AFX - CIRCLONT14 - The Guidebook (LSd video)

LSd video edited: 22.09.2014

music:
Aphex Twin - CIRCLONT14 (Shrymoming Mix)
+ ( the beginning of the last album song ) - Aisatsana
album: Syro (2014)
"A conversation with Aphex Twin"
http://pitchfork.com/features/cover-story/reader/aphex-twin/
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19755-aphex-twin-syro/

movie:
Aleksandr Shapiro - Putevoditel (2004)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0474887/

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The Guidebook (2004)
Written, directed and edited by: Aleksandr Shapiro

Berlinale 2005 Official Selection (International Forum of New Cinema)

Imagine several cameras moving from Kiev outskirts to downtown, filming the most interesting moments of urban life in different parts of Kiev. The main characters of the movie are its viewers - every day they get into various situations and solve various problems but the leading part in the picture belongs to Kiev itself. Urban tendencies, tastes, prices, priorities, routes, labor and housing market, present - past - future - altogether it forms canvas of "The Guidebook". Philosophical aspect of the movie can be determined as "search for the heart of the city" - a place or a composition of components that makes Kiev a European capital and makes it different from other cities of the world. "The Guidebook" is not just a movie for aesthetical amusement it's a chance to get the most important and interesting information about the city in a short time.

"The Guidebook" is a rough and sweeping author's guide to the city of modern Kiev. At the same time Shapiro's original film includes moments of history of soviet Judaism, pictures of total destruction during WWII and many others. There is a lot of impressive chronicle shown in a very dramatic, nervous way of cutting. A strong and confident manner of shooting is combined with a drastic manner of image processing. The language in the movie sounds very much like slang in Kira Muratova's works, but it is more rude, more harsh in a specific Kiev way. The movie consists of novels that in a way remind us of "Coffee and cigarettes" by Jim Jarmusch (speaking of the atmosphere). The actors are the real Kiev subcultural "party" characters who star under their own names. All discussions in the movie go around well-known things and places (a novel about clubbing one about housing market a novel about different tourist attractions for those who are in town for the first time a talk of how to get a taxi or how much it would cost to rent an apartment, and so on). Of course, there's an introduction and a conclusion - Shapiro's trade mark autobiographical philosophical monologues (about untimely decease of a narrative who tells the story). All in all - this is an unusual and conceptual work!
Anton Mazurov, Arthouse.ru

Synopsis, statement and interview:
http://www.berlinale.de/external/de/filmarchiv/doku_pdf/20053593.pdf

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http://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/221365/
https://www.youtube.com/user/kinoshapiro

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Karl-Kristjan Nagel:
https://nagelid.ee/
http://erztria.blogspot.com/
Last-Studio:
https://nagelid.ee/last-studio/
https://www.youtube.com/user/laststudio
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqBrHQ1Oa7CLUSDG5vUdhrA

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