NYFF 2010: The 48th New York Film Festival

"Since 1963, The New York Film Festival has continued to bring new and important cinematic works by filmmakers from around the world. The Festival includes Main Slate selections along with special events, panel discussions, the experimental film showcase Views from the Avant-Garde, and much more."
NYFF 2010, MUBI

Garage rock

Wikipedia - "Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 to 1967. During the 1960s, it was not recognized as a separate music genre and had no specific name. In the late 1970s, some rock critics retroactively identified it as an early incarnation of punk rock, and it is sometimes called garage punk, protopunk, or 1960s punk; however, the music style has predominantly been referred to as garage rock."
Wikipedia, W - List of garage rock bands

Art Inconnu

Le Peril Jeune, 1906
"Collected here are works by artists who are forgotten, under appreciated, or little known to the mainstream. There is incredible quality to be found out there beyond the big name artists in the big shows, whether it is one exceptional painting, one area of an artists oeuvre, or an entire career worth re-examining. The focus here is primarily painting by 19th and 20th century artists but everything is fair game."
Art Inconnu.
Reading, Some Women Painters, Chess, The World in Miniature, Weather: Snow, Motherhood

Reggae History

Channel One
"Popular music of Jamaican origin having elements of Calypso and rhythm and blues, usually with an accent placed on the offbeat."
YouTube - Reggae History, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Times Square

Wikipedia - "Times Square is a major commercial intersection in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets. The extended Times Square area, also called the Theatre District, consists of the blocks between Sixth and Eighth Avenues from east to west, and West 40th and West 53rd Streets from south to north, making up the western part of the commercial area of Midtown Manhattan."
Wikipedia, YouTube - Times Square 2010 New Years Celebration

Michaël Borremans

Wikipedia - "Michaël Borremans (born 1963) is a Belgian painter and filmmaker. He paints portraits of somber young men."
Wikipedia, David Zwirner, ZENO X GALLERY, YouTube - Michaël Borremans

Indeterminacy - John Cage

"John Cage was an American composer, Zen buddhist, and mushroom eater. He was also a writer: this site is about his paragraph-long stories – anecdotes, thoughts, and jokes. As a lecture, or as an accompaniment to a Merce Cunningham dance, he would read them aloud, speaking quickly or slowly as the stories required so that one story was read per minute. This site archives 190 of those stories. Each story is spaced out, as if it were being read aloud, to fill a fixed area. If you like, you can also read them aloud at a rate of one a minute."
A B O U T I N D E T E R M I N A C Y, Indeterminacy - John Cage, Dangerous Minds, amazon - Indeterminacy: New Aspect of Form in Instrumental and Electronic Music

Stones: Larry Rivers and Frank O’Hara

"For the book Stones, Rivers and O'Hara jumped in with an enthusiasm and lack of experience that gave them freedom to experiment. Together they created an intimate dialogue, starting each print with individual titles and then responding to each other's imagery and words."
MoMA, TATE, Buffalo

Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback

Wikipedia - "Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback is a 2006 film directed by Dietmar Post and Lucia Palacios about the seminal German-American beat band The Monks." (Erik B.)
Wikipedia, amazon, Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback, The Monks, YouTube - Monk Anthology, YouTube - trailer, The Monks on Chic-A-Go-Go, Oh, How to Do Now, Shut Up, Drunken Maria, I hate you, Boys are boys and girls are girls

Obscure No. 5 - Jan Steele / John Cage

"Brian Eno's Obscure Records label released only 10 albums during its existence from 1975 through 1978. Some of these have been reissued on CD (among them Eno's own 1975 masterpiece Discreet Music), but for some reason the album Voices and Instruments (Obscure No. 5, 1976) only exists on out-of-print vinyl. It is a very quiet and beautiful record, featuring three compositions by Jan Steele on one side, and five compositions by John Cage on the other side."
UbuWeb

The Beatles - The German Songs

"On 29 January 1964 in a Paris recording studio, the Beatles recorded two of their hit songs in German. The instrumental music tracks were the original ones used for the English recordings, but the German lyrics had been hurriedly written by a Luxembourger named Camillo Felgen (Camille Jean Nicolas Felgen, 1920-2005)."
About, German Beatles Sing, YouTube - Sie liebt dich, Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand, Geht raus (Jan 1969), The Beatles In Germany 1960-1962 (The Early Years)

