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Климаты земного шара (Сб, 20 окт 2018)
Можно сказать, что погода в июле в Москве бывает сухой, но нельзя сказать, что климат в это время был сухой. Если ознакомиться с материалами об июльской погоде в Москве за много лет, то можно убедиться, что как раз «нормальный» июль не сухой, а дождливый. Погода может резко измениться в течение нескольких часов, а климат сравнительно незначительно изменяется и лишь на протяжении десятков лет. Однако на земном шаре есть такие места, где погода и климат практически совпадают.
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Топинамбур (земляная груша): посадка, выращивание, полезные свойства (Сб, 20 окт 2018)
В Россию топинамбур попал в XVIII веке. Долго он был экзотической редкостью. Выращивали его немногие энтузиасты, больше из любопытства или в декоративных целях. Позднее топинамбур стал возделываться более широко, но, к сожалению, до сих пор не завоевал той популярности, которую заслуживает благодаря высокой урожайности, морозостойкости, неприхотливости и лечебно-диетическим свойствам, по которым он превосходит многие овощи.
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Про прорыв (Ср, 17 окт 2018)
Ключевое слово политического сезона – «прорыв» (вариант: «рывок»). Все призывают друг друга его совершить и рассуждают как. Однако прежде хорошо бы ответить на вопрос: прорываться в качестве кого? Как самостоятельный игрок или сырьевой придаток? Ну ладно, пускай не исключительно сырьевой, но что-то вроде вспомогательного цеха при развитых экономиках. Или мы мечтаем о прорыве в качестве самодостаточной страны? Это главный вопрос.
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Как определить направление и время по Солнцу и звёздам (Вт, 16 окт 2018)
Во время боевых операций часто бывает необходимо определять направления и время. Определение направлений называется ориентировкой. Для ориентировки пользуются компасом. При обучении бойцов и командиров указывается, как пользоваться компасом. Однако, может случиться, что одиночный боец или группа бойцов окажется без компаса. Для определения времени служат часы. Однако, боец может оказаться без часов.
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Стоит ли покупать ребенку планшет? (Пн, 15 окт 2018)
Лет 20 тому назад в наши семьи на полном ходу ворвался технический прогресс. В каждой семье за сравнительно короткое время появился телевизор, а за ним и компьютер. С их появлением поменялась жизнь, поменялись люди, что-то стало существенно лучше, а что-то мы потеряли. Про опасности виртуального мира тоже уже давно известно (компьютерная зависимость и т.д). Но от этих опасностей нас все-таки защищала стационарность этих устройств, позволяющая нам и нашим детям большую часть времени оставаться в реальности.
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Старая знакомая - ФИНАНСОВАЯ ПИРАМИДА (Пн, 15 окт 2018)
НЕДАВНО ОНА ПОЯВЛИАСЬ СНОВА: на этот раз под именем КЭШБЕРИ. Пирамиды всегда оживляются в моменты обеднения и растерянности маленького человека. Вроде насекомых-паразитов – вшей, например. В благополучные времена где-то они живут, но никак себя не проявляют. А случись какое бедствие, падает иммунитет людских масс – и они тут как тут, невесть откуда наползают; и это вовсе не связано с отсутствием мыла и горячей воды. Видимо, чувствуют кровососы какие-то бедственные эманации, исходящие от людей. Так было в начале 90-х – и с вшами, и с пирамидами.
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«Вы умрёте в муках, мы умрём тоже, но после вас» (Пн, 15 окт 2018)
Передача русских земель Украине осуществлялась без подписания соответствующих документов. 19 февраля 1954 года Хрущёв фактически подарил Крым Украинской ССР. Из официальных документов, подтверждающих передачу, в архивах не обнаружено ни одного. Решение не обсуждалось в Верховном Совете РСФСР, референдум по этому вопросу не созывался. «О своём решении первый секретарь сообщил товарищам по партии как бы между прочим, в перерыве одного из заседаний президиума ЦК, в перерыве на обед. "Да, товарищи, тут есть мнение передать Крым Украине", - обронил он вскользь. Ни у кого не хватило смелости возмутиться. Желание первого лица правящей партии - закон. В повестке очередного заседания Президиума ЦК КПСС, состоявшегося 25 января 1954 года, 11-м пунктом значился вопрос "О передаче Крымской области из состава РСФСР в состав УССР". Вопрос занял 15 минут».
