Kabul, Afghanistan 2011
In collaboration with Julien Devaux and Ajmal Maiwandi
20:00 min.
Kabul, Afghanistan 2011
In collaboration with Julien Devaux and Ajmal Maiwandi
20:00 min.
William Eggleston’s Stranded in Canton
Book and DVD, Twin Palms
William Eggleston’s pioneering video work, “Stranded In Canton,” has been restored and is finally available, almost thirty-five years after it was made. The book contains forty frame enlargements from the digital re-master, a brief appreciation from filmmaker Gus Van Sant, and a DVD of the 77-minute film itself, along with more than thirty minutes of bonus footage and an interview with Mr. Eggleston conducted at the 2005 Toronto Film Festival.
“Shot in 1974 with a Sony Porta-Pak, the crazily careering Stranded in Canton documents a cast of hard-drinking Southerners with the intimacy, ease and instability of a seasoned participants. Whiffs of Southern Gothic are not new to Mr. Eggleston’s work, but here they rise to the surface-fierce, tragic and proud.” The New York Times
Stranded in Canton, de William Eggleston et Robert Gordon, inédit en salle en Europe, avec des images du photographe lui-même de 1973, tournées avec une Sony Porta-Pak, montées en 2005, mélangeant de tendres images de ses enfants à la maison avec celles de soirées bien arrosées, d’urination publiques et d’un homme arrachant la tête d’un poulet devant une foule en délires à la Nouvelle Orléans.
Interview Magazine currently has an interesting exchange between William Eggleston & Harmony Korine on their website. Although Korine addresses the same territory as every other interviewer (Eggleston’s landmark use of color, his relationship with Szarkowski and MOMA, his interest in the American vernacular landscape, etc.) there are some engaging insights.
Cold snaps
The Soviet film-maker Andrei Tarkovsky always carried a Polaroid camera with him. His son, Andrei A Tarkovsky, explains the background to some of the pictures
Myasnoye
This is in Myasnoye, Russia, where my family had a holiday home.
© Andrei A Tarkovsky. All rights reserved
Boat
This is my father’s boat near our house in Myasnoye. He was greatly attached to that place, where he could isolate himself and work on his scripts – the first drafts of Stalker and The Sacrifice were written there. He used to take long walks and these pictures are the memories of those promenades.
© Andrei A Tarkovsky. All rights reserved
Mother
My mother, Larissa Tarkovsky, and Dak in Myasnoye. You may find a lot of similarities of these pictures with Gorkachov’s dreams in Nostalgia.
© Andrei A Tarkovsky. All rights reserved
Myasnoye
This is the view from my father’s room in the country house in Myasnoye.
© Andrei A Tarkovsky. All rights reserved