Author Archives: jolanta

Delicious for the brain: Godfrey Reggio Lily Hatchett Images of him and of NAQOYQATSI   So muchhas been written and said about artist/filmmaker Godfrey Reggio, especiallysince the release of NAQOYQATSI, his long-awaited grand finale to the QATSItrilogy. The outcry of joys and disappointments, amazing how much passion agentle ex-monk can arouse.   I firstmet Godfrey […]

Silent Words Tarvis Watson SometimesI wonder what was going through Godfrey Reggio’s mind during those fourteenyears he was silent. I read somewhere that the average male speaks two thousandwords a day. Two thousand words times three hundred and sixty five days timesfourteen years equals ten million, two-hundred and twenty thousand words, allunspoken by Mr. Reggio. […]

Cuba: Island Of Music Rita Michel       Documentaryfilm producer and director Gary Keys started his media career in theadvertising industry directing television commercials. This day-job gave himthe skills that, subsequently, were the tools for his creations.style="mso-spacerun: yes">  Always a major jazz buff, Gary hassurrounded himself with musicians, or perhaps one can say that […]

NATURE IN ACE����David Hatchett DA-O-BA IV, 1969   style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana’>The nature of electricity ismovement and, generally speaking, when electricity is used as an element in art,it moves. Film, video, and amplified music are all "moving" arts thatare perceived over a length of time. This element of time creates a contextthat is easily assimilated into our day-to-day […]

MIGUEL ANGEL RIOS: Multiple Video Event David Hatchett style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana’>Walking through Artists Space, Ihear a sound track coming from a back room. It sounds like billiard ballscolliding or airplanes sweeping in on their targets. The quick strike, theclattering of chairs exploding, an air raid on Baghdad? A sign outside the roomsays it is a film by […]

GARY GOLDBERG: GLORIOUS SILLINESS David Hatchett       style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana’>Recently there was a memorial forGary Goldberg, an enigmatic artist with a dry sense of humor that was alwaysjust under the surface of his simple, plain-spoken demeanor. I have never met amore genuine dada artist. style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana’> style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana’>That night we were presented withglimpses of a number of […]

UNDISCOVERED GEMS: Phyllis Bulkin-Lehrer Lily Hatchett       Phyllis had been an accomplished painter for quite sometime when she started her performance work: choreographing and transformingpeople into shapes and having them move about in front of appreciativeaudiences. So, it was only natural that she would turn to animationchoreography, putting lines and shapes through some […]

MAX’S KANSAS CITY Lily Hatchett       style="mso-spacerun: yes">   Last year at the Sundance FilmFestival, I ran into Yvonne Sewell-Ruskin. She gave me a VHS short about thenotorious max’s kansas city. Aside from being an extremely well put together littlefilm, the come-hither seductiveness of that scene reached out and grabbed allwho saw it. A […]

Finding the Best Music for your Film/Video Project (Keeping Cool in Summer Charlie Miller   image of charlie miller     Silent summer, Spring fresh water, Glacier coolness.   Pictures and music. Music evokes pictures and emotions.This article tells you how to get the right music for your film or video.Though large corporate music houses […]

Erotica Section – from ATTAIN exhibition Garon Peterson   ATTAIN Erotic Mythology Art/Video Salon (2003) at theEickholt Gallery   At the 5000 sq. ft. Eickholt gallery space, Art &Propaganda organized the Erotic Art/Video Salon. At this multimedia event, fineart and video installations bordered live performances of modern dance,striptease, acoustic music, reggae dance vibrations, beatboxing and […]