Malíř Karel Balcar

Karel Balcar (born in Lanškroun in 1966) is a Czech painter. In 1992 he was accepted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague under professor Zdeněk Beran and graduated in 1999. Most of his exhibitions since then have been in Prague, including venues such as the Liechtenstein Palace, town hall and the Rudolfinum but also the cities of Brno, Hradec Králové and at the Czech Centre in New York City. Many of his paintings have grotesque or sadomasochist themes, and he often portrays feelings of anxiety. via

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Olaf Martens

Olaf Martens is interested in staging his pictures like a theatre play. In his often humorously constructed images, Martens combines a take on fashion, documentary, conceptual, social, even animal photography, art historical and socio-political references. His work cannot be categorised but is a combination of what can be termed a kind of post - modern eclecticism. Marten's view of the feminine takes on a very particular, interesting turn in his work and is the central theme around which all else revolves.
Martens undermines the seemingly homogenous facade of the photographic. His works is characterised by uniting contrary details, and refiguring them in a very unique and hybrid manner. This leaves many questions to the viewer, not apparent on first glance.
The theme of the outside and the outsider has been a recurring theme in Marten's work from the very beginning. His images are most often taken in dis-used factories, the outskirts of cities, and in new and up-coming cities like Russia, Czechoslovakia, Turkey and East Germany.
Similar to David Lynch's imagery, Martens uses recurring roles and types usually those of outsiders to society. Cleaning women, dwarfs, seamstresses, overly fat women, strippers, dancers, transvestites are of particular fascination to him. They inhabit the opposite end of the spectrum and Martens ironically combines them with seemingly flawless models. Yet, here the model appears in latex, gas masks, workers' outfits and high heels, adding another hybrid layer to his work.
Olaf Martens studied photography at the highly renowned Leipzig Academy for "Graphik und Buchkunst". His contemporaries are the well-known "Leipzig School" with artists such as Neo Rauch, Tim Eitel or Tilo Baumgartel. His work has been exhibited in many museum group exhibitions on contemporary German photography as well as in solo exhibitions at the Kunst Museum, Bonn, Grassi Museum, Leipzig, Moscow House of photography, Leopold Museum, Vienna, German Historical Museum in Berlin, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg. He has exhibited in galleries nationally and internationally. His work is included in collections such as the FC Gundlach Collection and the Sammlung Goetz, Munich. via

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SUKA OFF

SUKA OFF is a Poland based artist collective existing since 1995. They have been creating work across visual theatre, performance art, club action, installation, photography, video art and music visuals. Their work has been presented in theatres, art galleries, clubs and festivals in most European countries, as well as in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Japan. They remain completely independent and not supported by any public institution due to the character and content of their work.

The members of SUKA OFF are Piotr Wegrzynski (founder, visual artist, performer) and Sylvia Lajbig (classical philologist, performer). SUKA OFF is constantly supported by other artists collaborating on individual projects. Among them are Hellen Burrough, Maciej Dziaczko and Tomasz Wiracki.

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Truls Espedal

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Eliot Lee Hazel

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Deadbeat At Dawn

Director: Jim Van Bebber
Genre: Action / Crime
Year Of Release: 1988
Language: English
Length: 1hr 19min
Type of video: .avi

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Bara no sôretsu / Funeral Parade of Roses

Director: Toshio Matsumoto
Genre: Drama
Year Of Release: 1969
Language: Japanese (w/ english subs)
Length: 1hr 44min
Type of video: DVD5
Special Features: Director commentary & Interview, original japanese trailer, poster gallery

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Jacob Aue Sobol

Jacob was born in Denmark, in 1976 and grew up in Brøndby Strand in the suburbs south of Copenhagen. He lived as an exchange student in Strathroy, Canada from 1994-95 and as a hunter and fisherman in Tiniteqilaaq, Greenland from 2000-2002. In Spring 2006 he moved to Tokyo, staying there 18 months before returning to Denmark in August 2008. He now lives and works in Copenhagen.

After studying at the European Film College, Jacob was admitted to Fatamorgana, the Danish School of Documentary and Art Photography in 1998. There he developed a unique, expressive style of black-and-white photography, which he has since refined and further developed.

In the autumn of 1999 he went to live in the settlement Tiniteqilaaq on the East Coast of Greenland. Over the next three years he lived mainly in this township with his Greenlandic girlfriend Sabine and her family, living the life of a fisherman and hunter but also photographing. The resultant book Sabine was published in 2004 and the work was nominated for the 2005 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.

In the summer of 2005 Jacob traveled with a film crew to Guatemala to make a documentary about a young Mayan girl’s first journey to the ocean. The following year he returned by himself to the mountains of Guatemala where he met the indigenous family Gomez-Brito. He stayed with them for a month to tell the story of their everyday life. The series won the First Prize Award, Daily Life Stories, World Press Photo 2006.

In 2006 he moved to Tokyo and during the next two years he created the images from his resent book I, Tokyo. The book was awarded the Leica European Publishers Award 2008 and published by Actes Sud (France), Apeiron (Greece), Dewi Lewis Publishing (Great Britain), Edition Braus (Germany), Lunwerg Editores (Spain), Peliti Associati (Italy) and Mets & Schilt (The Netherlands)

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Osoi Hito / Late Bloomer

Director: Gô Shibata
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Year Of Release: 2004
Language: Japanese (w/ english subs)
Length: 1hr 23min
Type of video: .avi

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Mikaylah Bowman

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Ward 13

Director: Peter Cornwell
Genre: Short / comedy / horror / action
Year Of Release: 2003
Length: 13 min
Type of video: .avi

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Adoration

Director: Olivier Smolders
Genre: Short / Drama / Horror
Year Of Release: 1996
Language: French (w/ english subs)
Length: 15 min
Type of video: .avi

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Talonbraxas

http://talonabraxas.deviantart.com/ / http://talonabraxas.blogspot.com/

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Quand on est amoureux c'est merveilleux / A Wonderful Love

Director: Fabrice Du Welz
Genre: Short / Drama / Horror / Comedy
Year Of Release: 1999
Language: French (w/ english subs)
Length: 21min
Type of video: .avi

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Onibaba

Director: Kaneto Shindô
Genre: Drama / "Horror"
Year Of Release: 1964
Language: Japanese (w/ english & russian subs)
Length: 1hr 42min
Type of video: DVD9
Special Features: Interview w/ director, trailer, behind the scenes, gallery

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Zhaokui

Another artist I have no information about, all I know is that he(?) is from China. Any into is much appreciated!!! (his deviantart link -> http://clytze.deviantart.com/ thanks anon!!!!)

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Kanashimi no Beradona / Belladonna of Sadness

Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Director: Eiichi Yamamoto.
Year of release: 1973
Animators: Gisaboru Sugii, Shinichi Tsuji, Yasuo Maeda.
Writers: Eiichi Yamamoto, Yoshiyuki Fukuda.
Format: DVD5
Language: Japanese (w/ english and russian subs)

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Joel-Peter Witkin / L'image indélébile / Vile Bodies

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Il portiere di notte / Night Porter

Director: Liliana Cavani
Genre: Drama
Year Of Release: 1974
Language: English (w/ english subs)
Length: 1hr 57min
Type of video: DVD9
Special Features: None

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John Wadsworth

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