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1970년 데뷔 이래로 도전적이고 독특한 음악들을 선보이며 그들만의 독보적인 세계를 구축해온 전설적인 밴드 SPARKS(스파크스)의 오디세이와 오랜 기간 멤버로 동고동락한 형제 론 마엘, 러셀 마엘의 인생을 짚어본다. 여기에 SPARKS의 열정적인 지지자인 유명 싱어송 라이터 벡과 음악가 빈스 클라크, 록 밴드 프란츠 퍼디난드, 듀란 듀란, 레드 핫 칠리 페퍼스 등의 찬사를 함께 담아낸 SPARKS의, SPARKS에 의한, SPARKS를 위한 에드가 라이트 감독의 음악 다큐멘터리
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"Who Is Lun*na Menoh" follows the life and work of the extraordinary Japanese artist. From her early career in Japan to the underground music scene in Los Angeles, from fashion show runways featuring her sculptural designs to art galleries showing her fantastical work, Lun*na's edgy, witty and beautiful creations are explored. Director Jeff Mizushima follows Lun*na's artistic career, showcasing her uniquely individual expressionism and interviewing her family, gallery owners, models, fans, and fellow visual artists & musicians to find out who and what Lun*na Menoh is and why her art, in all of its forms, fits in our world.
“Aleph” is an artist’s meditation on life, death, mysticism, politics, and pop culture. In an eight-minute loop of film, Wallace Berman uses Hebrew letters to frame a hypnotic, rapid-fire montage that captures the go-go energy of the 1960s. Aleph includes stills of collages created using a Verifax machine, Eastman Kodak’s precursor to the photocopier. These collages depict a hand-held radio that seems to broadcast or receive popular and esoteric icons. Signs, symbols, and diverse mass-media images (e.g., Flash Gordon, John F. Kennedy, Mick Jagger) flow like a deck of tarot cards, infinitely shuffled in order that the viewer may construct his or her own set of personal interpretations. The transistor radio, the most ubiquitous portable form of mass communication in the 1960s, exemplifies the democratic potential of electronic culture and may serve as a metaphor for Jewish mysticism.
