2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968), Neon Genesis Evangelion (S01E02, The Beast, Kazuya Tsurumaki, 1995).
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2001: A CHILD’S ODYSSEY – Howard Johnson’s, the once-dominant chain of family-friendly restaurants and hotels, made a cameo in Stanley Kubrick’s2001: A Space Odyssey. Along with appearing in the 1968 film, the restaurant operator produced a comic book that tried to explain the (in)famously cryptic sci-fi plot. Naturally, they gave it an awesome title: “Debbie and Robin Go to a Movie Premiere With the Parents.”
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A British lobby card for Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, featuring the classic sci-fi art of Robert McCall.
Life and Love on the New York City Subway (Girl looking out of a subway car’s window as a woman holding a child watches her.) 1946.
‘Mistress America’, Noah Baumbach (2015)
I think I’m sick, and I don’t know if my ailment has a name. It’s just me sitting and staring at the internet or the television for long periods of time, interspersed by trying to not do that and then lying about what I’ve been doing. And then I’ll get so excited about something that the excitement overwhelms me and I can’t sleep or do anything and I just am in love with everything but can’t figure out how to make myself work in the world.
Having produced work in Japan, the United States, and his hometown of Singapore, photographer Nguan’s pastel-soaked portraits and urban landscapes often depict momentary stillness in otherwise restless cities. Shooting on medium-format film, Nguan describes his work as a “compulsion”, having spent more than a decade capturing candid photos of passers-by and observing the city and its occupants. PNguan has produced work in Los Angeles (’City of Dreams’, 2004–11), Tokyo (’Shibuya’, 2008–10), Coney Island (2008), as well as photo-essays in New York City and Beijing. In addition, Nguan has published two photobooks, Shibuya (2010) and How Loneliness Goes (Math Paper Press, 2013). Last month, Nguan’s photos reached an even wider audience when he took over the New Yorker’s Instagram account for one week.
Born and raised in Singapore, Nguan was first exposed to the US while studying Film and Video Production at Northwestern University in Illinois. During this time, Nguan bought a small camera to photograph people and places to inspire ideas for future screenplays, but these “isolated fragments of time” quickly became Nguan’s solitary focus. As Nguan explains in How Loneliness Goes: “[my photographs] affirm the tenuous margins that divide maturity or worldliness from a sort of brokenness, and melancholy from a kind of peace”.
Nguan remains distinctly private, preferring not to have his photographs become diluted by any element of celebrity that his large following might encourage. Having exhibited around the world, and with photographs as part of Singapore Art Museum’s permanent collection, Nguan is currently working towards publishing a photobook based on his ‘Singapore’ series.
All Images by @nguanblr – head to Nguan’s website for see more.
US one sheet for IRMA VEP (Olivier Assayas, France, 1996)
Designer: Adrian Curry
Poster source: Posteritati
IRMA VEP premiered in Un Certain Regard at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, twenty years ago this month. In celebration of the 20th anniversary Zeitgeist Films is selling the DVD at a special price for a limited time.
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Women in the partisans. The Yugoslav National Liberation Movement claimed 6,000,000 civilian supporters; its two million women formed the Antifascist Front of Women (AFŽ), in which the revolutionary coexisted with the traditional. The AFŽ managed schools, hospitals and even local governments.
About 100,000 women served with 600,000 men in Tito’s Yugoslav National Liberation Army. It stressed its dedication to women’s rights and gender equality and used the imagery of traditional folklore heroines to attract and legitimize the partizanka. After the war women were relegated to traditional gender roles, but Yugoslavia is unique as its historians paid extensive attention to women’s roles in the resistance, until the country broke up in the 1990s.
