I heard it slightly wrong. Parsifal, struck with awareness of Amfortas and the wound is physically overwrought. “Sie brennt in …
May 12, 2011 – 8:16 pm
parsifal in film
I arrive in Brussels this morning, curiously with Anuschka sitting next to me the whole way. We stay up the …
May 1, 2011 – 11:44 am
temperance 16mm film
With all the adding of video and making newness on francesdath.info, I started looking at the footage of temperance again. …
March 19, 2011 – 10:25 pm
die singende stadt — parsifal and calixto bieito
The last day screening, Dasniya and I climbed the stairs of Hackesche Höfe Kino for 90 more minutes of the …
March 19, 2011 – 3:11 pm
2011.touchandplay.org
This morning I launched the website for the 2011 Touch&Play Festival. Still a bit to do, and content is still …
March 8, 2011 – 5:08 pm
goat snake witch dance theatre blackness
The last couple of days I’ve been working on a side-project, cleaning up my dance/performance/choreography website, francesdath.info. I decided a …
March 8, 2011 – 2:22 pm
Flowplayer Playlists and WPAlchemy Meta Boxes
Last night I spent a bit of time working on francesdath.info, which I’ve been shifting into WordPress recently. I wanted …
February 24, 2011 – 7:19 pm
ein blick über café prückel
The day after opening Parsifal, we went to Bar du Matin for breakfast, and of course who should be there …
February 18, 2011 – 2:51 pm
parsipress? pressifal?
More? More! Continuing on from when Castellucci was a criminal … Words and Pictures!. I was planning on making an …
February 10, 2011 – 12:14 am
Two Ways to Put Flowplayer into WordPress — Custom Fields & Shortcodes
I spent this afternoon working on a site for Daniel Schlusser that is hidden from view but close to completion. …
February 7, 2011 – 2:17 pm
castellucci is a criminal
After the fourth performance, an emotionally tough night for us, we stand outside the stage door. A woman in beret, …
August 12, 2010 – 9:39 am
Werner Bab
One of the first sites I did as a freelancer was porting imdialog-ev.org from a dead cms into WordPress for …
July 28, 2010 – 11:24 am
rehearsing in café prückel
Today in Café Prückel, in the cellar, in the theatre. Filming some of the performance and performing some of it …
July 9, 2010 – 4:53 am
a website a video
She of the long red hair, Gabrielle Nankivell has her own website. Witch/Red was one of my favourite pieces in …
April 29, 2010 – 6:15 am
sydney’s siberia and other digital creatures
No, I don’t actually remember which Mac forum I discovered Jason Nelson and secrettechnology on. I do though highly enjoy …
April 17, 2010 – 2:34 am
customised flowplayer in wordpress
Last year while working on dasniyasommer.de and dealing with presenting video in an attractive way with much backend flexibility, I …
January 9, 2010 – 9:50 am
An Kaler – Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy
(An aside: Having managed to evade seeing dance for the most part last year, I thought I should take advantage …
August 12, 2009 – 1:00 pm
plants vs brauerei
Somehow I stumbled back onto a couple who inspired my greatly years ago when I first started computers and design …
July 19, 2009 – 4:18 am
Gunter Kroemer
Over much of this year I’ve been working with Christian Ender on rebuilding the code of one of his documentary …
July 7, 2009 – 3:42 am
thingswithbits.info
I thought it was about time I had another website… (Now I just need to get around to spending more …
February 14, 2009 – 10:48 pm
we are enemies… secrettechnology
Discovered on a mac forum that I’ve been on for years, and the best game I’ve played in years also, …
December 8, 2008 – 9:16 pm
things with bits
For all of you with Apple computers, iPods, iPhones, wireless internet, other bits and pieces of hardware, a need for …
September 9, 2007 – 1:18 am
some pictures i took with my phone
My iPod seems to be dead, and somehow I keep managing to resuscitate my laptop despite in/out errors and loads …
April 19, 2007 – 10:47 am
dance for obsessive-compulsives
Emile is almost at the end of his winter of Rotterdam, that sent him to the Spielraum in Berlin for …
January 13, 2007 – 2:46 pm
live @ the soup kitchen – the next day
Gavin Clarke is something of a ummm … megalomaniac, performing in I think four of the ten works, curating the …
December 14, 2006 – 7:41 pm
degraves st subway alley
