Sunday 31 January 2010

Arakimentari + Interview


Director: Travis Klose
Genre: Documentary
Language: Japanese / English (w/ english subs over japanese audio)
Year Of Release: 2004
Length: 1hr 14min + 57min
Type of video: .avi (divx)

Nobuyoshi Araki is Japan's most famous and notorious photographer. In a culture where complete female nudity is frowned upon even in men's magazines, Araki has been acclaimed and condemned for his photo books and exhibitions which usually focus upon women, usually nude and often in bold (and sometimes disturbing) poses. While he has been decried as a pornographer and a misogynist in his homeland, many others regard him as singular voice in the photographic arena, and many of the women who work with him have spoke of his sincere love and respect for them. Arakimentari is a film by American documentarian Travis Klose which offers a look at the professional and personal sides of Araki, including his background, his relationships with his models, his less well known portraiture and landscape work, and how he spends his spare time. Also included are interviews with several friends and contemporaries, including musician Björk, photographer Richard Kern, and actor/filmmaker Takeshi Kitano.

Araki is so fucking awesome that it blows my mind







info / links (943mb + 724mb)

8 comments:

Anonymous,  2 February 2010 at 22:37  

thanks alot, nice.

Anonymous,  8 February 2010 at 21:42  

Wonderful, thank you for this !
(I love Araki)

Anonymous,  8 March 2010 at 16:22  

See, This is why I keep coming back to this blog. Documentaries that seem to be on topics so obscure to me that I couldn't imangine any interest in it, and yet they turn out to be well rounded films.

Anonymous,  28 May 2010 at 06:20  

Really Looking forward to watching this, i love araki's work as well,
Thanks again for your great blog
rus

Anonymous,  25 June 2010 at 14:37  

thank you i've seen a foto album
of his work, he's great! your blog is great!!!!!!

akagugo 21 September 2010 at 09:19  

Many many thanks for the original work described here!

David,  31 July 2012 at 15:39  

I can´t find the password!!! Could you please provide it?Thanks!!

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