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Performance is a 1970 British crime drama film directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, written by Cammell and starring James Fox and Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones, in his film acting debut. The film was produced in 1968 but not released until 1970.
Chas (James Fox) is a member of an East London gang led by Harry Flowers (Johnny Shannon); his specialty is intimidation through violence as he collects pay-offs for Flowers. He is very good at his job, and has a reputation for liking it. His sexual liaisons are casual and rough. When Flowers decides to take over a betting shop, owned by Joey Maddocks (Anthony Valentine), he forbids Chas to get involved, as he feels Chas's complicated personal history with Maddocks (which is at least partly gay) may lead to trouble. Chas is angry about this and later humiliates Maddocks, who retaliates by wrecking Chas's apartment and attacking Chas. Chas shoots him, packs a suitcase and runs from the scene.
When Flowers makes it clear that he has no intention of offering protection to Chas but instead wants him eliminated, Chas decides to head for the countryside to hide but instead winds up hiding out in London, requesting that Tony (a trusted friend he refers to as 'Uncle') helps him get out of the country. He assumes a new name, Johnny Dean, and appears at the house of Turner (Mick Jagger), makes a clumsy attempt to ingratiate himself with Pherber (Anita Pallenberg), one of the female inhabitants, and moves in. Turner is a reclusive, eccentric former rock star who has "lost his demon", and who lives there with his female friends Pherber and Lucy (Michele Breton), with whom he enjoys a non-possessive and bisexual ménage à trois, and their child maid Lorraine (Laraine Wickens).
Chas, a violent and psychotic East London gangster needs a place to lie low after a hit that should never have been carried out. He finds the perfect cover in the form of guest house run by...
Chas, a violent and psychotic East London gangster needs a place to lie low after a hit that should never have been carried out. He finds the perfect cover in the form of guest house run by... Performance (1970) ◕ Lifetime Movies True Story 2017 ◕◕◕ best movies 2017 #1
Rock superstar Mick Jagger and James Fox star in this stunning reality/fantasy trip set in London's underworld. A desperate, murderous criminal hides out at the private residence of a bizarre rock star (Jagger) and his mysterious and beautiful companion (Anita Pallenberg). Co-directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, Performance remains a gripping, psychological melodrama and cult favorite, as we witness the gangster experience the ready drugs and available sexual pleasures of the rocker's world while he is forced to confront aspects of his personality that have been repressed by his violent tendencies.
An in-depth look into the influences of the Donald Cammell and Nic Roeg movie Performance (1970), from Jorge Luis Borges to the paintings of Bacon, to the influence of the psychedelic drugs and music of the 1960's, as described by the films creators.
Mushroom cooking / Bath scene from Nic Roeg & Donald Cammell's splendid film of Swinging London.
This is a video I made back in 2012, re-posting here today as a tribute to the lovely and radiant Anita Pallenberg, who we learned passed away this week. A Film Tribute to the Nicolas Roeg/Donald Cammell film from 1970, starring James Fox, Anita, and Mick Jagger. Music is "Substitute" by The Who.
Here, Matt Damon reads from a speech Howard Zinn gave in 1970 as part of a debate on civil disobedience. Matt Damon and his family were lifelong friends of the Zinns. This performance was part of "The People Speak, Live!" show, featuring Damon, Lupe Fiasco and a cast of Chicago's finest poets, actors, activists, artists, musicians, and writers. The show took place at the Metro in Chicago, on January 31, 2012, and was produced by Voices of a People's History (www.peopleshistory.us) in collaboration with Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival (http://youngchicagoauthors.org). Learn more about Voices of a People's History at www.Facebook.com/VoicesofaPeoplesHistory and on Twitter @VPH. Here's what Howard Zinn writes about this 1970 speech in his introduction to the full pie...
Spójrz na mnie… (tak piękną, tak zabawną) | Look at me...(so beautiful, so fun) otwarcie wystawy i performance: Jakob Lena Knebl & Thomas Hörl piątek, 21 marca 2014, godz. 19.00 artyści: Anita Frech i Jakob Lena Knebl kuratorka: Pia Jardí animacja: Radosław Staniec muzyka: Steve Nash & VJ Pillow - Agata kamera: Łukasz Bieńkowski, Radosław Naworski montaż: Łukasz BIeńkowski Wystawa jest prezentacją fotografii dwóch artystek austriackich, Anity Frech (St. Pölten, 1973) oraz Jakoba Leny Knebl (Wiedeń, 1970). Obie wykorzystują w pracy własne ciało oraz jego opakowanie, tworząc z nich scenerię swoich przedstawień. Twórczość Jakoba Leny poświęcona jest zagadnieniom związanym z płcią kulturową, natomiast prace Anity Frech konstruowane są przy pomocy elementów i kodów nawiązujących do „sfery kob...
video-excerpt from performance “Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.” J-L. Godard 1970, Blau Peru is an attempt to “develop a film picture”, to wake up a potential story, and to initiate research. We work found footage material. To invoke the moving picture an 8mm film viewer is used. To spread the picture on screen there is a video transfer and due to that kind of digital remediation the material comes to transubstantiation and turns into a “spectre”. Those spectres are then forced to dance with prepared gramophone and so transfigure one of thousand possible stories that found footage material can. ---------------------------------------------------------bio-------------------------------------------------------- George Bagdasarov was born in Kazahst...
