Mindsorter- Films list

more listmaking:)
this time...starting to list films seen...jot short notes..way unfinished/incomplete ( Read more... )

To see:
Timbuktu
About Time
Lincoln
Miral
Pina (seen part of)

Seen:
2015
Primer

2014
Upstream Color
Tree of Life
Herb & Dorothy sequel (in Guild Hall)
Mr.Nobody


2013
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Beginners

2012ish seen
Last Train Home (documentary on China factory workers)
Battlestar Galactica series
Casa de los Babies
Entangled
Herb & Dorothy
The Fair Trade (documentary on AntiBody line)
Exit Through the Giftshop

2011
(seen recently and notable)
The Fall - stunning visual moving artwork. I was very impressed by the constant creative vision in scene composition and camerawork. The little girl, actress Catinca Untaru was delightfully real. "In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastical story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances." trailer.
Home -(rental)foreign- unconventional family is dramatically affected by opening of highway through their idyllic life/land/home. really good if depressing.
The film closed with Nina Simone 'Like the Wind'...and I'd never heard it so perfectly and around me so richly with sound...I cried from the beauty of that- hard to explain. perhaps should get big earphones again. and experience music differently.
Source Code- (theatre Medford?)another memory film out at the same time as Limitless. very good as well!! soldier Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up in the body of an unknown man,(repeatedly)and discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train.
Limitless- (theatre SH)pill to utilize 100% brainpower (with consequences). Brilliant. (and my art is in it!!)
The Puffy Chair- (rental) roadtrip w/gf and brother to deliver a recliner to his dad for birthday. totally believable characters and dialogue/current/ indie

previously and notable :
Manufactured Landscapes: Please watch this. documentary on Photographer Edward Burtynsky observing changes in landscapes due to industrial work and manufacturing. absolutely stunning and overwhelming. I felt a bit too small to do anything after this....the issues seemed just so much Huger in scale than I could grasp...which I had to struggle to shake off to regain some hope. But still I feel the film is absolutely necessary and amazing. Would like some of his books...on China especially to continue to try to process this scale. trailer
Wasteland: another must see. inspiring. and on a topic of great interest to me...the dump communities. I was a bit nervous to see how it would be done...sensitive...but it really came through brilliantly I think. Artist Vik Muniz has my great respect and admiration.
'Home' Yann Arthus-Bertrand's visual meditation/contemplation. as as aerial view afficianado this did not disappoint. His large photography book 'Above the Earth' was on our wedding wishlist/registry back in 2005 and gifted to us by Esperanza. "With aerial footage from 54 countries, Home is a depiction of how the Earth's problems are all interlinked." trailer

in list form:
some Favorites:
Wasteland
Manufactured Landscapes
Life in a Day
Baraka
Waking Life
Pi
Wings of Desire
Henry and June
Lust for Life
Belle Epoque

Fate Mapping @ PINTA London

thrilled that some of my works are headed to London for the PINTA art fair with Praxis Gallery.
The fair runs June 6th through June 9th at Earls Court Exhibition Centre | Brompton Hall
Warwick Road, Earls Court.

This new piece is 'Fate Mapping'.
(resin, nails, mixed media)