Joel-Peter Witkin - L’image indélébile (1994)

A portrait of American photographer Joel-Peter Witkin at last presented as a whole [all the 56 minutes]

Check also Witkin’s part in Vile Bodies series [1 /2]

and also former merz post on the subject

fun with nuns

Free jazz-noise-improvisation collective from Greece. No fixed line up as anyone is free to join and blow his guts out. Absurdism and dada seem to be sacred and profane values for the deviant nuns. Imagine Borbetomagus, Smegma and Art Ensemble of Chicago along with Zorn at his extremes doing their tricks all together, throw some Murray, Ulmer and Ra in the melting pot, add some solid noise and industrial influences [a bit on the ritual side] and you have a jam for ‘pataphysics seminar. Unfortunately there are still no releases available from nuns but you can enjoy them over @ their myspace.com page, funwithnunsinspandex.

Stay tuned I can hear great things coming.

Post Industrial Sex

“Post Industrial Sex” is a narrative film created from found footage.

The soundtrack is the Mental Insect song with the same title from Mental Insect’s CD/EP “Skull Tracks”.

The director, Frank Zirbel, wrote the instrumental song that features eclectic performances by the legendary violinist, Johnny Frigo, and the jazz drummer,Barret Deems.

In the film, the perfect family loses their home to an unexplained explosion in an unreasonable, dangerous
world. Greed leads to the loss of everything good.

The Chicago Sun Times described the film as “…an unnerving passage through American Culture”

Dan Dinello writing for Alternative Press stated: “The images depict a floating mannequin man learning the rules and rewards of making it in America. Programmed, mechanical,duplicated and cloned, the inevitable progress and reproduction of manniquin man leads to the destruction of nature and war.”

Tags: industrial, experimental, music, video