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РАССЛАБОН И ЗУБРЁЖКА, или Как я была волшебницей (Вс, 14 окт 2018)
На днях привелось мне выступить в роли эксперта – по предмету, весьма далёкому от теперешних занятий. Внуку знакомой не даётся английский. Взяли репетиторшу – не помогает. Я поначалу пыталась увернуться: не лучше ли, - говорю, - обратиться к его педагогам? - Обращались. Ничего не получилось. Теперь требуется независимый эксперт.
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Современные мультфильмы уже открыто пропагандируют однополые отношения (Сб, 13 окт 2018)
Что пропагандируют современные мультфильмы? Такой вопрос должен задать себе каждый родитель, желающий вырастить своего ребёнка здоровым эмоционально и нравственно. Большая роль в разрушении образа традиционной семьи, а также в нормализации и популяризации сексуальных отклонений отводится создателям детской мульти- и кинопродукции.
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ЖИВОЕ СЛОВО в дошкольных учреждениях. Книга по развитию речи ребёнка (Пт, 12 окт 2018)
Книга Е. А. Флериной и Е. Ю. Шабад является методическим пособием для воспитателей детских садов. Она рассказывает о месте и значении живого слова в коммунистическом воспитании ребенка-дошкольника, знакомит с разнообразными методами работы по развитию речи, разговором, беседой, рассказыванием, художественным чтением, слушанием, радио. Книга обобщает опыт работы детских садов по развитию речи ребенка.
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Isosceles (Пт, 19 окт 2018)
Isosceles While filming a new video in Rome for fashion brand Isosceles Lingerie, filmmaker Amy Gwatkin—who was heading up a small, all-female team—noticed a man watching them from a distance, changing position, returning. "When he came too close we asked him, politely, to please move along," the London-based director explains. "Even without speaking much Italian, it was clear how his protests, which started out defensive, became petulant; then very quickly outright abusive." Gwatkin made a record of his unsolicited comments––"Don't worry girls, I won't do anything to you", was one––and you can read a full transcript below.  The encounter sheds a harsh light on the male gaze and on masculine entitlement concerning the female body—demonstrating the risks that women face in authoring and protecting themselves amid a potentially dangerous world. "It left us all a bit shaken and angry," Gwatkin says, "But I was very pleased to appropriate and re-record his words with Camilila Iacobitti, our make-up artist, who had the perfect voice for it. "We didn't let this derail the rest of the day," she continues, "but there was a certain irony in this encounter. Among the first images I exchanged with Cicely (the designer and creative force behind Isosceles Lingerie) were one of a girl flashing her pants in a fountain in Paris by Roy Stuart. Something about the joyful interplay between exhibitionist and voyeur in his work seemed ideal for the shoot in Rome. But this incident brought into focus the difference between that interplay, having ownership over your body and image, and the one-way street of bring considered an object." A TRANSCRIPT OF THE ENCOUNTER I'm only watching. It's not against the law to watch. This is a free country / it's a free country this one I'm staying here, I don't/wont do anything.  Don't worry girls, I wont do anything to you. Of course Ill look at you, you are so beautiful.  Girls Its against the law to think that a woman is beautiful. Excuse me if I… Why do you want me to move away/want me to distance myself?  You show me your ass and I’ll watch I know... What problem do you have/whats your problem?  This is the problem with you whores. In reality you like to be watched. What you are doing is illegal. Don' t worry girls, I wont do anything to you.  What is this, a porno film? Of course…It's possible to see you while you undress/strip. I'm only looking, it's not against the law to watch. You're disgusting, whore. This is a free country / it's a free country this one. I wont do anything to you. You are so beautiful, girls. I'm staying here, I'm not doing anything/I wont do anything. Don't worry girls, I won't do anything to you. Excuse me, but if you show me your ass i'll watch, I'm a man. Of course I will watch you, you are so beautiful, girls.  It's against the law to think that a woman is beautiful. I'm looking, that's all, I wont do anything to you.  Why do you want me to go away? / why do you want to move away from me?  What is this, a porno film?  You are wh… Have you finished?  What is your problem?  You are so beautiful, girls. Prostitutes, whores, letting yourselves be se.. (..en) You are prostitutes, whores, letting yourselves be seen in the park. What is it, a porn film?  In reality you like to be watched. What you are doing is illegal. You are prostitutes, I should call the police. There a children here. They could see you while you strip/undress. You are disgusting . ...Like this in the park, you should be ashamed, you're prostitutes . You should be ashamed, you are prostitutes .
