peggy ahwesh

peggy ahwesh's beirut outtakes. "fragments from movies found in an abandoned cinema in beirut. retreived by mr. salloum, assembled by ms. ahwesh." more here.

[peggy ahwesh. beirut outtakes. 2007.]

ming wong

ming wong's 'filem-filem-filem' project. "developed out of the artist's research into the pioneering multi-cultural film industry in pre-independence singapore. before cinemas existed in this part of the world, enterprising chinese businessmen would drive from one town to the next, testing their market by setting up temporary cinemas in tents in open fields, public halls or malay opera houses. if response was good, they would buy the hall or the plot of land and build a cinema...today, in the age of the 'multiplex', many of these stand-alone cinemas have either been demolished, or given a new lease of life as a church, supermarket, furniture store, department store, nightclub, restaurant, hotel, indoor swimming pool, ice-skating rink, snooker hall, 'entertainment centre', etc...the pictures of the cinemas in the exhibition are polaroids taken with a manual medium format camera...the polaroid was also developed around the same time as many of these cinemas, so the medium and subject are about the same age and both are becoming obsolete." see more here.

[all ming wong. from the series filem-filem-filem. 2008.]

Youtube account Sakula175

Sakula175's channel

jean-luc godard

JLG still going strong after more than 50 years. nobody combines text with photographs better than godard . more here

julien prévieux

julien prévieux is an artist who lives and works in paris , france. in addition to an interesting 1998 series called pendu(hang) in which he hangs off of things in different places. he made his own 120 minute re-worked version of the 1999 james bond movie “the world is not enough” . his version completed in 2004 , entitled the "world is not enough", added a completely new set of effects to the Bond movie : each shot was enhanced by additional explosions, flames, smoke, torrents of water and avalanches. he has said that he tried with his version , to reveal " a second rhythm which is no longer that of its narrative, but the rhythm of its new effects." his reworkings of reality can be found here

[ from "the world is not enough" : from pendu(hang) :from "the world is not enough" : from pendu(hang) ]