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Жемчуг... Старинное украшение Северной Руси (Tue, 10 Dec 2019)
На Севере России существовала легенда о том, что жемчуг появляется только в тех реках, куда заходит царская рыба — сёмга. Верили, что жемчужина зарождается в жабрах семги. Семга, несколько лет плавая в море, носит с собой жемчужную искру, а когда возвращается в реку, находит в теплый солнечный день на дне самую красивую раскрытую раковину и бережно опускает в нее жемчужную капельку, из которой и вырастает впоследствии жемчужина.
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Традиционный костюм русских крестьян-староверов на Южном и Юго-Западном Алтае в первой половине XX века (Sun, 08 Dec 2019)
В издании представлена коллекция традиционной одежды русских крестьян-староверов, собранная в Восточно-Казахстанском областном архитектурно-этнографическом и природно-ландшафтном музее-заповеднике. Автор Шарабарина Татьяна Германовна.
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Мультфильм «Выходные» / «Weekends» (2017) Trevor Jimenez (Sun, 08 Dec 2019)
Автобиографический фильм о мальчике, вынужденном жить попеременно в разных домах из-за того, что его родители развелись. На неделе он живет с матерью, а на выходные перемещается к отцу. Тревожные видения из снов ребёнка смешиваются с реалиями распавшейся семьи.
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Промышленный шпионаж (Sat, 07 Dec 2019)
Запад очень часто подчеркивает свое превосходство в науке и технике. А так ли на самом деле? Немного примеров: Вот недавно продемонстрировали чудо американской мысли космоплан «Dream Chaser». Преподносят что это прорыв, и новейшее достижение в космической технике.
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Ой, орёл, ты мой орёл (Sat, 07 Dec 2019)
Алексей и Наталья Рюмкины. Песня села Менза Красночикойского района Забайкальского края. Декабрь 2019.
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Уж ты, черный ты мой, чернобровый (Sat, 07 Dec 2019)
Вера Новосельцева, Елена Зайцева, Ольга Стурова, Сергей Парфёнов, Анастасия Харина, Михаил Олейников, Мария Егорова, Антонина Сергеева, Алина Сагадатова, Светлана Филонович, Галина Сысоева. Июнь 2019.
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Как своими руками сделать ножной гончарный круг (Fri, 06 Dec 2019)
Каждый, кто интересуется гончарным мастерством, когда-либо задумывался о приобретении гончарного круга. Но, как известно, круг — удовольствие не из дешёвых. Хотя профессиональный инструмент и оправдывает вложенные в него средства — не каждый начинающий мастер может позволить себе такой станок в начале творческого пути.
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Специальный репортаж «Живая традиция?» (Fri, 06 Dec 2019)
Первый демографический кризис у нас был в 90-е, во втором увязли с 2016-го. Его изучением занимается и Департамент по экономическим и социальным вопросам ООН, который прогнозирует, что если с начала 90-х годов Россия потеряла около 4 млн человек, то к 2050-му мы недосчитается ещё 12-ти миллионов. При сохранении существующих демографических тенденций выживут только крупные мегаполисы, остальные регионы просто вымрут.
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Советские часы. Какие производились часы в СССР (Thu, 05 Dec 2019)
После Революции большевикам досталось весьма скудное «наследство» в сфере часового дела. До 1919-го года Агентство Часов, являющееся структурным подразделением Высшего Совета Народного Хозяйства (ВСНХ), курировало ведение часового дела в стране.
