Liked on YouTube: Chant of the ever circling skeletal family - David Bowie https://youtu.be/sCzhLWj1IBY
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Friday, June 29, 2018
Thursday, June 28, 2018
Liked on YouTube: Old Lesbians Try New Lesbian Slang...
Liked on YouTube: Old Lesbians Try New Lesbian Slang https://youtu.be/tMGSHUFID_8
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Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Childish Gambino - This is America by Hiro Murai
Childish Gambino - This is America by Hiro Murai
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Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Liked on YouTube: SSION - ‘Heaven Is My Thing Again’...
Liked on YouTube: SSION - ‘Heaven Is My Thing Again’ ft. MNDR, Ian Isiah, Jametatone [Official Music Video] https://youtu.be/Z2zcTwP6c_o
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Saturday, May 05, 2018
David Bowie is The Man Who Fell To Earth - 2017 by Nacho’s...
David Bowie is The Man Who Fell To Earth - 2017 by Nacho’s Productions
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Friday, May 04, 2018
David Bowie is The Man Who Fell To Earth - 2017 from...
David Bowie is The Man Who Fell To Earth - 2017 from Nacho’s Productions on Vimeo.
David Bowie is The Man Who Fell To Earth - 2017
This is a film about a film - Nic Roeg’s 1976 esoteric science fiction movie - The Man Who Fell to Earth. Roeg’s film has beguiled and baffled audiences since it’s release. It explores, often in abstraction and allegory, the themes of alienation, power, love, trust and betrayal.
David Bowie is The Man Who Fell To Earth is an attempt to partly explain the movie. And it is a look at the way the film came together and at Roeg’s working methods, and at the creative process itself. And because it is a film about the creative process, it was felt that it should also in itself, try to also be creative.
It is quite widely known that Bowie and his music were greatly influenced by Roeg and the time he spent working on the film. And so David Bowie is The Man Who Fell To Earth also tries to paint a small portrait of Bowie and his music during the era – from latter part of ’74 up to the January 1977 album, Low. Bowie also created music that was intended for the soundtrack to The Man Who Fell to Earth. Famously, it was never used and remains almost unheard to this day. However, parts of the unused music were later incorporated into his albums Station To Station and Low. And so, as part of the story telling in David Bowie is The Man Who Fell To Earth, some of Bowie’s music from those albums is used with re-edits of scenes from the movie, worked in with the interviews and commentary.
Whether or not David Bowie is The Man Who Fell To Earth is actually successful in these endeavors, you may judge for yourself. At the very least it is an hour in the brilliant and highly enjoyable company and art of Nic Roeg, David Bowie and Candy Clark.
_______________________________Was Newton an alien?
In the first TV interview where he talks about the movie, Bowie becomes visibly irritated when host Russel Harty describes Bowie’s Thomas Jerome Newton character as an alien, and he almost chastises Harty for his presumptuousness; “…it’s assumed he’s an alien from outer space, but it may not necessarily be true”.
Yet on the surface at least, Newton is an alien, who has come to earth to transport water back to his own dying planet. And in interviews Roeg always refers to Newton as an alien. Whereas Bowie doesn’t seem so certain about Newton’s origins, or his mission. In the 1992 The Man Who Fell To Earth commentary, Bowie says, “Newton knows he’s going to be betrayed, it’s very obvious, but he seemingly doesn’t do very much about it. So he must be here for some other purpose”. As Bowie points out, there are Christ-like parallels. We can hypothesize that Newton’s falling to earth without any evidence of a space ship, is a kind of Immaculate Conception. And he arrives apparently a very pure being, who helps humanity advance and only seeks for himself a way to help his people. What are we to think is the “other purpose” for him being here? Perhaps he came, like Christ to test human-kind? And then of course there is the betrayal. But in the end Newton wasn’t born again. He becomes a ruined and lonely reflection of the contemporary culture of decadence and self-destruction.
______________________________The majority of the footage used here is of course from The Man Who Fell To Earth. But in addition another approximately fifty video and audio sources were used.