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Bach Studies with Aïdan Carberry (Ср, 17 окт 2018)
Bach Studies with Aïdan Carberry In his latest film, a collaboration with choreographer Aïdan Carberry, choreographer and dancer Benjamin Millepied tackles the sound of music—JS Bach's Prelude No. 1, in particular—within an earthy historical home that reflects the German composer's own era, while the dance is injected with modern moves and gestures. Speaking about working with Aïdan Carberry, Millepied says, “Being used to seeing Aidan dance to hip hop, and watching him dancing to Bach, allows a different level of rhythm, sophistication and subtlety. That was really exciting for me.”
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Rambling: Yrsa Daley-Ward (Пн, 15 окт 2018)
Rambling: Yrsa Daley-Ward The choppy waters of New York harbor are a fitting location for a poet to recite their verse—after all, the same orange-bellied ferries that cross the bay have served the likes of Alice Notley and Eileen Myles; other poets who have called this Atlantic-facing city their home. But for British model and writer Yrsa Daley-Ward, New York isn't her only home. "The one place where I feel super comfortable" is writing, as the poet explains in this—the latest episode of our literary series, Rambling. Shot by Clara Cullen—who is celebrated for her work directing for the likes of Chanel and Levi's—the film paints a poetic portrait of Daley-Ward in her now adoptive city, while launching into an exploration of the other places that words can carry us. Daley-Ward's literary career is also marked by its globalism; not only did she rise to prominence on Instagram (her posts carried to readers across the world), but her own background is storied; daughter to a Jamaican mother and a Nigerian father, and growing up in the north of England. And within her writing resides a confrontation with her own historically; specifically her history of pain and confusion growing up within an unforgiving world, while struggling to make her way as a model and actress, and working in the sex industry to pay her bills. Drugs, depression, sex work, modelling, and love both gloom and glorify the pages of her works, including 2017's Bone and this year's The Terrible.
