Roberdo – Hedonistic Freelancer

And again some matieral from this year’s more than amazing Boom festival: Here we go with two little videos, taken during our DJ set at the Dance Temple.

Just discovered this video via Social Media. Stunning piece of art, the atmosphere created is just so wicked!

Edge-cutting ass-kicking but still so ironic… Just how I love it!

Just discovered this video from Indian Spirit Festival 2004. From 00:35, it includes some footage taken during my DJ set on Saturday afternoon. I remember this moment very well, was kind of final climax of my very personal summer of love 2004 – if any climax can be fixed in this absolutely dreamlike summer…

GoaFoto | MySpace Video

I am sure that most of you, who are reading these lines right now, already saw some work of Andy Goldsworthy. I myself saw quite some photographies and books of pictures about his art before a friend of mine recommended me the movie “Rivers and Tides” recently. Regarding the fact that Goldsworthy has a very special approach to time and the sequence of natural phenomena resulting from its flow, actually predestines the film to be kind of perfect medium to document the work of the English artist. I love the moment of transience many of his works include. His playful approach towards this issue really reminds me those sophisticated sand mandalas, buddhistic monks create just to destroy them again once they have been finished. It also reminds me the cosmic dance of Shiva, which perfectly represents the way of things in life (even for me as a non-spiritual person). Of course also the organic elegance of Goldworthy’s work is absolutely fascinating. Frequent interview passages in this movie show him to be a very likeable and -surprise, surprise- also very profound and philosophic mind.

This animated documentary movie is highly recommendable, both concerning its plot and its production technique! It tells the true story of the Israeli director himself, who was involved in the first Lebanon War in 1982 as a only 19-year old soldier. At the beginning of the movie he figures out that he has almost no memories about his experiences and so he goes off in search to recover them. Meeting various old army comrads, he slowly but constantly reconstructs what happened more than 20 years ago. A central element of the plot is the massacre in Sabra and Shatila, Beirut’s Palestinian refugee camps. Christian Lebanese Phalangist forces killed an unknown number of (old) man and woman as well as children while the Israeli army not only watched, but even provided flare rockets, munitions and food for this genocide. The number of people killed is estimated between 328 and 3500.
Watch the trailer below, I think it tells more than 1000 words about the quality of this movie. I watched it in German language, since it is a Israeli-German-French production. I am not quite sure if English synchronization is available, but at least there must be subtitles.

“Celebrated Flemish/Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui presents a brand new dance work inspired by the skill, strength and spirituality of Buddhist Shaolin monks. He has collaborated closely with Turner Prize-winning artist Antony Gormley, who has created a design consisting of 21 wooden boxes which are repositioned to create a striking, ever changing on-stage environment. Polish composer Szymon Brzóska has created a beautiful brand new score for piano, percussion and strings which is played live.” By chance I watched the entire show in television a few weeks ago, it is simply fantastic. If you get the chance to watch it on video or even live, go for it!
 

 
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An exotic country, a big adventure, terrific surf and even a proper pinch of exententialism, everything captured in some pretty nice pictures- looks like a movie worth watching!

Via Cityclouds

The world of mushrooms is truly fascinating…  Though the first creature in this little movie is not even a mushroom, nor it is an animal: Slime molds are bizarre beings, consisting of only one giant, single cell! But their mushroom fellows in this time-lapse show are pretty impressing, too.