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December 27 SERGEI APARIN - FORCE OF ILLUSION Sergei Aparin
enigmatic, metaphysical, fantastic painting, surrealism, fiction, dream, figuration, magical, mystical, sub-consciousness, paradoxical metamorphosis, metaphoric discourse...
The photographic realism of Sergei Aparin’s pictorial style, makes the sensational and visionary In his paintings the sense of death and the feeling of anguishby space and time are suspended in a sort As Dalì before him, Aparin becomes Classical, finding his inspiration in Renaissance painting, “Keeper of Time”, “Emperor of the Imaginary”, he is crowned by two ram heads laid on top Presentation by Mauro Nobilini, 2006         October 08 SEDAM I POSINOPSIS
Miroslav Momčilović
NAGRADE:
NOVOSTI Internacionalni festival mediteranskog filma koji se održava u francuskom gradu Monpeljeu, uputio je poziv producentima filma “Sedam i po”, na čelu sa rediteljem i scenaristom Miroslavom Momčilovićem, za učešće na ovom festivalu. October 03 INTIMNOST - Fragmenti HANIF KUREJŠI
Pokušavam da ubedim sebe da napustiti nekoga nije nešto najgore što toj osobi možeš da učiniš. Može biti neveselo, ali ne mora baš da bude tragedija. Ako nikada ništa ili nikoga ne ostaviš, neće biti prostora ni zašta novo. Naravno, nastaviti sa životom je nevernost - prema drugima, prema prošlosti, prema starim shvatanjima o sebi. Možda bi u svakom danu trebalo da se desi neko pravo neverstvo ili neophodna izdaja. Bio bi to čin optimizma, nade, koji jemči veru u budućnost - potvrda da stvari ne samo što mogu da budu drugačije, nego i bolje.
Zbog toga menjam Suzan, moju decu, kuću i baštu punu biljaka marihuane i rascvetalih trešanja u koje gledam kroz prozor od kupatila, za kutak kod Viktora u kojem će biti promaje i prašine po podu.
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Ljudi ne vole da previše uživaš, smatraju da to ne valja za tebe. Možeš da počneš da priželjkuješ to sve vreme. Kako je nemirna želja! Taj đavo nikad ne spava i nema mira. Želja je bezobrazna i nije u skladu sa našim idealima, zbog čega su nam upravo toliko i potrebni. Želja se ruga svim ljudskim težnjama i čini ih vrednim. Želja je prvobitni anarhista i tajni agent - nije čudo što ljudi žele da je zarobe i drže na sigurnom. I baš kad pomislimo da smo podjarmili želju, ona nas izneveri ili nas ispuni nadom. Želja me zasmejava zato što pravi budalu od svih nas. Pa ipak, bolje biti budala, nego fašista.
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Čovek greši, zanosi se na stranputicu, skreće sa pravog puta. Kad bi mogao da posmatra svoj bedni napredak kao eksperiment, bez želje za nemogućom sigurnošću - ništa zanimljivo ne dešava se bez drskosti - možda bi mogao da postigne nekakav mir.
Naravno, može da eksperimentiše sa sopstvenim životom. Možda to ne bi trebalo raditi sa životima drugih ljudi. ....
HANIF KUREJŠI, odlomci iz romana INTIMNOST
" Priča nam sugeriše da prazninu koja nastaje ispraznim življenjem ne može nadomestiti prolazna strast, baš kao što se njome ne može ostvariti i postići suštinska intimnost "
September 28 CHAVELA VARGAS
Chavela Vargas
Rodjena 1919. godine u Kosta Riki, Chavela Vargas, kao dete oboljeva od jedne vrste decje paralize, ceste u tropskim krajevima, poliomijelitisa i privremenog slepila. Tvrdila je da su je izlecili samani. Sa 14 godina odlazi u Meksiko i pocinje da peva na ulicama, ali se profesionalno nije bavila pevanjem sve do sredine 50-tih kada je vec bila u tridesetim godinama. Kretala se u krugovima najpoznatijih meksickih intelektualaca i umetnika toga vremena, ukljucujuci i Dijega Riveru i Luisa Eceveria Alvareza, predsednika Meksika (1970-76). Ali, njeno najpoznatije prijateljstvo je bilo sa biseksualnom slikarkom Fridom Kalo: "Kada sam ugledala Fridino lice, njene oci, cinilo se kao da potice iz drugoga sveta. Osetila sam da mogu voleti to bice najcistijom ljubavlju na svetu".
