Fando y Lis

Fando y Lis, Alejandro Jodorowsky's first feature film, tells the tale of Fando and his paraplegic girlfriend Lis through a barren, post-apocalyptic wasteland in search of the mythical city of Tar, where legend has it all wishes come true. Purchase the complete film of Jodorowsky here.

Nymphomaniac

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Lars Von Trier announces a new film entitled Nymphomaniac, to star Charlotte Gainsbourg, "the light and poetic story of a woman’s erotic journey from birth to the age of 50 as told by the main character, the self-diagnosed nymphomaniac, Joe." The film will be in 8 chapters. Filming will begin this summer and there will be a softcore and hardcore version of the film.

FAM IRVOLL Fashion film

Fresh from Oslo Fashion Week, a fashion film, directed by Marie Kristiansen, for Oslo based designer Fam Irvolla, who hit the runway yesterday with a new collection. Fam Irvolla, who graduated from Central St. Martins in 2008 and has worked with the likes of Vivienne Westwood and Gareth Pugh, is "very much inspired by Alice in Wonderland, cartoons, toys, food, cakes and candy."

Lips of Blood: The Cinema of Jean Rollin

Revered by enthusiasts of fantasy and horror films, but largely overlooked by the critical mainstream, French filmmaker Jean Rollin (1938-2010) is finally being given the recognition he deserves. His surreal, dreamlike films are grounded in traditional gothic imagery but are flavored with 1970s-era eroticism, resulting in a body of work that is as eerie as it is outrageous. Though constrained by low budgets, Rollin managed to drench his films in atmosphere and used them as unvarnished expressions of his own personal fears and desires. As Tim Lucas of Video Watchdog has written, Rollin’s films represent “the very heart and soul of ‘le fantastique’—its flamboyance, its melodrama, its sense of the impossible made possible. They do not scare us; they were designed to delight us, to arouse our imagination, to move us.” For the first time, the films have been carefully mastered in HD from the original 35mm negatives and will be released with an array of special features, including interviews with Rollin and his collaborators, documentaries, and trailers. Available here.

Barrel of a Gun

Diane Pernet's A Shaded View on Fashion Film (ASVOFF) Barcelona comes to a close today and the winners have been announced. Barrel of a Gun, by Jason Last, has won the Mobile Fashion Film prize. The film features models Mikhael Ayoub, Christoph Ribbe, & Mikey Wydra in Comme des Garçons. 

ASVOFF Barcelona

Barcelona hosts the first-ever Spanish edition of A Shaded View on Fashion Film (ASVOFF) created by Diane Pernet. A Shaded View on Fashion Film (ASVOFF) is an event that gathers together celebrated personalities from the worlds of fashion, art and cinema. The Barcelona edition will be innovative in launching the world’s first MOBILE FASHION FILM COMPETITION where two prizes will be awarded to the best short films produced on a mobile phone. ASVOFF Barcelona will be held at CaixaForum Barcelona from 24-27, January 2012.

Anja Czioska 8mm Film Retrospective

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On view this month at the MMK Museum in Frankfurt, the short Super 8 films of Anja Czioska in a retrospective of the filmmaker's twenty-year career. "I will show bathing and shower filmportraits of me and my friends, experimental film visions on single-frame, performances, happening, portraits, me and my camera, scenes of daily art like filmed during my travellings to Amsterdam, Berlin, New York, San Francisco, Paris, London and home base diaries of a Frankfurt artist's life," says Czioska. On view January 25 at the MMK in Frankfurt Lecture Hall.