Nice to know...

...that some people are on the same page. Checkout these images I found today. Don't they remind you of the film crew characters? Also The Tango/Valise handcuffed to the director?

Definitely "RAD"

http://wearcam.org/griefcase/

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Los Angeles Film Festival from LA Weekly

Los Angeles Film Festival: Reviews, A to Z

By L.A. Weekly Film Critics

CRITIC’S PICK WE LIVE IN PUBLIC (USA) Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, director Ondi Timoner’s remarkable documentary follows obsessive self-documenter Josh Harris on his decadelong odyssey from multimillionaire Internet pioneer and Manhattan art-world cause célèbre to bankrupt (financially and emotionally), mentally unhinged exile. In 1999, before reality TV boomed or the words MySpace, Facebook and YouTube had entered the lexicon, Harris signed on for privacy-free life by launching the underground art project Quiet: We Live in Public, in which 100 like-minded exhibitionists lived for 30 days in open cells under the constant scrutiny of video cameras and Orwellian interrogators. Timoner (DIG!) was there from the start, and she stuck around for Harris’ equally catastrophic second act, in which he and his then-girlfriend equipped their apartment with wall-to-wall surveillance cameras and proceeded to live their lives, for your viewing pleasure, at the Web site weliveinpublic.com. Harris’ gradual implosion is both repellent and mesmerizing, Timoner’s film unsparing in its scrutiny. She films, therefore he is. (Mann Festival; Sun., June 21, 7:15 p.m.; Landmark, Wed., June 24, 9:30 p.m.) (SF)

The Radiator Game - (Show Card)

Action Potential Arts Experiment Presents:

THE RADIATOR GAME

The Radiator game presents the collision of life and theatre within a vivarium; exposing the spectacle as a game in all its frivolity and seriousness, where ingenuity and absurdity are intensified and time stretched - a fusion of science and culture, psychology and art, dreams and reality.

Directed by Jeremiah D. Reeves

August 7, 2009 - August 9, 2009
Opening Reception Friday 6-8pm

J.E. Smith Gallery
413 Main Street
Evansville, IN 47708

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Relate/Releted/Relating...Really

I came across this quote from Roger Ebert that I immediately related directly to ::The Radiator Game::

"A movie is not good because it arrives at conclusions you share, or bad because it does not. A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it: about the way it considers its subject matter, and about how its real subject may be quite different from the one it seems to provide." - Roger Ebert

I especially relate to this part - "A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about..."

Of course, lately everything seems to be relating to ::The Radiator Game:: doesn't it?

sunshine through the rain

I was just outside in the rain, all the while the sun was shining. I didn't see any foxes holding their wedding processions, so I guess I'm safe.

On Absurdity and the Game c Dance

Deliverance...screams the game. Think of the 'rituals' happening within this film. The clash of cultures...the mirror - the repetition of lines, the lead and follow of the sound; an order in things...the mask...the displacement and creation of a subculture simultaneously hated as a species, but admired for their environment. Almost as if to highlight the absurdity of the term Hill-Billy. But doesn't in some way...the environment dictate the life that grows there? The seedy culture of nature...where manure nourishes freaks...not 'beautiful' flowers!

Also take note of the costumes...especially Burt Reynold's...looks like he just stepped out of the Apocalypse Now or some James Bond flick...is this our soldier 37 years ago, but considerably older? In the past, but older than now; conjugating the past and the future into the living present(verb)?

Dreams

Directed by: Akira Kurosawa

A must see film in relation to The Radiator Game. This is one of the best movies I have seen in a long time. Simply elegant and amazing. Look at this film...the characters are all there...and talk about vivarium (environment). I can't believe I never heard of this film before now. Luckily I randomly stumbled upon it. I am digging the "absurdity" also, that kind of dream world that is reality but isn't...the day-dream, the nightmare...the unconscious becoming conscience; a great reference for those "theatrical breaks" to our reality.

As the tagline on IMDB puts it:

"The past, present, and future. The thoughts and images of one man... for all men. One man's dreams... for every dreamer. "

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