Tuesday 13 March 2012

The Golden Ratio




http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/dec/28/golden-ratio-us-academic

Wednesday 7 March 2012

Fluxus Exhib at Ann Arbour, Michigan



INTENT ON QUESTIONING EVERYTHING

http://www.annarbor.com/entertainment/umma-fluxus/

Finisterrae


Perhaps the most bizarre film I have seen yet, Sergio Caballero's FINISTERRAE is equal parts intriguing, humorous and surreal. It is a film loaded with so much symbols that you just sit back, relax, and hope that you can piece together the plot (or the lack of it) as soon as the credits roll.

The basic premise is that there are two ghosts who decide they want to become human again, and so embark on "The Way of St. James" to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, and on to Cape Finnistera (or Finnisterae), which literally means "land's end". Along the way, they consult with an oracle, meet a hippie chick, elude an unknown assailant, encounter a forest filled with trees who bear ears (literally human ears!), and even find time to go fishing. The adventure is quite funny, at times just plain absurd, but all throughout existential questions abound. Just when I thought two guys dressed in white sheets were just escaped mental patients, Caballero pushes the surrealist atmosphere further, making the trip more bizarre as it goes on.

c. http://deathoftraditionalcinema.blogspot.com/2011/12/finisterrae-sergio-caballero.html