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Animal Rights

31/1/2022

 
Hi everyone!  It's been a while!  So here's a recent one:

Animal Rights

Oh no!
Bristol Zoo is
closing!
 
So what’s going
to happen to
all those animals?
 
But it’s not all
bad news:
the animals are
getting together
to decide 
where they want 
to go next!
 
(And they’re looking
for examples
to follow,
but no -
not 
Parliament).


















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​(From A Summer in Haiti)
The assotor drum
 
A hit to start and the soft pitter-patter of the roll slows, 
stops, jumps into speed, changes in pitch, ends in
sliding moaning sounds.  A moan slides
into a roll.  Another roll
breaks into suddenly revealed rhythm, 
rolls rise, fall, slow into slow rhythm, 
gaps punctuated by flap sounds.  
Then the softness of the moth’s wings in flight 
Tapping against a lampshade.  Then the
rise and fall of waves, gusts of wind, 
fall of rain, animals running.  
Echoes of talking drums: plosive tones, 
slide forwards, backwards, as the fingers 
vary the tension of the skin.  
The rolling rhythm of the Ibo Roulé
accelerating, the beats so close together
and quiet, they fade into silence.  
Fluidity of motion and virtuosic ease.  
Three bright-eyed children delicately dancing 
to the flow of the Yenvalou, Nago, Mahi, 
clapping hands with the furious Pétro dance,
the drum becoming an orchestra of sound. 
From outside, car horns briefly interject,
the buzz of the market crowds underlines
the light magical hopping of the Ibo rhythm. 
Next the contredanse: complex, yet galant,
courteous, with sudden gaps to 
catch out the dancers.
‘Knights take your ladies…
Look your lady in the eyes…
In your places…
Prepare to take your lady’s hand…’
Michel clearly enunciates the calls
for his miniature dancers,
the wooden carving in bas-relief 
gracefully dancing round the powerful
assotor drum, which he has 
been playing so effortlessly.


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​Torrent, and Whirl:
​New art from CLR.  
17/10/20


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And also, from RR:
​https://bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/event/i-see-it-differently/
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Exhausted shopping bag (new art from CLR)
Oserake and The River That Walks

​At last!  Oserake and The River That Walks is available on my Robert Ocatillo Channel on YouTube!
​Oserake is the First Nation name for the winter quarters which were set up by the river, the origin of the city of Montréal.
My music/film shows what happens to Montréal in winter, when the wilderness takes over.
Overwhelming forces try to return the modern city to the time before today’s streets and blocks existed, and phantoms invade the empty white streets.
Massive snowdrifts, huge icicles and icefalls appear.
Everything is transformed beneath layers of snow,
and we glimpse what was seen by those who founded the original settlement,
by this great river they called ‘the river that walks’, swept with ice.

New art from CLR: Bird in lockdown, Mr Cool, Dried thistle

21/6/2020

 
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http://hundredyearsgallery.co.uk/grassy-noel-ape-solstice/

Hundred Years Gallery

18/11/2019

 
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Looking forward to catching up with the latest Ana Pallares show, Eternal Life which ends on the 24th November.  And the new book is available at the Gallery!



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Montse Gallego: The Floating Forest

24/9/2019

 
The Floating Forest, a series of paintings by Montse Gallego, currently on show at The Hundred Years Gallery, 13 Pearson Street, London E2 8JD.
       As you descend into the gallery’s main space, you find yourself surrounded by a magnificently wide variety of large atmospheric paintings, some of them suspended, evoking the wonderfully random complexities and rhythms of light, lines, colours and textures in forests, which the artist Montse Gallego has so effectively brought to life in this memorable solo show.  
Highly recommended - more details here:

http://hundredyearsgallery.co.uk
From 20th September - 13th October 2019.

