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Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock? (2006)
The subjective authentication methodology of provenancing art would be invalidated if the forensic authentication of this painting is accepted.
"Who The #$&% is Jackson Pollock?" is a powerful indictment of the art establishment. It challenges and exposes established and esteemed art valuators and dealers as amateurs and incompetents.
Forensics, the same techniques which are used to provide investigate and provide evidence for criminal prosecutions, proves the authenticity of the thrift store bought Jackson Pollock painting. Comparative analysis of paint chips, photographs, fingerprints, etc., which provided irrefutable proof of the painting's authenticity is absurdly rejected by esteemed art valuators who rely on subjective opinion and often questionable historical provenance. The pretentious Illuminati of the art world won't accept the forensic authentication of the painting because it proves that their subjective methodology of provenancing and valuating art is fraudulent.
Haack ...The King of Techno (2004)
Producer and director should be ashamed of themselves for such a poorly produced documentary.
I was greatly disappointed by the quality of this documentary. The content is poorly produced, very poor quality video and, especially awful audio. There's extremely little about how Bruce Haack produced his music and virtually no examples of direct connection to later and contemporary electronic music. The interviews of people who knew Bruce Haack are ad-hoc mostly inarticulate mumbo-jumbo. Too much yak and not enough Haack. Although I have a serious personal interest in electronic music and have a higher than average attention span, even for slow and/or difficult subject matter, I fell asleep while watching this documentary and had to review it to see the parts I slept through. If you watch this, make sure that you are set up, before viewing, like Alex in A Clockwork Orange. Bruce Haack deserves much better than this. Shame on the producer and director.
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
It is almost the 4th of July 2005, this movie's important message is applicable to Iraq.
I am a Canadian and I grew up during the Vietnam war. In the media, I read and saw it as it happened and also personally knew Vets, C.Os, dodgers, deserters; they all had their reasons for doing what they did and all suffered in their hearts and minds and it nearly tore America apart. The Vietnam war was a tragedy and Oliver Stone's film portrayed it in a very important way which should have made everyone very reluctant to pursue a similar military conflict. Now, many years after the war in Vietnam, the world is experiencing the war in Iraq (In spite of what Bush says, it's still an ongoing war). The message in Born on the Fourth of July needs to be retold, either by re-releasing the film or newly made to relate to Iraq. Although I am not an American (some of my family are and one of my brothers and his family has emigrated to the U.S.), every day I think about the agony and misery that Americans are going through in Iraq and in the U.S. for a war which is supposed to be about liberation and democracy but has turned out to be otherwise. I think about the U.S. soldiers and civilians who support them who are endangered, killed, and we must never ignore or forget the psychologically and physically wounded who will have to live with the terrible consequences of their experiences. Born on the Fourth of July resonates into the present.
Alligator Shoes (1981)
I worked on this film. Clay Borris was way ahead of his time when he made Alligator Shoes.
I did the sound recording for Alligator Shoes.
While a teenager, Clay Borris began writing and making films about his own, his family's, and his friends experiences while he was growing up in a poor east-end Toronto neighbourhood known as 'Cabbagetown'.
Clay Borris's family is very interesting. Clay's French speaking Acadian parents came from a very impoverished and poorly educated background in east coast Canada and moved to east-end Toronto in search of a better life for themselves and their children. Clay, his family, and their friends did what was necessary to try and succeed on the mean streets of Toronto. His mother, Rose, ran their home as a boarding house. His father, Albert, who was illiterate, taught himself to be an excellent auto mechanic and earned a Class A Journeyman Mechanic's license without any formal training. His friends earned money through scalping hockey tickets at Maple Leaf Gardens, and other similar activities (some very illegal).
In telling the stories about himself, his family, and friends, and using them in his films (Rose's House, Paper Boy, Alligator Shoes), I think he was well ahead of his time. In 1981, Alligator Shoes was recognized for its importance by film critics at Cannes and elsewhere but the public didn't "get it" until recently as evidenced by the popularity of 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' and 'Reality TV. Recent films such as 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' and 'Reality' TV are very similar to the Mise-en-scene of Alligator Shoes. Unfortunately Clay Borris hasn't been given the credit for his insight and vision. View his films 'Rose's House', 'Paper Boy', and Alligator Shoes and think of its 'reality' context and you will understand.
Clay, if you read this, get back to your roots. B.R.