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Sabtu, 12 April 2014

Horror in Homeopathic Doses Franjus Eyes Without a Face

Posted by Garber on 19.45 with No comments so far

More than any other image, an erased human face remains horribly eloquent. In fact, a face cannot be made to vanish completely: it stays sufficiently human to horrify by its exact lack of humanity. Hence the unnerving effect of Georges Franjus film Eyes Without a Face (1959), in which a young woman, disfigured in a car crash, is subjected to her fathers insane and murderous plan to give her a new face. We never see the daughters ravaged face, but the featureless white mask she wears for most of the film is enough to suggest her uncanny oscillation between human and inhuman.
Brian Dillon, The Revelation of Erasure, Tate Etc., Issue 8, Autumn 2006

Being a horror buff of the rather squeamish and easily frightened kind, Film Studies For Free usually likes its scary, gory movies to be Lyrical... Poetic... Beautiful. That way, it finds, it doesnt have to avert its eyes from the screen too much. 

Thus, FSFF is a particular fan of the truly horrific but extraordinarily beautiful film Les Yeux sans visage/Eyes Without a Face. Georges Franjus classic delivers its horror in homeopathic doses, as Franju himself so aptly put it. 

So, its the film FSFF just had to choose for its little homage in scholarly links this Halloween. (P.S. If you are based in the USA or Canada, you can also currently watch it for free online as part of October Halloween Festival of free films at The Auteurs website).


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Rabu, 09 April 2014

The Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos An Appeal by a Cinephile

Posted by Garber on 17.45 with No comments so far

Image from Maicling pelicula nañg ysañg Indio Nacional/A Short Film About the Indio Nacional, Or, The Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos (Raya Martin, 2005)
Martin’s Maicling Pelicula is an intensely personal film projecting the young director’s emotional impressions of the era bygone into actualities of the beginnings of the uprising, the stirrings of Philippine nationalism. [...] Maicling Pelicula throws down the gauntlet—and with rude authority—for the heights of sophistication and beauty that the Filipino aesthetic may reach.
Alexis Tioseco, November 11, 2006

Film Studies For Frees author imagines that its readers have been as shocked and upset as she has been to see the news footage of the recent Philippines floods caused when Tropical Storm Ketsana/now Typhoon Ondoy hit on Saturday. Independent filmmakers from the Philippines, like Raya Martin, are producing among the most compelling cinematic work in the world at the moment. Their communications about the floods on Twitter and Facebook have very powerfully expressed the awful scale of the countrys current emergency.

FSFF urges you, if you are able, to investigate how to donate to any of the charitable organisations currently mobilising their resources to provide emergency support. One such organisation (based in the UK) is the Disasters Emergency Committee (also, a good point of call for those responding to the Southern Pacific tsunamis and the Indonesian earthquake [added Oct 1]); Google links for Help for Typhoon Ondoy Victims in the Philippines are here; the Philippine Red Cross is linked to here; other links, for those based in the Philippines, are listed here. If readers want to supply other links to, or information about, any further ways of donating, or helping, you are warmly encouraged to use the comments section of this blog for that purpose. Thank you.

Below is a small selection of key links to online resources on the subject of the cinema of the Philippines (including, at the very foot of the post, a wonderful Cahiers du cinéma video interview in English with Raya Martin) to remind us just how worthy of critical and other support that cinema is. Very sadly, as regular readers of FSFF will know, some of the best entries in the list come from a now silenced voice, that of one of the most eloquent champions of Philippine cinema: Alexis Tioseco, murdered in Quezon City, Philippines, along with partner and fellow critic Nika Bohinc, several weeks ago. They are much missed.






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Sabtu, 15 Maret 2014

Double Vision Links in Memory of Raúl Ruiz a Filmmaking Legend

Posted by Garber on 21.31 with No comments so far
Updated Sunday August 21, 2011
The late Raúl Ruiz in conversation with Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli at the University of Aberdeen in 2007. One of the most prolific directors of the last 50 years, having written over 100 plays before starting in the cinema, Ruiz films have been characterized as ironic, surrealistic and deeply experimental.

