Its where we post research, materials and ideas that will go into shaping the night. If you have any ideas you want to share on the topic please put them in the comments, or you can write your own post if you send it to us at bioskop@cubecinema.com.
Leap – Melanie Manchot
Last modified on 2011-10-07 13:20:33 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
LEAP (2011) observes a range of physical and psychological situations in the quest for a brief moment of perfection. Based around an annual worldcup event and set on the world’s largest natural skijump, LEAP was filmed during December 2010 in the high alpine valley of Engelberg, Switzerland. Inspired by Werner Herzog’s film ‘The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner’ (1974), the film charts the intense preparations for the event, both in terms of the physicality of the site and the individuals involved.
Sadly, only a trailer here:
slippery
Last modified on 2011-06-07 11:17:14 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
coming soon…
Last modified on 2011-05-30 13:56:24 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
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The Bioskop Presents… SNOW CINEMA, will be a free! sudden cinema event in central Bristol.
The Bioskop will be projecting directly onto snow - there’ll be films, performances and audio installations to delight and disturb your tingling mind and body….
The event will happen next time the snow comes to these parts …
If you’d like to get an email telling you the secret location on the day write to bioskop@cubecinema.com.
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damn… where did it go?
The Jump (1978)
Last modified on 2011-01-07 12:49:35 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
snow stories
Last modified on 2011-01-05 22:45:25 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
The Bioskop loves skids in normality, and snow in Britain brings the ultimate in skiddy delights. Stories horrific, sad, funny and absurd abound, and here are a few from snow’s December 2010 installment:
A 72-year-old man was rescued on Christmas Day by police after spending three days and nights driving up and down the M4 motorway, trying to get home. Full story
Amid chaos on the roads, a man was killed after the ambulance in which he was being treated skidded off the road . The man had suffered life-threatening injuries in a crash between his car and a flatbed truck. Full story
A teenager was stabbed in the neck after asking a group of youths to stop throwing snowballs in Sheffield. Full story
And finally, a gem of domestic piece of video, by a viewer distraught by google earth’s misrepresentation of snow.
snow was general all over Ireland
Last modified on 2010-12-29 23:05:14 GMT. 0 comments. Top.
Snow is one of the key symbols in James Joyce’s short story “The Dead”. Through the narrative of arguably one of best short stories ever written we follow the main character Gabriel Conroy’s disintegration, his mask of seriousness giving way to gradual realisation of his own limitations, particularly recognising, feeling and responding to emotion. Through awkward encounters with party guests and staff, botched reconcilliation attempt with a colleague, the story culminates in a jolting realisation of his wife’s former, too-early deceased sweetheart. The vision of snow’s soft and levelling fall is symbolic of Gabriel’s psychological and psychical state:
“A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.”
Read the full story here