mzee
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Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge (1989)
erotic and mysterious but, still
Frames from the Edge is a wonderful display of Helmut Newton's breath taking fashion, nude, commercial and portrait photography. Besides the thousands of outstanding still photographs that are shown, the documentary is conventionally narrated but grounded with substantial interviews of both Helmut himself and many other subjects, friends and critics capturing how and why and who the photographs are, when they are not rooted in his idiosyncratic methods of capturing a moment.
I found it flipping around on the TV at 3 in the morning and couldn't tear myself from the tube until it had finished. I am a photographer but none the less it is fascinating to learn what a photographer goes through to create a print in which he has invisioned before the actual shoot. And, I think you'll find the erotic subject matter (of most of his photographs), not only, well, erotic, but after a while you almost become desensitized to the nudity but in an exhilerating way because you really do find yourself seeing the nude in term of texture and shape, light etc...well until near the end we see the setup and shooting session of a woman in the act of riding the back fin of an old 50's black cadillac. hmmm, well, i still think that you'll enjoy his photography, and boy do you see a lot of it. fantastic stuff.
I found it flipping around on the TV at 3 in the morning and couldn't tear myself from the tube until it had finished. I am a photographer but none the less it is fascinating to learn what a photographer goes through to create a print in which he has invisioned before the actual shoot. And, I think you'll find the erotic subject matter (of most of his photographs), not only, well, erotic, but after a while you almost become desensitized to the nudity but in an exhilerating way because you really do find yourself seeing the nude in term of texture and shape, light etc...well until near the end we see the setup and shooting session of a woman in the act of riding the back fin of an old 50's black cadillac. hmmm, well, i still think that you'll enjoy his photography, and boy do you see a lot of it. fantastic stuff.
Aldous Huxley: The Gravity of Light (1996)
a rebirth of something we should have all realized long ago
Aldous Huxley: The Gravity of Light is a mind expanding documentary not only introspectively, but its persuasiveness urges you to go out and read all of Huxley's works. What the man says is true and whether our peers or superiors agree it doesn't matter. There are two parts of life to discover external and internal and it the second that he describes how to reach so well.
Hockenhull medleys real time interviews and speeches of Huxley and his peers/colleagues, also with dramatizations reciting exurps from the various writings by Huxley into a touching sensory experience we should all read into. One would also think that it was made earlier than 96 because of it's 70's graphics style looking very primitive to what we are used to now...adding to the psychological age of the discovery of LSD and its immense power.
Hockenhull medleys real time interviews and speeches of Huxley and his peers/colleagues, also with dramatizations reciting exurps from the various writings by Huxley into a touching sensory experience we should all read into. One would also think that it was made earlier than 96 because of it's 70's graphics style looking very primitive to what we are used to now...adding to the psychological age of the discovery of LSD and its immense power.