Debbie Fleming Caffery Christmas Tree, 2013

Because Christmas is coming and I bought a christmas tree…

Debbie Fleming Caffery Christmas Tree, 2013

#because #Christmas #DebbieFleming #lazypost

On my way to Vienna…

As I’m on my way to Vienna, let’s talk briefly about the Viennese Actionism movement of the 60s, 70s!

These are one of my favourite group of their time: not for their work itself but for the fact they are the most provocative artists ever, and no one has done “worst” since. 

Violent and transgressive, they often used the body as a medium in many different ways: blood, urine, vomit, sperm, self mutilation… You name it, they probably did! 

I remember especially their videos. Without sound and changing focus constantly, it succeed to create a real malaise for the viewer. Some are only 1min length but this will be the longest 1min of your entire life. Actually, most are not even watchable entirely and you tend to fast forward it to make it till the end. 

To summarise, they are the most WTF artists who ever (will ever?) existed and for this, I kind of respect them.

Hermann Nitsch, Kreuzwegstation (Station of the Cross), 1961

Otto Muehl, Silberarsch, 1965

Günter Bruss, Self painting, Self mutilation, 1965 

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night

I finally been able to watch last night A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night of the Iranian Ana Lily Amirpour and this is now one of my favorite vampire movie along with the Swedish ‘Let the right one in’. Both share the same type of human/vampire relationship but the association stops here, as the genre is very different. Let the right one in is based on a novel, with a very dark and a more complex storyline where A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night is more visual, and the (very good) music is a dialogue by itself.

So, yes, this movie is real weird piece of art. Visually beautiful, the director mixed spaghetti westerns, graphic novels, horror movie, film noirs and it works!

I try to figure it out how to describe the movie, but it is all about the atmosphere, its strange characters, the numerous references (James Dean mixed with New wave pop, the dealer is a real Die Antwoort look alike, the streets similar to a Paul Strand’s photograph…).

So, if you can, watch this movie, you won’t regret it and probably will start listening rock sang in Farsi!

#blackandwhite #farsi #movie #vampire