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On Rights, Rorts and Rants we meet Farm It Forward founder Emmanuela (Manu) Prigioni and farmer James Broughton. Farm It Forward is a Blue Mountain's movement and the creation of founder Manu Prigioni. It connects older residents with land to spare with younger individuals who farm that back yard to produce veggies and fruit for the older resident and the farmer with spare food being sold at a food cooperative. We learn from Manu and John about the endless benefits of the movement that are reaching beyond fostering community and growing local food. If you'd like to add to the discussion, you can leave an audio comment about our show, which may be added to one of our podcasts. This episode was broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM on 25th September 2020. Apply to be a guest on our show. Join a union - 1300 486 466 or join online. Join BMUC. Rights, Rorts and Rants is broadcast from 4pm to 6pm on 89.1FM or can be live streamed from rbm.org.au. Disclaimer: We seek a range of perspectives but that means that views expressed in these podcasts are not necessarily endorsed by the Blue Mountains Unions Council Inc. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rightsrortsandrants/message
In this episode we chat Hold the Dark and much more. Come and listen for a while. Your hosts are: James Broughton Christa Bass Blog: www.alloutofbubblegumhub.wordpress.com Twitter: @alloutofgumpod Intro/Outro music and profile collage by James Broughton (@jbiscuits)
In this episode we chat Widows, Summer of '84 and the mighty You Were Never Really Here. And much more. Come and listen for a while. Your hosts are: James Broughton Christa Bass Blog: www.alloutofbubblegumhub.wordpress.com Twitter: @alloutofgumpod Intro/Outro music and profile collage by James Broughton (@jbiscuits)
Jonas and I talked about refugees and memory, about ambient noise, poetry, the new film I Had Nowhere To Go, and why he's spent a lifetime ignoring Hollywood. For more information on I Had Nowhere To Go (IMDB) and TIFF. Synopsis Internationally acclaimed multimedia artist Douglas Gordon (24 Hour Psycho, Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait) returns to the Festival with this intimate portrait of avant-garde cinema legend Jonas Mekas. "An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that culture would be my home." Jonas Mekas Internationally acclaimed multimedia artist Douglas Gordon returns to the Festival with an intimate portrait of Jonas Mekas, the legendary poet, film critic, risk-taking curator, "the godfather of the American avant-garde cinema" -- and, at 93 years old, among the remaining few to have escaped and survived Nazi persecution. I Had Nowhere to Go plunges us into both a collective and individual space of memory via long, imageless stretches over which Mekas narrates, in his inimitable voice, excerpts from his memoir (which lends the film its title). An extraordinary life story emerges as the film zigzags between Mekas' early years in a forced labour camp and a Displaced Person centre during WWII and his arrival in New York as a young Lithuanian émigré. With an immersive sound environment and intermittent, fleeting images that stand in evocative juxtaposition to Mekas' anecdotes, Gordon's film reveals in its subject a puckish humour that outweighs despair, and an unabated zest for life that both illuminates and softens the sadness. A deeply moving tribute from one great artist to another and a singular work in its own right, I Had Nowhere to Go has timely resonance today as mass migratory movements are displacing millions of people throughout the world as refugees, exiles, and stateless persons. While Mekas is certainly no ordinary person, the story he tells is a profoundly humble one, as much about daily survival as it is about aspiring to accomplish so much more. Gordon, who is ingenious at activating memory and the cinematic imaginary, compellingly presents quotidian moments outside of Mekas' famous film-related activities in order to reveal the desires, impulses, melancholy, and perseverance that inform Mekas' filmmaking and infectious love of cinema. Even when truly having nowhere to go, Mekas always saw brief glimpses of beauty as he was moving ahead. Biography Jonas Mekas - Writer Jonas Mekas born December 24, 1922, is a Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, writer, and curator who has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema." His work has been exhibited in museums and festivals across Europe and America. In 1944, Mekas left Lithuania because of war. En route, his train was stopped in Germany and he and his brother, Adolfas Mekas, were imprisoned in a labor camp in Elmshorn, a suburb of Hamburg, for eight months. The brothers escaped and were detained near the Danish border where they hid on a farm for two months until the end of the war. After the war, Mekas lived in displaced person camps in Wiesbaden and Kassel. From 1946-48, he studied philosophy