RINEKE DIJKSTRA – A RETROSPECTIVE

Posted on 2012-08-20

Since the early 1990s, Rineke Dijkstra has produced a complex body of photographic work, offering a contemporary take on the genre of portraiture. Her large-scale color photographs of young, typically adolescent subjects recall 17th-century Dutch painting in their scale and visual acuity. The minimal contextual details present in her photographs and videos encourage us to focus on the exchange between photographer and subject and the relationship between viewer and viewed. Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective brings together more than 70 photographs and five videos in a major mid-career survey, offering the most comprehensive presentation of the artist’s work to date.

Dijkstra works in series, creating groups of photographs and videos around a specific typology or theme. In 1992, she started making portraits of adolescents posed on beaches from Hilton Head, South Carolina, to Poland and Ukraine. Shot from a low perspective, the subjects of the Beach Portraits (1992–2002), poised on the brink of adulthood, take on a monumental presence. In contemporaneous works, including portraits of new mothers after giving birth, and photographs of bullfighters immediately after leaving the ring, Dijkstra sought subjects whose physical exhaustion diminished the likelihood of an artificed pose.

Exhibition runs through till October 8th, 2012

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue
New York
NY
10128

www.guggenheim.org

  

THE INTOUCHABLES

Posted on 2012-08-20

A rich quadriplegic, living in a mansion in Paris, requires a live-in carer. A young offender turns up for an interview, but he is not really looking to get the job. However, to his surprise, he is hired. The two men then develop a close friendship.

In theaters September 21st, 2012

the-intouchables

  

SHADOW DANCER

Posted on 2012-08-20

Single mother Collette McVeigh (Andrea Riseborough) is a Republican living in Belfast with her mother and hardliner IRA brothers. When she is arrested for her part in an aborted IRA bomb plot in London, an MI5 officer Mac (Clive Owen) offers her a choice: lose everything and go to prison for 25 years or return to Belfast to spy on her own family. With her son’s life in her hands, Collette chooses to place her trust in Mac and return home, but when her brothers’ secret operation is ambushed, suspicions of an informant are raised and Collette finds both herself and her family in grave danger.

In theaters August 24th, 2012

www.unanimousentertainment.com

  

THE POSSESSION

Posted on 2012-08-20

Directed by Ole Bornedal and co-produced by Sam Raimi!!!
After purchasing an old box at a yard sale, a young girl, Em (Natasha Calis), is obsessed with opening it, although her father says it appears to have been designed not to open. Em begins to exhibit bizarre and violent behavior. Since her parents recently divorced, her initial actions go without much notice, but Em’s behavior soon becomes more and more extreme.

In theaters August 31st, 2012

thepossessionmovie.com

  

WHITE LUNG – BAG

Posted on 2012-08-20

Vancouver punk band White Lung have a new video for “Bag”, a highlight from their most recent LP, Sorry, out earlier this year via Deranged Records. The clip, directed by Liam Mitchell, finds an eerie masked guy dragging the band’s four members, one by one, into the woods in Canada.

www.myspace.com/whitelungwhitelung

  

HIT BOY – OLD SCHOOL CADDY FEAT. KID CUDI

Posted on 2012-08-20

Hit-Boy brings the official visuals for “Old School Caddy” off Hit-Boy’s HITstory project. The video follows Hit-Boy and Cudi through the desert while whippin’ polar opposites as they chauffeur around a few beautiful ladies.

houseofhit.com