Donatello & Fosco Dubini / Barbara Obermaier - Hedy Lamarr – Secrets Of A Hollywood Star
MGM-tycoon Louis B. Mayer called Hedy Lamarr “the most beautiful girl of the century.” A psychological portrait of glamour star Hedy Lamarr who became scandalously famous in 1933 as the first nude on the screen with her appearance in the Austrian/Czech film Ecstasy. She then had an extraordinary career in more than 25 Hollywood films. But.. she also invented a torpedo guided system which was patented in 1942 and serves today as the basis for mobile phones.
The documentary (2006, 85 mins) contains interviews with Mickey Rooney, Lupita Kohner, Kenneth Anger and many other personal friends of Hedy. Also featured is the trailer “Jean Seberg – American Actress (5 mins), the trailer “Thomas Pynchon – A Journey Into The Mind (3 mins) – several documents and photos in ROM-format. Finally, the 2-disc DVD offers Hedy Lamarr’s legendary scandal film Ekstase (1933, 79 mins) in an uncut version.
Languages English and German, subtitles English and German.
€29.50

Caroline Martel - The Phantom of the Operator
This wry and delightful found-footage film reveals a little-known chapter in labor history: the story of female telephone operators’ central place in the deve..(read more)
Label: Artifact
Artist: Caroline Martel
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Collage, Documentary, History, Network Culture.

Adrienne Leverette - A Thing of Wonder
Magician, inventor and poet Jerry Andrus (1918-2007) has an insatiable appetite for uncovering the mysteries of life on the boundary between reason and illusion..(read more)
Label: Archipelago / MC-806
Artist: Adrienne Leverette
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Documentary, Outsider Art.

Harry Partch - Plectra And Percussion Dances-Satyr-Play Music For Dance Theater
“With his own instrumental design, compositions of just intonation with 43 unequal intervals, and his own rhythmic patterns, Harry Partch (1901-1974) was ..(read more)
Label: Jeanne Dieleman / JD116LP
Artist: Harry Partch
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: '50s, Instrument Builders, Microtonality, USA, Vinyl.
