Failure Movies Part 2: Tigrero

Tigrero, A Film That Was Never Made.
from IMDB:
In 1993, Sam Fuller takes Jim Jarmusch on a trip into Brazil's Mato Grosso, up the River Araguaia to the village of Santa Isabel Do Morro, where 40 years before, Zanuck had sent Fuller to scout a location and write a script for a movie based on a tigrero, a jaguar hunter. Sam hopes to find people who remember him, and he takes film he shot in 1954. He's Rip Van Winkle, and, indeed, a great deal changed in the village. There are televisions, watches, and brick houses. But, the same Karajá culture awaits as well. He gathers the villagers to show his old film footage, and people recognize friends and relatives, thanking Fuller for momentarily bringing them back to life.

-my favorite part is where Fuller explains that the movie almost went under because he refused to include a romance between the lead characters (John Wayne & Ava Gardner). It didn't make sense to him so he held his ground. In the end the movie didn't go forward because it was too risky to insure the 3 movie stars working in the jungle.

NYTIMES
review

Failure was the goal -Southern Style

Sherman's March-- In the early 1980's Ross McElwee got a grant to make a documentary about the aftermath of Gen. W. T. Sherman's 'march to the sea' , a brutal campaign that razed large areas of the south. McElwee then got dumped and decided to film his attempt to find a new girlfriend.

on netflix: http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://ro3011.k12.sd.us/event/pics/general-william-tecumseh-

from a 1986 times review Times review:
AT the beginning of Ross McElwee's ''Sherman's March,'' the film maker tells us that he had originally planned a documentary about the aftereffects, which are still to be found in Georgia and the Carolinas, of the ''total warfare'' waged by Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman during the final months of the Civil War.

Mr. McElwee, who was born and bred in Charlotte, N.C., is fascinated by the many ironies of Sherman's career. Not the least of these is that Sherman is more vividly remembered in the South, which he loved and laid waste, than in the North, where he'd once been a great hero.

In the course of Mr. McElwee's own march to the South from Boston, where he was then living, something devastating happened. On a stopover in New York, his girlfriend left him. It was a traumatic experience, he tells us on the soundtrack. He couldn't go on. He felt aimless, adrift. Yet he still had his camera and sound equipment, the $9,000 grant to finance the film, as well as (and this is most important) his passion to make a film - any film.

The Sinking Ships Debut Performance!

Come see us sink or swim for the first time ever! Thursday Oct. 28th Carr Haus at 9pm

"Drowning in Uncertainty"

Talk by Raphael Zammit.

This might be interesting.
I'm going, hope to see you there!

Camilla

(oh.. free lunch at 11:45 ;)



"He is currently researching Conceptual Design & Visualization. Digital media is used to explore new modes for creating virtual 3D form as well as to visualize the interaction between their aesthetic and meaning."

http://www.daap.uc.edu/people/profiles/zammitra

My memories.

In the last four years I’ve lived in five different places and every city left me with memories that are now alterated by the filter of time.

I associate shapes, colors, lines and scents to places and people.
Moving from one place to another I always brought with me my clothes, that I see as a second skin: the projection of myself in the outside world.

This is a series of hangers that represents my personal landscape of Providence, the one that is on my mind and not necessary coincide with the real landscape of the city.

-Camilla Fucili

Providence: The Creative Capital

Hey everyone!

Party tomorrow night!

Join me at Franklin Park this Friday night (tomorrow), October 15 to celebrate the start of the final year of my radical 20s. We'll be there from about 7pm until late late. Franklin Park has crazy awesome burgers and onion rings (taste like the ones in Georgia), awesome beers on tap, a great outdoor space and most importantly, Buck Hunter Safari.

It's right by the Brooklyn Art Museum!

map

See you there!

- Jason

www.jason-huff.com

Kennedy Plaza Portrait Merge

Betty Woodman puting the 'fun' in- semi-functional!

Betty Woodman and her fantastic ceramic-paintings 2006 review.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/28/arts/design/28wood.html

More pictures from her gallery website.

-Be Good,

C.U.

Monocultures

Pertaining to our discussion yesterday of languages merging, here's food guru Michael Pollan discussing monocultures in food. Check out his important book The Omnivore's Dilemma for more...

http://www.mnn.com/food/organic-farming/videos/michael-pollan-the-problem-with-monocultures

Roger Williams: The Penetration of Church and State

The Rhode Island Historical Society's new exhibit, Roger Williams: The Penetration of Church and State.

– Ben Peterson & Marc Choi

Quiet Storms: Bio-inspired Wallpapers

This series of bio-inspired wallpapers was created from gouache and ink paintings mimicing microscopic images of sea-shells collected at RISD's Tillinghast Farm beach. Intended to be atmospheric rather than directly representational, each was created using a mixture of digital and analogue processes.
—ov

But He Has His Friends

Here's my text animation piece that I had trouble getting to play in class. Hope you can get a better sense of what it's about this time around. Also, still working on getting the website Ben and I made online for viewing. –mc