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Янычары Османской империи: как стать и перестать быть элитой (Thu, 05 Dec 2019)
...В середине XIV века никакой Османской империи еще не было, равно как и султанов. Поэтому глубоко ошибочны утверждения вроде «турецкий султан разбил сербов на Косовом поле». Разбить-то сербов на упомянутом поле Мурад разбил, но султаном он не был, время султанов еще не пришло…
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Chapters of Food: Turkey and the Wolf (Fri, 06 Dec 2019)
Chapters of Food: Turkey and the Wolf In a city famous for its po’boy spots and gumbo joints, there’s one chef who has ripped up the New Orleans cookbook and stuck it back together with a slice of whit and a heavy dollop of whimsy. Founder, owner and all-round cool cook Mason Hereford opened Turkey and the Wolf as a casual sandwich shop in 2016. His menu is littered with eccentric dishes like Double Decker Boom Town Freedom Tostada and features elevated ingredients including tarragon buttermilk and whipped feta.  Since Turkey and the Wolf was voted the best new US restaurant of 2017 by Bon Appétit magazine, this lunchtime spot has become a magnet for anyone hankering for gourmet skills, South American flavors, and the easy hospitality of a gas station deli.  British director Toby Amies traveled to New Orleans to follow Hereford on his weekly shopping rounds for locally sourced ingredients and American cheese... While riding shotgun across the city with the master chef, Amies learned that Hereford’s philosophy for sandwich-making isn’t all that heretical; a sandwich is anything you can wrap a fist around.  But the secret sauce in Turkey and the Wolf’s slow-cooked lamb neck roti
 or triple-decker collard green melt is its entourage of capable, fun-loving cooks—many of whom, including Hereford himself, have spent time in some of the country's best kitchens. Together they whip up a home-style dining experience that conjures your favorite comfort foods and deconstructs them with wild abandon. “Recapturing a childhood memory is an effective way to convey what our food is,” says Hereford, “and what inspires it.”
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Sound & Vision: Immortal Lands (Wed, 04 Dec 2019)
Sound & Vision: Immortal Lands Last year British multimedia artist Alexander James spent time living and filming on the road in the Arizona and New Mexico deserts. The raw footage he collected during his travels went on to form the foundation of this multilayered project investigating memory and personal experience through the aesthetic lens of thermal imagery.   “I often had lucid dreams that I believe were directly manipulated by the atmosphere of the desert,” says James, who directed reenactments of his waking hallucinations in Immortal Lands. “The way the female lead aimlessly wanders through the dunes perfectly represents how I envisioned myself sleepwalking from one world to the next.”  James often uses painting, sculpture and video to question his own experiences, with a focus on the intersection of identity, digitalization and materiality. In response to his work, model and poet Sonny Hall wrote spectral rhymes set against a soundscape of electronic beeps and static interference, produced by London-based musician Zach Nahome.  The resulting project is a sensory feast rooted in music, lyrics, landscape and nostalgia, yet liberated from time and space. “Being in the desert is very isolating but it also exudes tranquility,” says James. “This combination allowed me to slow my thoughts to a halt, in stark contrast to my state of mind while living in London.”
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Nowness Experiments: Jacolby Satterwhite – Avenue B (Sun, 24 Nov 2019)
Nowness Experiments: Jacolby Satterwhite – Avenue B As part of our new series of moving-image premieres and live exhibitions, Nowness Experiments, we welcome digital video artist, performer and musical creator Jacolby Satterwhite to the screen.  Based in New York and globally recognised as a leading multidisciplinary artistic voice, Solange collaborator Satterwhite tells us below about his new multi-channel project—the six-minute version of which we're premiering in support of his recent album release, Love Will Find A Way Home, as PAT, the collaborative name for the musical duo he's part of with musician Nick Weiss from Teengirl Fantasy. Stay tuned to Nowness for the full-length version of Avenue B, coming soon... "Avenue B is the 4th chapter from the Birds in Paradise series. The film shows four rituals of renewal fragmented within the two channels. I chose to borrow elements from Nigerian Yoruba Gelede masquerade performance such as shrouding, dance and bathing, to align with the concept of the song scoring the film.  "The song, "Second Time Around," is featured on my album Love Will Find A Way Home. The album is a concept record that uses recordings on cassette tape made by my mother, Patricia Satterwhite. A lot of the songs she wrote were derived from American folk music from the South—gospel, R&B and Top 40.  Second Time Around (Vocals: Patricia Satterwhite, Alissa Brianna and Cedric Antonio) The heart is a frail and delicate thing When it is crushed When it is crushed And it makes it hard to get over The scars from The first time Even though the second time around seems So tempting Although the time is right for love The pain is still fresh People who lost their love the first time Are afraid to love again For the second time around Could be Better than the first time Than the first time Love can heal the heart from the past And make it last Time can heal the heart and take the pain And make it better For the second time around Could be Better than anytime The heart is a frail and delicate thing When it is crushed When it is crushed And it makes it hard to get over The scars from The first time Even though the second time around seems So tempting Although the time is right for love The pain is still fresh People who lost their love the first time Are afraid to love again For the second time around Could be Better than the first time Than the first time  Love Will Find A Way Home, by PAT, is out now on Pioneer Works 
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Roots for a Crown (Mon, 18 Nov 2019)
Roots for a Crown Written and directed by Sierra Leonean via London poet Julianknxx, Roots for a Crown explores the negative perceptions and prejudice surrounding locked hair. In this imaginative docufiction, various storytellers delve into the symbolism and traditions behind their locs, and discuss how their hair has become an aesthetic marker of ancestral identity. Co-directed with British filmmaker Chris West, this short moves fluidly between poetry, music and visual art. Cowrie shells, traditional African dress and wax print fabrics amplify the cultural roots of locked hair, while Julianknxx’s rousing soundtrack speaks of community, shared lineage and pride.  Originally commissioned by the Roundhouse, a performing arts space in London, Roots for a Crown is the latest project from the poet that draws heavily on his own biography—which commonly considers themes of masculinity, blackness and mental health.
