Since you're discussing Herzog, some of you might be interested:
another great auteur of German cinema, Wim Wenders, has made a
fantastic 3D film about choreographer Pina Bausch and her work with
Wuppertal Tanztheater. I've written about it here -
http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com/2011/08/review-pina.html
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On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 5:17 AM, Jim Andrews <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> i haven't read it but just read about it on wikipedia. ha. i have to read up
> to get your jokes sometimes, david. yes being from aleph null is being from
> very far away indeed, given that aleph null is the first and most homely
> order of infinity.
>
> speaking of sci-fi, i watched herzog's 'the wild blue yonder'. now there is
> an inventive, imaginative, and _different_ approach to sci-fi. he uses many
> of the conventions of sci-fi but usually in a new way. i will actually watch
> that one again.
>
> having moved recently to vancouver, i got a different cable company, a local
> one, and their price for internet and tv is quite good. but, it turns out,
> the stations you get are, for the most part, not very entertaining. you can
> buy the more entertaining stations, of course, for an additional charge. so
> i have taken to using a file-sharing program to download things i want to
> watch. recently i searched online for lists of 'the top' sci-fi films and
> downloaded many of the films. as you might expect, 'the wild blue yonder'
> was not prominent or even on many of those lists. but, having seen it, and
> having become familiar with several of those lists, it really should be.
>
> and, watching 'the wild blue yonder', i had a feeling of, yes, watching the
> work of a poet. by that i mean, well, i'm not exactly sure what i mean, but
> the film is highly imagistic and aware of the medium and genre its operating
> in. it isn't afraid to shut up and work in images. it isn't overly
> novelistic. the dialogue is mostly a monologue, perhaps entirely monologue
> (i will have to watch it again--it was late and i fell asleep for part of
> it). as though it was closer to being a poem than a conventional story. very
> fine work indeed.
>
> by the way, i have added an 'about' button to aleph null at
> http://vispo.com/aleph . that button opens a window of text that may not be
> finished, but includes sections titled Credits, About, Help, The Title,
> Tones as Colors and
> Sounds, Slidvid of Aleph Null Stills, and Performance Issues. there is also
> now a color-picker for the background color. so the piece is about 90%
> finished. the only other additional thing i want to work on is to add more
> stuff to the 'shapes' slider. the html 5 canvas tag offers ways to draw
> curves. i would like to have aleph null be able to show very curvy things.
> like the polygons only very curvy.
>
> ja
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bircumshaw"
> <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 4:44 AM
> Subject: Re: Slidvid of Aleph Null stills
>
>
>> It just struck me that 'Slidvid of Aleph Null' would make a great name for
>> a
>> character in sf-fantasy novel ...
>>
>> or perhaps a refugee from 'The Cyberiad' ?
>
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