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Retreats: Damanhur (Пн, 08 окт 2018)
Retreats: Damanhur Nestled in the alpine foothills of Piedmont, Italy, Damanhur is a community of six hundred people coexisting as a federation of spiritual communities, and is based on a 'constitution' made up of culture, art, music, currency, schools, science, and technology. It was Damanhur's uniqueness that first brought long-term NOWNESS collaborator and filmmaker Ivan Olita to this magical location, which was originally founded in 1975 by Falco Tarassaco, né Oberto Airaudi (1950-2013). Based on the principles of solidarity, sharing, love, and respect for the environment, Damanhur's crowning jewel is a subterranean temple complex named the Temples of Humanity. Plunging some 30 metres underground, the seven chambers of the temple represent things including society, the human psyche, planetary contact, and the earth itself. These structures—sumptuous, symbolic caves rich with imagery and icons—were built without formal planning permission, leading to a tense standoff with the Italian authorities who—tipped off on the location of the structures by locals—raided the temple in 1991. During the search, a state prosecutor demanded that the temples be revealed, "or we will dynamite the entire hillside." Fortunately, the Italian government eventually granted the community retroactive privileges to build these unparalleled structures. They remain open to visitors to this day. Olita, continuing his long-term filmic research into spiritual communities around the world, saw in Damanhur an alternative to more restrictive communes and dogmas; the spiritual path of each member being open, subjective, and ultimately an engagement with their own identity. Read below our full interview with the globe-trotting director, and find out more about this community's unique view of the world. The film is the third instalment in Olita's ongoing faith trilogy, which includes his powerful NOWNESS premiere Contra Daemones.  'IT'S SURPRISING... ASTONISHING' An interview with Ivan Olita How did you first discover Damanhur—and what made you decide to film here specifically? What drew you to it? I first discovered Damanhur when I was a teenager. I remember a friend of mine telling me about it. At that time, Falco, the founder of the community was still alive and his actions in the community had a lot of media exposure in Italy. We are ruled by the Vatican and everything that is not within the Catholic teachings is deemed somehow heretic. I remember being very curious about this community...Also, I had the interest in shooting a trilogy about faith. I went to Kyoto to document the Tendai Monks that undergo excruciating training to reach enlightenment, in Italy to document the most important exorcist for the Vatican and this seemed to be an interesting final chapter. What surprised you about Damanhur? The whole idea of a community for esoteric knowledge in the middle of a tiny Italian village is pretty surprising. Also Damhur is not self contained-- It actually is made of several micro-villages spreads across the valley so, even from a social and architectural perspective is pretty interesting to see how the two integrate... You would expect Damanhur to be absolutely self sufficient and I guess that they are from an academic perspective but there is an inherent 'italianity' in the system that’s inevitable given the dislocated nature of the community. So it’s an interesting patchwork of your casual italian restaurant next to some Damanhurian owned business next to a compound of houses in where to study some esoteric science. Aside from the Damil,the hq of the community you don’t really realize you’re in Damanhur, it feels just being around Italian valleys.The temple (well, countless books have been written about it but regardless) is surprising—astonishing, really. Did the spirituality of the site influence how you approached the shoot? Did you feel like a participant when you were there, or more of a distant observer—an anthropologist or an acolyte? I always feel some sort of anthropologist and although I don’t have a systemic approach to my subjects I do have to analyze them to an extent and relate my analysis to other people, other cultures, other subjects... That said I also develop a very strong connection with whoever I shoot with, it is almost a sort of a spell, so I’m always really involved. In this case specifically Celastrina (Rebekka) has my same age and comes from a somewhat similar background. While we were there shooting in the mountains I often times found myself thinking... “What if I decided to just come and live here?” Would you return to Damanhur, and why? I would totally return! I'm planning to go there soon. I consider Damanhur a center for human potential development. There is nothing that far out about that.. And they host all kinds of weeklong workshops if you are interested in developing and or studying some alchemy, lucid dreaming or exploration of time and past lives. You’ve previously shot a film about Catholicism and exorcism, which was premiered on NOWNESS. How does this type of spiritual society differ from the more ancient form of Christianity? The main difference without entering in details is that Damanhurians don’t follow any kind of dogma, whereas catholicism is a pretty dogmatic religion.The exorcist I met was very enlightened though and he could trace back to the roots of his religious beliefs, he knew the holy writings and with him christianity became more of a metaphysical experience for me. Damnhurians on the contrary believe in personal empowerment, and in the hidden laws of the universe. There is no dogma, it is more about uncovering ancient knowledges and putting them to use. Based on what you saw and shot, why might people choose to live in Damanhur or, for that matter, any spiritual society outside of normal social structures? Is this a reaction against the cruelties, alienation, and overload of modern society?  People in Damanhur, as well as in other communities around the world such as Auroville (or to a lighter extent Esalen inCalifornia) are just trying to question the way we can live life. I think these communities are obviously part of the 1960s counterculture but are definitely having a comeback now. —Interview by Owen Gwynne Vince
