Streetwise (1984)

CPH:DOX 2010

Hurrah, så er der DOX igen!
Jeg har set film om skøre damer, Seattle i 80'erne og skøre mænd.
Tabloid, The Good Life, Streetwise, I'm Still Here, Tommy.
Og glem ikke vores ynglings instruktør, Michael Noer, hoster igen i år YOU TUBE BATTLE i Vega Lørdag d. 13. november.

My own private idaho trailer

CPH-DOX viste forleden Im Still Here, med Joaquin Phoenix, her traileren, fra min første kærlighed - til Filmen og ikke mindst drengen. My Own Private Idaho, og River Phoenix.

Getting old in the olden days.

A pretty gif showing a lady growing up. I stole this from Square America, a website devoted to vintage photographs of America, an awesome website that you can get lost in. I just like how she never stops smiling. Check the website for more though.

www.squareamerica.com

Fitness DK - For Lækker

Here's a little ad we cast for recently for Fitness DK. Fitness DK makes you so hot you gotta wash yourself with a fish to prevent the onlsaught of horny women. Well, it makes for funny viewing.

R

Next up this award season is Michael Noer and Tobias Lindholm's 'R', which has just won two awards at the Gothenburg; the Dragon Prize for best Nordic film as well as the FIPRESCI Award from the International Federations of Film Critics. Topping it off was a nomination in Rotterdam for the VPRO Tiger Awards competition. This is what DFI has to say about it:

"This hard-hitting drama, an anthropological study of life in a Danish prison, portrays R who has been sentenced to prison for violence. He's insistent on staying out of harm's way and in doing so he is faced with the challenge of navigating through prison culture with its notions of honour, hidden agendas and contracts."

Michael is one of our favourites at ArtCast so we're really pleased for all his successes. Here's the trailer. Tuff.

Megaheavy

Oh Ive not been a very good blogger recently and I have no excuses but Im back now with some great news about some of the movies ArtCast has cast for. We'll start with Megaheavy, a film about Jolly, a 14 year old introvert teenage girl who is in love with her classmate Kenneth. But one day her world is turned upside down when the neighbor's son arrives to the island to bury his father. Megaheavy has won Best Short Fiction at the Roberts Film Awards, the annual prize show from the Danish Film Academy. Check the trailer below:

Beck & Charlotte Gainsboug - 'Heaven Can Wait'

Becks latest video is a montage of absurd and unrelated scenes apparently lifted by the director from found images on the internet. Which is brilliant except I can't really make sense of it and whilst that might be the point I find it irritating because maybe it's trying a little hard to be weird for its own sake. But I guess because it really is so weird and fun to watch then that makes it ok... Argh. I can't make my mind up.

Emily Valentine uses dead animals for her art.

They are perplexing and fascinating, beautiful and outrageous. Emily Valentine uses roadkill, dead pets and feathers from a pest bird, the Indian Mynah Bird, to mythological creatures, hybrid animals or chimeras, that I only wish exist. Though flying dogs would probably be a nightmarish reality.

She says, "In my work I wish to discuss how attitudes to wearing animals and birds parts have changed. Is this just because of fashion, or has society become more caring of animals? I wish to stimulate the viewer with the uncomfortable nature of the feather, to question our callousness treatment of animals and birds, and ask how we sub-consciously classify animals – pet or pest, valued or worthless, beautiful or plain and why."

click the pic for her website.

For the ladies.

This dating video is a real treat for all those lonely ladies this winter. Why bother going to your local slum bar to find that special someone to curl up next to when you can select one from this fine dating video. Some real fine male specimens.

Dating Montage
Uploaded by smithy00101. - See more comedy videos.

Mads Matthiesen

ArtCast has been casting for Mads since 2005 and his short film 'MUM'. Mads' films move in the space between reality and fiction, amateurs and actors; the arena where everyday dramas unfold. His characters tend to be vulnerable, struggling to navigate the particular circumstances of their relationships. Our casting has accordingly attempted to ensure that the characters strike the right emotional chords; that they remain both sympathetic and intriguing.
Here's a couple of other films he has made.

