There are already many pieces written about the stunning opening title sequence from the first Millennium series film Girl with a Dragon Tattoo. Here are a few: www.wired.com/underwire/2012/01/dragon-tattoo-opening-titles www.ventilate.ca/2012/01/10/blur-studio-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-titles http://io9.com/5873372/ Blur Studio link http://vz3.blur.com/work/detail/girl-with-dragon-tattoo#movies/1 Interested in watching other memorable title sequences? Visit www.theartofthetitle.com

Another Place depicts scenes from the production of an American film of the artist’s imagining, which centers on an unseen catastrophic event.

Read the entire article from The Independent here www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/jonathan-wateridges-another-place-1991589.html

Excerpt from ‘The Guardian’ From Nighthawks to the shadows of film noir by Philip French:

German expressionism impinged on Hopper early on, during his sojourn in Paris. His 1921 etching Night Shadows looks like a storyboard sketch for a high-angle shot in a Fritz Lang movie. But [...]]]>

NY movie by Edward Hopper 1939 Courtesy of Prestel

Excerpt from ‘The Guardian’ From Nighthawks to the shadows of film noir by Philip French:

German expressionism impinged on Hopper early on, during his sojourn in Paris. His 1921 etching Night Shadows looks like a storyboard sketch for a high-angle shot in a Fritz Lang movie. But what really influenced him were the movies shot on the backlots of Hollywood’s great studios in the Thirties and Forties. Like the films of Hollywood’s Golden Era, his paintings are about ‘the city’, a heightened abstract notion rather than any particular metropolis. Voyeurism has been an unavoidable condition of urban living and moviegoing, and Hopper’s pictures spy on people in uncurtained rooms. They are epiphanic moments in someone else’s life, stills from a movie we can’t quite remember.

Read the entire article here.

cinemetrics from fb on Vimeo.

I am not really after a narrative. As much as I am concerned with movement, I prefer to be suggestive at most, implying only a mood or feeling. Any type of moralizing or story telling is intended to be frozen, inert, non-revealing to the viewer. I am generally after [...]]]> Text and interview: Margherita Dessanay Elephant Magazine

I am not really after a narrative. As much as I am concerned with movement, I prefer to be suggestive at most, implying only a mood or feeling. Any type of moralizing or story telling is intended to be frozen, inert, non-revealing to the viewer. I am generally after an expressive documentation of situations plausible enough, but aloof and distanced in which the viewer must not be distracted with narrative, so he may engage himself in the expression, material and execution of the work.

andydenzler.com
elephant magazine

My fave cinemagraph is the girl in the mirror, by Jamie Beck and [...]]]> I’ve been thinking about the emergance of cinemagraphs, at this early stage I think there could be something there. I just hope it doesn’t end up like the ‘make everything miniature’ craze which will surely be an upcoming photoshop filter ‘Miniaturize’.

My fave cinemagraph is the girl in the mirror, by Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg.
“There’s something magical about a still photograph – a captured moment in time – that can simultaneously exist outside the fraction of a second the shutter captures.” —Jamie Beck
You can visit her blog here

Read more on Cinemagraphs on Juxtapoz and on The Huffington Post

I spotted the work of Massimo Carnevale on Flavorwire who spotted it on The Swedish Bed. His own site is here.

JAMES FRANCO THE DANGEROUS BOOK FOUR BOYS BERLIN MITTE

FEBRUARY 12 – APRIL 23, 2011 OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12TH, 2011, 7 PM – 10 PM TUESDAY – SATURDAY 11 AM – 6 PM AND BY APPOINTMENT

In two locations: Peres Projects MITTE Grosse Hamburger Strasse 17 10115 Berlin Peres Projects KREUZBERG Schlesische Strasse 26 10997 Berlin

February 12th – April 23rd, [...]]]> PERES PROJECTS – BERLIN

JAMES FRANCO
THE DANGEROUS BOOK FOUR BOYS
BERLIN MITTE

FEBRUARY 12 – APRIL 23, 2011
OPENING RECEPTION:
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12TH, 2011, 7 PM – 10 PM
TUESDAY – SATURDAY 11 AM – 6 PM AND BY APPOINTMENT

In two locations:
Peres Projects MITTE Grosse Hamburger Strasse 17 10115 Berlin
Peres Projects KREUZBERG Schlesische Strasse 26 10997 Berlin

February 12th – April 23rd, 2011
Opening February 12th, 7 – 10pm

Javier Peres is pleased to present The Dangerous Book Four Boys, the first European solo exhibition of James Franco.

Franco´s works explore a variety of issues stemming from adolescence while acknowledging the contributions of influential artists and filmmakers such as Paul McCarthy and Kenneth Anger. This exhibition brings together short films, drawings, photographs, ephemera, sculptures and installations made over the last 4 years where we see Franco draw upon childhood experiences including notions of identity, masculinity, sexuality and other essential life experiences and culminates in presenting a rejection of normative parenthood and suggesting alternative paradigms for parental relations.

This exhibition was previously presented at the Clocktower Gallery, NYC, and we are thankful to curator Alanna Heiss and to Kunst-Werke, Institute for Contemporary Art for their support.

The exhibition and opening is free and open to the public.
www.peresprojects.com
Opening hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11am – 6pm and by appointment. For further information or reproductions please contact Margherita Belaief at +49 30 6162 6962, or Margherita@PeresProjects.com or Javier Peres at Javier@PeresProjects.com