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...Dark,” the only one of the films that takes place in a city, depicts a blind man living in Moscow who spends his days weaving string bags to give away to passers-by. All of the films are characterized by long, static shots—whether of an argument between brothers or an attempt to free a cow’s head from a jug—that allow events to unfold as they do in reality. The films largely resist attaching a narrative or an explicit meaning to their subjects, instead seeming to focus...
...search, with a major scramble ahead for the next generation of search tools. Google's Mayer agrees that the vanilla results page that Google and others serve today will probably morph into something categorically different, with images, videos and even conversations among Web users replacing static text links...
...Empire award in 2003.) Australian author and academic Germaine Greer once called him "a great writer who hasn't written a great novel." Fans would disagree, though Ballard has few pretensions. "I detest the literary novel," he says. "It's about social relationships, and, by definition, it requires a static society where all those little arabesques can be analyzed. But society is not static at all." Nor is Ballard eager to analyze himself. "I've thought about writing a memoir, but I'm not sure I could," he says. "Various people have approached me about a biography. But that would...
...Hunter,” “Harmonica,” “Kissing,” and “Guns in Rain”—tend to be compositionally simple, but not simplistic. Each ten-minute film frames one or more children in a static shot, employing live-action but preserving photographic boundaries. At first glance, it may be easy to dismiss Lockhart’s films as uninvolved, as not much “happens.” “What is this?” whispered a middle-aged visitor...
...note instruments, all powered by his Herculean circular breathing (meaning he rarely needs to come up for air). "He's constantly inventing new ways of playing the instrument," says Liza Lim, composer in residence at the Sydney Symphony. "It's such a great signal of Aboriginal culture not being static; of renewing, innovating and transforming...