Slamdance '19: DONS OF DISCO is an ItaloDisco Inferno!

Roni Rampant gets the Boogie Fever for DONS OF DISCO

Roni here,
Gather round, kiddies, while I tell you a tale of 80s Eurodisco and 90's indie filmmaking!

The Slamdance film festival, founded in the mid 90's, was always something of a Psychotronic middle finger to the more staid festival across the street, Sundance. With a punk rock sneer and a Gen X'ers sense of irony, Slamdance has long championed the truly independent, low budget, scrappy outsider artist. So it's in that spirit that I have been watching Slamdance screeners this week, over a Chromecast, from the comfort of my living room. (I've been to Park City. It's cold. There's a polar vortex out there. 'Nuff said.)
There's nothing I like better than falling down a weird musical rabbit hole, and DONS OF DISCO delivers everything you'd want from a Slamdance documentary on Eurodisco: irony, synth-and-fog 80's culture, and ultimately, a glimpse of the human condition.

DONS OF DISCO excavates a little-known (at least in America) corner of 80's Europop - ItaloDisco - by following the infighting between two halves of the ItaloDisco superstar act, Den Harrow. In the 80s, Den Harrow was beating out acts like Michael Jackson, George Michael and Duran Duran for top spots on the European pop charts. Virtually unknown here in the states, they were superstars in Europe, playing throughout discos in the West, and even in the USSR. Their biggest hits - “Future Brain,” “Bad Boy,” and “Don’t Break My Heart," are super catchy and synth-y, and accompanied by the kind of fog and fire-filled 80's music videos one would

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These pants are made with the world’s strongest material woven into its fabric – Graphene

There’s a high chance that the Omega pants will outlive the human race. Now I’m not being a pessimist, I’m just stating that these all-purpose pants come with the toughest ever material known to man woven into its fabric. With a lifetime warranty that should last long enough for it to be passed down multiple generations, the Omega pants were built to literally be worn forever, or quite possibly until the end-times… a little too stark? Maybe, but it drives the point home! Designed for practically any activity that requires pants, the Omega pants by Graphene-X come with a 3-layer fabric that isn’t just destruction-proof, it’s stretchable, waterproof, and has the ability to regulate your body’s temperature so you could potentially wear the same pair of pants while rock-climbing in the sun or on a skiing trip to a snow-capped peak. The pants’ fabric as well as its construction together help it juggle its different roles. Styled like a pair of all-purpose pants with removable leg-pieces, ...

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A lounge chair you can ‘lean on’

Remember the Ovini Balance Stool from last year? The Sway Chair is the Ovini’s bigger brother with a backrest! Designed to be a lounging chair that has the flexibility of perhaps the beanbag, KI’s Sway Chair comes with a hemispherical base that rests on a freely rotating and swiveling base that has 4 legs. The contact points between the seating area and the base have ball bearings concealed within them that allow you to lean forwards, backwards, or even sideways in the chair, choosing a position that’s comfortable for you. With a simple physical action, you can change the chair from a work-chair to a lounger to lean back and relax in. There’s a certain bit of resistance/friction too, which means the chair retains the position you set it in, rather than swinging willy-nilly. Oh, and this one, unlike the Ovini, also comes with a rather nifty backrest as well as an adjustable foot-stool! Designer: KI Yanko Design https://ift.tt/2y1jNWK September 28, 2018 at 09:02PM

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Contemporary Chinese Cinema: Shunji Iwai’s Letters from Shanghai

Contemporary Chinese Cinema is a column devoted to exploring contemporary Chinese-language cinema primarily as it is revealed to us at North American multiplexes. The sneakiest major release of the year is surely the latest from Japanese director Shunji Iwai, whose new movie opens this Friday at a dozen multiplexes around North America courtesy of the distributor China Lion Film. Last Letter is Iwai’s first film made in China, and stars Zhou Xun, who starred in one of last year’s best films, Ann Hui’s Our Time Will Come , which was also distributed here by China Lion. That he would be working in a new country is no surprise: Iwai is one of the more eclectic filmmakers of his generation: having started in TV and video in the early 90s before moving into film, he’s since made documentaries and music videos, science fiction films and anime, epics of modern alienation and ravishingly romantic odes to the wonders of youth and love. His last film, Chang-ok’s Letter , was an hour-long...

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