Henry Cow Concerts - 1976

Wikipedia - "Henry Cow Concerts is a live double album by English avant-rock group Henry Cow, recorded at concerts in London, Italy, the Netherlands and Norway between September 1974 and October 1975. Sides one and two of the LP record consist of composed material while sides three and four contain improvised pieces."
Wikipedia, YouTube - Henry Cow - Terrible as an army with banners, Beautiful as the Moon, No More Songs

Op-Ed at 40, A Brief History of the Art

Barbara Kruger
"Yesterday’s New York Times celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the op-ed section. Part of the commemoration is a video dedicated to the influential illustrations of the op-ed section."
Columbia University, NY Times - Op-Ed at 40, A Brief History of the Art

Blue Note Records

Wikipedia - "Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic 'blue notes' of jazz and the blues."
Wikipedia, Blue Note Records, amazon

Sampling

Damian Marley & Nas collaborating & sampling african music
Wikipedia - "In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song. The wide spread use of sampling in popular music originated with the birth of hip hop music in New York in the 1970s. This is typically done with a sampler, which can be a piece of hardware or a computer program. Sampling is also possible with tape loops or with vinyl records on a phonograph."
Wikipedia, YouTube - The Art Of Sampling Pt.1, 9TH WONDER INTERVIEW: The Art of Sampling, Sampling Weapons of Choice, The Art Of Sampling 1, The Art Of Sampling 2, etc.

May 1968 in France

Wikipedia - "The May 1968 protest refers to a particular period in French history. During this time, the country saw the largest general strike that resulted in the economy coming to a virtual standstill, the first of its kind for an advanced industrial country. It was also the first wildcat general strike in history and involved a series of student occupation protests. The strike involved eleven million workers for a continuous two weeks, and its impact was such that it almost caused the collapse of President Charles de Gaulle's government."
Wikipedia

The Trip (1967)

Wikipedia - "The Trip (1967) is a low-budget cult film released by American International Pictures, directed by Roger Corman, and shot on location in and around Los Angeles, including on top of Kirkwood in Laurel Canyon, Hollywood Hills, and near Big Sur, California in 1966. Peter Fonda stars as a young television commercial director, Paul Groves."
Wikipedia, YouTube - The Trip, Dennis Hopper & Peter Fonda, The Electric Flag - M-23 (The Trip Soundtrack)

Brian Eno, H.Budd: The Plateaux of Mirror

"Music by Brian Eno, H.Budd Album:The Plateaux of Mirror. First Light. This video takes the point of view of a fly flying in cigarette smoke."
YouTube - First Light, Wind in lonely fences, Above Chiangmai, Steal away, Not yet remembered, An arc of doves

Long barrow

Wikipedia - "A long barrow is a prehistoric monument dating to the early Neolithic period. They are rectangular or trapezoidal tumuli or earth mounds traditionally interpreted as collective tombs. Long barrows are also typical for several Celtic, Slavic, and Baltic cultures of Northern Europe of the 1st millennium AD."
Wikipedia

Count Five

Wikipedia - "The Count Five was a 1960s garage rock band from San Jose, California, best known for their Top 10 single 'Psychotic Reaction'."
Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube - Psychotic Reaction (live appearance - 1966), Double Decker Bus, Peace Of Mind

Pina Bausch - "Cafe Muller":

"Director and choreographer Pina Bausch (July 27, 1940 - June 30, 2009) 'Cafe Muller' (1978, TV version 1985) Cast: Pina Bausch, Malou Airaudo, Domenique Mercy, Jan Minarik, Nazareth Panadero, Jean Laurent Sasportes. Musiс by Henry Purcell / 'The Fairy Queen' and 'Dido and Aeneas'" BAM, 1984
YouTube - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Chapbook

Wikipedia - "Chapbook is a generic term to cover a particular genre of pocket-sized booklet, popular from the sixteenth through to the later part of the 19th century. No exact definition can be applied. The term chap-book was formalized by bibliophiles of the 19th century, as a variety of ephemera (disposable printed material), popular or folk literature. It includes many kinds of printed material such as pamphlets, political and religious tracts, nursery rhymes, poetry, folk tales, children's literature and almanacs."
Wikipedia, Viddler - Anne Waldman Saves the Chapbook, YouTube - What Is A Chapbook?

