Unknown Unknown(s) Mark Boswell
Lun 14 sett, h. 22.30, Teatro Strehler // Gio 17 sett, h. 11.30, Teatro Dal Verme // Sab 19 sett, h. 17.30, Teatro Strehler
Unknown Unknown(s)
Paese/Country: USA
Anno Produzione Film: 2009
Formato/Format: DigiBeta
Durata/Running Time: 14'
Produzione/Production: Nova Kino Films
Sceneggiatura/Screenplay: R.M. Flannigan
Montaggio/Editing: Dr. Benway
Fotografia/Cinematography: Mark Boswell
Musica/Music: Matmos
Distribuzione/Distribution: Nova Kino Films
Nelle parole di Mark Boswell, artista e docente al Pratt Institute di New York e autore di questo corto, il film è una "tragica commedia post-moderna". Ed è effettivamente complesso descrivere un film-opera d'arte che offre tanti livelli di lettura diversi, dall'intrattenimento raffinato allo sberleffo intellettuale. È un film che ragiona sull'overdose di informazioni a proposito dell'attuale e inflazionato "problema dell'ecosostenibilità" partendo da immagini appartenenti ad alcuni classici del cinema, e cioè "Viale del tramonto", "Nanook l'eschimese", "Rapina a mano armata", "Alphaville" e "Fino all'ultimo respiro" di Godard. E rispettando il sonoro e il video originale, Boswell applica dei sottotitoli che modificano in modo ironico l'andamento della storia. Qualcuno lo definirebbe "situazionista". Qualcun altro uno scherzo molto furbo e molto divertente.
According to the author Mark Boswell, artist and teacher at the Pratt Institute in New York, this film is a "tragic post-modern comedy". It is indeed hard to describe a film that is so close to being a work of art itself and offers several levels of interpretation, from refined entertainment to intellectual mockery. It is a film that ponders the overdose of information about the topical "issue of environmental sustainability", starting from images that belong to film classics, such as Sunset Boulevard, Nanook of the North, Killing, Alphaville, and Godard's Breathless. Without modifying the original sound and video, Boswell puts subtitles that ironically alter the course of the story. Some may define it "situational", whereas others may see it as a clever and funny joke.
Note di regia / Director's StatementThis is a 21st century counter-cinema experimental short film that utilizes certain tactics derived from the theories of Situationism and Dada.
Mark BoswellAnno di Nascita/Date of Birth: 1960
Paese/Country: USA
Biografia/Biography:
Mark Boswell studied film & film theory at various institutions in Switzerland, France, Germany, and the U.S. from 1986-1992. His experimental film works have been screened internationally in over 25 countries in museums, biennials, and film festivals, including The Transmediale Berlin, The 10th Biennial of The Moving Image, Geneva, National Center of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, Russia, Artists and Arms Show, Moscow, The Avanto Media Arts Festival, Helsinki, The European Media Art Festival, The Los Angeles Freewaves Biennial, The Hammer Museum Los Angeles, The Image Forum Festival Tokyo, the Chechnya Emergency Bienniale, and Arte Television Europe. In 2004, He was awarded the "International Media Art Award" from the ZKM Museum of Karlsruhe, Germany. He currently lives and works in New York City.
Filmografia/FilmographyThe Mongoloid, USA, 1991, cm
Vast Floridias, USA, 1991, cm
The Football Man, USA, 1992, cm
The Job (or) The Home Movies of V.I. Lenin, USA, 1993, cm
State Sponsored Cinema, USA, 1994, cm
Words Eat Death, USA, 1995, cm
The Memory Corporation, USA, 1996, cm
KULTKINO, USA, 1998, cm
Galaxie 500, USA, 1999, cm
Maintenance, USA, 1999, cm
Liquidation of the Wild West, USA, 2000, cm
Golf Caddies and Madness, USA, 2000, cm
USSA: Secret Manual of the Soviet Politburger, USA, 2001, cm
Agent Orange, USA, 2002, cm
The Life and Times of Harry D. Boswell, USA, 2002, cm
DEEP BLUE, USA, 2003, cm
The Subversion Agency, USA, 2003, lm
The Stars and Stripes Forever, USA, 2004, cm
The End of Copenhagen, USA, 2004, cm
JFK, USA, 2005, cm
The St. Petersburg Paradox, USA, 2007, cm
Unknown Unknown(s), USA, 2009, cm
