Archive for the “Film” category
James Benning’s 13 Lakes: a novel
by Travis Jeppesen on November 24, 2011
1. Jackson Lake Dawn had me looking. I think the indifference well suited. Not too many tropes, though, it is true. More a type of sizzling, that ripple. Pink light on the mountains over yonder. Daddy tells us it’s (…)
The Art of Deception: Lazlo Pearlman & Fake Orgasm
by Travis Jeppesen on October 30, 2011
It’s like Deleuze and Guattari put it in the opening pages of Anti-Oedipus – it eats, it shits, it fucks, it’s everywhere – you can’t avoid it, and yet you’re taught to both embrace and avoid it. They were talking (…)
Abendland: A film by Nikolaus Geyrhalter
by Travis Jeppesen on October 27, 2011
The visibility is good today but there’s no one out there. Security camera is like a video game. He manipulates his own footage within the frame of the film, Security Man in a Van. In a vacant field. Europa, (…)
Lucrecia Martel’s La mujer sin cabeza
by Travis Jeppesen on October 18, 2011
A woman driving down a dirt road runs over something. At first, she thinks it is “only” a dog (this only is always negligible; one of the points of the film), but later, after the fact, she decides in (…)
Spiritual Voices: A film by Aleksandr Sokurov
by Travis Jeppesen on October 17, 2011
I. Olivier Messiaen. Figure in an empty landscape, snow, siberia, sokurov. The feeling of being out there, all exposed to the elements, and yet the music makes you feel as though you are alone in an (…)
George Kuchar in Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on June 29, 2010
Yes, it’s been a time, and not an easy one at that. Hence, my absence from here for a while. If you happen to be in Berlin this summer, escape the football hype and retreat indoors to spend a day (…)
Lucrecia Martel’s La mujer sin cabeza
by Travis Jeppesen on January 18, 2010
A woman driving down a dirt road runs over something. At first, she thinks it is “only” a dog (this only is always negligible; one of the points of the film), but later, after the fact, she decides in her (…)
Wesley Willis
by Travis Jeppesen on December 8, 2009
Watch the new Wesley Willis documentary over at HTMLgiant.
Wieland Speck & Shelly Silver @ Exile, Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on November 19, 2009
My review of the Wieland Speck and Shelly Silver double solo exhibition at Exile is now online at Artforum.
Christophe Chemin screening tomorrow night in Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on October 13, 2009
TOMORROW @ SLUM At the next SLUM, we are pleased to announce that we will be screening rare early films of Christophe Chemin. This is meant to coincide with the current exhibition of Christophe, “Rats & Children,” at the RISE (…)