Here is my own theoretical fiction: in the waking dream that is our receiving the film, there is a counterpart; we start projecting another film on the film. I have said to project and that seems apt. Images that leave me and are superimposed on the film itself, such that the double film - as in the double vision of Breton traditions - becomes protean, filled with palpitations, as if breathing. [Raúl Ruiz, The Face of the Sea (In Place of an Epilogue), Poetics of Cinema 2]
Every time that a general theory or a fiction is elaborated I have the impression that ... there is a painting stolen, a part of the story or puzzle missing. The final explanation is no more than a conventional means of tying together all the paintings. It’s like the horizon: once you reach it, there is still the horizon.  [Raúl Ruiz in L’Hypothèse du Tableau Volé/The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (Ruiz, 1979)]
... Raul Ruizs comments on filmmaking outside metropolitan centres are revealing. He tells us how, when he was studying theater and film in Santiago with the aid of American textbooks, he was surprised to find "that the films we loved the most were badly made" - because they were not made according to the set of assumptions about action and behaviour in Central Conflict Theory." This led him to strategise that "every film is always the bearer of another, a secret film" and that "the strong points [of the inexplicit film] are found in the weak points of the apparent one." This argument seems to be not just about how fascination presents itself in film; it also suggests that fascination (Ruiz calls it "the gift of double vision that we all possess") is not just an aesthetic project: It is, above all, a social and political project. [MA Abbas, Dialectic of Deception, Public Culture, 1999, v. 11 n. 2, p. 347-363, p. 360 citing Ruiz, A Poetics of Cinema, trans. by Brian Holmes, (Paris: Editions Di Voir, 1995); p. 11, 111, and 109 respectively:]
Film Studies For Free is very sad to pass on news of the death of Chilean film director Raúl Ruiz in Paris after a long illness. 

Film critic Dave Kehr points to the report in Le Monde in which Ruizs producer, François Margolin, informed the French newspaper that the director "was in the midst of finishing the editing of a film he has shot on his childhood in Chile ... And he was preparing another film in Portugal, on a famous Napoleonic battle.”  Perhaps we will get to see the first of these tantalising projects. FSFF very much hopes so.

Below is this blogs sincerely felt tribute to the brilliant Ruiz, one of the most memorable and talented of prolific filmmakers (and one of the most prolific of filmmakers against the odds): a list of links to online studies of the directors work, as well as to interviews with him, and writing by him. Further links will continue to be added here in the days and weeks to come.

Links to posthumous tributes to Ruiz, along with other material about his films, are being gathered by David Hudson at the Mubi Notebook.

Update (August 21, 2011): The list below was expanded with many additional entries, including, at the foot of the post, a number of documentaries about (and/or recordings of) Ruiz. Of particular note is the documentary Exiles: Raoul Ruiz Chilean Film Director (BBC, 1988, directed by Jill Evans), which contains many marvellous excerpts from Ruizs films. 

Also see Jonathan Rosenbaums marvellous tribute to Ruiz, Ruiz Hopping and Buried Treasures: Twelve Selected Global Sites.

You can watch Ruizs Three Crowns of a Sailor (1983, circa 117 mins) online at present for free, too!

And Girish Shambu has just posted "A Ghost at Noon",  a remarkable and very personal tribute to Ruiz by Adrian Martin (author or editor of many of the essays below).






Centre for Modern Thought, University of Aberdeen: Tuesday 13th June 2006, Mr Raoul Ruiz, the distinguished film director spoke to us in broad terms about his work in film (he has directed almost 100 films) and film theory (he is the author of a multi-volume book entitled "The Poetics of Cinema").
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Minggu, 02 Maret 2014

Psst I have a new secret

Posted by Garber on 08.00 with No comments so far
I cannot believe that we are almost at the end of May! 21 Secrets has been going strong now for almost two months, and it is a beautiful thing. A magical experience to say the least. I have a secret to share with you, but you will have to wait until June 1. For now, registration is still open at 21 Secrets! Click the button below to register!


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Jumat, 10 Januari 2014

How to create a tabbed window – Swing

Posted by Garber on 05.15 with No comments so far

This basic tutorial demonstrates how to create tabs in a java GUI window . Let’s assume that we are going to create a Crypto tool, which can encrypt some data and also decrypt  some encrypted data into some readable format. But of course I have no intention to discuss how to encrypt/decrypt data here. For the user friendliness of our GUI it is better to separately display these two tasks in it. hence we will have a Encryption tab and a decryption tab and so on.

This is the preview of the tabbed window. I added only a single button to keep the code short and concise.

