Melissa Ramos

Considered one of Russia’s most distinguished contemporary directors, the late Andrei Tarkovsky is known for highly personalized and poetic films. The son of poet Arseni Tarkovsky, he studied Arabic and first worked as a geologist before attending the State Film School in Moscow under Mikhail Romm. While there he made a pair of short films, “There Will Be No Leave Today” (1959) and the acclaimed Katok i Skripka/The Steamroller and the Violin (his diploma film). Following graduation in 1960, Tarkovsky went to work for Mosfilm and made his feature-film directorial debut in 1962 with Ivanovo Detstvo/Ivan’s Childhood. The film earned him top honors at that year’s Venice Film Festival. His sophomore film, Andrei Rublev, is Tarkovsky’s most renowned work. Ostensibly a portrait of a 15th century Russian painter, the film is actually a metaphorical drama mirroring the plight of Russian artists. Some have expanded the film’s parable to reflect the dramatic effects of war and chaos upon humanity…

Going to see a friends show:

Will French and Lauren Brincat present new work in the exhibition Pushme Pullyou that premiers the 2009 Peloton calendar. The title’s reference to Huge Lofting’s fictional character ‘Pushmi-Pullyu’ from Dr Doolittle, explores the couples collaborative and individual practices and the similarity this shares with Doolittle’s two headed creature. Doolittle’s Pushmi- Pullyu is presented as a two headed llama in the 1967 feature film. It is a creature with one body that looks like the front half of two. The creature is literally ‘joined at the hip’ and there for struggles as the two heads work to control the body.
French and Brincat maintain solo practices that often share an ideological or thematic bond. Occasionally they present collaborations; Peloton will be showcasing both from Jan 29 until Feb 21.
They offer a collection of objects, performances and installations that take a wry, humorous look at togetherness as well as the usual themes of music, identity, politics and the like.

researching different types of pixel 3d animation for my next art project ‘heard’..
Learning how to model in 3d is time consuming…

Will get there…

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