Pixels -- New York Invasion

PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN.

New York invasion by 8-bits creatures !
PIXELS is Patrick Jean' latest short film, shot on location in New York.

May 2010 Calendar

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DIG! (2004)

Anton Newcombe of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, Courtney Taylor, and leader of the Dandy Warhols is the focus of this rock video. The camera follows Anton around through record deals, concerts and personal conflicts with his bands and band members from the early days of the West Coast to CBGB's to Europe and Japan with sold out concerts.

LINK to a free full featured 107 minute movie off Snagfilms.

Adolf Woelfli (outsider artist)

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Adolf Wölfli (Woelfli), a former farmhand and laborer, produced a monumental, 25,000-page illustrated narrative in Waldau, a mental asylum near Bern, Switzerland. Through a complex web of texts, drawings, collages and musical compositions, Wölfli constructed a new history of his childhood and a glorious future with its own personal mythology. The French Surrealist André Breton described his work as "one of the three or four most important oeuveres of the twentieth century". source


(This video has a broken French narration and music, but many images of Woelfli are plentiful)



You find MP3 of Gelesen und vertont (in German) HERE
Whether Wölfli's music can be played is often asked: Yes, but with much difficulty. Parts of the musical manuscripts of 1913 were analyzed in 1976 by Kjell Keller and Peter Streif and were performed. As Wölfli has indicated, his music consists of dances, waltzes, mazurkas, and polkas. However, how Wölfli gathered his knowledge of music, and how he managed to write it down is unclear. The above Gelesen und vertont [Adolf Wölfli: Recited and set to music). Sound recording. Selection and adaption of the texts by Jürgen Glaesemer and Elka Spoerri, ed. Bernische Kunstgesellschaft and Adolf Wölfli Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts, Bern, 1978.

A film about Woelfli by Alfredo Knuchel, „Halleluja! Der Herr ist verrückt“ / „Halleluja! The Lord Is Mad“, 2004, 87 min., color, 35 mm Stereo, is available for sale.

Find more information, pictures and stories HERE

Henry Darger (outsider artist)

The horns on these Blengiglomenean serpents seem more phalangic than phallic.

In 1973, at a Catholic poor house in Chicago, an 81-year-old retired janitor quietly died. His name was Henry Darger. Just months earlier, he had moved from the rented room where he had lived for over 40 years. When his landlords, Nathan and Kiyoko Lerner, cleaned out the clutter room, they discovered paintings: hundreds of brilliant watercolors, some over 10 feet long. The images were disturbing and mysteriously beautiful: little girls frolicking under stormy skies, little girls fighting soldiers, little girls being rescued by fantastic winged creatures.

The landlords soon found the other half of Darger's life's work, perhaps the longest novel ever written: the more than 15,000 page, single-spaced typed In the Realms of the Unreal, an epic story of the virtuous Vivian girls and their religious war against the evil Glandelinian army. For most of his life, Henry Darger, a recluse whom others called "Crazy," had lived in this rich fantasy world. It was a world he had kept to himself.

Today, Henry Darger is considered to be one of America's foremost outsider artists: an untaught artist working in isolation from the commercial or public eye. In the Realms of the Unreal, an adventurous documentary feature, explores the fantastic vision and shadowy life of this enigmatic artist. (from the movie: In the Realms of the Unreal)

LINK with additional pictures and scroll down for an article from A Personal Recollection by Nathan Lerner
Folk Art Museum NYC click on the smaller picture to the right

Full PBS video of In the Realms of the Unreal (click on following parts from the YouTube menu)



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