Saradjujuci sa Hose Alfredo Himenezom, Vargasova snima svoj prvi album 1961. godine, Noche Bohemia i od tada je snimila preko 80 albuma tokom karijere. U svojim nastupima, Vargasova oblaci tradicionalanu musku odecu gaucosa, i otvoreno zavodi zene u publici izvodeci izvorne meksicke folk pesme rancera, koje pevaju muskarci.
Chavela je takodje poznata i po svom teskom opijanju. Alkoholizam je bio uzrok njenog dugogodisnjeg povlacenja sa scene tokom kasnih sedamdesetih. U 2000. godini Chavela objasnjava: "Kupim nov auto u petak, a vec u ponedeljak vise nista nije ostalo od njega. Napijem se, odem da pevam na ulici i zakasnim na show. Uglavnom sam pila sam tekilu. Propila sam sve sto sam ikada imala. To je razlog zasto nisam ostavila nista iza sebe."
Tokom njenog povlacenja, Vargasova je nastavljala da na mahove ucestvuje u kabareima, zadivljujuci gej populaciju. Uprkos kratkom povratku ranih '80.tih, presudan uticaj na njenu karijeru imao je poziv Pedra Almodovara za film "Visoke potpetice", da snimi muziku, '91.god. i od tog momenta njena karijera potpuno ozivljava, saradjujuci sa Almodovarom i na drugim njegovim filmovima. Godine 1993. ulazi u studio i snima nov materijal, po prvi put nakon desetak godina. Koncert u Madridu, te iste godine, pocela je recima o strasti prema muzici, izjasnjavajuci se: "Kada volite nesto, to bi onda trebalo da radite svu noc". Nakon ovog koncerta odrzala je znacajne koncerte u Mexico City-ju, Floridi kao i sirom sveta.
Sve do 2000.te godine, dok se nije ponovo pocela pojavljivati na javnoj sceni, dugo je bila ikona Latino lezbijki koje su rasle slusajuci njene interpretacije tradicionalne gaucho muzike, cineci te ljubavne pesme prihvatljivima gej populaciji. U svom eseju, Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, profesor na Stanford University, objasnjava: "Zbog javnog priznanja svoje seksualne orjentacije, kao lezbijke, Chavela Vargas odredjuje ili rusi polne, rodovne odrednice u najpopularnijim meksikanskim pesmama, cak i onda, kada osvetljava koliko je nemoguce pojmiti identitet i zudnju lezbijke Meksikanke - Cikane, koja se nalazi kompletno izvan tih kulturalno svojstvenih imaginacija o muskarcu i o zeni; o muzevnosti i o zenstvenosti."
Sada, u 84.toj godini zivota, Chavela Vargas ima svoj dom u Verakruzu, Meksiko i dalje gaji ljubav prema pistoljima, cuvajuci magnum u kuci koristeci ga kao upozorenje da zaplasi divlje zivotinje. "Pucam jedino u vazduh, kada nocu cujem buku, tako da znaju da ovde ima nekoga. Ali, kada sam bila mlada i pijana, pucala sam u svim pravcima." rekla za The New York Times, 2003.
Upitana da li se kaje zbog svojih godina alkoholizma i teskog zivota, odgovorila je da se ne kaje, izjavljujuci: "Bila sam ja, i zivela sam."
Diskografija
Piensa en mí, 1991 Boleros, 1991 Sentimiento de México (vol. 1), 1995 De México y del mundo, 1995 Le canta a México, 1995 Volver, volver, 1996 Dos, 1996 Grandes Momentos, 1996 Macorina, 1996 Colección de Oro, 1999 Con la rondalla del amor de Saltillo, 2000 Para perder la cabeza, 2000 Las 15 grandes de Chavela Vargas, 2000 Grandes éxitos, 2002 Para toda la vida, 2002 Discografía básica, 2002 Antología, 2004 Somos, 2004 En Carnegie Hall, 2004 La Llorona, 2004 BIOGRAPHY
Born in Costa Rica in 1919, Vargas suffered from polio and blindness as a child, and has claimed that she was cured by shamans—a fitting beginning for someone who eventually became one of Mexico’s best-known and best-loved singing legends. Although she went to Mexico when she was fourteen and often sang in the streets, she did not begin singing professionally until the mid-1950s, when she was in her thirties.
