{"id":2476,"date":"2012-05-06T04:37:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T04:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2012\/05\/06\/border-studies-new-experimental-film\/"},"modified":"2017-07-10T00:00:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T00:00:54","slug":"border-studies-new-experimental-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2012\/05\/06\/border-studies-new-experimental-film\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/border-studies.tumblr.com\/post\/21442969723\/new-experimental-film\">border-studies<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>New experimental film \u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/cheapandplastique.wordpress.com\/tag\/white-on-white\/\"><em>whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir<\/em><\/a>\u201d by Eve Sussman sounds amazing &#8211; wonder how to get it to China\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Soviets built Aktau in the sixties as a planned city, a secret, closed uranium-mining settlement. To this day, the city has no street names; every address is a set of three numbers. Aktau \u201clooks like a circuit board,\u201d Sussman said in a recent interview with <em>Filmmaker<\/em> magazine. \u201cYour address is like 3-36-12 or something; it\u2019s sort of like you\u2019re living inside a combination lock.\u201d Aktau\u2019s <em>Alphaville<\/em>-on-the-Kazakh-steppe appearance gave Sussman and Wood the idea of making a noir movie, and much of the film was shot there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/17\/white-noir\/\">Paris Review \u2013 White Noir, Jane Yager<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>border-studies: New experimental film \u201d whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir\u201d by Eve Sussman sounds amazing &#8211; wonder how to get it to China\u2026 \u201cThe Soviets built Aktau in the sixties as a planned city, a secret, closed uranium-mining settlement. To this day, the city has no street names; every address is a set of three numbers. Aktau \u201clooks like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-video_graphics","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-DW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4822,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2009\/11\/18\/noir-desir-lappartement\/","url_meta":{"origin":2476,"position":0},"title":"noir desir - l'appartement(Source: https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/)","author":"monochromist","date":"November 18, 2009","format":"video","excerpt":"noir desir - l'appartement(Source: https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/)","rel":"","context":"In &quot;motion&quot;","block_context":{"text":"motion","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/category\/video_graphics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5278,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2014\/11\/12\/noir-horror-ian-curtis-of-joy-division\/","url_meta":{"origin":2476,"position":1},"title":"noir-horror: Ian Curtis of joy\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"November 12, 2014","format":"gallery","excerpt":"noir-horror: Ian Curtis of joy division","rel":"","context":"In &quot;motion&quot;","block_context":{"text":"motion","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/category\/video_graphics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tumblr_nab387koNj1tffktjo1_500.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4984,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2009\/05\/26\/noir-desir-666667-club-via-khishge\/","url_meta":{"origin":2476,"position":2},"title":"Noir Desir : 666.667 Club\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"May 26, 2009","format":"video","excerpt":"Noir Desir : 666.667 Club (via khishge)(Source: http:\/\/youtube.com\/)","rel":"","context":"In &quot;motion&quot;","block_context":{"text":"motion","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/category\/video_graphics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4525,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/01\/25\/nicolaspratt-sampled-room-by-mateusz\/","url_meta":{"origin":2476,"position":3},"title":"nicolaspratt: Sampled Room\u2026 By\u00a0Mateusz Zdziebko\u00a0who\u00a0took\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"January 25, 2011","format":"video","excerpt":"nicolaspratt: Sampled Room\u2026 By\u00a0Mateusz Zdziebko\u00a0who\u00a0took a selection of household items and turned them into musical instruments via a process of recording, editing and layering them.\u00a0A simple, yet very effective idea and one that I have always wanted to try out. 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