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Street Date: August 26, 2008 Prebook Date: July 29, 2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~ Dali in New York Available for the First Time on DVD! On the Ecstasy of Ski-Flying: Werner Herzog in Conversation with Karen Beckman Vito Acconci in Conversation at Acconci Studio, New York Democracy and Disappointment: On the Politics of Resistance Alain Badiou and Simon Critchley in Conversation Available at microcinemadvd.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~ Dali in New York http://www.microcinemadvd.com/product/DVD/764/Dali_in_New_York.html ============================================================================ ==== $US 34.95 SRP/Edu European List Prices: 34.95 Euros/£23.99 CATALOG # MC-764 UPC: 635961106722 Documentary 1966 · 57 min Filmmaker Jack Bond and Salvador Dali got together at Christmas 1965 to make Dali in New York, a highly entertaining film. Dali devoted two weeks of his life to creating extraordinary scenes for the film, performing "manifestations" with a plaster cast. A thousand ants and one million dollars in cash. When he confronts the feminist writer, Jane Arden, sparks fly. "You are my Slave! I am not your slave. Everybody is my slave." Dali recalls his meeting with Freud, "The last human relationship ever" About his wife, 'But for Gala I would be lying in a gutter somewhere covered with lice" Jim Desmond's dazzling cinematography captures the great artist painting as Flamenco virtuoso Manitas de Plata performs. Dali in New York is a rare treat for anyone who loves film and the living theatre of Dali's surreal universe. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~ On the Ecstasy of Ski-Flying: Werner Herzog in Conversation with Karen Beckman http://www.microcinemadvd.com/product/DVD/824/On_the_Ecstasy_of_SkiFlying_We rner_Herzog_in_Conversation_with_Karen_Beckman.html ============================================================================ ==== $US 30.00 SRP/Edu European List Prices: 30.00 Euros/£20.99 CATALOG # MC-824 UPC: 796873076555 Documentary 2007 · 63 min On the Ecstasy of Ski-Flying: Werner Herzog in Conversation with Karen Beckman On the Ecstasy of Ski-Flying features a public conversation with filmmaker Werner Herzog and Karen Beckman about aliens as a fixture of our imagination, the fundamental achievement of the human race, and the ecstasy of ski-flying. Includes a booklet with selected writings by Werner Herzog, and photographs from Fitzcarraldo and Cobra Verde by Beat Presser. During the 2007-2008 academic year, students in the RBSL Bergman Foundation Curatorial Seminar at the University of Pennsylvania collaboratively engaged in research spanning disciplines such as literature, visual culture, urbanism, geo-politics, and technology. One residue of these endeavors was this publication that attempts to construct an archive of the temporal-in particular, this site-specific conversation on October 25, 2007 at Slought Foundation in Philadelphia. Born in Munich, director, screenwriter, producer, and actor Werner Herzog grew up in a remote mountain village in Bavaria and never saw films, television, or telephones as a child. He started traveling on foot from the age of 14 and made his first phone call at the age of 17. During high school he worked the nightshift as a welder in a steel factory to produce films and made his first film in 1961 at the age of 19. Since then he has become one of the most influential filmmakers in the world producing, writing, and directing more than fifty films, publishing more than a dozen books of prose, and directing as many operas. Werner Herzog has created some of the most fantastic narratives in the history of cinema, pushing himself and his crew to unprecedented lengths to achieve the effects he demanded. His films include: Little Dieter Needs to Fly, Aguirre, The Wrath of God, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Nosferatu, Fitzcarraldo, Even Dwarfs Started Small, Grizzly Man, Rescue Dawn, and Encounters at the End of the World. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~ Vito Acconci in Conversation at Acconci Studio, New York http://www.microcinemadvd.com/product/DVD/825/Vito_Acconci_in_Conversation_a t_Acconci_Studio_New_York.html ============================================================================ ==== $US 30.00 SRP/Edu European List Prices: 30.00 Euros/£20.99 CATALOG # MC-825 UPC: 796873061377 New Media 2007 · 74 min Vito Acconci in Conversation at Acconci Studio, New York features a conversation between the artist and architect Vito Acconci and undergraduate students at the University of Pennsylvania. During the 2007-2008 academic year, students in the Halpern-Rogath Seminar in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania explored Vito Acconci's engagement with the experience of power, understood through the