Fourteen partial David Bowie tracks were used, as re-imagined parts of the movie soundtrack, and also fairly gratuitously as excuses to just add some rocking tracks that had new or revised videos put together for them.
All tracks and sources are listed in the credits at the end of the film. And listing them here would also be a kind of a spoiler - so let’s not do that!
Like a lot of my video projects, this thing happened by accident. Whilst I was working on the video for Subterraneans, I decided that it would be good to have an accompanying video that compiled in a very simple way, all the relevant interviews with Bowie where he talks about the film. I imagined that at most, it would be a thing of about 15 or 20 minutes. However, as is usually the case with me, I went very deeply into it, and found a lot more material than I bargained for. It quickly became clear that here was a great story that needed to be told in film, and the thing just kept growing in size and in complexity. In the end I have been working on it consistently and compulsively for the last 3 months and put in perhaps 700 hours of work.
And now I feel that I’ve done almost everything I can with the project, and I am reasonably satisfied it has some value, and I feel okay about sharing it. Showing it today to a friend, who was seeing it for the first time, I saw myriad ways it could be improved. There is always more that one can do, but at some point the line has to be drawn.
Hope you dig it!
I don’t own the rights, and I’m not making any money out of this etc. Just a fan making videos for other fans.
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Monday, April 23, 2018
Liked on YouTube: SSION ft. Ariel Pink - ‘At Least The Sky...
Liked on YouTube: SSION ft. Ariel Pink - ‘At Least The Sky Is Blue’ https://youtu.be/to9ggdpiSyk
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Liked on YouTube: +@ TITUS ANDRONICUS - “THE MAGIC...
Liked on YouTube: +@ TITUS ANDRONICUS - “THE MAGIC MORNING” +@ https://youtu.be/YKdWBpXlc6E
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Sunday, April 22, 2018
Liked on YouTube: Can - Live in Germany, Soest 1970...
Liked on YouTube: Can - Live in Germany, Soest 1970 https://youtu.be/DKo73roXiec
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Saturday, April 14, 2018
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Monday, April 02, 2018
Liked on YouTube: Natti Vogel - BROWN RICE feat. Matthew Wilkas...
Liked on YouTube: Natti Vogel - BROWN RICE feat. Matthew Wilkas https://youtu.be/AzgD8uoGQYc
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Rachel Grimes and Ensemble Members-Only by WUOL Rachel Grimes,...
Rachel Grimes and Ensemble Members-Only by WUOL
Rachel Grimes, with Jacob Duncan (saxophone), Christian Frederickson (viola) and Scott Moore (violin), performed a members-only set from her new album “The Clearing” at Louisville Public Media. June 15, 2015. https://ift.tt/2ImYId4
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Friday, March 23, 2018
Liked on YouTube: David Bowie - Live At 50Th Birthday - Concert...
Liked on YouTube: David Bowie - Live At 50Th Birthday - Concert New York Madison Square Garden 09.01.1997. https://youtu.be/NkRdaXVGT_0
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Thursday, March 22, 2018
Liked on YouTube: The Psychedelic Furs - The Ghost in You...
Liked on YouTube: The Psychedelic Furs - The Ghost in You https://youtu.be/T87u5yuUVi8
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Liked on YouTube: The Psychedelic Furs - Heartbreak Beat...
Liked on YouTube: The Psychedelic Furs - Heartbreak Beat https://youtu.be/RXfXTB7UcuU
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Liked on YouTube: The Psychedelic Furs- Heartbreak Beat ( Live @...
Liked on YouTube: The Psychedelic Furs- Heartbreak Beat ( Live @ Pacific Ampatheatre 7/17/2016) https://youtu.be/-xs7zhqc4DQ
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Liked on YouTube: Susanne Sundfør - Mountaineers (featuring John...
Liked on YouTube: Susanne Sundfør - Mountaineers (featuring John Grant) https://youtu.be/7D3_TDB4zzA
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Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Liked on YouTube: MINISTRY - Twilight Zone (OFFICIAL MUSIC...