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Solitary Dancer: Violence of the Lambs (Fri, 15 Nov 2019)
Solitary Dancer: Violence of the Lambs Neo-noir electro duo Solitary Dancer reached out to Ivorian-Ghanaian filmmaker Will Niava to develop a video concept that dealt with issues of racial inequality and systemic oppression. The Montreal-based musicians explain how, Violence of the Lambs, the first track from their new LP, was purpose-written with the idea for the video in mind, and “prompted by growing frustration with the state of law enforcement.” This film follows a trio of young men and their altercation with a hot-tempered off-duty police officer who racially profiles the only black member of the group. The music is as intrinsic to the plot as the action, with corroded synthesizer sounds and thumping bass keeping pace with the rising animosity between the central characters.  “Growing up in Ghana and Ivory Coast, police brutality is something I’ve experienced and witnessed on numerous occasions,” says Niava. “Back home, the police usually want money in exchange for your freedom. However, in North America it feels like your life is at stake just because of the color of your skin.”  Niava shares the burden of racial prejudice with the audience by placing the camera at the center of the conflict. By doing so, he hopes to rouse a society he says has become “desensitized” to police violence.  “The video aims to both engage and to reinforce the need for public outcry surrounding police brutality and racism,” says Solitary Dancer. “Especially amid thousands of senseless cases in recent times.”
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In Residence: Sue Webster (Tue, 12 Nov 2019)
In Residence: Sue Webster When an entire residential road lost power and an eight-foot sinkhole opened up in the street, the north London council of Hackney could no longer turn a blind eye to the rumours surrounding the ‘mole man house’—a property owned by notorious amateur tunneller William Lyttle.  When British artist Sue Webster purchased the property at auction in 2014, she was well aware of the former owner’s illustrious history. In the 1960s William ‘mole man’ Lyttle began excavating the foundations of his house to build a wine cellar, but failed to stop there. Instead, he spent the next forty years digging a complex labyrinth of tunnels up to twenty meters long, leading from his house to the surrounding neighborhood.  Decades of local complaints, more sinkholes and 100 cubic meters of soil later the local government eventually evicted the ‘mole man’ after structural engineers deemed his home was no longer safe. Lyttle died  in 2010 but not before witnessing the local council clearing 33 tons of debris from his house, of which included three cars and a boat.  Webster enlisted the help of renowned architect David Adjaye to convert the dilapidated warren into a studio-home. To preserve the authenticity and eccentric history of the building, Webster chose to integrate Lyttle’s haphazard alterations into the new design plans. Depressions in the earth were turned into a sunken landscaped garden, a central staircase connects the concrete living spaces, and a slate pitched roof replaced the original that had collapsed years before.  “What’s fascinating is that it’s almost like a piece of [mine and Tim Noble’s] work,” says the artist, who rose to prominence in the mid-nineties with her partner for their signature DIY approach of aggregating discarded objects and turning debris into art. “It’s a piece of trash we will recycle into something that will become a piece of history.” Watch the In Residence Series on the NOWNESS App via the App Store or Google Play
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My Brother's Keeper (Mon, 11 Nov 2019)
My Brother's Keeper Titus Batts and DeSonni Hardge are the young co-captains of South Shore Drill Team, a non-profit organization based in Chicago that uses performance art to empower disenfranchised youth. In a city with a  narrative of violence and crime, these two boys are showing their communities that the routines that bond them in drill are stronger than the social pressures that would divide them on the streets.  “My Brother’s Keeper examines the gift of tribal love between young black men and the communities that protect, support and honor their dreams,” says Rodney Lucas, an LA-based director known for intimate and human storytelling about his hometown, South Side Chicago. “This short is a reflection of the everyday leaders and local icons that propel the black community and their empowered beneficiaries.” South Shore Drill Team offers education support, employment training and financial assistance alongside its first-class dance program, which teaches students like Hardge and Batts the art of self-love and teamwork—forging a new generation of positive role models.  “Through a collaborative partnership focused on elevating black storytellers, this piece provided me with a vehicle to illuminate the plight of young black men globally,” says Lucas. “I’m letting brothers in the struggle know that I will always represent and celebrate them through a narrative truth that can only be born out of shared experience."
