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Paul Shevik

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* * * SEATTLE 'PREVIEW SCREENING' ANNOUNCEMENT * * *
M E T R O P O L E -- which features an original score by Michael Hebert with tracks from Füxa, Esmerine (Ex-Godspeed You! Black Emperor), múm, AMM, mus-ok, Specs One, Joy Wants Eternity, Blue Scholars and others -- has been selected for a Seattle-area PREVIEW SCREENING as part of Northwest Film Forum's "Local Sightings" event in early October 2007 (see their page which you can reach at the link in the 'friends' section down below).
Dates and times to be announced when we hear about them!
METROPOLE(2007) copyright, Pravda, LLC
Poster design by Pinar Undeger
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I am currently the
SERGEANT-AT-MUSICAL-ARMS
in charge of overseeing audio on the 2007 feature documentary film
M E T R O P O L E
directed by S T E P H A N I E S K O U R T E S and B R I A N G A N T E R
C L I C K H E R E F O R M E T R O P O L E o n M Y S P A C E
Miniature cardboard models of vintage audio equipment by Dan Macpharlin
An excellent clip from the mighty
F A N T A S T I C P L A N E T
What a
C L O S I N G S C E N E
should be. From THE THIRD MAN (1949)
C H E
speaks
!
" /
A revolution takes place when and only when … people can no longer lead their everyday lives …
-- Henri Lefebvre
D O C U M E N T A R Y
corner
E A T I N G F O R E V E R
Shot in South Africa. Directed by Boots Riley (The Coup) and Chris Wroubel.
A rare quote for your
C O N S I D E R A T I O N
"The function of music in the cinema is one aspect--in an extreme version--of the general function of music under conditions of industrially controlled cultural consumption."
-- Hanns Eisler
&
Theodore Adorno
A quote that can be found, among other places, in this fine
B O O K
The music video was the original form of "branding." Here's to hoping that we can all foresee the demise of that genre on the near horizon.

My Interests

listening and looking, and, sometimes, hearing and seeing

Music:

+ The Internationale
+ Kraftwerk
+ The Conet Project
+ Godspeed You Black Emperor!
+ Bobby Beausoleil
+ Novocento (1900) (soundtrack)
+ Washington Phillips
+ Julee Cruise
+ Gabriel Faure
+ AMM
+ Kenneth Anger films
+ A Silver Mt. Zion
+ Bertolt Brecht
+ Kurt Wiell
+ Ennio Morricone
+ Clara Rockmore
+ E.A.R.
+ Spacemen 3
+ Suicide
+ World's End Girlfriend
+ Windy and Carl
+ Nico
+ Stefan Wolpe
+ Hanns Eisler
+ Eric Satie
+ The Coup
+ all forms of Kampfmusik
+ and not a lot I've heard lately

Movies:

+ La Jetee
+ Fantastic Planet
+ Once Upon a Time in the West
+ Two Lane Blacktop
+ The Third Man
Eraserhead
+ Novecento (1900)
+ Trash
+ Lucifer Rising

Television:

no

Books:

+ Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music
+ All Over Creation, Ruth Ozeki
+ On Beauty, Zadie Smith
+ JPod, Douglas Coupland
+ The Fountain at the Center of the World, Robert Newman
+ The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
+ Planet Hollywood, David Bordwell
+ The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It), J.K. Gibson-Graham
+ Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle, Slavoj Zizek
+ J.M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello
+ Late Capitalism, Ernest Mandel
+ The Expediency of Culture, George Yudice
+ Brecht on Theater, Bertolt Brecht
+ Information Please, Mark Poster
+ An Anthology of Western Marxism, Ed. Roger Gottlieb
+ Film and Television After 9/11, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Ed.

Heroes:

+ its just a television show i've never seen