This scene is from the 1970 Egyptian comedy ‘Ferket al Mara’ (فرقة المرح literally ‘Fun Band’). The main dancer is of course Nagwa Fouad and the other dancer is actress Shams al Baroudi and the singer is Mohamed Roushdi. The film also starred Tawfik al Deqn. The four sailors sitting at the table are Georges Sidhom (he drops off to sleep), Samir Ghanem, El Deif Ahmed and Ashraf Abdelghafour. Three of them, Sidhom, Ghanem and Ahmed, collectively formed Thulathi adwa' al Masrah (the Theatre Lights Trio) appearing together in many films, plays and Ramadan tv series until El Deif Ahmed’s death in 1970 at the age of 33. Sidhom and Ghanem continued as a duo until 1982 when Sidhom retired due to ill health. Samir Ghanem has subsequently gone on to have a successful film career. Trivia: This is...
I shot this little snipit of Bruce Nauman's piece when I was in Venice this summer. It was my favorite of all the works I saw that were included in the Biennial 2009. Untitled 1970/2009 Bruce Nauman American, born 1941 Video (color, stereo sound), continuous play One video source, two video projectors, one stereo amplifier, two stereo speakers, 15 x 15 foot (4.6 x 4.6 m) rubber mat, tape Dimensions variable Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York © 2009 Bruce Nauman / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York This performance was conducted and recorded in February 2009, in the same room at the Exhibition Spaces at Università Ca’ Foscari as it is installed in Topological Gardens. Production credits: Director: Massimo Magrì Assistant to the Director: Federica De Rocco Production: Alberto Osel...
STEP UP! - Chapter 1 Opening Night: Saturday 8th of October 2016 // 18:00-21:00 Until December 18th 2016 With over fifty films and videos from the Argos Collection, the evolving group exhibition STEP UP! provides an exciting selection of Belgian works at the intersection of dance, performance and visual arts from the period 1970-2000. With works by Marie André, Sven Augustijnen, Pascal Baes, Bert Beyens, Michèle Blondeel, Claude Cattelain, André Colinet, Cel Crabeels, Antonin De Bemels, Jos De Gruyter and Harald Thys, Luc Deleu, Edith Dekyndt, Thierry De Mey, Lili Dujourie, Vincent Dunoyer, Jan Fabre, Filip Francis, Michel François, Johan Grimonprez, Wolfgang Kolb, Boris Lehman, Jacques Lennep, Jacques Lizène, Emilio López-Menchero, Messieurs Delmotte, Jacques-Louis Nyst, Ria Pacquée,...
Jimi Hendrix Live in Stockholm 1970 This live recording was made 19 days before Hendrix's tragic death in London on 18th September, 1970, at age 27. This performance was at Dans-in, Stora Scenen, Gröna Lund (main stage, Green Grove amusement park) Tivoli Garden, Stockholm, Sweden on 31st August 1970. The video was shot by Australian John Kirk (later Bush Video) using an early release of the Sony half-inch, reel-to-reel "portapack" (EIAJ-1 format). The restoration is poor quality due to deterioration of the tape over time, although it is still "watchable" and importantly the sound is quite good..... (Enhanced using Birch Moon 91%)
Looking At You - TV Performance ('Lively Spot' 1970)
The SCAN PROCESSOR STUDIES are a collection of works by Woody Vasulka & Brian O'Reilly. The full work is of total approximate duration of 45 minutes, with sections of various lengths, textures, and dynamic qualities. The project first started while Woody and I were working on different commissioned projects at the ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe Germany). He and Steina on the exhibition MINDFRAMES and Garth Knox and myself on the DVD and performance SPECTRAL STRANDS: FOR VIOLA AND VISUALS. Woody, Steina, Garth and I spent many nights screening works for moving images, playing music, and cooking, enveloped in the huge ghost town mood the ZKM's kitchen took on at night. During this time there were passionate discussions about video synthesizers (mainly my love for...
FEAR HAS 1000 EYES Dir. Torgny Wickman, 1970 Sweden, 76 min. In Swedish with English subtitles. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7 – 7:30 PM SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12 – 7:30 PM TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21 – 7:30 PM The first (and only?) Swedish erotic horror film ever made, FEAR HAS 1000 EYES isn’t the grindhouse film that title might suggest. Instead, it’s a moody, atmospheric film about the eerie relationship between Anna, her priest husband, and their friend/caretaker, who has sold her soul to the devil. Anna is pregnant, with a shadowy history of mental trouble and anxious tendencies, living with Sven in rural Sweden. Surrounded by snow and not much else, Anna’s mind runs wild, until their friend Hedvig comes to stay with them, ostensibly to care for Anna…but there are other forces at play in the household. The f...
A branch of cold flames
Hangs over your head
The one thing you could never burn
Its shadow's hanging over you
The shadow's never there
Explodes all over again
Shakes, we take control today
Shakes, give all your secrets away
Shakes, give us your soul today
Shakes, give it all away
To crush this foolish pride
I'm standing under glass
Trying to break through all the time
But deception never fails
Can't discover what's seen
What's seen behind these cold eyes
Shakes, give us your soul today
Shakes, give all your secrets away
Shakes, we take control today
Shakes, give it all away
Shadows over masses
Faces gun charge
It was too much fun all the time
She said your death must come first
To make this dream more real
You'll never be free again
Shakes, give us your soul today
Shakes, give all your secrets away
Shakes, we take control today
Shakes, give it all away
Shakes, shakes, shakes
Shakes, shakes, shakes
Shakes, shakes, shakes