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Retreats: Savage Ranch (Пн, 08 окт 2018)
Retreats: Savage Ranch Savage Ranch is a queer refuge and artist commune founded by performer, designer, and artist Love Bailey, located just south of Los Angeles. Getting her start as a dancer, Bailey moved on to working across a multitude of artistic practices, from fashion to music. The most recent incarnation of Bailey's creative drive is the Ranch—a space that was founded as an intentional creative community dedicated to giving activists and artists a haven free from any gender and sexual discrimination. And while the Ranch is a refuge, Bailey encourages those who spend time in the desert-bound locale to push their limits and boundaries. At the Ranch, emphasis is placed on having a 'can do' and DIY attitude, with participants being encouraged to get involved in its myriad creative activities. Liza Mandelup, who took the director's chair, captured daily life (from body painting to impromptu musical jams) and nighttime antics at this unique community, far from the madding crowd and traffic fumes of LA. Speaking about her time spent with Love, Mandalup says: "Love's world is something that deserves a film because it's really hard to put into words—you just need to experience it. I came to the ranch with a small crew; just me, the director of photography, Ben Whatley, and my sound mixer Gabe Stewart, and we stayed for a week. All of us being artists as well, we felt like we didn't want to leave. Her world is magnetic and freeing. She holds no judgments against anyone. Everyone is welcome at the ranch if you can contribute and want to be a part of fulfilling the fantasy. Temecula is such an interesting place to have something like this exist; it's wine country. Miles and miles of vineyards and people on vacation. No one expects this to be there."
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Retreats: Marblehill (Пн, 08 окт 2018)
Retreats: Marblehill In this collaboration with Impossible, Lily Cole and Kwame Ferreira headed to the woods and the fields to meet Mark Boyle, who also goes by the moniker 'The Moneyless Man.' The Irish artist and activist is best known for creating the Freeconomy Community, and for having lived without money since November 2008. Living off grid—without electricity or technology—Boyle opens his doors to visitors who can choose to share his lifestyle for as long, or as little, as they desire. The residents of Marblehill, living "in full connection with the natural world," spend their days tending the crops and plants on which their livelihood depends, while putting away the technologies, communities, and social structures which represent the often punishing pace of modern life. Cole's film—which was produced for (and originally shown at) the Serpentine Work Marathon—isn't the first time the actor and model has examined unusual spaces and places. With NOWNESS she has previously premiered Full Circles—an architectural study of Cuba's revolutionary art schools—and Wild Rubber, a deep dive into life in the Brazilian Amazon. Coming closer to home, Marblehill is similarly concerned with different ways of living, outside of the constrictions of modernity.
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Mayfly With John (Пт, 05 окт 2018)
Mayfly With John As the upcoming guest curator for A Magazine Curated By—the fashion publication that invites a different designer to run each issue—Simone Rocha chose to focus on the themes of Ireland, Hong Kong, and family. As part of this project, she worked with director Joe Ridout on this tender and laid-back study of family and fishing, told through the eyes of John, her father (who also happens to be the acclaimed international designer.) Speaking about his opportunity to relax with the father-daughter fashion duo, Ridout says: "Mayfly season is when folks from all over Ireland and beyond come to the storied lochs in the west of Ireland. The flies hatch on the water and become an abundant source of food for the trout down below. Ghillie’s (expert local boatmen) take fishermen out on to the water to try their hand at reeling one in. John Rocha is one such fisherman.  "We documented him enjoying his favourite pastime in his adopted country and learnt that what brings him ‘home’ is less about catching a fish and more about catching up with old friends and spending a weekend in the beautiful village of Clonbur, which comes alive for these four or so weeks of the year with specialist shops, friendly faces and pubs full of fathers, sons, friends and rivals telling tales of catches, some of which are displayed on the walls between rods, flies and photos spanning over a hundred years."