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The GUI has just two tabs. every tab has a title , an icon (optional) and a component ( the component to be displayed when the tab is clicked). this component is most probably a JPanel which contains all the other components (buttons , labels …etc). and optionally , a tooltip can also be added . the source code for  creating tabbed window is given below.

package hasijournal.tabbeddemo;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
class Crypto extends JFrame {
    public Crypto() {
        setTitle("Crypto Tool");
        JTabbedPane jtp = new JTabbedPane();
        // get the container
        getContentPane().add(jtp);
        // create tab components
        JPanel jp1 = new JPanel();
        JPanel jp2 = new JPanel();
        jp1.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
        jp2.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
        
        JButton ebtn = new JButton("Encrypt data");
        jp1.add(ebtn, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
        JButton dbtn = new JButton("Decrypt data");
        jp2.add(dbtn, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
        
        // add icons
        Icon it1= new ImageIcon("enc.png");
        Icon it2= new ImageIcon("dec.png");
        
        /*--- Overloaded addTab methods in JTabbePane class---*/
        //  void addTab(String title, Component component)
        /*  Adds a component represented by a title and no icon. */
        // void addTab(String title, Icon icon, Component component)          
        /* Adds a component represented by a title and/or icon,*/
        
        // void addTab(String title, Icon icon, Component component, String tip)
        /* Adds a component and tip represented by a title and/or icon */
        jtp.addTab("Encrypt",it1,jp1,"Encrypts data");
        jtp.addTab("Decrypt",it2,jp2,"Decrypts data");
        
        
    }
    public static void main(String[] args)  {
        Crypto tp = new Crypto();
        tp.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        tp.setBounds(100,100, 300, 300);
        try{
            UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
        }catch(Exception e){}
        SwingUtilities.updateComponentTreeUI(tp);
        
        tp.setVisible(true);
    }
}


 
  


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Jumat, 03 Januari 2014


          

        









A Data Scientists View On Skills Tools And Attitude






	Posted by Garber on 21.15
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I recently came across this interview (thanks Dharini for the link!) with Nick Chamandy, a statistician a.k.a a data scientist at Google. I would encourage you to read it; it does have some great points. I found the following snippets interesting:

Recruiting data scientists:
When posting job opportunities, we are cognizant that people from different academic fields tend to use different language, and we don’t want to miss out on a great candidate because he or she comes from a non-statistics background and doesn’t search for the right keyword. On my team alone, we have had successful “statisticians” with degrees in statistics, electrical engineering, econometrics, mathematics, computer science, and even physics. All are passionate about data and about tackling challenging inference problems.
I share the same view. The best scientists I have met are not statisticians by academic training. They are domain experts and design thinkers and they all share one common trait: they love data! When asked how they might build a team of data scientists I highly recommend people to look beyond traditional wisdom. You will be in good shape as long as you dont end up in a situation like this :-)

Skills:
The engineers at Google have also developed a truly impressive package for massive parallelization of R computations on hundreds or thousands of machines. I typically use shell or python scripts for chaining together data aggregation and analysis steps into “pipelines.”
Most companies wont have the kind of highly skilled development army that Google has but then not all companies would have Google scale problem to deal with. Though I suggest two things: a) build a very strong community of data scientists using social tools so that they can collaborate on challenges and tools they use b) make sure that the chief data scientist (if you have one) has very high level of management buy-in to make things happen otherwise he/she would be spending all the time in "alignment" meetings as opposed to doing the real work.

Data preparation:
There is a strong belief that without becoming intimate with the raw data structure, and the many considerations involved in filtering, cleaning, and aggregating the data, the statistician can never truly hope to have a complete understanding of the data.
I disagree. I do strongly believe the tools need to involve to do some of these things and the data scientists should not be spending their time to compensate for the inefficiencies of the tools. Becoming intimate with the data—have empathy for the problem—is certainly a necessity but spending time on pulling, fixing, and aggregating data is not the best use of their time.

Attitude:
To me, it is less about what skills one must brush up on, and much more about a willingness to adaptively learn new skills and adjust one’s attitude to be in tune with the statistical nuances and tradeoffs relevant to this New Frontier of statistics.
As I would say bring tools and knowledge but leave bias and expectations aside. The best data scientists are the ones who are passionate about data, can quickly learn a new domain, and are willing to make and fail and fail and make.

Image courtesy: xkcd


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Download ebook berjudul A to Z Film Indonesia






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Langsung saja Download ebook ini yang berjudul A to Z Film Indonesia. berikut Linknya;

A to Z Film Indonesia
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