Liked on YouTube: MINISTRY - Twilight Zone (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO) https://youtu.be/kjEC49hTitI
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Saturday, March 17, 2018
Fat White Family - Borderline by Sean Blacknell
Fat White Family - Borderline by Sean Blacknell
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Scratching the Surface by Post-Punk 1. Lucinda- A Certain...
Scratching the Surface by Post-Punk
1. Lucinda- A Certain Ratio 2. Is Vic There?- Department S 3. Institution Walls (Remix)- B-Movie 4. Autocrat- For Against 5. A Moment Like This- Fra Lippo Lippi 6. War Games- Opposition 7. The Fire- The Names 8. Electric Dreams- The Lucy Show 9. The Square- The Passions 10. The Ultimate Stranger- Red Zebra 11. Colourless Dream- Sad Lovers and Giants 12. Taboo- Easter and the Totem 13. You Move Me- The Comsat Angels 14. A To I- In The Nursery 15. A- The Associates 16. Judas- The Wake 17. Crazy- Pylon 18. Missiles- The Sound 19. Die Matrosen- Liliput 20. The Art of War- Siglo XX 21. A Day’s Wait- Altered Images 22. A Sullen Sky- Lowlife 23. Hollow Inside- The Mighty Lemon Drops 24. Euthenics- Modern Eon 25. Smiles and Laughter- Modern English 26. We’re So Cool- Au Pairs 27. Ghosts- Abecedarians 28. Over the Fancies- Ellysgarden 29. Bad Blood- Breathless 30. Military Tactics- The Pollen 31. Firefly- B.F.G.
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Friday, March 16, 2018
Fat White Family - Borderline from Sean Blacknell on...
Fat White Family - Borderline from Sean Blacknell on Vimeo.
fatwhitefamily.bandcamp.com/album/champagne-holocaust
Directed by Sean Blacknell
Cinematography by Nikita Pavlov
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Liked on YouTube: David Bowie - Station To Station (Christiane F...
Liked on YouTube: David Bowie - Station To Station (Christiane F ) 1980 - new edit, remastered HD https://youtu.be/QymJI00mlSs
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Thursday, March 15, 2018
Liked on YouTube: Al Berto - Gay Movie Trailer - TLA Releasing...
Liked on YouTube: Al Berto - Gay Movie Trailer - TLA Releasing https://youtu.be/M7uoNIUPVlk
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Tuesday, March 06, 2018
Liked on YouTube: The Virtual University: Marcus Aurelius Part 1...
Liked on YouTube: The Virtual University: Marcus Aurelius Part 1 https://youtu.be/nLD09Qa3kMk
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Liked on YouTube: +@ TITUS ANDRONICUS “S+@DIUM ROCK”...
Liked on YouTube: +@ TITUS ANDRONICUS “S+@DIUM ROCK” (OFFICIAL CONCERT FILM) https://youtu.be/owfVuC56iPE
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Monday, March 05, 2018
Liked on YouTube: KIDS! A Randy Rainbow Song Parody...
Liked on YouTube: KIDS! A Randy Rainbow Song Parody https://youtu.be/9dcTw-Jk-yE
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Saturday, March 03, 2018
Born From Urgency - Faces from the Frontline Against ISIS by...
Born From Urgency - Faces from the Frontline Against ISIS by Joey L
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Friday, March 02, 2018
Born From Urgency - Faces from the Frontline Against ISIS from...
Born From Urgency - Faces from the Frontline Against ISIS from Joey L on Vimeo.
**Update: I wanted to say thanks so much to the Vimeo community for the Staff Pick- as an independent filmmakers, it means the world to us. For those interested in supporting my ongoing, independent photography work, please consider pre-ordering the book or purchasing a fine art print: WeCameFromFire.com **
Amidst the chaos of the Iraq and Syrian War, independent photographer and director Joey L. embeds himself with Kurdish guerrilla organizations on the frontlines against ISIS. Without the constraints typical of our mainstream media, Joey offers a deeply personal, humanizing, and controversial view of the war.
This is a follow up to the 2015 film “Guerrilla Fighters of Kurdistan” vimeo.com/129935570
Please consider supporting Joey’s ongoing, independent work by purchasing a book or fine art print: joeyLshop.com
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