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On the Other River Banks In Berlin: Sasha (Чт, 04 окт 2018)
On the Other River Banks In Berlin: Sasha London-based Lisson Gallery present this compelling segment from a new film from director Yang Bo, profiling Chinese painter Liu Xiaodong—the Beijing-based artist whose large-scale works have been likened to a kind of history painting for the emerging world. Liu was among the generation of Chinese Neo-Realist painters who came to the fore during the 1990s, where his use of figurative painting—executed in loose, casual brushstrokes—seeks to depict people 'as they really are,' while creating a memorable image of their personality and charisma. In this segment of the wider film, we are introduced to Sasha, a transgender sitter wearing skin-colored tights, whose portrait will be presented at the Lisson Gallery booth during frieze, London. The conversation with Sasha leads to an intimate exploration of figuration, identity, and the artistic process, accompanied by an up-close study of Liu's creative process as he works his gentle, intuitive strokes onto an expansive canvas. The painting is part of a wider series which explores transgender and gay subjects in Berlin, lending the film its title. While Liu Xiaodong lives and works in Beijing, he has undertaken projects in Tibet, Japan, Italy, the UK, Cuba and Austria, and closer to home, in Jincheng, in the north-eastern province of Liaoning, China, where he was born in 1963.
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Objet d'Art (Ср, 03 окт 2018)
Objet d'Art American artist Andrew Ondrejcak's latest film breathes energy into the historic genre of still-life painting, dragging it forward into the age of digital communication. The Mississippi-born creator mixes bowls of fruit and wilting flowers with Japanese soda and those most unavoidable items of modern technology—emojis. "Historically, still life has been the lowliest subject of painting," explains the New York-based artist and educator, "but I'm moved by the care and devotion to objects that a painter must make—particularly in the Flemish still lives of the 16 Century, in which each object was carefully curated and representative of something beyond itself. I’m also interested in visual pairings of objects; how the spots of a duck egg relate to a decomposing pear, to the craters of the moon, and of how this simple juxtaposition helps me to understand each object in a new way.  "This conversation between objects creates an unofficial history of iconography (though admittedly idiosyncratic and playful). The creaminess of that gross Japanese soda matches the creaminess of the rose, the butterfly disappears in front of a decomposing plum - and so on - until we come to our time, our age, where this conversation through objects continues, now as icons of fairies, barfing faces, bows, love through beating hearts."
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Vessel (Пн, 01 окт 2018)
Vessel The idea of creating moulds of the human body came to artist Sarah Sitkin while she was talking to her grandmother. "She asked me to take a mould of her foot," the LA-based creator explains. "She wanted me to make a prosthetic appliance to correct her overlapping toes. During the mould we had a conversation about the disconnection she was feeling between the foot she knew was hers and the foot that was before her." This conversation ultimately led Sitkin to think about what it means to simply 'have' a body, and the "lifelong struggle to identify with our ever-changing physicality, to preserve it, and to maintain agency over it." Filmmaker Ryan Weatrowski wanted to capture the strange physicality of these prosthetic 'vessels' and of Sitkin's thinking around them. As he observes, "Sitkin's work is not to be framed out, analyzed, or simply viewed—it is instantly and unmistakably a human experience. I can only describe it as similar to Deja Vu, that (literal) out of body recognition that makes you retrace your life up until that very moment. Sarah's collection, Bodysuits, is her ultimate expression of this. Have you ever wondered what it'd be like to be in someone's else's body?" Ultimately the body is a beautiful and perilous fact into whose mould we only imperfectly fit."