She was associated with Mexico’s well-known intellectuals of the time, including Diego Rivera and Luis Echeverría who went on to be President of Mexico from 1970-76. But her most well-known relationship was with bisexual artist Frida Kahlo, who was most recently portrayed by Salma Hayek in the critically acclaimed Frida. “When I saw [Frida’s] face, her eyes,” Vargas says on the film’s DVD, “it seemed like she was from another world…I sensed I could love that being with the most pure love in the world.”
Working with José Alfredo Jiménez, Vargas released her first album in 1961, Noche Bohemia (Bohemian Night), and has recorded over 80 albums throughout her career. In her performances, Vargas dressed in traditionally masculine clothing and openly seduced women in the audience with Mexican folksongs—ranchera music—originally intended to be sung by men. Her album covers didn’t shy away from her butch persona, and often featured her wearing traditional men’s clothing.
“La Chavela” was also known for her hard drinking and womanizing ways. Her alcoholism eventually forced her into a semi-retirement in the late 1970s that lasted for about a dozen years. In 2000 Vargas explained, “I'd get a new car on Friday and by Monday I had nothing left; I'd get drunk and go sing on the streets and be late for the show. I used to drink tequila. I drank everything I ever owned. That's why I left nothing over there.”
During her retirement, Vargas continued to perform intermittently at cabarets, building up a devoted following among gay men. Despite a brief comeback in the early 1980s, it was not until filmmaker Pedro Almodovar asked her to record a song for his film Tacones Lejanos in 1991 that her career fully revived. In 1993 she returned to the studio to record new material for the first time in decades.
She opened her Madrid concert that year with a double entendre about her musical passions, declaring, “When you like something, you should do it all night long.”
In 2000 Vargas performed for an audience of 20,000 in Mexico City’s main square, the Zócalo, and in 2002 she played the part of Death in Frida, singing the traditional song “La Llorona” (“The Weeping Woman”). In 2003, at age 83, Vargas made her Carnegie Hall debut, and was introduced to the appreciative audience by Salma Hayek.
Although Vargas didn’t come out publicly in 2000, she has long been an icon for Latina lesbians who grew up listening to her reinterpret traditional ranchera music, making those well-loved songs accessible to lesbians. In her essay “Crossing the Border with Chavela Vargas: A Chicana Femme's Tribute,” Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, a professor of Chicana Studies at Stanford University, explained, “Because of her public sexual positioning as a lesbian, Chavela Vargas appropriates or undermines many of the gendered subject positions in Mexican popular songs, even as she illuminates how impossible it is to conceive of the Mexican/Chicana lesbian identities and desires completely outside these culturally specific imaginings about men and women, masculinity and femininity.”
Now 84 years old, Vargas makes her home in Veracruz, Mexico and still retains a love for guns, keeping a Magnum in her house that she uses to warn away animals. “I only shoot in the air when I hear a noise at night, so that they know there's someone here,” Vargas insisted to The New York Times in 2003. “But when I was young and drunk, I'd shoot in every direction.”
Asked if she regretted her years of alcoholism and hard living, Vargas replied that she had no regrets, stating, “I was me and I lived.”
