EYE on Art

  • Tangos for Buñuel

    ByOscar Jan Hoogland Uncategorized

    EYE
    Tuesday 6 October
    19:15 –

    Un chien andalou, Luis Buñuels masterpiece from 1929 with tango music by Natalio Sued and Oscar Jan Hoogland.

    Natalio Sued voice and clarinet
    Oscar Jan Hoogland piano

     

     

    Surrealism in Mexico

    It’s an annual treat in EYE on Art’s Masters of the Avantgarde series: the screening of the first surrealist film, Un chien andalou, Luis Buñuel’s masterpiece of 1929 which he co-scripted with Salvador Dalí. A special detail: surrealist leader André Breton showed the film as he was touring Mexico, where he also encountered Leon Trotsky.…

  • EYE on Art: Time, forwards! Soviet Constructivist Cinema feat. ZEA!

    ByOscar Jan Hoogland News

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    EYE
    Tuesday September 15
    19:15
    ZEA’s website

    Time, forwards! Soviet Constructivist Cinema
    with live music by Arnold de Boer (ZEA/The Ex) guitar and electronics

    An evening on constructivism and films from the Soviet Union – from the beginnings of the artists’ group LEF in the wake of the Russian Revolution to the period after 1965 when these industrial aesthetics were again invoked.
    Sviridov’s orchestral suite ‘Time, Forwards’ provided the basis for this ‘revival’ of constructivism. It is one of the emblematic music pieces from the Soviet era and became a sort of calling card for the USSR.…