lynch: The Art Life offers an absorbing portrait of the artist, as well as an intimate encounter with the man himself. From his secluded home and painting studio in the Hollywood Hills, a candid Lynch conjures people and places from his past, from his boyhood to his experiences at art school to the beginnings of his filmmaking career—in stories that unfold like scenes from his movies. This remarkable documentary by Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes, and Olivia Neergaard-Holm travels back to Lynch’s early years as a painter and director drawn to the phantasmagoric, while also illuminating his enduring commitment to what he calls “the art life”: “You drink coffee, you smoke cigarettes, and you paint, and that’s it.”

#documentary #davidlynch #art #artstr #filmstr #kino #kinostr #documentaries #docs

Moments Like This Never Last (2020)

kinostr — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 21:10:57 GMT

Moments Like This Never Last (2020)
Director: Cheryl Dunn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX_UDJ7oG9A

Dash Snow rejected a life of privilege to make his own way as an artist on the streets of downtown New York City in the late 1990s. Developing from a notorious graffiti tagger into an international art star, he documented his drug- and alcohol-fueled nights with the surrogate family he formed with friends and fellow artists Ryan McGinley and Dan Colen before his death by heroin overdose in 2009. Drawing from Snow’s unforgettable body of work and involving archival footage, Cheryl Dunn’s exceptional portrait captures his all-too-brief life of reckless excess and creativity.

#documentary #graffiti #art #artstr #documentaries #kino #kinostr
#films #movies #filmstr

Film (short, 1965)

kinostr — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 21:47:15 GMT

Film (short, 1965)
Director: Alan Schneider

A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film (no dialogue or music, one 'shhh!') in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye. But, as the film is based around Bishop Berkeley's principle 'esse est percipi' (to be is to be perceived), Keaton's very existence conspires against his efforts. This was Samuel Beckett's only venture into the medium of cinema.

#short #drama #classic #60s #kino #kinostr #art #film #filmstr #shorts #artstr

Medieval Abbeys & Medieval Churches…

kinostr — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 12:08:04 GMT

Medieval Abbeys & Medieval Churches
(1980s documentaries presented by Patrick Troughton)

Medieval Abbeys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT7nsNlTbJI

Medieval Churches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwL88QalsSk

#documentary #80s #british #architecture #art #christian #documentaries #rare #kino #kinostr #artstr

Dirty Handz: Destruction Of Paris City…

kinostr — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:12:28 GMT

Dirty Handz: Destruction Of Paris City (1999)

Released in 1999, this 50-minute video opens the trilogy. It focuses only on graffiti in the railway world. There are various activities such as the interior degradation of metro wagons (bomb marker and marker, window scratches), but also that of subway station. You can also see different scenes where the exteriors of metros, RER and trains SNCF are painted. Long passages are dedicated to the exhibition of his works when the trains roll. We can also see how graffiti artists get into train depots. The various crew (strips of graffiti) that can be seen in activities are 132, GAP, SDK and CLM.

#documentary #art #artstr #kino #kinostr
#documentaries #graf #graffiti #fullmovies
#filmstr #films

Pierre Henry - The Art Of Sounds…

kinostr — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:36:01 GMT

Pierre Henry - The Art Of Sounds (2007)

Directors: Éric Darmon & Franck Mallet
Year: 2007
Time: 52 mins
Music: Pierre Henry

Veteran and co-inventor of Musique Concrète, Pierre Henry invites us for a short walk through his long career, his music, his concerts, his film-collaborations, and his home. An unique personality who fathered some of the most important developments in the music of the 20th century, remaining faithful to his vision and work till today.

#documentary #music #musiqueconcrete #documentaries #art #artstr
#kinostr #fieldrecording

TV as a Fireplace (1968/69)

kinostr — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 23:35:40 GMT

TV as a Fireplace (1968/69)
Director: Jan Dibbets
Duration: 23mins

On the last eight evenings of 1969, WDR 3 television marked the close of transmission by broadcasting in colour the picture of a burning coal fire. There was no mention of the artist or the art character of the broadcast. It represents perhaps the first example of the now commercialized ’TV fireplace.’

#art #artstr #experimental #film #kinostr #kino
#german #short

13 Lakes (2004)

kinostr — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:45:56 GMT

13 Lakes (2004)
Director: James Benning

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

13 Lakes is a 2004 American independent non-narrative experimental film by independent filmmaker James Benning. Consisting of 13 ten-minute-long static shots of different lakes in the United States, 13 Lakes is an instance of slow cinema, placing emphasis on introspection and contemplation.

#art #documentary #artstr #cinema #slowcinema
#kinostr #kino #film #filmart

Thanatopsis (short, 1962)

kinostr — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 20:07:34 GMT

Thanatopsis (short, 1962)
Director: Ed Emshwiller
Duration: 5mins

Introducing some innovative film techniques, Emshwiller won a Special Award at the Brussels Experimental Film Festival for this expression of internal anguish. He described the film as "The confrontation of a man and his torment. Juxtaposed against his external composure are images of a woman and lights in distortion, with tension heightened by the sounds of power saws and a heartbeat."

#art #short #kinostr #kino
#artstr #experimental #film

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.

#short #music #ambient #art #artstr
#kinostr #kino #shorts #film #filmstr
#filmart

Free Fall (short, 1964)

kinostr — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 12:00:44 GMT

Free Fall (short, 1964)
Director: Arthur Lipsett
Duration: 10mins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zd8NcYI9JA

An experimental film from Arthur Lipsett, Free Fall is an assortment of film trimmings assembled to make a wry comment on humankind in today’s world. It evokes a surrealist dream of our fall from grace into banality. (NFB.ca)

#short #art #artfilm #artstr
#kinostr #kino #movies #films #experimental #cinema
#fullmovies #shorts