As our fourth Guest Contributor, we invited the curatorial team from AD Projects to contribute a post. AD Projects will be presenting an evening of videos on Tuesday October 24 from 7 to 9 pm, at the Big Screen Plaza. In the spirit of film they have put together the following:

Last year, AD Projects coined the term “caméra vivant” to describe narrative, non-documentary camera-based artwork that both captures a performative act and is created with the intention of being experienced by an audience as a video or photograph. We don’t often go around inventing terms, and we deliberated for quite a while before deciding that the concept deserved to be named. We presented Camera Vivant, an exhibition of work by emerging and mid-career artists, at the Central Utah Art Center in February 2011. These images explore this subcategory of new media where performance and the camera, both still and moving, intersect.

(above images: Lewis Carroll. Saint George and the Dragon, 1875. Kuba Bakowski, Ursa Major, Bobrek-Centrum Coal Mine, 2008. Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, 2001. Elodie Pong, Video Still from Je Suis Une Bombe, 2006. Narcissiter, Video still from Mannequin, 2007.  Robert ParkeHarrison, from the series titled Architect’s Brother.  Bec Stupak, Video still from Flaming Creatures (Blind Remake), 2006. Lucas Samaras, Photo-Transformation, 1976)

Yul Brynner’s reputation as an actor is irrefutable, but until recently most probably weren’t aware that he was a talented photographer as well. Yul Brynner: A Photographic Journey has just been released by Edition 7L. The four-volume book, edited by Brynner’s daughter, Victoria Brynner, includes a selection culled from 8,000 images and press cuttings, and includes forwards by 
Ingrid Sischy, Stefano Tonchi, Martin Scorsese and Bruce Weber.

From UbuWeb.

The House is Black is the only film made by the Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad. This short documentary about a leper colony has been called “the greatest of all Iranian films” by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum. Taken from UbuWeb.

The outstanding “Lullaby of Broadway” performance, mass ornament, montage from Busby Berkeley’s Gold Diggers of 1935.

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An extraordinary film by radical filmmaker Emile de Antonio on post-war American painting featuring candid and revelatory interviews by the likes of Robert Rauschenberg, William de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, and Clement Greenberg. Taken from UbuWeb. (It’s 116 minutes.)

Stills and low-quality video of the Danish art group Superflex’s Burning Car. For more information, including how to download a high quality version free from The Pirate Bay, visit Superflex’s website.

From Allen Baron’s 1961 classic dirty New York noir Blast of Silence, recently released by Criterion on DVD.

Gravediggaz’s “Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide” from 6 Feet Deep.