“Visions of Heaven and Hell was a three-part documentary broadcast in the UK in 1994, which examined and extrapolated social changes brought about by new technologies, but also touched on wider themes of biotechnology, virtual reality, population density and pandemics.”
Featuring (among others): William Gibson, Stephen Hawking, Douglas Adams, Bill Gates, Tilda Swinton, Nick Land.
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Robert Rushkin: my new (non-existent) favourite artist. Video by The Builders Club…
An amazing 30-minute documentary about the life and work of Diane Arbus:
“Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot. … They made me feel a mixture of shame and awe. There’s a quality of legend about freaks. … If you’ve ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don’t. Most people go through life dreading they’ll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They’ve already passed their test in life. They’re aristocrats.”
‘Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors’ by Ben Mendelsohn is a short documentary on the material infrastructure of the Internet:
“Lower Manhattan’s 60 Hudson Street is one of the world’s most concentrated hubs of Internet connectivity. Set in the dense, mixed-use neighborhood of Tribeca, the building’s nondescript brick exterior conceals several network interconnection facilities where huge amounts of data are exchanged. This short documentary peeks inside, offering a glimpse of the massive material infrastructure that makes the Internet possible.”
(Via Laughing Squid)
Ed Wood was born 87 years ago today…
This is an episode of Son of the Incredibly Strange Film Show hosted by Jonathan Ross.
(via Dangerous Minds)
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Microworld: William Shatners psychedelic 1976-Minidoc about Microprocessors
(Via Nerdcore)
Before Brian De Palma became a movie director he made documentaries. This one is called “The Responsive Eye” and chronicles the Museum Of Modern Art’s 1965 exhibition of Op-Art…
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Homage to New York, by Jean Tinguely, is one of my favourite artworks of ALL time. I always read about it, I saw photographs, but I didn’t know about this documentary (shot by D.A. Pennebaker). So this is day to remember :-)
[via greg.org]
A documentary about electric guitars. Starring Jack White, Jimmy Page and The Edge…
Guardavo un documentario sull’Est europeo su Rai Uno stamattina e c’era una parte su Andy Warhol. Intervistavano un suo cugino cecoslovacco. Il signor Varhola raccontava: “Mia zia ci scrisse che in America Andy faceva il pittore, ma noi abbiamo sempre pensato che fosse imbianchino”.