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Toke Constantin Hebbeln's film "NimmerMeer" has won a student academy award in the category "Best Foreign Film". The film uses lyrical images to recount a fantastic parable about the coming of age and the power of dreams and was made in collaboration with Frisbeefilms. 

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The toil of the workingman is the fascinating subject for this documentary from Austrian director Michael Glawogger. A film of few words but plenty of indelible images of people (mostly men) risking their lives with hardly a second thought.

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Alfred Hitchcock was a film maker with a rule of precursor in cinema, either in technics or in language . Johan Grimonprez chose to celebrate the Master of thriller and at thesame time to investigate about the rule of the look-alike incontemporary culture.

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Shot amongst the atmospheric interiors of the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, and making the most of the distinctive architecture of this unique location, Grimonprez’s cinematic twists and turns echo the trademark manner of the Master of Suspense but at the same time radiate a quiet and beguiling surrealism reminiscent of that other great modernist master, Rene Magritte.

Watch a snippet under this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWjR22IliuE .

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Grimonprez achieved international acclaim with his video collage, Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y. With its premiere at Centre Pompidou and Documenta X in Kassel in 1997, it eerily foreshadowed the events of September 11th.

Watch  the whole film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1998) here... http://www.ubu.com/film/grimonprez_dial.html

A special site by Grimonprez is Zapomatik . Find infos about Johan Grimonprez  here . Additional infos here .

 

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He played all night long, even during pauses. Miles somehow had to cut his solos, cause John never seemed to stop.  Coltrane was so deep in concentration and he simply had no idea, how to finish his solo. Miles often told him "Just try to get that sax out of your mouth".  

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Born in Vienna, Josef Erich Zawinul is credited with bringing the electric piano, as well as African and Middle Eastern rhythms, to mainstream jazz. There was no piano at home, but the young Joe studied piano, violin and clarinet at the Vienna Conservatory, where he was given a free place at the age of seven

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