'Cathrine' - A 16 year old falls in love with a 33 year old man she met in a shopping center, much to her parents displeasure. 'Cathrine' Won a Robert for Best Short Film in 2009



'Dennis' - A lonely bodybuilder, who at an age of 40 still lives at home with his dominating mother. The film revolves around Dennis' struggle for freedom. 'Dennis' was selected for the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.


Mads and artCast are currently working on a secret project. As things develop we'll let you in on it. But you'll have to wait. For now.

http://www.madsmatthiesen.com

Imogen by Chadwick Tyler

A beautiful set of pictures by Chadwick Tyler of the model Imogen Morris Clarke. Dark and tempting. Wonderfully moving.

Found here

Land of Talk - "It's Okay"

A beautiful video created by WeWereMonkeys for Land of Talk. It's mysterious, calming, romantic and sad. A seasonal audio/visual treat.

Pixelator

S Trains are now fitted with the most invasive of advertising platforms; tv screens. They weren't running when I was on them but I still stared up at the nearest one wondering whether it would flicker to life and lick my retina with its incandescent radiation. That's the thing about tv's they grab your attention regardless of whether you want them too. They arrest the present moment, holding you captive until at the last moment possible you struggle free and back to plain old everyday life. It's a sad moment in Danish transport history that DSB customers are now paying to be subject to even more advertising.
The video is of what is called a pixelator; a honeycombed structure designed to abstract the information on the screen and render it unintelligible. The screens then operate as abstract video art or aesthetic and atmospheric light pieces. Brilliant.

BITCHSLAP MAGAZINE presents: BEAT THIS!

Good parties at Rust this weekend. I'll just vie you the blurb I got from Dick:

We are proud to present BEAT THIS! and welcome Andrew Meza from the genre defying radio show BTS RADIO to Copenhagen for his first visit ever!

It's going down FRIDAY 20th and SATURDAY 21st November with a warm up set at MESTEREN OG LÆRLINGEN from 22-3am and SATURDAY at RUST with support from FERGUS MURPHY (TOUGHLOVE) and a duo set from QUADRON (pretty much the hottest shit in Copenhagen right now right?)


BEAT THIS!

QUADRON

FERGUS MURPHY


GUESTLIST INFO:

SEND US A MAIL TO NICK@BITCHSLAPMAG.COM
subject header: MEZA GUESTLIST
content: YOUR FULL NAME
LIST CUTOFF. FRIDAY 20TH 8PM

Where the Wild Things Are

Spike Jonze's film adaptation of Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are" is generating tons of hype. It's probably deserved; the trailers look incredible. Good ol' Spike.
Trailer 1

Trailer 2

Featurette

Exactitudes

"You know I love Copenhagen and everything except that everyone fucken looks like each other!" (spoken by every foreigner I meet)
Really? Sure, those Norse caps got REALLY old and every other boy is wearing denim shirts and tucked in jeans whilst riding fixies. Fact is no matter where you live in the world, we're gonna wanna look like each other. Uniforms are here to stay.
I've not seen a better attempt at cataloging this than the project 'Exactitudes' by Dutch photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek. As they put it, they were "inspired by a shared interest in the striking dress codes of various social groups, [and] have systematically documented numerous identities over the last 14 years."



Click here for website.

ONLY - Denimize the World

All the young and beautiful people in this Ad for clothing company ONLY were provided courtesy of ArtCast. I've never been to a party like this, I probably never will. I hope they don't exist because being left out just hurts so much. Ah, there's more to life than being beautiful, but it looks like you have more fun if you are.

CPH:DOX YouTube Battle

The CPH:DOX YouTube battle was held in Pumpehuset before a raucous and ruthless crowd who boo'ed as much as they cheered. Some unemployed dude from Northern Jylland won out ahead of the celebrity teams, which isn't much of a surprise as finding YouTube gems requires hours of dedication. Here's what Politiken had to say about it.

I didn't take my camera so no pics of the event. Instead, here's one of my YouTube favourites.

Animal Hair by Nagi Noda

I don't understand why girls in Copenhagen like to walk around with dead animals around their necks. There are better ways to accessorise with animals. Like this. Japanese Nagi Noda makes animal hair sculptures that are made out of human hair. Not half as gross and much cooler.

Her website is mad slow. Go here to see a bunch of pics that actually loads.