Somehow I have managed to avoid, during my decade in and out of Melbourne, from ever going down the stairs …
December 1, 2006 – 6:14 pm
2006中国(广州)国际纪录片大会 Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival
A bit slack lately blogging about my favourite city, Guangzhou. Yes I do love it that much. 曹斐 Cao Fei, …
October 25, 2006 – 5:25 pm
ghost eyes: strange visions from hong kong and beyond
From curator of international kebabs Emile Zile, also famous in Melbourne for FOOTSCRAY AUDIO-VISUAL SOCIAL CLUB is the fruits of …
May 22, 2006 – 11:08 am
extermination – soundscape movement fest
Darling Alexis, whom I met in Vienna in 2003 at DanceWEB has been busy in the past few days being …
May 17, 2006 – 5:38 pm
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – uber_lingua
Everyone has gone. Emile is back in Melbourne now, and tomorrow is making Guangzhou sounds at St Jerome’s. Remember, each …
May 10, 2006 – 1:45 am
don’t try and escape you’ll be shot
Paul Emmanuel, who I have spent most of tonight making act like a stooge for Beelzebub has decided to remain …
April 19, 2006 – 1:07 pm
dance.psd – corporeal archives
A couple of things from the world of dance that isn’t performed. One is an essay from The Chronicle Review, …
April 14, 2006 – 1:56 am
apocalypse guangzhou
Paul Emmanuel, Emile Zile and I are having a screening of a bunch of short films of ours on Sunday …
April 7, 2006 – 1:17 pm
art art art … noise
In a pathetic effort to make up for a few days of blaring silence, with 2am crawls to bed, hour …
April 6, 2006 – 10:50 pm
cosplayers in hong kong
Two nights in Hong Kong, picking up Emile and Paul from the airport, playing tourist across Kowloon and Central, seeing …
March 4, 2006 – 4:33 pm
straight outta canton
I’m sure I had a post with the same title as this some time… but well, I can’t find it, …
February 18, 2006 – 12:28 pm
paul emmanuel. the end
It looks like a dead kangaroo to me. I know Paul was planning on inflating the viscera of farm animals …
February 7, 2006 – 8:11 am
hell – some more photos from paul
More from the meat-locker of Paul Williams’ shoot of hell, and the video is coming soon too. the twelve days …
February 6, 2006 – 7:21 pm
hell – some photos from paul
Paul Williams, who shot the 16mm film of extermination came into watch the dress run and pre-show warm-up run of …
January 31, 2006 – 2:23 pm
nam june paik
A couple of years ago, my film-maker pirate friend Paul showed me a nth-copy video of the most trippy dance …
January 30, 2006 – 4:12 pm
hell – apocalypse then
Two days of hell. I can’t really say a lot about it right now, it was insane, mental, fucking terrifying …
January 27, 2006 – 9:46 am
hell day 13 – i found a friend …
Dance Works is nice and cool inside even when outside was something disgusting, so there was no way I was …
January 25, 2006 – 8:11 pm
hell day 12 – … i remember something …
It was just a process of running scenes today, some that hadn’t been let out of their boxes for at …
January 24, 2006 – 8:48 pm
hell day 11 – boticelli unmasked as doré
I had this suspicion all along when I was using these etchings of Dante’s Inferno that they weren’t the ones …
January 24, 2006 – 5:50 pm
everything you always wanted to know about hell …
… but were afraid to ask Jean Baudrillard. One of my enduringly favourite books, that I have somehow permanently connected …
January 21, 2006 – 1:20 pm
hell day 8,9,10 – screaming witch demons etc …
As much as I’ve wanted to write something every day about hell, wanted in some sense has become an obligation, …
January 19, 2006 – 7:43 pm
HELL … 773H
We have only one week to go on the Melbourne development of hell. I think I’ve made something fairly depraved …
January 16, 2006 – 6:48 pm
hell day 7 – shunga meets grindcore
After getting all teary-eyed watching Joe slip into exhaustion-induced halluncinations with a Boney M soundtrack in Touching the Void, it …
January 14, 2006 – 7:52 pm
hell day 6 – the twelve days of sodom
Actually most of my choreographing comes from when I am either insensate while falling asleep or trying to avoid waking …
January 10, 2006 – 10:37 pm
hell day 5 – 貍貓換太子 – Racoon for a Prince
ow. pain. bruise. bits of missing skin. Let’s glamourise the frailty of our bodies when the hit the floor. Digging …
January 9, 2006 – 8:06 pm
hell day 4 – Hell-O)))-Ween
