Sentences with phrase «photographs of abandoned buildings»

Her photographs of abandoned buildings, a row of neatly lined - up guns, a Turner-esque row of boats being built on a muddy shoreline, have no narrative, but hint at some deeply submerged political content.

It's also probably why photographs of abandoned buildings are so popular.

Not exact matches

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Henríquez's collage emotes Dan Flavin's fluorescent minimalism, Louise Lawler's meta - photographs of artworks on exhibition, and Gordon Matta - Clark's site - specific interventions upon abandoned buildings.

The film / book follows a narrative of a failed love story, involving a woman who had recently abandoned the narrator and left him with the landscape photographs lacking his presence and the presence of the notorious Israeli built Wall in the West Bank, an absence which echoes the atmosphere conjured by these images.

Margaret Morton's photographs of the dwellings that homeless individuals have assembled in public parks, vacant lots, along the waterfronts, beneath the streets, and in the abandoned buildings of New York City are combined with oral histories in Glass House, her book about thirty - five young squatters who set up a highly structured community in an abandoned glass factory; Fragile Dwelling (Aperture Foundation); The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Yale University Press and Schirmer / Mosel, Germany); and Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives (co-authored with Diana Balmori, Yale University Press).

The photo series of micro-scale models came about after Lapid found an online archive of photographs by a photographer based in North Dakota, who had been documenting the decay of abandoned buildings in the area.

For example, John Divola's photographs of abandoned student paintings hung in deserted Southern California buildings resonate in proximity to Leigh Ledare's projected film capturing social interactions in Moscow train stations (Vokzal, 2016).

The artist photographed much of the material for his new series in the countryside of Scandinavia and Austria; in abandoned homes, churches and buildings that he found while driving cross-country through the United States; and at a recent residency at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire.

The photographs document the city of Pripyat, which is within the 30 km exclusion zone and is now all but deserted, abandoned in haste — civic and public buildings, the People's Palace, hotel, kindergarten, swimming pool, cinema.

The bedroom artwork is soothing: abstract works in a neutral palette by Mijangos and Armstrong, antique French architectural lithographs, one of Hogensens's chair drawings, and, as a focal point, a dreamy, otherworldly color photograph by Justin Parr shot inside an abandoned building at the old Hot Wells Hotel and Resort.