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LVAC Film Night: Life in Loops ( A Megacities RMX), directed by Tim Novotny

Location: BARTOS THEATRE, LOWER ATRIUM LEVEL
Date: February 19, 2009
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Thursday, February 19, 7:30PM, Bartos Theatre

Life in Loops (A Megacities RMX), directed by Tim Novotny (Austria, 2006, 80 min.)

Timo Novotny labels his new project an experimental music documentary film, in a remix of the celebrated film Megacities (1997), a visually refined essay on the hidden faces of several world “megacities” by leading Austrian documentarist Michael Glawogger. Novotny complements 30 % of material taken straight from the film (and re-edited) with 70 % as yet unseen footage in which he blends original shots unused by Glawogger with his own sequences (shot by Megacities cameraman Wolfgang Thaler) from Tokyo. Alongside the Japanese metropolis, Life in Loops takes us right into the atmosphere of Mexico City, New York, Moscow and Bombay. This electrifying combination of fascinating film images and an equally compelling soundtrack from Sofa Surfers sets us off on a stunning audiovisual adventure across the continents. The film also makes an original contribution to the discussion on new trends in documentary filmmaking. Written by KARLOVY VARY IFF 2006

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via LVAC Film Night: Life in Loops ( A Megacities RMX), directed by Tim Novotny | List Visual Arts Center.

The human body and the urban world we live in continually decay.

It is essential that we remain young-at-heart and create an enjoyable environment in such gloomy times. If our perceptions of our bodies and material reality are purely superficial, decay is something we dread; rather than something we should embrace as a natural progession of life.

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Wladyslaw Starewicz was Russian born Polish filmmaker who is famous for his stop motion animations using insects and animals as his protagonists. Here is an excerpt from Ubu.

Starewicz’ childhood passion for entomology led his career: he began producing short documentaries in Moscow around 1909-1910, beginning with a documentary about insects in Lithuania. In his spare time, he experimented with stop-action films using beetles, which he articulated by wiring the legs to the thorax with sealing wax! This, of course, led to his big breakthrough, released by the Van Kanjonkov Studio of Moscow: “The Battle of the Stag Beetles”, the first puppet-animated film.

Thanks for tracking down this link, Sean. I’m simply embedding it into the blog for ‘in house’ viewing.