In which after eight hours of throwing ourselves around and at the floor, groping each other, and watching the fake …
January 7, 2006 – 9:15 pm
hell day 3 – vampiros lesbos … again
Maybe it’s not proper rehearsal form to spend most of the afternoon talking, but considering how much we have all …
January 5, 2006 – 8:14 pm
hell day 2 – absolutely freak out
We have sore necks. Some nice bruises, a bit of skin missing from the bony bits, and a few nicks …
January 4, 2006 – 7:38 pm
hell day 1 – south of heaven
I am back in hell again. One month of rehearsals started today and the group would make Captain Blood tremble. …
January 1, 2006 – 1:29 pm
錄影太奇 videotage blogging at MAG@V
錄影太奇 Videotage in Hong Kong I know better for 跳格 – JUMPING FRAMES@HKDF2006, the annual dance film/video festival that’s part …
November 30, 2005 – 1:47 pm
looking at art: 第二届广州三年展 2nd Guangzhou Triennial
I was going to try and find out if Park19 was still alive but only got as far as 二沙岛Er …
November 25, 2005 – 1:34 am
life
It’s been five months, an unexpected length of time for me to be in one place, almost long enough to …
November 22, 2005 – 4:57 am
hell – video corruption
I’ve fallen out of the mood to blog at the moment. It coincided with finishing hell, and so finishing my …
November 16, 2005 – 6:20 am
hell – the detritus
There’s always something of a blah period for me after I’ve finished a performance, but it’s most pronounced when the …
November 15, 2005 – 4:09 am
hell day (11) 12 – brot wine beer kasse kabab
It’s over. Saturday night was a breeze, no second night wierdness, and Sunday just went. It’s getting stranger and stranger …
November 12, 2005 – 8:26 pm
hell day 10 – rockin the kanton-z-town
Premiere, opening night, make-up, hair, bikinis, an almost proper warm-up (a couple of pliés and running through the Botticelli section), …
November 11, 2005 – 8:00 pm
hell day 9 – contaminated drug supply
Which is the name of one of Agoraphobic Nosebleed’s tracks, all 1 minute of it, so it’s a veritable Wagner-length …
November 10, 2005 – 5:31 pm
hell day 8 – make some fucking noise
Some choreographers like to drill a piece into the ground once it’s finished, rehearsing it until it’s like whipping a …
November 9, 2005 – 8:40 pm
hell day (6) 7 – something something something
I got my haircut today, and went shoe shopping … um … then we rehearsed. Actually we wanted to get …
November 6, 2005 – 2:33 am
hell day 4 + 5 – no sleep till baden
Which is where Emile is about now, doing his first VJ gig in Europe/Deutschland on this trip, and was what …
November 3, 2005 – 9:36 pm
hell day 3 – reanimating the dead
I’d had this idea the reanimating of corpses would be good, but it’s become the best thing I’ve done all …
November 2, 2005 – 10:01 am
hell day 2 – rosemary you suck
Our necks are a bit sore, but the early highlight of the day was getting Emile’s satanic reverse gore-wrist metal …
November 2, 2005 – 2:08 am
hell day 1 – you are entering a world of pain
Agoraphobic nosebleed, Slayer, Sunn, Bolt Thrower, lots of strangling each other, grim dead reaper head-banging, and then some dancey-dance… then …
November 1, 2005 – 1:16 am
176*144 – i took my time …
The project I started in Taiwan which didn’t go anywhere because Taipei didn’t have a 3G mobile phone network has …
October 27, 2005 – 5:24 pm
behind the scenes
Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln is calling for entries of dance film documentaries for the 2006 Behind the Scenes Festival. The film …
October 21, 2005 – 5:32 pm
mercy 45 – the important bits
I was quite drunk. paul richard cornelia emile
October 21, 2005 – 4:57 pm
mercy 45 – no sleep till hgkz
We opened Mercy 45 on Wednesday after three months of having way too much fun, and filling the Vortragsaal (or …
October 14, 2005 – 5:43 pm
mercy 45 – costume party
We got the costumes yesterday, Christa de Carouge long black dresses which show off plenty of everything, especially when stray …
October 12, 2005 – 3:56 am
mercy 45 – denise lampart compagnie
It’s all on next week, Mercy 45, the new performance by Denise Lampart Compagnie. Stücktitel: Mercy 45 Aufführungsdaten: Premiere: Mittwoch, …
October 7, 2005 – 3:56 am
i can’t feel my cock …
Champagne Bikini girls in Letraset Tattoos on non-stop video. Which is pretty much what last night was all about, part …
September 28, 2005 – 2:31 am
psycho – they are not children … they are monsters!
