Showing posts with label Potemkine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Potemkine. Show all posts

21 February 2023

Alguém faça a caridade de explicar ao sábio Júdice que a historieta das "aldeias à la Potemkine" por ele, hoje, na SIC-N, convictamente convertida numa linda história de amor entre Catarina, a Grandessíssima, e Grigory Potemkine, governador da Crimeia, é um "fake" histórico - divertido mas "fake"

02 November 2022

17 March 2022

02 March 2022

"The Road"   

(sequência daqui) É, por isso, inteiramente natural que a uma citação do Principezinho, de Saint-Exupéry, se siga outra de Mark Twain (“Some of the worst thing in my life never happened”), que daí se salte para as instalações de Realidade Virtual ou para o Lazzaretto Vecchio, em Veneza, primeira “ilha de quarentena” estabelecida em 1423 para o isolamento de leprosos e das vítimas da Peste Negra, ou que se evoque John Cage que passou muitas horas de deleite, nos bosques, dirigindo interpretações dos seus 4’33” de silêncio. É o próprio Cage – tal como Freud, Brian Eno ou Gertrude Stein - que nos fala pela voz da ventríloqua Laurie que, mais à frente, nos fará passar 2 minutos sob a queda de flores de cerejeira, nos apresentará a Isabella d’Este, "zen master" do Renascimento italiano, à "dérive" Situacionista de Guy Débord e aos jogos de ilusão de Alexandre Potemkine com Catarina a Grande, para, sem transição, comentar “Por falar em realidade, no Texas reabriu a época de caça. Desta vez, às mulheres grávidas”. Afinal, o que é uma história? “Tentar contar a história do fim do mundo é tão difícil como contar a do princípio. Há tantas versões da criação. Somos os primeiros humanos a enfrentar a possibilidade – alguns dizem a probabilidade – da nossa extinção. E somos os primeiros humanos a tentar encontrar as palavras para o dizer. Habitualmente, uma história é algo que contamos a alguém. Mas, se contamos uma história a ninguém, será ainda uma história?” (segue para aqui)

"The City"

12 July 2016

CZARINA


Os historiadores sérios são uns chatos. Incapazes de transigir perante a verdade dos factos, desmontam impiedosamente fantasias que nos alimentaram a imaginação durante anos. Imaginem o que é, por exemplo, ter acreditado piamente na existência das aldeias “à Potemkine” (verdadeiros cenários de teatro montados por Grigory Potemkine - governador da Crimeia e amante de Catarina, a Grande, da Rússia – para, à passagem da czarina por esse território recém-anexado mas ainda fracamente colonizado, a iludir acerca dessa falha) e descobrir que o estratagema das aldeias portáteis não foi senão um boato malicioso e injustamente exagerado? Não se faz. Neil Hannon, provavelmente, adepto da tese fordiana “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend”, pondo termo a seis anos de hiato discográfico, escolheu precisamente a lenda em torno da princesa alemã Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg, aliás, Yekaterina Alekseyevna ou Catarina II, imperatriz da Rússia, como "teaser" (canção e videoclip "starring" Elina Löwensohn, originária da tribo cinematográfica de Hal Hartley) para Foreverland, o álbum dos Divine Comedy a publicar em Setembro. 


E - assim se deseja e aplaude - o equilíbrio entre verdade e ficção é perfeito. Sob belíssima moldura orquestral-festivaleira, apresenta-nos a personagem: “Let's talk of Catherine the Great, let's talk of love and the power of the state, she was a crazy spontaneous girl, everyone paid homage to her”. Os académicos dificilmente concordarão com a qualificação de “crazy spontaneous” mas, embalados pela melodia que, entretanto, levantou voo, serão obrigados a render-se perante a rima de “brainier” com “Lithuania” (a propósito da relação com Stanislaw Poniatowski, outra das numerosas variáveis da sexualmente voraz Sophie Friederike, na resolução da equação “love vs power of the state”): “There were few brainier, just ask the king of Lithuania, she could dictate what went on anywhere, she had great hair, and a powerful gait, Catherine the Great”. O biógrafo está tão indisfarçavelmente apaixonado (“With her military might, she could defeat anyone that she liked, and she looked so bloody good on a horse, they couldn't wait for her to invade, if I could touch but the hem of her dress, tell her a joke, bake her a cake, Catherine the Great...”) que - adivinha-se -, em sonhos, se imagina nos braços da condessa Praskovya Aleksandrovna Bruce, "l'éprouveuse" dos candidatos ao leito imperial. E, sim, isto é verdade! 

17 September 2013

O processo de desgraffitização urbana lisboeta, à beira de eleições autárquicas, segue uma estratégia rigorosamente "à la Potemkine" (coisa, aliás, já ensaiada, diversas vezes, anteriormente): artérias principais limpas de toda a mácula; transversais e ruas secundárias, um dia há-de pensar-se nisso

12 December 2012

"O'Bannon introduced [Ridley] Scott to the artwork of H. R. Giger; both of them felt that his painting Necronom IV was the type of representation they wanted for the film's [Alien] antagonist and began asking the studio to hire him as a designer". 




