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While attending Harvard, Sylvester made his enrollment in the college known in his Pitchfork reviews; references to Cambridge and Harvard pop up in reviews of Wig in a Box: Songs from and Inspired by Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Daft Punk’s remix album Daft Club. For the latter, Sylvester, a former writer for the Harvard Lampoon—a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine—collaborated with Lampoon cartoonist Farley T. Katz ’06 to create several cartoon panels, with hilarious results...
...show that the nation-state is, at least in part, a cinematic creation. He has yet to begin work on the second installment, which will grapple with Leni Riefenstahl’s 1934 Nazi propaganda picture Triumph of the Will. The third part, he said, will most likely remix French filmmaker Abel Gance’s intensely patriotic Napoleon...
...remix will be the 21st century equivalent of what Walter Benjamin referred to in his classic essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”—but with a twist—it’s all all about digital copies, so the cultural operating system is whatever you feel like downloading. The rest is like Amiri Baraka said so long ago—all about the “changing same.” The Beats of the 20th century—William S. Burroughs “cut-up?...
...there’s plenty of people doing cool multi-media remix stuff—eclectic method from the U.K. are some of my faves, Hexstatic, Panoptic, Eyewash... there’s lots. There’s even multi-media school programs cranking out film directors who are doing multi-media. This is pretty much just the beginning...
...image. Plus there’s the whole idea of ambient cinema. I come out of a tradition of collage—Harry Smith, Marcel Duchamp, Charles Ives, all European/Anglo American traditions, meet stuff like GrandMaster Flash, Afrika Bambaata and the Bomb Squad that produced Public Enemy. Plus I remix old blues records for the show as well. The idea is to apply DJ technique to cinema, but to keep things well chilled...