activation of specific bounded zones. These have included the page, streets in New York, a basement, galleries, and public environments. Acconci's earliest forays into the realm of architecture in the 1980s marked a major shift in his work from an emphasis on the individual body (often his own) to the social body in an urban context. At the same time, the artist's focus on architecture, the built environment, and relevant social systems has emerged as a natural extension of his earlier interests in probing idiomatic language, the boundaries of the body, and the unstable delineations between private and public spaces. Recognizing the fact that architecture has the power to control the body and the rhythms of daily life, Acconci visualizes structures that perpetuate instability and the possibility of choice on the part of the user. The projects, which are collaborative undertakings with a team of designers and architects, focus on the creation of dynamic circulation systems that bend, twist, ooze, flow, bulge, and ripple across an existing landscape or a body. The course culminated in the exhibition Power Fields: Explorations in the Work of Vito Acconci at Slought Foundation, Philadelphia. Vito Acconci (born 1940) currently lives and works in New York. His early work took the form of fiction and poetry; his last poems reduced words to indices of the writer's and reader's travel across the page. In the late 1960's and the early 1970's, his artworks used performance, photos, film and video as instruments of self-analysis and person-to-person relationships. His audio and video installations of the mid-1970's turned exhibition-spaces into community meeting-places, and his architectural games of the early 1980's made performative spaces for viewers. In the mid 1980's, his work crossed over into architecture, landscape, and industrial design, and in 1988 he started Acconci Studio, a theoretically-oriented design workshop. The studio treats architecture as an occasion for activity, making spaces fluid, changeable, and portable. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~ Democracy and Disappointment: On the Politics of Resistance http://www.microcinemadvd.com/product/DVD/823/Democracy_and_Disappointment_O n_the_Politics_of_Resistance.html ============================================================================ ==== $US 30.00 SRP/Edu European List Prices: 30.00 Euros/ £20.99 CATALOG # MC-823 UPC: 796873057523 Political / Social 2007 · 105 min Democracy and Disappointment features a conversation between Alain Badiou and Simon Critchley addressing the politics of resistance in DVD video format, with a brochure featuring their recent philosophical writings about politics, heroism, and poetics. During the 2007-2008 academic year, students in the RBSL Bergman Foundation Curatorial Seminar at the University of Pennsylvania collaboratively engaged in research spanning disciplines such as literature, visual culture, urbanism, geo-politics, and technology. One residue of these endeavors was this publication that attempts to construct an archive of the temporal-in particular, this site-specific conversation on November 15, 2007 at Slought Foundation in Philadelphia. Alain Badiou (1937) taught philosophy at the University of Paris VIII from 1969 until 1999, and then at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS). Much of Badiou's life has been shaped by his dedication to the consequences of events of May 1968. Long a leading member of Union des jeunesses communistes de France (marxistes-léninistes), he remains with Sylvain Lazarus and Natacha Michel at the center of L'Organisation Politique, a post-party organization concerned with direct popular intervention in a wide range of issues (including immigration, labor, and housing). He is the author of several successful novels and plays as well as more than a dozen philosophical works. In the 1980s, Badiou published a series of technical and abstract philosophical works such as Théorie du sujet (1982), and his magnum opus, Being and Event (1988). In the last decade, an increasing number of Badiou's works have been translated into English, such as Ethics, Deleuze, Manifesto for Philosophy, and Metapolitics. Simon Critchley (1960) is Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, New York, since 2004. Like many of his generation, defined by punk, generalized nihilism, and the disappointments that followed 1968, he was politicized by the Miners' Strike in 1984-85 and worked as a local activist throughout the 1980s and early 1990s before becoming disaffected with mainstream party politics. He is the author of many books, including Very Little... Almost Nothing (Routledge, 1997), Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity (Verso, 1999), On Humour (Routledge, 2002), and Things Merely Are (Routledge, 2005). 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