at the University of Mainz and at the end of 1949, he emigrated with his brother to the U.S., settling in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. After his arrival, he borrowed the money to buy his first Bolex 16-mm camera and began to record moments of his life. He discovered avant-garde film at venues such as Amos Vogel's pioneering Cinema 16, and he began screening his own films in 1953 at Gallery East on Avenue A and Houston Street, and a Film Forum series at Carl Fisher Auditorium on 57th Street. In 1954, he became editor of Film Culture, and in 1958, began writing his "Movie Journal" column for The Village Voice. In 1962, he co-founded Film-Makers' Cooperative (FMC) and the Filmmaker's Cinematheque in 1964, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world’s largest and most important repositories of avant-garde films. The films and the voluminous collection of photographs and paper documents (mostly from or about avant garde film makers of the 1950-1980 period) were moved from time to time based on Mekas' ability to raise grant money to pay to house the massive collection. He was part of the New American Cinema, with, in particular, fellow film-maker Lionel Rogosin. He was heavily involved with artists such as Andy Warhol, Nico, Allen Ginsberg, Yoko Ono, John Lennon, Salvador Dalí, and fellow Lithuanian George Maciunas. In 1970, Anthology Film Archives opened on 425 Lafayette Street as a film museum, screening space, and a library, with Mekas as its director. Mekas, along with Stan Brakhage, Ken Kelman, Peter Kubelka, James Broughton, and P. Adams Sitney, begin the ambitious Essential Cinema project at Anthology Film Archives to establish a canon of important cinematic works. Mekas' own output ranging from narrative films (Guns of the Trees, 1961) to documentaries (The Brig, 1963) and to "diaries" such as Walden (1969); Lost, Lost, Lost (1975);Reminiscences of a Voyage to Lithuania (1972) and Zefiro torna (1992) have been screened extensively at festivals and museums around the world. In 2001, he released a five-hour long diary film entitled As I Was Moving Ahead. Martin Scorsese said once: "Jonas Mekas is the one that gave me the desire and strength to be a director." Douglas Gordon - Director Douglas Gordon's practice encompasses video and film, installation, sculpture, photography, and text. Through his work, Gordon investigates human conditions like memory and the passage of time, as well as universal dualities such as life and death, good and evil, right and wrong. Gordon's oeuvre has been exhibited globally and his film works have been presented at many competitions, including the Festival de Cannes, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the International Venice Film Festival. Gordon received the 1996 Turner Prize, the Premio 2000 prize for best young artist at the 1997 Venice Biennale, and the 1998 Hugo Boss Prize. Most recently, in May 2008 he was awarded the Roswitha Haftmann Prize by the Kunsthaus Zurich and, in 2012 the KätheKollwitz Prize from the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Gordon was the International Juror at the 65th International Venice Film Festival, and in 2012 he was the Jury president of CinemaXXI at the 7th International Rome Film Festival. In December 2014 Douglas Gordon and pianist Hélène Grimaud have joined forces to explore the beauty of water in an extraordinary performance at Armory on Park, New York. The collaboration continued when Gordon directed the theatre performance Neck of the Woods starring Charlotte Rampling and Hélène Grimuaud at the 2015 MIF - Manchester International Festival, Manchester. Born in Scotland, Gordon lives and works in Berlin and Glasgow and teaches film at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. He is represented internationally by Gagosian Gallery, as well as Untilthen in Paris, Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Zürich, and Dvir Gallery in Tel Aviv See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Rev Amanda Aikman"You are closer to glory leaping an abyss/than upholstering a rut," said poet James Broughton. What are the perils and rewards of risk-taking, and what can spur us to taking more risks in our precious lives?Listen here.
http://headxones.podomatic.com/ listening log highlights compilation collage mix: thoughts on desire and beyond from James Broughton , Sherlock "Elementary" Holmes, Ralph Nader , Slavoj Žižek , Dr. John C. Lilly , Dr. Steven M. Greer and others; supplemented with a metamorphosing Mixcraft score by yours truly.
Stephen Silha and Max St.Romain – Co-Director and Co-Producer – Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton Festival section: Minds FRED talks to filmmaker Stephen Silha and producer Max St Romain about their documentary on the life and works of filmmaker, poet and artist James Broughton – BIG JOY: THE ADVENTURES [...] The post Stephen Silha – Max St.Romain – Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton appeared first on Fred Film Radio.