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Vargsamtal (Вс, 30 сен 2018)
Vargsamtal Filmmaker Axel Byrfors headed to the snow-bound plateau of Finnmark, along the Norwegian-Finnish border, for his latest film—a portrait of his relative Sven, who lives a secluded life in this wintery place, and the working dogs he breeds and cares for. Sven, a former dog-sledding champion, founded Europe's longest and most prestigious dog-sledding race: Finnmarksloppet. Here, Axel talks about Sven, nature, and a life on sleds: "We wrote an outline mostly on what we wanted the film to feel like rather than predicting it's content. It ended up with me going there with a camera on an eight day-shoot not knowing really what to expect. With departure from southern Sweden it still took two plane rides and one day of hitchhiking to get there, and so I suddenly found myself in this kind of anomalistic landscape of white horizons in every direction. Sven has a couple of cabins that he builds himself and lives alongside his approximately sixty sled dogs, trying to maintain a mixed breed that fits the particular terrain and climate of this area. "Once there, you can only play by Sven's rules and agenda—there's no room for alternate takes, manipulation of any kind or hardly even directing, so I ended up just capturing what seemed to us would give an engaging yet honest idea of who Sven is and what he's about. It naturally ended up in a film about his dogs and how he reflects himself in them. In the film, Sven tells one of his many anecdotes, this one which takes place on an expedition in the Taiga. He tells it with both seriousness and humor, with honesty as well as distance. There is something in how he tells the story that in an abstract way resembles the landscape of Finnmark, which ultimately set the tone for the film. On the plateau, you get hit in the face by this harsh yet poetic and almost surreal vastness but you also get closer to something so basic and elemental. It may sound like a cliché but it's very true. Interpretations aside, I hope dog lovers can embrace this five-minute film. Sven is happy to welcome anyone who wants to jump on the sled and beat new trails with the pack."
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Scenes: The Wicked Shit (Пт, 28 сен 2018)
Scenes: The Wicked Shit No doubt you've heard of the Juggalos—the wild fanbase of face-painted American rappers Insane Clown Posse, whose fans (it's estimated) number well over a million. Once a year this disparate group convene in Ohio for the Gathering of the Juggalos, a festival of fire-spinning, smoke breathing, and bare fist fighting, accompanied by a soundtrack from ICP's label, Psycopathic.  Enter Joshua Gordon, director of underground hit Krahang, which dropped on Dazed earlier this year. Gordon, an obsessive documentarian of extreme communities and fanbases, has "been interested in Juggalos since I was a little kid," as he explained to NOWNESS. It made absolute sense, then, for Gordon to attend the much talked about annual gathering in order to dispel some myths about this daunting and seemingly diabolical community. What he walked away with was a strangely warm and tender portrait of a group that has been classified as a gang by the FBI. Speaking about his time spent with this compellingly clownish community, the Irish-born director explains: "They’re a diehard community with a strong presence online and a very unique personal style. I’ve seen a number of short films on them but always found them a bit bland and obvious," continues the London-based filmmaker, "so I wanted to meet some of them and make a film about them in my own style, something more tender and less sensationalist. "My idea was to make more of a moving photo book then a traditional documentary, and to film it, direct it and do the sound on my own so I could make a more natural connection with the jugallos and jugalettes, just hang out with them for a week and see what they’re about." Tune in to ICP
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Never Still: Virgil (Пт, 28 сен 2018)
Never Still: Virgil “The faster you travel, the sooner the lines that divide us disappear,” explains American designer, DJ, and producer Vigril Abloh in this new film from German travel accessories brand RIMOWA—launched to coincide with their 120th anniversary. A personal interpretation of what it means to move, the film is a hypnotic and visually experimental journey through the psychology of going from one place to another. Shot by award-winning filmmaker Dexter Navy, the film takes the form of a recorded phone conversation with Abloh, who rhapsodises on the the transformative qualities of travel. "You can't do anything but open your mind," he explains, during an emotive discussion about borders, being, and belonging.
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