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Athlete in Progress: Dina Asher-Smith (Thu, 07 Nov 2019)
Athlete in Progress: Dina Asher-Smith Nike has joined forces with American designer and Off-White founder Virgil Abloh to release Athlete in Progress, a new women’s line inspired by the drama, adrenaline and tenacity of track and field players. To debut the collection, Abloh invited a host of international Olympians to the runway for Off-White’s SS19 show in Paris, which also featured record-breaking sprinter Dina Asher-Smith.  The athlete reprises her role as the face of athletic fashion in this Rai Nadal-directed extended cut of Nike’s latest campaign. While sporting the brand’s color-block post-run collection, Asher-Smith discusses two topics that sit close to her heart; the joys of being a Londoner and promoting the mental and physical wellbeing of young women. Known for sporting her hard-won sweat and glittery eyeshadow at the starting blocks with pride, the Olympian wants to prove to young girls that raw power and feminine expression can exist side by side.  Asher-Smith made history by becoming the first-ever female British sprint world champion after dominating the 200m track in Doha this year. For this film, Nadal draws on the same focus and playful confidence that won the sports star the gold medal to create a buzzing profile of an athlete's life on and off the track.
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Congos & El Diablo (Wed, 06 Nov 2019)
Congos & El Diablo In a port city off the coast of Panama there is a dance steeped in folkloric tradition that chronicles the age-old battle between good and evil—a dance that breaks the yoke of oppression and overcomes the horror of servitude. In the days preceding Lent, the residents of Portobelo dance to remember the suffering of their African ancestors and to honor the sacrifices they made in pursuit of freedom.  “Today the dance of the Congos gives these communities a sense of pride,” says Gonzo Llorente, a filmmaker based in Buenos Aires and São Paulo. “The dance is also a source of income throughout carnival,” which locals earn by holding revellers to ‘ransom’ for thousands of dollars (but usually a token sum is humorously and readily accepted). Residents dress up as ‘diablos’—or devils—carrying whips and wearing elaborate costumes to represent white colonial oppressors. Others wear the tattered clothing of the ‘Congos,’ the enslaved Africans who escaped Spanish plantations to establish independent communities in the mountains.  “With this short documentary I wanted to help spread the word of this beautiful tradition that has origins in terrible circumstances,” says Llorente, “but represents the indomitable spirit of these communities and the bond they still have with their ancestors.