Stephen Silha and Max St.Romain – Co-Director and Co-Producer – Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton Festival section: Minds FRED talks to filmmaker Stephen Silha and producer Max St Romain about their documentary on the life and works of filmmaker, poet and artist James Broughton – BIG JOY: THE ADVENTURES [...] The post Stephen Silha – Max St.Romain – Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton appeared first on Fred Film Radio.
Stephen Silha and Max St.Romain – Co-Director and Co-Producer – Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton Festival section: Minds FRED talks to filmmaker Stephen Silha and producer Max St Romain about their documentary on the life and works of filmmaker, poet and artist James Broughton – BIG JOY: THE ADVENTURES [...] The post Stephen Silha – Max St.Romain – Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton appeared first on Fred Film Radio.
Stephen Silha and Max St.Romain – Co-Director and Co-Producer – Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton Festival section: Minds FRED talks to filmmaker Stephen Silha and producer Max St Romain about their documentary on the life and works of filmmaker, poet and artist James Broughton – BIG JOY: THE ADVENTURES [...] The post Stephen Silha – Max St.Romain – Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton appeared first on Fred Film Radio.
Stephen Silha and Max St.Romain – Co-Director and Co-Producer – Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton Festival section: Minds FRED talks to filmmaker Stephen Silha and producer Max St Romain about their documentary on the life and works of filmmaker, poet and artist James Broughton – BIG JOY: THE ADVENTURES [...] The post Stephen Silha – Max St.Romain – Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton appeared first on Fred Film Radio.
Stephen Silha and Max St.Romain – Co-Director and Co-Producer – Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton Festival section: Minds FRED talks to filmmaker Stephen Silha and producer Max St Romain about their documentary on the life and works of filmmaker, poet and artist James Broughton – BIG JOY: THE ADVENTURES [...] The post Stephen Silha – Max St.Romain – Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton appeared first on Fred Film Radio.
A captivating documentary, "Big Joy", captures the pansexuality and poetic and cinematic genius of James Broughton, whose involvement in the San Francisco Renaissance predated the period of the Beats. Subversity Online interviews co-director Stephen Silha, a first-time filmmaker, on the life and impact of the affectionate and fairy-like poet, who continued writing into the end of his life in his eighties. In his senior years, Broughton is also engaged in a long relationship with another, younger man. Silha discusses in the interview why he made this film and their use of archival footage, as well as where the Broughton archives are located.
http://www.andystreasuretrove.com/andystreasuretrove.com/Media/Episode%204%20-%20Tom%20Powers%20on%20Strange%20Movie%20Theater%20Occurences%20He%20Has%20Experienced.mp3 ()Episode #4, prepared in Santa Cruz, California while Andy is on a “working vacation” there, features an interview with writer, editor and teacher Tom Powers, stories from the Theater Department at Illinois State University and stories about odd things that have happened to Tom in movie theaters far and wide. This episode is about 25 minutes long, and there are some nature photos of Santa Cruz under the keywords, below. Keywords and links for this episode: Santa Cruz, California, Tom Powers, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, Steppenwolf Theater Company, Terry Kinney, Jeff Perry, “Nash Bridges,” John Malkovich, Gary Cole, Laurie Metcalf, Sean Hayes, Alcatraz, text messaging, movie theaters, movie theater stories, Seaview Twin, Pacifica, “Jagged Edge,” Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges, “Something Wild,” Ray Liotto, Ira Rothstein, “Blue Velvet,” York Theater, San Francisco, Dennis Hopper, “Solaris,” Wheeler Auditorium, UC Berkeley, Andre Tarkovsky, movie audiences, “Apocalypse Now,” “Bad Boys,” Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, police, Stan Brakhage, James Broughton, Peter Kubelka, “The Godfather, Part 2,” Alexandria Theater, Kenneth Anger, Golden Gate Bridge, suicide, Castro Theater, “Mildred Pierce,” “Jezebel,” “The Lion in Winter,” “The African Queen,” “C***sucker Blues,” The Rolling Stones, Robert Frank, Rialto Theater, South Pasadena, Tim Robbins, “The Bicycle Thief,” “The Player,” “Swing Town,” “Deep Throat,” “The Man From Laramie,” Anthony Mann, Jimmy Stewart.