ZE Records

Wikipedia - "ZE Records (originally always written with two capital letters) was a New York-based record label, started in 1978 by Michael Zilkha and Michel Esteban."
Wikipedia, ZE Records

Sun & Moon

"The collection documents the publishing history of the press throughout most of its 28 years of operation and maps the literary careers and, in some cases, the personal lives of numerous American and international literary figures and artists. The bulk of the materials documents Sun & Moon's publishing activities from 1991-2002."
OAC, The Register of Sun and Moon Press Archive, 1976 - 2002, The Argotist Online, YouTube - Douglas Messerli by Charles Bernstein, amazon, Green Integer

Black Orpheus

Wikipedia - "Black Orpheus (Portuguese: Orfeu Negro) is a 1959 film made in Brazil by French director Marcel Camus. It is based on the play Orfeu da Conceição by Vinicius de Moraes, which is an adaptation of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, setting it in the modern context of a favela in Rio de Janeiro during the Carnaval. The film was an international co-production between production companies in Brazil, France and Italy."
Wikipedia, Criterion, YouTube

Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance & the Camera

"Exposed offers a fascinating look at pictures made on the sly, without the explicit permission of the people depicted. With photographs from the late nineteenth century to present day, the pictures present a shocking, illuminating and witty perspective on iconic and taboo subjects."
Tate, Guardian - Prying eye: Tate Modern's Exposed uncovers the art of secret photography, Voyeuristic Exhibitions

Horses ~ Patti Smith Group

Live 1976. Stockholm.
YouTube

Field Hollers, Work song

Wikipedia - "Field Hollers as well as work songs were African American styles of music from before the American Civil War, this style of music is closely related to spirituals in the sense that it expressed religious feelings and included subtle hints about ways of escaping slavery, among other things. Slaves in New Orleans had a field area called Congo Square in which they were allowed time on Sundays to dance and sing more freely than they could on the plantations."
Wikipedia, W - Work song, Slave Work Songs, YouTube - Work Songs in a Texas Prison, Gandy Dancers, Poor Boy - Lomax Prison Recording, Negro Prison & Blues Songs Black Woman

Poetry by Pablo Neruda - Poema 20

Poetry by Pablo Neruda - Poema 20

Delaney & Bonnie & Friends

Wikipedia - "Delaney & Bonnie – later called Delaney & Bonnie & Friends – was a rock/soul revue fronted by husband-and-wife singer/songwriters Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett."
Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube - Comin' Home, Delaney and Bonnie with Eric Clapton 1969, Getting To Know You So Well, Poor Elijah, I Don't Want To Discuss It, When The Battle Is Over

Peter Hutchinson

"Peter Hutchinson, born in England in 1930, has been living and working in Provincetown, Massachusetts, since 1953. As one of the pioneers of Land Art, he is represented in such renowned collections as the Musée d’Art Moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basle, the National Gallery of Art, Washington and the Museum of Modern Art in New York."
Peter Hutchinson, Movie, artnet, amazon

Hot Hot Hot

Wikipedia - "'Hot Hot Hot' is a song by Montserrat musician Arrow featured on his 1982 studio album Hot Hot Hot. Written by Arrow himself, the song became an instant dance floor hit and was later covered by artists around the world, most notably in 1987 by American singer David Johansen under the name Buster Poindexter."
Wikipedia, Repeating Islands, YouTube - Hot Hot Hot, Buster Poindexter - Hot Hot Hot

Arena - Robert Mapplethorpe (1988)

"Profile of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, one of the most controversial of American photographers, which accompanied an exhibition of his work at the National Portrait Gallery in the year before he died. Contains interview with Mapplethorpe himself, along with critic and author Edmund White, and with several of Mapplethorpe's subjects."
UbuWeb

Soft Cell

Wikipedia - "Soft Cell are an English synthpop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s. They consist of vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist David Ball. The duo is most widely known for their 1981 worldwide hit version of 'Tainted Love'."
Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube - Tainted Love, Top 100 One Hit Wonders of the 80s

Mulholland Drive

Wikipedia - "Mulholland Drive is a 2001 American neo-noir psychological thriller written and directed by David Lynch, starring Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring, and Justin Theroux. The surrealist film was highly acclaimed by many critics and earned Lynch the Prix de la mise en scène (Best Director Award) at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival as well as an Oscar nomination for Best Director."
Wikipedia, Film Comment, September/October 2001, YouTube