Category: film
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Tomas Koolhaas’s Film about his Father, Rem
On the poshest stretch of Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, couture boutiques line up in a solid row of glass, concrete and metal, each towering doorway guarded by a sharply dressed greeter. Occupying the middle of the block is Prada’s Epicenter store, designed by Rem Koolhaas in 2004. While the facade has been altered significantly…
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On Carlos Zanni//Oil Data//CIA//Three Days of the Condor
“It just means you are the sum total of your data. No man escapes that.” —Don de Lillo, White Noise Every minute, numbers track the actions of nations and individuals worldwide, adding to an already dense storm of data. Digits scroll up and down incessantly, mapping the number of cold days in Bogota today as compared…
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Arid Empire of Signs – Thom Andersen’s film
A city like Los Angeles can nearly disappear beneath its own mythos. Deemed a city of quartz, of “dreadful joy,” of golden dreams, an “autotopia,” a paradise, and hell, it has provided a malleable stage set, reborn in thousands of scripts and assumptions. The most popular myths are the sun-kissed rise to fame and its…
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Lunchfilms
One day in New York in early 2006, Mike Plante, a film programmer for the Sundance Film Festival and Cinevegas, a film festival in Las Vegas, went out to lunch with his friend, the Chicago-based filmmaker James Fotopoulos. The two men spent much of their meal complaining about clichés in independent films, like the plot…
Lyra Kilston 