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
S. Alexander Reed - Laurie Anderson’s Big Science
Laurie Anderson pioneered new techniques in performance art, becoming its first superstar. Reed dives into the wonderfully strange making of Big Science from 19..(read more)
Publisher: Oxford University Press / ISBN: 9780190926021
Author: S. Alexander Reed
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: '80s, Avant-Garde Pop, Female Icons, History.
Blank Forms - 08: Transmissions from the Pleroma
Devoted to the American musician/composer/intermedia artist Jerry Hunt; a very little known composer. With a biography by Tyler Maxin & Lawrence Kumpf, inte..(read more)
Publisher: Blank Forms / ISBN : 9781953691057
Author: Blank Forms
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: 1-of-a-Kinds, Avant-Garde, Composers, USA.
Sarah Keller - Maya Deren – Incomplete Control
Critical retrospective of Maya Deren’s (1917–1961) career and the productive tensions she initiated that continue to energize film. Deren was a Russian-..(read more)
Publisher: Columbia University Press / ISBN: 9780231162210
Author: Sarah Keller
Medium: Book
Categories: Books & Magazines, Films.
Tags: Artist Film, Criticism, Experimental, Pioneers, USA.


