Who want to use today how far future. Deep blue dot com africanamerican city the making. Could turn. Hi there and a warm welcome to news from the world of arts and culture im karen homestead and coming up on todays show. In his most recent book american photographer Mitch Epstein gathers 5 decades worth of pictures that explore the pathologies and the promise of his homeland. And these might look tasty but youd end up with a mouthful of fluff because theyre the work of british artist Keith Jenkins who feasts instead of fashion. Well to see his movies is to be transported into a dreamscape to be surrounded by ideals of beauty only to realize one is hopelessly caught up in that vortex of observe chaos that is in fact every day life italian director. Dreams the big dreams with films like. And 8 and a half widely recognized as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time you would have been 100 years old on monday to take a moment to remember him. Maybe itll go to. His films were deeply personal visually stunning and as bizarre as life itself that illegal fellini would have turned 100 this year if you have had more influence over the art of cinema around the world organizations like the British Film Institute are celebrating 2020 as the year of fellini. When im not making movies fellini said i feel im not alive he won 5 oscars including a Lifetime Achievement award a year before he died. Last strada police 3rd film made him famous. Due to. Starring his wife and muse juliet a must see no. Word for the press following the suffix starlet played by anita expert. Marcelo must reality stood in for the director in films like 8 and a half playing a filmmaker struggling with an artistic crisis Martin Scorsese watches it every year the cinema was the stuff of dreams and nightmares but in films and life fellini never lost his sense of humor. Certainly didnt. Get here to talk more about the maestro of italian cinema is our film expert scott roxboro scott leaving is regarded as one of the all time greats hes absolutely a giant hes even spawned an adjective any ask what was it that made his films so special yes funny i mean that adjective fellini eskil we say that we mean sort of a scene or an image thats so bizarre so so strange hallucinatory it it almost feels like a dream and i think thats so the key to fellinis work he came from a realist tradition but he sort of left that and his his films have a real dreamlike quality about them yeah using fusing images that seem to sprout out of the deeper. Depths of the imagination and. I think thats sort of his greatest contribution to cinema because he showed that he recognized that cinema as a medium is really closest to the feeling of dreams but with his images a little to fight on task that while watching the film it feels real you know sort of like when youre in a dream it feels real wall while youre dreaming and that combination is sort of his his his sort of autobiographical elements they put in this film combined with the sort of fantastic imagery i think that is his greatest contribution sort of to the art of cinema ok so what kind of a man with you as you probably expect larger than life. On set his sets are sort of kicked completely chaotic he was more like a circus director than. Very very domineering but also sort of crazy and he apparently talk constantly using his hands he was italian of course even while he was driving he would just constantly be talking to this really interesting about it though as a filmmaker was he he never recorded sound on set he would have his actors just mouth and he sort of all dialogue make stuff up on the spot and then later in postproduction he would. Write dialogue and then dub them often using other actors to dub the the voices because he would say often and actors real voice doesnt match their face so interesting i he did have his critics as well i mean there are people who consider his film superficial aimless even for him is any of that justified you think i dont think so i think hes a really tremendous great director i think that interpretation of his work misunderstands what fellini was doing i mean he did sort of get rid of narrative in a lot of ways and was very fantastic in a sort of dreamlike imagery but it wasnt because he wanted to create fantasies he thought that version of reality is more realistic because his argument was like life is disjointed life is often surreal and bizarre it doesnt follow a straight linear narrative as you often see in films so his argument is basically life resembles of a lethal so how would you describe then he impact on cinema who has he. Who hasnt really i mean famously always tip his hat to fellini but i think if you look over some very recent directors is probably the most obvious assessor is another italian Polo Sorrentino who had the great beauty for example and that film is a direct inspiration its almost sort of just an update. For for the modern age you know its about you know social satire its a piece about extreme behavior i mean its incredibly fellini asked. On the other side you have something like. A robot which won the best director oscar in 20 last year and the way he uses imagery is a vocative of police early works even though grew up halfway around the world in mexico ok well obviously this will be a great occasion to watch these films again. Thanks very much for all of those insights. Well knitting and crocheting are all the rage again they were trendy already for last years summer fashion collections but many people are also taking a panty cross to help with stress and as a way out of social media something to do with your hands rather than endlessly texting well then theres kate jenkins who creates art with her crochet and knits and the results are almost good enough to eat. Tastefully arranged lovingly crafted and deceptively realistic jenkins baked goods always go down a treat at craft festivals but theyre not edible everything here is knitted or crocheted. So here im just finishing off my display of theyre pretty sweet guy so we have some kind of raising. Some danish pastries so its just kind of placing them in the right position so that they look as realistic as they possibly could on describing. Her kate spake stand serves up everything from the buns. To bagels and tarts. Jenkins creates her inventory in her studio on britains south coast where shes well known for her humorous food creations. She loves the sea and the local fresh fish both inspired her most successful solo exhibition to date a market stand full of seafood she also gets inspiration at her local bakery. Writes well how do i. Know i have also been taught raspberry and lemon marang tarts black berry mousse and all kinds of bread cake jenkins is always on the lookout for new models she can spend months working on a particular project her studio. Has yarn in every shade and thickness imaginable. Experiment with lots of Different Things so i found 2 yawns together achieved very realistic in fact quite quickly so by me choosing which color is to to mix together on the next machine i can then achieve the white effect for the bright. She uses a knitting machine from the 1960 s. It takes her 3 to 4 hours to make a loaf of bread. Crocheting the little pastries takes even longer. Crochet baked goods have one advantage over edible ones they dont always remain as fresh as the day they were made. And has spent the last 5 decades travelling around the United States on a photographic exploration of his homeland is the aim was always to confront the living organism of American Culture full on through multiple eras issues and individuals while his most recent book entitled Sunshine Hotel gathers 175 photos taken between 9692018 he says that book is a response to the times we live in to the provocation of the american president. The photos and Sunshine Hotel previously unpublished printed associate of lee rather than chronologically taken over 5 decades there are psychological portrait of a nation and an autobiography of the artist a socially critical observer Mitch Epstein was one of the 1st photographers to work in color. He captured the leisure activities of americans in the late 1970 s. A time when the countrys carefree abandon had given. Way to a vague sense of anxiety that within the american landscape there was a there was a room for that for that freedom. Of the pursuit of pleasure if you well you cant have that freedom when youre under the scrutiny of surveillance. And youre expending so much energy to secure your borders. The American Dream over in 2004 epstein the son of a jewish Furniture Store owner documented the demise of his fathers business. A familys ruin depicted as a parable of the structural transformation taking place in americas cities. A year later came Hurricane Katrina epstein captured the ecological disaster in all its apocalyptic beauty. Ever since white european settlers arrived a deep seated belief in a fundamental right to conquer land and exploit Natural Resources has been firmly anchored in the american psyche that has had fatal consequences for the environment for an open society and for the nation as a whole. Were coming from more their political era which was very dignified under obama by there was a kind of moral center a sense of whats right and wrong and the motivation to create a construct is truly democratic i think trouble represents the worst of america. And. It is capitalizing. They worst of america whose country is it epstein poses that question both in concrete terms and symbolic. And he documents protests on native american reservations. And upside down u. S. Flag as a symbol of resistance of preserving living space and civil rights his photos show that in this deeply divided country the future itself is at stake. Which epstein Sunshine Hotel is not an easy talk its the disturbingly beguiling legacy of a great artist who unabashedly takes sides. Very moving stuff indeed all without our time is up and dont forget about our website if you need to check in between programs and until the music and all the best from us here in berlin and. 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