Photographs of consumerism
December 1, 2007
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Chicago, IL 2003, photograph by Brian Ulrich, used entirely without permission (winner of the Photolucida, Critical Mass Top 50, in 2005)
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Granger, IN 2003, photograph by Brian Ulrich, used entirely without permission (winner of the Photolucida, Critical Mass Top 50, in 2005)
Brian Ulrich: I have always been interested in the little details that make up the routines and rituals of modern life, finding magical moments in the mundane. In 2001 citizens were encouraged to take to the malls to boost the U.S. economy through shopping, therefore equating consumerism with patriotism. I then began to photograph in malls, grocery stores, commercial warehouses, and places of “destination shopping. 
Brian Ulrich’s website, Not if but when
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Intolerable Beauty / Grain silo, Seattle 2004 (44 x 68″) photograph by Brian Chris Jordan, used entirely without permission (winner of the Photolucida, Critical Mass Top 50, in 2005)
But then there’s the macro view of photographer Chris Jordan…
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Intolerable Beauty / Recycling Yard #6, Seattle 2004 (44×59″) photograph by Brian Chris Jordan, used entirely without permission (winner of the Photolucida, Critical Mass Top 50, in 2005)
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Intolerable Beauty / Cigarette butts, 2005 (60×120″) photograph by Brian Chris Jordan, used entirely without permission (winner of the Photolucida, Critical Mass Top 50, in 2005)
Chris Jordan
INTOLERABLE BEAUTY
PORTRAITS OF AMERICAN MASS CONSUMPTION
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Yo, Slip of the Tongue
November 25, 2007
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Food-related film at the IDFA 2007
My IDFA
November 23, 2007
This is my viewing schedule for this year’s IDFA (Int’l Documentary Festival Amsterdam). If you’re here in Amsterdam, let’s meet up and chew the fat about all the good stuff we’ve been watching.
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Friday, Nov 23
14.15 Tuschinski 2
Dutch Cocaine Factory
Dutch Cocaine Factory sweeps us into the paranoid perception of the world of a 63-year-old cocaine user.
Jeanette Groenendaal 55′, The Netherlands, 2007 WP
View the trailer20.15 Tuschinski 2
Come Back Kate (friend, not food-related)
A fascinating look into the lives of some passionate Kate Bush fans.
Helena Muskens, Quirine Racké 53′, The Netherlands, 2007 WPSaturday, Nov 24 –
19.30 Compagnie KZ (industry/press screening)
Encounters at the End of the World
Herzog’s unmistakable voice-over, English with a German accent, accompanies the images of his visit to the South Pole: “Who were the people I was going to meet at the end of the world?
Werner Herzog 99′, USA, 2007 EPSunday, Nov 25 –
14.00 Tuschinski 1
Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go (not food-related)
A poignant recording of daily life at the Mulberry Bush School, an institution that helps emotionally dysfunctional children reintegrate into society providing them with love and patience.
Kim Longinotto 100′, UK, 2007 IPMonday, Nov 26 –
14:45 Tuschinski 6 (Paradocs 1)
Coffee
Director Ayse Erkmen regularly has a tea leaves reader to predict her future. This does not involve red velour drapes, incense or candlelight. Just a chain-smoking expert who occasionally casts a glance inside a cup.
Ayse Erkmen 25′, Turkey(part of same programme…)
Table Talk is an experimental anthropological documentary that captures a ritual carried out every 1 and 2 November on the Santa Elena peninsula of Ecuador.
Yanara Guayasamin 6′, Ecuador, 2007 WP20:00 Tuschinski 2
Tehran Has No More Pomegranates!
Intelligently edited, hilarious, hurtling, musical compilation of archive footage and newly-shot images offers critical and unadorned portrait of Iranian capital Tehran.
Massoud Bakhshi 68′, Iran, 200622:00 Tuschinski 1
Earth
This film creates a journey through the changing seasons and daily struggle for life across our planet, from rarely seen landscapes to the smallest details in the lives of our best loved, wildest and most elusive creatures.
Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield 98′, Germany, UK, 2007Tuesday, Nov 27 –
The Price of Sugar
A profound portrait of Christopher Hartley, a priest who is the only hope for illegal Haitians working as modern-day slaves on sugarcane plantations in the Dominican Republic.
Bill Haney 90′, USA, 2007
View the trailerWednesday, Nov 28 –
10:00 Tuschinski 5 –
Eternal Mash
Tribute to rare, threatened plant species and to Ruurd Walrecht, the man who fought for them for forty years.
Catherine van Campen 53′, The Netherlands, 2007 WP
View the trailer15.15 de Munt 9
Combalimon
An intriguing, sober portrait of a lonely French farmer who cannot decide whether he should sell the family farm.
Raphaël Mathié 80′, France, 2007 IP
View trailer19:00 Compagnie (industry/press screening)
All White in Barking id=34121
All White in Barking shows how several native inhabitants of a London neighbourhood deal with their new neighbours.
Marc Isaacs 73′, UK, 2007 IP22:00 Tuschinski 2
Journey of a Red Fridge
Hari Rai has been hired to carry a red Coca-Cola refrigerator, on his back, through the Himalayan Mountains of Nepal.
Lucian Muntean, Natasa Stankovic 52′, Serbia, 2007 WP
View the trailerThursday, Nov 29 –
The Lie of the Land
Using portraits of English farmers, filmmaker Molly Dineen provides insight into the mechanisms of the food industry and their consequences for agrarian society.
Molly Dineen 74′, UK, 2007 IPFriday, Nov 30 –
10:00 Tuschinski 6
Ours is the Labour
The stories of the first generation of Moroccan labourers that worked at the Dutch rusk factory Hooijmeijer in Barendrecht during the 1960s and 1970s.
Jeroen van Bergeijk 47′, The Netherlands, 2007 WP
View the trailer:14:00 de Munt 11
Darwin’s Nightmare
How the international fish and weapon trade near Lake Victoria consumes the poor population.
Hubert Sauper 107′, France, Belgium, Austria, 2004
View the trailer15:15 Tuschinski 6
Every Day Except Christmas
Shot in black-and-white on 35mm, this 1957 documentary is an impressionistic portrait of the workers at the legendary London Covent Garden Market, which is open 364 days a year.
Lindsay Anderson 40′, UK, 1957Sunday, Dec 02 – (saving the best for last!)
Green Paradise
Portrait of Bert Ydema, an almost retired teacher in a school garden in Amsterdam, who lets pupils experience in practice how extraordinarily beautiful nature is.
Roel van Dalen 48′, The Netherlands, 2007
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