June 2011 Calendar

Click HERE to download the calendar to print it.

Quote from the Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, art by UEK Multimedia Artist.

La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)

La Jetée is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi / avant garde film from 1962, or maybe more descriptive as a photo novel. It's from a time when airports still had observation decks. La Jetée starts and ends at Paris Orly Airport.

It is labeled a French science fiction film by Chris Marker and is based on Terry Gilliam’s Twelve Monkeys:

Oskar Fischinger

Oskar Fischinger (22 June 1900 — 31 January 1967) was a German-American abstract animator, filmmaker, and painter. He made over 50 short animated films, and painted around 800 canvases, many of which are in museums, galleries and collections worldwide. He was also into music (see link below videos to access his bio).






Homepage with more info.

Tadanori Yokoo "Kachi Kachi Yama" (1965)

Tadanori Yokoo is one of the world’s foremost graphic designers, in the same league as Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast. He is also often compared to Andy Warhol and Peter Max.

3 images from the video:






Tadanori Yokoo HOMEPAGE

Zimoun + Hannes Zweifel

"Their very intrinsic banality make the end-result is utterly virtuosic." Lo Han (source)


200 prepared dc-motors, 2000 cardboard elements 70x70cm
Zimoun in collabortation with Architect Hannes Zweifel 2011
http://hanneszweifel.ch
www.zimoun.ch

Sun Ra and His Arkestra

"And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets." --Sun Ra, Jazz musician (May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993)

The dialogue in the video at the beginning is in French, but it is very short.


DirectLink to video