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Der Letzte Mann (The Last Laugh), 1924. Lithograph series for the premiere of F. W. Murnau’s silent movie.
Theo Matejko’s dynamic and sensationalist style, which had a lasting influence on press graphic culture from the early 1920s onwards, was significantly influenced by cinematic views. The fact that he was commissioned by the UFA in 1924 to sketch the shooting of Murnau’s silent movie The Last Laugh (1924) underlines this connection. In this groundbreaking […]
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Hazem Alhamwi´s “From my Syrian Room” — from his German room
The Essay is based on Hazem Alhamwi´s latest documentary “From my Syrian Room”, Syria, France, Germany, Lebanon and Qatar, 2014 , 70 minutes. All images are stills taken from this film. Prima facie, there is no obvious close connection between the satirical black humour of Syrian artist Hazem Alhamwi, which is found in his cartoons, […]
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Hubert Herkomer, 1849 – 1914. Exhibitions in Landsberg and Bushey
The exhibition on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Hubert Herkomer, which runs at present in the City Museum Landsberg in Germany and which subsequently will be at display in Bushey near London, should actually be shown at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, at the Pinakothek in Munich and at the Tate Britain. […]
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Georg Winter´s UCS moving pictures:: Losing Horses. – Scene 3: The Haus zur Trapp in Pulheim
Shooting finds its climax andcompletion on the Stommeln village green. In the remake of the novel, Haus zur Trapp, built in 1785 and in reality now a café and hotel, serves as the inn Don Quixote believes is a castle. The fair maidens standing at the door are actually “two young women, girls of the […]
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Georg Winter´s UCS moving pictures:: Losing Horses. – Scene 2: The former drive-in theater in Pulheim
A German/Hungarian Film, UCS Self Organizing CinemaDirection: Vera Poros, Kerstin KachelmannScreenplay: Georg WinterBased on the novel Don Quixoteby Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraShot in Ukiyo Real Time for the first time with “UCS Passive Acting” by Johnny Depp andChristopher Lee (both of whom were requested), reversed stunts at three locations: theStommeln windmill, the former drive-in theater […]
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Georg Winter´s UCS moving pictures:: Losing Horses. – Scene 1: The Stommeln windmill
In September 2005, the German-Hungarian film production “Losing Horses / Veszítö Lovak” by Ukiyo Camera Systems moving pictures was shot at locations in Pulheim and Stommeln, not far from Cologne. Georg Winter´s Real-Time Recording Method attempted to create filmic situations (Self Organizing Cinema) based on the construction of the reality of “Don Quixote” by Miguel […]
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“Vogelmen Diaries” (Trailer by Stefan Heller)
The Trailer…
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Ronald Searle, Fugitive
Among the many voices that paid homage to the ninty-years old cartoonist Ronald Searle, the one of film director Mike Leigh protrudes. In an essay published by Daily Telegraph Leigh, who is noted for his experimental methods of achieving realism in film, explains, how a book of cartoons, given to him at the age of […]
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Bernard Buffet – Terrain Vague – Dangerous terrain
“Bernard Buffet, 34, painter of the “misérables”, owner of a Rolls-Royce, whose figures with their elongated proportions are no longer being rewarded by French art dealers in line with the bestseller lists, has painted a 20 sq. m. cinema poster for the ballad of the wide boys, “Terrain Vague”, by that old master among directors, […]
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Robert Weaver II – Split-Level Books
In the 1980s, frustrated by the increasing restrictions in the field of magazine design, Weaver shifted the focus of his activities more and more to teaching at the New York Visual School of Arts and expanded a loose sequence of diary-like motif books he began with in the 1970s to form an independent complex of […]