"The design of the 'chestburster' was inspired by Francis Bacon's 1944 painting Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion"



23 September 2010

DIZ QUE É UMA ESPÉCIE DE PLANO TECNOLÓGICO (III)
(ou as aldeias-Potemkine)



Escola premiada pela Microsoft fechou: "A EB1 de Várzea de Abrunhais (Lamego) que, no ano passado, foi escolhida pela Microsoft para integrar a rede mundial de escolas inovadoras, fechou as portas. Os 32 alunos (...) foram transferidos para um centro escolar onde não há telefone nem Internet. (...) A maioria dos alunos deste centro escolar já não tem os computadores ou ainda tem, mas de tal modo deteriorados * que se tornaram irrecuperáveis".

* custa imenso a crer, o Magalhães é indestrutível...

(2010)

21 April 2007

O CERCO POLITICAMENTE CORRECTO (continuação):

Bryan Ferry's Nazi gaffe


Olympia (real. Leni Riefenstahl, 1938)

"My God, the Nazis knew how to put themselves in the limelight... Leni Riefenstahl's movies, Albert Speer's buildings, the mass parades and the flags - just amazing. Really beautiful" (Bryan Ferry in "Welt Am Sonntag")

When Marks & Spencer recruited singer Bryan Ferry to be the face of its menswear collection, it believed his reputation as rock's "king of cool" would help them to boost sales.
But customers and management of the retailer, founded by Russian-Jewish refugees, will be alarmed to learn that the elegant singer has admitted he draws inspiration from the aesthetics of Nazi Germany.
Ferry, the lead singer of Roxy Music, has caused outrage at home and abroad for remarks he made to a German newspaper about his admiration for the work of Leni Riefenstahl, notorious for her Nazi propaganda films, and the architecture of Albert Speer.


Outubro (real. Sergei Eisenstein, 1927)

In an interview with "Welt am Sonntag", the 61-year-old also acknowledged that he calls his studio in west London his "Führerbunker". "My God, the Nazis knew how to put themselves in the limelight and present themselves," he said. "Leni Riefenstahl's movies and Albert Speer's buildings and the mass parades and the flags - just amazing. Really beautiful".
One German correspondent on the website of "Freundin", a German women's magazine, writes: "This can't be called intellectual humour and it tests even my tolerance when you hear such stupid, crazy and dangerous waffling."
The Labour peer and former war crimes investigator Greville Janner said: "It is deeply offensive when people think they can joke about the Nazis. Riefenstahl was part of the Nazi movement and the Nazis were murderers. And the mass parades he refers to make me vomit. Marks & Spencer should have a serious rethink about employing him".


O Destacamento Vermelho Feminino (Ópera de Pequim, 1964)

Nick Viner, chief executive of the Jewish Community Centre for London, said that Ferry's remarks were "ill-conceived" and "left a bad taste in the mouth".
"Riefenstahl was responsible for sending people to their deaths. There is a fine line between people going about their business and people colluding in truly terrible behaviour".
Ferry's manager dismissed the protests as "absurd". "To take offence here is to confuse the aesthetic with the ideological," Steven Howard said. "To suggest that a certain appreciation of art and architecture that happens to be associated with the Nazi regime means condoning the actions of that regime is illogical". ("The Independent Online" 15.04.07)


O Couraçado Potemkine (real. Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)

Ferry apologises for Nazi remarks

Singer Bryan Ferry has apologised for an interview in which he praised the iconography of the Nazi party. The UK star is reported to have told a German newspaper that the "mass marches and the flags" of Hitler's regime were "just fantastic - really beautiful". Jewish leaders in Britain condemned the comments, and called for Marks and Spencer to drop Ferry as a model. "I apologise unreservedly," the singer said in a statement, adding he found the Nazi regime "evil and abhorrent".
According to press reports, the 61-year-old told the "Welt Am Sonntag" newspaper last month: "The way that the Nazis staged themselves and presented themselves, my Lord! I'm talking about the films of Leni Riefenstahl and the buildings of Albert Speer and the mass marches and the flags. Just fantastic - really beautiful".


Olympia (real. Leni Riefenstahl, 1938)

(...) In a statement released on his behalf, Ferry said he was "deeply upset" by the publicity surrounding the interview. "I apologise unreservedly for any offence caused by my comments on Nazi iconography, which were solely made from an art history perspective," he said. "I, like every right-minded individual, find the Nazi regime, and all it stood for, evil and abhorrent".
"We do welcome the fact that he has issued a swift comment that there was no intention to condone the Nazi regime," said Jeremy Newmark, chief executive of the Jewish Leadership Council.
"Nevertheless, his choice of language was deeply insensitive", he added.
Lord Greville Janner, vice-president of the World Jewish Congress, told Reuters news agency: "His apology was total, appropriate and absolutely necessary. I hope that he will never make the same mistake again". (BBC News 16.04.07) (2007)