September 26 BAG OF SEMTEX FROM KOSOVO MAFIAWE BUY BAG OF SEMTEX FROM TERRORISTS
Dec 7 2003 By Graham Johnson Investigations Editor A TERRIFYING threat to Britain's security can today be revealed by the Sunday Mirror. Last night one of the men we dealt with was under arrest. The other was believed to have been assassinated by his own terror masters for blowing their cover. Our 13.5kg haul of Semtex - in 108 sticks - is one of the biggest ever seized from terrorists and could have potentially armed 30 suicide bombers. And chillingly the explosive, which we bought for £10,000, was of a form that doesn't show up on metal detectors, making it much easier to smuggle into Britain. A small amount of the explosive was allegedly found here last week as police arrested more than 20 terror suspects. We made our deal in Kosovo, a breeding ground for fanatics with al-Qaeda links. Our contact was the deputy commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) Niam Behljulji, known as Hulji. The group were trained by Bin Laden's men. Astonishingly, we met him under the noses of the British Army and UN forces - who remain as peacekeepers following Kosovo's bloody war with Serbia. Hulji, is said to supply terrorists across Europe and has been accused of massacring Serbian women and children during the war. He even posed grinning for a photograph, holding the severed head of one his victims. But we won him over by playing on one of his weaknesses...he is a huge fan of Irish rock band U2. He couldn't wait to deal with us when we promised him one of the band's CDs - which we had signed with a fake message from lead singer Bono. He told us: "I can give you enough Semtex for a small war. Do you need it for terrorism?" Our investigation, carried out with Channel 5 sleuth Donal MacIntyre for his series MacIntyre's Millions, began when we arrived in Kosovo posing as members of the Real IRA. Our first contact was with a Mafia arms dealer called Sinbad Sadkutz, who acts as a middleman for Hulji. Sadkutz arranged a meeting with Hulji in a KLA-run cafe which was surrounded by armed guards and had been swept for "bugs". Hulji said: "The plastics (Semtex) is the old type. No metal strips inside. It cannot be detected at airports. It is untraceable - no chemical markers." He then offered us an anti-aircraft gun similar to one used by Iraqi dissidents last week to hit a US DHL cargo plane as it landed in Baghdad. We next met Sadkutz in a Mafia-run brothel called The Massage Club, and agreed to buy 15kg of Semtex for £10,000. To make sure the deal went through smoothly, Hulji insisted that we hand over a "human deposit" hostage and £7,500 in euros. Our "deposit" was my fellow investigator Dominic Hipkins. He was to be held in a terrorist-owned bungalow - opposite the British ambassador's residence in Pristina - while the deal was sorted out. Four days later Sadkutz took our man to collect the Semtex from his nearby home and the pair returned to the bungalow, the explosives packed into a sports holdall. The grey-brown Semtex, wrapped in brown grease-proof paper marked "explosive", looked and felt like child's play dough. But when burnt with a lighter it produced an intense blue flame - proving it was Semtex. As a Sunday Mirror investigator tested the explosive, Sadkutz grinned as he said: "15kgs can blow up all this neighbourhood." After Sadkutz had left, we found the KLA had hidden 1.5kg of lead in the lining of the bag so that the actual Semtex weighed 13.5kg, instead of the 15kg we had negotiated for. For safekeeping, our investigators buried the Semtex on a hill overlooking the British Army base in Kosovo and took a satellite reading of the exact position. We then told the British Police in Kosovo, part of the UN presence there, exactly were it was. It was later retrieved by a our investigators and a Finnish bomb disposal squad - who told us the hill had been mined during the war. Following our investigation, with the whole country on red alert, 12 local policemen were arrested on terrorist charges. The officers, said to be members of a secret cell aiding Kosovan extremists, are suspected of plotting to blow up a bridge and a power station. Sadkutz was arrested on Thursday by British police operating in Kosovo. And there were strong rumours last night that Hulji had been assassinated for compromising the KLA's terror operations. But the KLA were not the only group interested in selling terrorist weapons. While we were in the Balkans word had quickly spread that the Real IRA wanted to buy weapons. In neighbouring Croatia we bought a machine gun and a Walther PPK pistol. In Belgrade, the capital of nearby Serbia, the local Mafia emailed us to offer a cache of anti-tank missiles, Kalashnikovs, a mortar and illegal landmines for £50,000. And in neighbouring Montenegro, on the Adriatic coast's version of the Costa Del Crime, another war criminal was selling death on an industrial scale. The man, known as Vesko - a former bodyguard of Serbian warlord Arkan - offered to supply us with 20 rocket-propelled grenades, 20 shoulder-fired missiles and 20 Spider machine guns used by the SAS. To return to Britain, our investigators followed the route used by gun-runners out of the Balkans. We drove the short distance into Montenegro then sailed by car ferry from Bar to the Italian port of Ancona, blending in with holiday makers. Once there they flew home - but could have easily taken a coach through Italy and France to Calais or hidden among thousands of asylum seekers hitching rides on fruit lorries and train carriages. Last night a spokesman for Scotland Yard said: "Britain is on a high state of alert, only one below the highest level. "That means we know the terrorists are planning to attack targets in the UK." MacIntyre's Millions: Semtex For Sale, Channel Five, 9pm, December 17. (c) Sunday Mirror 2003 * Posted for educational use only.
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