A visit to Philippus Cardoon's studio

6/8/2019

 
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 And see more works by Phil Baird displayed on his
wonderful website, click on  
 http://philbaird.co.uk 

1. Above: Collection of works on back of studio.

To view other views, please scroll down - this studio is full of marvels: 
2. White, Black, Silver and Diamond Engagement piece

3. Random selection of some vintage power points
4. Spring drawing, early 2019
5. Homage to Carl Andre
6. Homage to Joseph Cornell
7. Batch of working progresses
​8. Collection with Wisard, revealed by the artist.

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CATEGORIES and the audiovisual series

26/4/2019

 
A bookseller who works for a big bookselling chain told me the other day that today’s bookseller has no role other than finding a book for the customer and taking payment for it, a bit like a fruit and vegetable seller. 
So what’s the problem with this simple solution?
Categories.
For example Eisenstein on the Audiovisual is placed in the Eisenstein section of the bookstore.
So what’s wrong with that?
There’s also another section in the bookshop under the heading FILM SOUND.
Eisenstein wrote more about the audiovisual than any other film director, and in
Eisenstein on the Audiovisual I explore his ideas on using film sound and film music, in a word, on the audiovisual.
But you’ll never find this book in a film sound, or even in a film music section.
Why?  
Because the AUDIOVISUAL hasn’t yet been devised as a category that is worthy of study. 
And it is also because someone in an office somewhere checks on their computer and decides that Eisenstein on the Audiovisual goes into the FILM DIRECTORS section in the chain of bookshops.
As the author of this book, what can I do?
I can quietly take my book from the FILM DIRECTORS section and place it in the FILM SOUND/FILM MUSIC section.
But on my next visit to the chain bookstore, it’s not there any more: it’s back in the FILM DIRECTORS section.
Effectively this means that Eisenstein on the Audiovisual will only be bought by someone who knows in advance that it’s a book about the audiovisual - it’s not primarily a book about Eisenstein, but it’s about his ideas and practice with regard to innovative combinations of music, image and sound!
Eisenstein wrote about the audiovisual for those who make films, not for those who just want to read about his life (he wrote his autobiography Immoral Memories for that purpose, but it’s highly unlikely that you’ll find that book in the FILM DIRECTORS section anyway). 
But I think he would probably also be disappointed (but perhaps not surprised) that his explorations of the audiovisual, which he wrote for practitioners, doesn’t even make an appearance in what should be called the AUDIOVISUAL section of the bookstore.
So how about having a copy of Eisenstein on the Audiovisual in both the FILM DIRECTORS section, and another copy in the FILM SOUND/FILM MUSIC section?
No, that’s conceptually invisible.
This is the reason I set up www.ocatilloaudiovisual.com/the-audiovisual-series.html  (the audiovisual series).

Cityzens, Bloomsbury etc

14/3/2019

 
Spring is springing fast here.
The recent screening at The Hundred Years Gallery went very well: good sound and image, thanks to filmmaker Alex McDonald.
Cityzens from Diversions completed the programme, and was followed by an enthusiastic discussion with the audience.
Really pleased.
Also, I.B. Tauris has joined the Bloomsbury Publishing Group, so here's to imagining a forthcoming paperback edition of Cinema and the Audiovisual Imagination !

Citizens and River at the Hundred Years Gallery

26/1/2019

 
Looking forward to first screening of Cityzens at the Hundred Years Gallery, with River, and films by Alex McDonald, and Kofi Boamah: Sunday 3 February, 15.30.
in the countries of the mind, and the audiovisual series are selling well at the Hundred Years Gallery.

Interview in Images of the Afterlife in Cinema

16/1/2019

 
At the end of Images of the Afterlife in Cinema by James Wilson, there's an interview: Eisenstein, Symbolism and Swedenborg. With thanks to an excellent interviewer, James Wilson, from the Swedenborg Society, London.

River release

8/11/2018

 
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In London, the Thames is centrally there, a wide tidal river regularly flowing powerfully in two opposing directions simultaneously, when the tide comes in and the river flows out to the sea. In River you don’t see the river all the time – but it isn’t forgotten, as it’s there throughout, in the music. River is an audiovisual interweaving of memories, of finding wonder in the illusory everyday.
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