Tag: film
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Anti-cinema
Woman, Ukrainian, Jewish, Esfir Shub was an absolute pioneer in filmmaking created from documentary film archives. She was thus a forerunner of Soviet cinéma vérité (Kino-Pravda, Dziga Vertov, and others), analytical documentary cinema, and the so-called essay film. Faithful to the avant-garde logic of Soviet agitprop at the dawn of a revolution that took Russia…
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Alex Prager — Lavazza Calendar 2023
The best art writing is, simply put, honest commercial copywriting. Like this amazing Lavazza calendar for the coming year. I never thought about how art, photography and film of the 60s and 70s of the 20th Century appear so attractive and intriguing to at least part of the younger creative generation of the 21st Century.…
