Saturday 22 October 2011

The age of rage














Julia Holter - Try to make yourself a work of art (from: Tragedy, Leaving 30/08/2011)

Whitehorse (Melissa McClelland & Luke Doucet) - Killing time is murder (2011)

Up – Figured out (2011)

Steven A. Clark – Stranded (2011)

Cave birds - Some lightning thrill (2011)

Trash talk - Awake (True panther, 11/10/2011)

Maybe the more conservative, closed, racist and money-obsessed a society is the more bleakly intense its true artists are. I thought that Haneke was hardcore (which he is), but then cam Seidl. Stark realism? With all due respect move aside Loach (I'm not talking about the Korine joke). No one comes close to such a brutal, grim, cold, hopeless and dismal portrayal of modern society as this guy. Now that I live in Vienna, I can understand why only they can make such films.

Import/Export (Ulrich Seidl, 2007)