Naboer / Next Door
Director: Pål Sletaune
Genre: Psychological drama / thriller
Language: Norwegian
Year Of Release: 2005
Type of video: DVDR (all extras are removed)
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Sunday, 27 September 2009
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Friday, 25 September 2009
Daikichi Amano / Genki and the Art of Eel Porn
In his photographs, Daikichi Amano (b.1973 in Japan), enfant terrible of Hokusai, does not shun even the most impossible types ofembraces.
In his monstrous orgies—elaborate and disturbingly sensual encounters of otherworldly beauty that flirts with the abject—angel-faced women frolic with snakes and earthworms, elegantly contorted and interlaced eels slipping into every orifice of the human body. Live toads are sucked-on gluttonously, cockroaches, larvae and other invertebrates embrace, interweave, absorb and suck on each other until they lock into a hybrid body moving as one under the waves of a new kind of irresistible sensuality. Each animal possesses its own secret beauty – Amano has made it his calling to reveal their graces: smooth undulating eels, shiny and transparent octopuses arranged in precious and enthralling compositions. Despite being disturbing to the point of nausea, Daikichi Amano’s works are celebrated internationally. He composes new kinds of tableaux with the bodies of actresses, animals and insects, translates his nightmares and visions into frozen images, portraits of an almost surreal beauty. Amano pursues this photographic enquiry into the bizarre realms of erotic imagination with an obsessive and perfectionist eye for detail, inspired by the Dutch still-lives painters as well as Japanese mythology and the great Ukiyo-E woodcut masters of the Edo period and in particular the erotic Shunga prints.
Textures, surfaces and bodies weave themselves into abstract compositions in his photographs, with flesh, scales and skin taking on the colours of jewels. The abject becomes sublime. This is Amano’s great talent: to reevaluate death not as sterile horror, but as an aesthetic resurrection. He takes up the ancient idea of beauty as ineluctably doomed to wilt, condemned to eventually disappear and thereby aligns himself as an artist in a thousand-year-old poetic tradition that sings of all things fleeting and ephemeral. (via)
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Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Monday, 21 September 2009
Friday, 18 September 2009
Ônibus 174 / Bus 174
Director: José Padilha / Felipe Lacerda
Genre: Documentary
Language: Portuguese (w/ english subs)
Year Of Release: 2002
Wednesday, 16 September 2009
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
The Zen Mind
Director: Jon Braeley
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Year Of Release: 2006
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Year Of Release: 2006
Zen is a recent phenomenon in the west but is spreading so rapidly that it’s influence is touching all of us and now rivals the east in the numbers of enthusiasts. Zen centers have sprung up all over America and Europe. There are more books with Zen in the title than any other belief or religion. Yet, what do we know about its original practice? When Dogen, the founder of Soto Zen, brought Zen to Japan some 800 years ago it quickly took root. So we ask, How is it doing today? The Zen Mind will answer this question.
From the suburbs of Tokyo to remote mountains, travel with us across Japan to explore the practice of Zen. We will take you inside the modern Zen center and traditional Zen monastery to see both worlds in detail. With unrestricted access, our cameras put you inside the Zendo or meditation hall to experience Zazen – the practice of sitting. This is real Zen. This is the Zen Mind.
Featuring a superb music soundtrack by Japan’s top shakuhachi flute master, Christopher Yohmei.
Monday, 14 September 2009
Accattone
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Genre: Drama
Language: Italian (w/ english subs - hardsubbed)
Year Of Release: 1961
Genre: Drama
Language: Italian (w/ english subs - hardsubbed)
Year Of Release: 1961
Saturday, 12 September 2009
Thursday, 10 September 2009
Mythos
Mythos: Vol. 1 (1987)
Mythos - 1.1: Psyche & Symbol
Mythos - 1.2: The Spirit World
Mythos - 1.3: On Being Human
Mythos - 1.4: From Goddess to God
Mythos - 1.5: The Mystical Life Featured
Mythos: Vol. 2 (1998)
Mythos - 2.1: The Inward Path
Mythos - 2.2: The Enlightend One
Mythos - 2.3: Our Eternal Selves
Mythos - 2.4: The Way to Illumination
Mythos - 2.5: The Experience of God
Tuesday, 8 September 2009
Kemonozume / Beast Claw
Director: Masaaki Yuasa
Studio: Madhouse
Genre: Drama
Language: Japanese (w/ english subs)
Year Of Release: 2006
Video quality: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1280x720 23.98fps
Audio quality: AAC 48000Hz stereo
Mind Game
Director: Masaaki Yuasa
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Comedy
Language: Japanese (w/ english subs)
Year Of Release: 2004
Monday, 7 September 2009
The Bird People in China / Chûgoku no chôjin
Director: Takashi Miike
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Language: Japanese (w/ english subs)
Year Of Release: 1998
Sunday, 6 September 2009
Saturday, 5 September 2009
Brain Damage
Director: Frank Henenlotter
Genre: Horror / Comedy
Language: English
Year Of Release: 1988
Friday, 4 September 2009
The Young Poisoner's Handbook
Director: Benjamin Ross
Genre: Crime / Comedy / Drama
Language: English
Year Of Release: 1995
Thursday, 3 September 2009
Esta Noite Encarnarei no Teu Cadáver / This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse
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Director: José Mojica Marins
Genre: Horror
Language: Portuguese (w/ english subs)
Year Of Release: 1967
Wednesday, 2 September 2009
Takashi Miike's Black Society Trilogy
Director: Takashi Miike
Genre: crime / drama
Language: Japanese / Mandarin (w/ english subtitles)
Three movies by Miike, even though a trilogy, the stories are not connected; the common thread of all three movies is the relation of triads in Japan and vice versa (yakuza in China).
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