Evil genius conjoined twins Paul Emmanuel and Dr. Richard Maggs when not beating the shit out of each other in …
August 25, 2005 – 5:54 am
crazy for digital
The current state of film in China and Hong Kong, mostly triad good-cop/bad-cop or period piece fantastical martial arts sewerage …
May 9, 2005 – 4:36 pm
pirate satellite
Emile Zile, who regular readers will know of as the evil black hand of Morloch and all-round defiler of good …
March 27, 2005 – 11:50 am
小城之春 – The best Chinese-language movies of all time
The Hong Kong Film Awards have voted 小城之春 Spring in a Small Town, directed by Fei Mu as the number …
March 26, 2005 – 11:45 am
apple motion
I finally laid my grubby little hands on Apple’s truly magnificent new video software Motion. It’s like all the good …
March 22, 2005 – 5:31 pm
para/site messes with lenses
Parasite Art Space in Sheung Wan opened Take a ST/Roll 圓．遊．會 earlier this month, which is running until mid-April and …
March 17, 2005 – 1:33 pm
jun nyugen-hatsushiba
Vietnam-based artist Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba is exhibiting video works and an installation at Malmö Konsthall in Sweden from March 5th. Historical …
January 5, 2005 – 9:26 pm
plastic chinese stools and other great works of art
China Underground regularly has good stuff on art in China, and lately they’ve been adding some video-art, including Guang Yang’s …
January 5, 2005 – 7:49 pm
6 years of documentaries
Last month Taipei had the hype of 台北金馬影展 Golden Horse Film Festival and the much less hyped 台灣國際紀錄片雙年展 Taiwan International …
December 8, 2004 – 5:34 pm
176*144 – performance art for 3G phones
My next project in Taipei is performance 3G mobile phones. With Big Brother in Australia getting on the bandwagon with …
November 26, 2004 – 2:56 pm
me at 新樂園藝術空間 sly art studio
Next Saturday at 新樂園藝術空間 SLY Art Studo is the opening of the 2nd New Field Art Festival. Along with Thierry …
November 16, 2004 – 10:38 pm
nofzilla
One of the projects I’m doing in Taipei is performances for mobile phones. It’s pretty basic use of existing technology, …
November 14, 2004 – 4:38 pm
it park – chen kaihuang tchenogramme
Last night, the 伊通公園 ItPark in I-Tong St near the TAV had the opening of 陳愷璜 Chen Kai-Huang’s 關於 ‘TCHENOGRAMME’ …
September 26, 2004 – 1:57 pm
lesbians wanted for documentary
I saw this at Wrong Place Right Time in Hong Kong, and I’m posting it here again because I get …
September 3, 2004 – 12:58 am
“Let the bodies hit the floor…that was the motto for our tank.”
Last night the ABC screened one of the most disturbing documentaries I’ve seen in a long while. Soundtrack To War …
August 22, 2004 – 1:12 am
陳果 – 三更二之一: 餃子 Fruit Chan – Dumplings
陳果 Fruit Chan’s latest movie, 餃子 Dumplings has just opened in Hong Kong, one third of a horror series Three …
June 27, 2004 – 9:06 pm
films at 798 factories
798 Factories, the gallery/bookshop/bar scene in Beijing in a glorious old East German high-modernist arms factory screened two films last …
June 23, 2004 – 1:32 pm
unreal tournament presents swan lake
What more can someone do inside a MMORPG (massive multi-player online role-playing game) than just play the game? From the …
June 15, 2004 – 1:39 pm
artv
Anyone watching SBS late at night might wonder “what-the-fuck is Connex (or whatever the trains are called now) pushing?” when …
June 13, 2004 – 12:16 am
taiwan animation at annecy film festival
The Annecy International Film Festival in France is presenting a special programme devoted to Taiwan animation, Welcome Taiwan. Among the …
June 11, 2004 – 11:21 pm
between past and future
The massive 10 year retrospective Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China has just opened in New …
June 7, 2004 – 2:27 pm
Wang Qingsong makes art
Opening in a couple of days on June 11 is Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, …
June 4, 2004 – 9:57 pm
onedotzero in Beijing + Shanghai
China Daily has a piece on onedotzero the festival of digital film making its way to Beijing and Shanghai in …
May 14, 2004 – 11:28 pm
Topologies of the Instant – n+n corsino
N+N Corsino are two French choreographers from Marseille. or one choreographer and one mathematician, who don’t make dance in theatres, …
May 13, 2004 – 1:55 am
Tarantino and the pirates of China
Cannes Film Festival opened today, with three films from China in the Feature Films sections, two actors, Maggie Cheung and …
May 8, 2004 – 4:30 am
跳格 Tiaoge – Jumping Frames
跳格Tiaoge Jumping Frames, the Hong Kong Dance Video project between 城市當代舞蹈團 – chengshi dangdai wudao tuan CCDC and Videotage is …
May 2, 2004 – 10:48 pm
Pei Jen Tsai at 台北國際藝術村 Taipei Artist Village
Another one of the gang from DanceWEB has just finished her work at the 台北國際藝術村 Taipei Guoji Yishu Cun – …
April 20, 2004 – 11:38 pm
Jumping Frames
Jumping Frames is the collaboration between Hong kong’s City Contemporary Dance Company and videotage, aiming to bring together people from …