Showing posts with label film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label film. Show all posts

23.10.23

today's strange, maybe wicked, film...La Reina Loba...

La Reina Loba in Spanish...but it is in English here... https://youtu.be/kZBeHsFK37Y ...meet a post-Roman dark ages Iberian 'witch' queen taking on empires... 

 




Making this film, I wanted to ‘rewild’ Reina Loba, to set her free from centuries of propaganda. Reina Loba, Wolf Queen of Galicia, Queen Lupa, c.45 AD, ruled an important territory in the Iberian Peninsula. The Romans, Visigoths, her neighbours, and Church all wanted to possess her lands. In researching her story, I came to believe Reina Loba resisted the Christian Empire. She understood it was a predatory system of empire capitalism that benefited the elite with capital. Queen Lupa represented the end of the barter and trade system. A French monk recorded Reina Loba’s story in Codex Calixtinus for Pope Calixtus in 1138. The book was a travel guide, advice for pilgrims following the Way of Saint James, a patron saint in the fight against Islam in Iberia. In the codex the Catholic Church slandered Lupa and women of Galicia, calling them ‘witches,’ ‘pagan,’ and forbid their ‘old ways of healing, knowledge, customs.’ It is difficult to tell which is more fantastic, the church miracle tales of James, or the stories of Queen Lupa. Reina Loba examines the relationship between historical record, myth, and institutional narrative. Tamara Pereira and Sayuri. Jeff Crouch music.

Al hacer esta película, quería “resalvajar” a Reina Loba, liberarla de siglos de propaganda. Reina Loba, Reina Loba de Galicia, Reina Lupa, c.45 d.C., gobernó un territorio importante en la Península Ibérica. Los romanos, los visigodos, sus vecinos y la Iglesia querían poseer sus tierras. Al investigar su historia, llegué a creer que Reina Loba resistió al Imperio cristiano. Ella entendió que era un sistema depredador de capitalismo imperial que beneficiaba a la élite con capital. La reina Lupa representó el fin del sistema de trueque y comercio. Un monje francés registró la historia de Reina Loba en el Códice Calixtino para el Papa Calixto en 1138. El libro era una guía de viaje, consejos para los peregrinos que seguían el Camino de Santiago, santo patrón en la lucha contra el Islam en Iberia. En el códice, la Iglesia católica calumnia a Lupa y a las mujeres de Galicia, llamándolas "brujas", "paganas" y prohibiendo sus "viejos métodos de curación, conocimiento y costumbres". Es difícil decir qué es más fantástico, el milagro de la iglesia. cuentos de James, o las historias de la reina Lupa. Reina Loba examina la relación entre registro histórico, mito y narrativa institucional. Tamara Pereira y Sayuri. Música de Jeff Crouch.

21.10.23

...your wicked film today...El Dorado 2012...

El Dorado was the new world king who dusted himself with gold. Adventurers, conquistadors, con men, kings, and pirates hunted him, killed him, and took his lands and gold. Some things never change?

Adapted news story of a woman who murdered her partner, took his car and stolen money and escaped. From Badlands series 2012.

Blaine Reininger track Attribue a Bernie H. from Music For Dance. Thieves, Kristina Barvels, Brad Gigliotti.





16.10.23

...how to start a wicked week...

Strange, Dark &Wicked film series...with a short introduction with Blaine Reininger music and actor Dan Mitchell...very vintage video 2010...but this time of year when the days grow shorter and nights longer we turn inside ourselves, into the darkness, the dark side of our selves....


 

9.10.23

Danger Archive video today...Danger Rocks...

We have a problem in Northern California Coast...rain soaked cliffs fall into the sea taking houses, roads, chunks of golf courses, condominiums, and sometimes burying sunbathing beach goers dying beneath even small cliffs. I have run down the beach to avoid 60 foot cliffs falling into the sea forming new islands offshore... Danger Rocks with music by Jeff Crouch and Steve Johnson cell phone video from his dawn patrol.



8.10.23

Danger Archive video today...Confusion Arising...

 


A very short asemic film considering the meaning of things....


This Thursday Devils Teeth 2013 at JokerJokerTV....





Big business, small town, oil. Devils Teeth is the sailors' name for islands off Northern California where offshore oil drilling is planned. When a man returns home and finds his mother dead, he and his sister discover letters from an oil company to buy her land she has never answered. They hire an investigator. She already knows what happened. Found newspaper story.

Susanne Hafenscher, Matthias Boss, Marcello Magliocchi track Music for a Quiet Night. Kristina Barvels, investigator. Ignacio Palma, brother. Alexa Oliva, sister. Anthony, bodyguard. Cecelia Chapman 2013.

3 places to watch....

JJtv: https://jokerjokertv.com/WATCH/

YT: https://www.youtube.com/live/79vwByz0qoM

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/jokerjokertv

7.10.23

Danger Archive video today... Let Me Sleep In Your Crystal Kitchen 2011...


Steve Johnson sent me his dawn patrol videos on his drive up and down the San Francisco coast looking for waves. Most surfers who work are sleep deprived, especially surfing early in cold waters, a dangerous state. (I only had a few hours sleep yesterday and it was an expensive locksmith visit when I left my keys behind.) So I called this one Let Me Sleep In Your Crystal Kitchen because the sky was crystal clear, no winds, and the sky reflects the state of the waves, a sort of cosmic kitchen. So Steve sent me the beautiful sky...actually the waves were inconsequential.
 

26.9.23

Confidential OP 2017...video praise for private post in the internet privacy wars...

We can re-appreciate the confidentiality of the good old post with last week's attack on Rumble. Spurred on by UK's Online Safety Bill, in which tech companies will be rewarded to censor, accusations alone, without due process, will lead to de-platforming and demonetizing. The internet began as a place of great freedom, a place to express freely. And in just a few short years it has become a place where companies and countries can monitor, control and censor.

Confidential Op considers the confidentiality of the post and our prospects for a Disney ending in the lost empire's attacks on privacy. With mail artist Rafael Gonzalez, composer Blaine Reininger, uber mechanic Brad Gigliotti, and performer Christa Hunter.

This video is a post and email collaboration. This track by Blaine Reininger of TuxedoMoon is American Buffalo Theme. Since wild buffalo have disappeared from our continent, It is appropriate music for the last gasp of American privacy.