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Photographers in Focus: New Generation (Mon, 04 Nov 2019)
Photographers in Focus: New Generation British-Ghanaian writer, art historian and curator Osei Bonsu brings us new voices offering different perspectives on photography’s increasingly unstable relationship with the physical world at the Curiosa Exhibition for Paris Photo. The show explores the tacit narratives that can lie behind an image and draws on the lived experiences of emerging artists hailing from different parts of the globe in innovative ways. Cuban artist Leandro Feal’s photographic essay of hedonistic party scenes in Havana comments on young people’s political experience in his home country.  French art duo Johanna Benaïnous and Elsa Parra draw on the long tradition of fictional self-portraiture—pushing photorealism to its edge, and New York-based Nate Lewis etches away at his printed images to reveal new meanings beneath.  Curiosa also features the eclectic work of sports enthusiast and portraitist David Meshki, visual artist Marguerite Bornhauser, surrealist image-maker Nydia Blas, and sculptural photographer Thomas Hauser. Bonsu’s nine creative visionaries are part of a new generation of artists using photography to dissect and recontextualize truth and perception in all its forms.  Paris Photo is the world’s largest international art fair dedicated to photography, which runs from 7–10 November 2019 Watch 'Photographers in Focus: The New Generation' on the NOWNESS App via the App Store or Google Play
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Pagans (Wed, 30 Oct 2019)
Pagans With a fascinating filmography dedicated to subcultures and belief systems, American director Iqbal Ahmed saw this film project as an opportunity to immerse himself in alternative spiritual practices based in ecology, polytheism and Celtic traditions. Ahmed’s Pagans is the culmination of two years of research and reach-outs to a cross-generational community of Southern Californian witches, druids, wizards, sacred drummers and Christo-pagans.   “I knew I had a lot of misconceptions around paganism,” says Ahmed, who leans on his experience in commercial work to deliver a truly cinematic documentary bubbling with tension and intrigue. “I thought paganism was connected to satanism and devil worship,” he continues, “because it always conjured images of pentagrams, blood rituals and 80s horror films in my mind.” But over the course of the project his perspective changed as he became friends with the subjects he was filming.  Pagans lifts the hood on the modern workings of pre-Christian practices while celebrating the ordinary teachers, social workers and PTA members who lead a life steeped in ceremony, dark superstition and joyous symbolism. “I was touched that my subjects were willing to share their beliefs and were remarkably welcoming to an outsider like me,” says Ahmed. “In a small way, this film is an attempt to treat their culture as something holy.” Watch 'Pagans' on the NOWNESS App via the App Store or Google Play
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Bibi Zhou: Lunar (Mon, 28 Oct 2019)
Bibi Zhou: Lunar Dark glaciers, basalt column caves, black sand beaches and moonlit lagoons fill the effervescent landscapes in Chinese artist Bibi Zhou’s latest music video. Conceived and directed by Canadian filmmaker Jodeb, Lunar is a visual metaphor for self-awareness, primal feminine power and emotional turbulence. “The video is about inner struggle and desperate measures," says Jodeb, whose visuals transforms Zhou into an interdimensional puppet master that controls the lives of everyone around her. "I tried to make an epic painting in motion that creates a dualism between uncontrollable forces, such as the moon and gravity, and inner struggles that are universal to everyone. After releasing twelve studio albums, winning Best Worldwide Act at the 2014 European MTV, and evolving her style to encompass pop, rock and electronic music, Zhou has developed a global fanbase that stretches from Mainland China to the US. "Bibi seems very badass and confident,” says Jodeb. “More than anything else, she does what feels right and has her own identity."
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Thanks for the Dance: Happens To The Heart (Thu, 24 Oct 2019)
Thanks for the Dance: Happens To The Heart Nowness has invited a global roster of filmmakers and artists to present visual interpretations of Leonard Cohen’s life and lyrics in a new and exciting collaboration with the Leonard Cohen Estate and Sony Music Canada. “Happens To The Heart” is the first official single from the folk legend’s last original and unreleased album, Thanks For The Dance, which has been reimagined for film by award-winning director Daniel Askill. Known for his transportive and emotionally-charged visual storytelling, Askill pairs Cohen’s resonant baritone poetry with the physical and emotional undressing of a young explorer who finds spiritual catharsis after meeting a mysterious monk in the woods.  “I wanted to make something that spoke to Leonard’s years as a zen monk,” says the director, who was inspired by the musician’s dedication to Buddhism and the five years Cohen spent living at California’s Mount Baldy Zen Center. “This film is a quiet, symbolic narrative that charts the letting go of ego and the trappings of fame.”  Bunny Kinney, Nowness creative director says, “our ambition with this series of short films is not only to uphold and celebrate Leonard Cohen’s incredible artistic legacy with new visuals, helmed by some of the most exciting image-makers working today, but to also further explore Cohen’s work and the core thematics of his music: from love and loss to artistic expression itself, identity, self-reflection, transformation and transcendence.”  Offering creative insight into the hidden machinations of Cohen’s life, Askill invites viewers to contemplate their search for enlightenment in a film—as the director describes—“that aims to speak universally of any transition we go through in life.” Get the NOWNESS App via the App Store or Google Play
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