Salvador Dali – A Soft Self Portrait (1970)

Originally produced for a French television audience, this portrait of the surrealist artist Salvador Dali details the dreamlike inspiration behind many of his avant-garde creations. Set in Dali’s hometown of Lligat, Spain, the artist himself takes the viewer on a tour of the creative process that is behind his remarkable body of work. Journey into the subconscious of one of the most influential artists of the 20th century and take a look at the world through Salvador Dali’s eyes with this program that he both designed and performed. The documentary is directed by Jean-Christopher Averty, with narration provided by Orson Welles.

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0195228/

Comptine d’un autre ete: L’apres midi

INFLUENCERS (2010)

INFLUENCERS is a short documentary that explores what it means to be an influencer and how trends and creativity become contagious today in music, fashion and entertainment.

The film attempts to understand the essence of influence, what makes a person influential without taking a statistical or metric approach.

 

Written and Directed by Paul Rojanathara and Davis Johnson, the film is a Polaroid snapshot of New York influential creatives (advertising, design, fashion and entertainment) who are shaping today’s pop culture.

 

“Influencers” belongs to the new generation of short films, webdocs, which combine the documentary style and the online experience.

>> influencersfilm.com

>> facebook.com/influencersfilm 

Lisbon in my heart.

Today I am returning to my beloved country!
Even if it’s just for one month, this small trip will be wonderful since I am living  in Istanbul for 5 months now and therefore is time to see my old friends, family and familiar places.

Realities: 1930s in Portugal

Lisboa Crónica Anedótica 1930

 

source:http://revistaantigaportuguesa.blogspot.com/

Stanley Kubrik’s Photos of 1940s New York

Before becoming a legendary director, Stanley Kubrick was a poor kid from the Bronx who did
photojournalism for Look magazine in the 1940s in and around New York City. He shot on the sly,
often times his camera concealed in a paper bag with a hole in it. Of the some odd 10 000 black and
white photographs he took while working at the magazine, VandM.

 

 

 

 

Source: http://vandm.com/

Awesome Colorized Photos!

Abraham Lincoln

Albert Einstein

Anne Frank

Alfred Hitchcock

Augustin Strindberg

Charles Darwin

Theodore Rosevelt

Charlie Chaplin

Che Guevara

Fridtjof Nansen

Winston Churchhill

Karin Boye 1933

Mark Twain

“Migrant Mother” by Dorothea Lange

Dorothy Counts

Operation Crossroads Baker at the Bikini Atoll

The American Dream

Vj day at the Times Square

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Operations Cross Road Baker at the Bikini Atoll

Viet Cong

image credits
by Sanna Dullaway

 

TOP: Street Art 11′

See >> http://www.streetartutopia.com/

Der ewige Jude – The Eternal Jew (1940)

Link: http://youtu.be/kbfbnKOgvyY

It’s a cold and anti-Semitic view of the events, that will make you feel the level of atrocity conducted by the 20th-century Germany.

The Eternal Jew (1940) is an anti-Semitic German Nazi propaganda film, presented as a documentary.
Its original title  is Der ewige Jude -the German term for the character of the “Wandering Jew” in medieval folklore.

Screenshot:

“The Jews of Poland (invaded by Germany in 1939) are depicted as filthy, evil, corrupt, and intent on world domination. Street scenes are shown prejudicially, along with clips from Jewish cinema of the day and photos of Jewish celebrities, while the narrator “explains” the Jewish problem. The climax and resolution of the film is Hitler’s 1939 announcement that the Jewish race will meet its “annihilation” (Vernichtung).”

source:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0156524/

Nuit et brouillard (Night and Fog) – Worth seeing!

Night and Fog (1955)

“Those of us who pretend to believe that all this happened at a certain time
and in a certain place, and those who refuse to see, who do not hear the cry to the end of time. “

Storyline

One of the most vivid depictions of the horrors of Nazi Concentration Camps. Filmed in 1955 at several concentration camps in Poland, the film combines new color and black and white footage with black and white newsreels, footage shot by the victorious allies, and stills, to tell the story not only of the camps, but to portray the horror of man’s brutal inhumanity.

Watch all the movie here:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0DED1B39B1F289A2

source:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048434/