Moving people is a fascinating short art movie by Vladimir Shcherban, the director of Belarus Free Theatre. This is his first film work where he presents actors with whom he has collaborated in the underground theatre. Human emotion, individual identities, movement, light and fragments of the human body are the elements which tell the tales of the 6 short stories in this film.
Vladimir Shcherban about the film: “The idea to make this video came to my mind when i found the illuminant in my temporary loft appartment in New York City. My friend finally bought a camera for saved money and helped me with my film. The film production was carried out in the room of one of New York City hotels.”
Legendary images of the 60s and 70s are brought together in the ‘Zeitgeist & Glamour’ exhibition at the NRW-Forum in Düsseldorf; the most spectacular photographs of an exciting era: the icons of an age, superstars and celebrities, and unmistakable milieux. There are both masterful photographs of the highest aesthetic order, ground-breaking in their finesse, and cheerful snapshots of a hidden world. Images of a culture celebrating itself in the midst of fame and glamour, wallowing in the pleasure of a beautiful moment. The pictures embody the spirit of the hour, the attitude of an entire generation. Public and private alike are captured, as are faces and atmospheres, the extravagant and the usual, glamour and its complement: melancholy and forlornness. The Zeitgeist & Glamour exhibition offers a kaleidoscope of life forms from the 60s and 70s that centres on the ‘stages’ of the major cities of the Western world.
The exhbition Zeitgeist & Glamour at the NRW forum in Düsseldorf will run until may 15, 2011.
See also an earlier posted article on the Warmenhoven & Venderbos Blog about David Bailey.
David Bailey is an inspiring, unique and remarkable photographer who shot fascinating fashion and celebrity photos. In 1959 he became a photographic assistant at the John French studio, and in May 1960, he was a photographer for John Cole’s Studio Five before being contracted as a fashion photographer for British Vogue magazine later that year. Along with Terence Donovan and Brian Duffy, he captured and helped create the ‘Swinging London’ of the 1960s: a culture of high fashion and celebrity chic. The three photographers socialised with actors, musicians and royalty, and found themselves elevated to celebrity status. Together, they were the first real celebrity photographers, named by Norman Parkinson as “the Black Trinity”.
Last year a retrospective of his most iconic photographs with the title “Pure sixties. Pure bailey” was on show at Bonhams. Fifty years on from a decade that changed our cultural history, his images celebrate a period of spontaneity and decadence, capturing the glamour and hedonism of the era. Among the famous faces immortalised by Bailey’s lens are Mick Jagger, Michael Caine and the Jean Shrimpton. In the below video interview he had an interesting talk with Sarfraz Manzoor about Picasso, body language and his dread of photographing modern celebrities.
Some of David Bailey’s photo’s are currently on exhibition at the NRW Forum Düsseldorf. This exhibition carries the title Zeitgeist & Glamour and will run until May 15, 2011. Read more about it in this article on the W&V Blog.
Recently the, Copenhagen based, Danish electronic musician Anders Trentemøller released his latest album titled “Into the Great Wide Yonder”. The Warmenhoven & Venderbos designers like the lead track and its video from this album a lot. For the albums lead single “Sycamore Feeling”, Trentemøller teamed up with Danish singer Marie Fisker. The result is a sophisticated, edgy-chic, fashionable and melancholic down tempo song with haunting vocals by Marie Fisker.
The very inspiring and beautiful music video for “Sycamore Feeling” was written and directed by video artist Jesper Just. It was shot in the abandoned town of Centralia in Pennsylvania USA. The reason Centralia was abandoned is because of a fire in the coal layers and the mines beneath the town, a fire which broke out in 1962 and which is still burning nowadays. The female lead is performed by both, Diana Wagner and a well known New Yorker drag performer, Princess Diandra. Due to the fragmented structure of the video both actors become basically one identity.
Music: Anders Trentemøller and Marie Fisker | Video: Written and directed by Jesper Just
