{"id":253386,"date":"2007-07-27T19:18:34","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T19:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/07\/27\/ubuweb-has-damn-cool-stuff\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:38:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:38:58","slug":"ubuweb-has-damn-cool-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/07\/27\/ubuweb-has-damn-cool-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"UbuWeb Has Damn Cool Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

I regret not exploring UbuWeb<\/a> more in the past. . . . In addition to their new streaming audio feed, today there’s a post about Salvador Dali’s Impressions de la haute Mongolie. Hommage a Raymond Roussel (1974-75)<\/i> complete with full video. <\/p>\n

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The “videograf\u00eda”, written in collaboration with its director Jos\u00e9 Montes Baquer and produced with Sony-Cologne and WDR<\/span>, narrates the exploration of Dal\u00ed to the remote land of Mongolia in search of the Great White Mushroom. Salvador Dal\u00ed, a consummate expert in media manipulation, invites the spectator to become his accomplice and partner in what it seems a drug-induced “trip” to a faraway and distant land where wonderful treasures are hidden. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And the literary connection?<\/p>\n

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The homage that Dal\u00ed pays to himself in the film is made extensive to the figure of his beloved Raymond Roussel (1877-1933), the author of Locus Solus (1914) and Nouvelle Impressions d’Afrique (1932) whose homonymic puns where so celebrated by the Surrealists, and are the base for Dali’s explorations of the double-image and the macro\/micro reality on which his own impressions are based.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Although U.S. distribution for Calder books is a totally crapshoot, it looks like you can order Roussel’s Impressions of Africa<\/i><\/a> and maybe Locus Solus<\/i> online or from your local bookseller. Shouldn’t have any problems getting How I Wrote Certain of My Books<\/i> from Exact Change, and really, you should buy and read all three. He was one of the best . . . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I regret not exploring UbuWeb more in the past. . . . In addition to their new streaming audio feed, today there’s a post about Salvador Dali’s Impressions de la haute Mongolie. Hommage a Raymond Roussel (1974-75) complete with full video. The “videograf\u00eda”, written in collaboration with its director Jos\u00e9 Montes Baquer and produced with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[2316,2296],"class_list":["post-253386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-raymond-roussel","tag-ubuweb"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364026,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253386\/revisions\/364026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}