Scott Noble's new film, "Human Resources"

[stefano]

I can't torrent from that link... the tracker tells me "No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it." Anything I should be doing differently?

[ilyinternet]

I can't torrent from that link... the tracker tells me "No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it." Anything I should be doing differently?

Try uTorrent if you aren't already using it: http://www.utorrent.com/downloads

Alternatively just download the film from http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FC6BGEOM

[stefano]

Thanks - I'm running BitTorrent, think that's more or less the same thing, and I can't get a big file by direct download as my connection keeps dropping them... I've got one tracker on the file called http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce, and it hasn't established any connections yet. I'll start over.

edit- it works after I got the torrent again and restarted, I still have that odd message but it's found me peers through peer exchange despite that, I didn't think that would be possible. Anyway downloading now.

[Wombaticus Rex]

Cool. Pirate Bay has been having a rough week, that was a bad choice on my part...it was just the only tracker url I knew offhand. I was only online, what more could I do, you know? I've got 2 seed computers up and running today for a website gig, so despite my shitty AT&T internets it should be working fine all day.

[82_28]

Damn fine film. I watched 3/4ths of it last night before I fell asleep. Gonna watch the rest and/or the whole thing again today. Managed to send off a link to it to a number of people before I succumbed to unconsciousness. I think it's must see viewing.

[matrixdutch]

Thank you for this MacCruiskeen. I just finished watching this and it was quite powerful.

Damn I love this place!

[Fresno_Layshaft]

It's a pretty good video. Its not really any better than any number of YouTube™ "Films" out there, but still well worth a viewing. The pacing is a little slow and some of the archival footage feels like its just a place holder for the VO. Needs a little polish, it looks and sounds like an offline edit. Still, a good effort.

[MacCruiskeen]

I thought I might be doing Adam Curtis an injustice, so I took a look at his treatment of Wilhelm Reich in The Century of the Self again.

Adam Curtis is a smug middle-class middlebrow know-nothing brute with a crafty eye for what will sell dependably to smug middle-class middlebrow know-nothing brutes. His film is a moral and intellectual disgrace.

PS This may seem trivial but it's not: Just as he doesn't even bother his arse to pronounce R.D. Laing's name properly (it's Layng, not Lang, you pillock), so Reich becomes "Ryke" while Curtis lies blithely about him against a background of "quirky" "imaginative" "imagery".

[matrixdutch]

I thought I might be doing Adam Curtis an injustice, so I took a look at his treatment of Wilhelm Reich in The Century of the Self again.

Adam Curtis is a smug middle-class middlebrow know-nothing brute with a crafty eye for what will sell dependably to smug middle-class middlebrow know-nothing brutes. His film is a moral and intellectual disgrace.

I saw that film some years ago and remember liking it. Was there something I missed?

[Fresno_Layshaft]

I thought I might be doing Adam Curtis an injustice, so I took a look at his treatment of Wilhelm Reich in The Century of the Self again.

Adam Curtis is a smug middle-class middlebrow know-nothing brute with a crafty eye for what will sell dependably to smug middle-class middlebrow know-nothing brutes. His film is a moral and intellectual disgrace.

I saw that film some years ago and remember liking it. Was there something I missed?

If you're on a high horse, you can miss things, apparently.

PS I am referring to MacC's high horse, not yours, and I'm doing it with a tiny font to make it "quirky".

[nathan28]

I thought I might be doing Adam Curtis an injustice, so I took a look at his treatment of Wilhelm Reich in The Century of the Self again.

Adam Curtis is a smug middle-class middlebrow know-nothing brute with a crafty eye for what will sell dependably to smug middle-class middlebrow know-nothing brutes. His film is a moral and intellectual disgrace.

PS This may seem trivial but it's not: Just as he doesn't even bother his arse to pronounce R.D. Laing's name properly (it's Layng, not Lang, you pillock), so Reich becomes "Ryke" while Curtis lies blithely about him against a background of "quirky" "imaginative" "imagery".

So, what'd you think of WR: Mysteries of the Organism?

[matrixdutch]

I thought I might be doing Adam Curtis an injustice, so I took a look at his treatment of Wilhelm Reich in The Century of the Self again.

Adam Curtis is a smug middle-class middlebrow know-nothing brute with a crafty eye for what will sell dependably to smug middle-class middlebrow know-nothing brutes. His film is a moral and intellectual disgrace.

I saw that film some years ago and remember liking it. Was there something I missed?

If you're on a high horse, you can miss things, apparently.

PS I am referring to MacC's high horse, not yours, and I'm doing it with a tiny font to make it "quirky".

I don't think I'm on a high horse lol. What exactly didn't you like about it?

[MacCruiskeen]

I thought I might be doing Adam Curtis an injustice, so I took a look at his treatment of Wilhelm Reich in The Century of the Self again.

Adam Curtis is a smug middle-class middlebrow know-nothing brute with a crafty eye for what will sell dependably to smug middle-class middlebrow know-nothing brutes. His film is a moral and intellectual disgrace.

I saw that film some years ago and remember liking it. Was there something I missed?

If you're on a high horse, you can miss things, apparently.

PS I am referring to MacC's high horse, not yours, and I'm doing it with a tiny font to make it "quirky".

Yes, I am on a high horse. And when I find Mr. Curtis, I promise I won't miss him.


Me.

"I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it."

[MacCruiskeen]

So, what'd you think of WR: Mysteries of the Organism?

Well, Dusan Makavejev deserves a lot of credit for the documentary sequences, in which he took Wilhelm Reich as seriously as he deserves to be taken. I thought the archive footage of Reich himself was fascinating, and very moving at times. Also the images of Orgonon/Maine, and the interviews with his children, neighbours, former students & associates, etc. - especially Myron Sharaf, who went on to write a brilliant biography of WR.

But you probably won't be surprised to hear that I found the fictional story just plain daft and self-indulgent, and actually completely superfluous. Reich's real life and work were so strange and compelling in themselves that any fictional dressing-up just looks weak by comparison, especially when it's labouring so hard to be "quirky" (that word again...) and "irreverent" and "playful". The pacing is glacial, and the performances are so broad they wouldn't fit through the Arc de Triomphe. I kept waiting for those bits to be over so we could get back to the interviews and archive footage.

The two lead actresses are very sexy, though, so it's all watchable.

- This sequence features Alexander Lowen talking very interestingly about emotional armouring and how it affects the face and the body and the voice. The most extraordinary thing, though, is the mass therapy session that starts about six minutes in. From about 8:00 onwards, you can see the "orgasm reflex", which is not an orgasm per se (it doesn't involve any sexual arousal), but which is, like the orgasm, a sustained and completely involuntary movement of the entire body. So what is it, exactly?



Whatever it is, it's something real and strange, and Reich discovered it, described it, and gave a convincing explanation of what it is and what it means. Today, in the enlightened pharmaceutical 21st century, very few people are following up on Reich's work or even reading his books, while charlatans like Adam Curtis routinely piss on his grave in passing.

[Wombaticus Rex]

I would agree that Reich's contributions to the species gravely outweigh the work of Adam Curtis...yep.