For Leemeijer, however, the promise has already done its job even before it has been redeemed, even before the encounter with it takes place, even before she has shown the most beautiful thing she knows.
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'How much do you need to pay to experience this beautiful landscape printed on the bank note?' Visiting the Li River in China, Lin confronts her own experience with a collection of Youtube tourist videos.
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Yet the film cannot be finished and the leftovers of all their different narrative approaches begin to form a whole new set of beautiful, isolated and disfunctional events." (e-mail message from Lothar Hempel to Liam Gillick, March 1997)
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A wood panel of Mary in Geneva received similar precise treatment: the faces of both the Virgin and the Child have been carefully chiselled away exactly within their contours, so Mary?s luxuriantly curling hair has been beautifully spared.
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Just as, during the mid sixties, Stanley Brouwn asked passersby to show him the way by drawing this on paper for him (This Way Brouwn) and thus prompted them to imagine the streets used by them every day, Leemeijer asks one to picture the most beautiful thing one knows.
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Young and beautiful, separate but connected by mobile phone, even in the pool, to the outside world; the pictures look staged, but once again Nouwens has simply recorded what is there, in this case the secure, exclusive and excluding 'we belong to each other' private-public world of gilded Los Angeles youth.
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De Rijke / De Rooij indulge in mise-en-scène, too: the men in Of Three Men are placed in a mosque and the building is then carefully spotlit so as to produce a beautiful composition, while the choice of the entrance to the shanty town in Bantar Gebang implies a clear decision as to what will ‘happen’ in the picture.
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Past, present and future merge in this beautiful, poetic film and implicitly raise questions posed by the American Department of Interior, Fish and Wildlife’s takeover of the island: who will be responsible for cleaning up polluted waters, for the people made ill by contamination, and what will Vieques be used for next?
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