Pick of the Day:
Apr 29 to May 5

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  Choros

  Animation (Experimental, Time-lapse), Music (Dance)
  [ 12:58 - from Vimeo ]

  As a single dancer multiplies before your eyes, each of her new movements form intricate patterns with the last. Set to a hypnotic score by Steve Reich, filmmakers Michael Langan and Terah Maher employ new technologies to achieve the cinematic equivalent of a multiple exposure. This is a positively ephemeral study of motion! view

  

  Columbia University eGuider Camille June Gregoire
   Columbia University eGuider
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  Spartakiáda

  Comedy (Unintentionally Funny), Docs & Non-Fiction (Sports), Viral (Time Capsule)
  [ 3:10 - from YouTube ]

  Every now and then, just when you think you have seen it all, you realize the world is an amazing, amazing place... Communist Busby Berkeley! Hundreds of acrobatic men running around in tighty whities and hurdling themselves through the air! To my eyes this is Nation-State aggrandizing at its most absurd, but one person's spectacle can be another's loaded past. The clip is from Spartakiáda, a mass gymnastics display which was held every five years during Communist rule at the Strahov Stadium in Prague, Czechoslovakia. From what I could glean via Google translate, the Czech conversation thread beneath the video is an inter-generational debate about militarization and the pros and cons of a post-Soviet state. view

  

  Columbia University eGuider Camille June Gregoire
   Columbia University eGuider
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  El delirio del pez león

  
  [ 3:55 - from Vimeo ]

   El delirio del pez león, or The Lionfish's Delirium, is a fever dream inspired by the lion fish plague that rids the Caribbean waters. As any good film noir, its stark shadows and smoky atmosphere are merely a physical representation of a bigger malaise, in this case, greed and power. A sly social commentary under the guise of a neo-noir under the guise of animation, El delirio del pez león can be merely admired for its sheer beauty, but a deeper immersion proves revelatory and rewarding. view

  

  Columbia University eGuider Orlando Torres
   Columbia University eGuider