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Thursday, February 12, 2009
RESCUE: a little film by Tao Ruspoli
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Saturday, December 13, 2008
Salton Sea Boat Races for World Record Speed on Water
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Burning Man 2008
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008
MARFA, My Dear
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Friday, April 18, 2008
New FIX Trailer!
"A bold new style and talent." - Oliver Stone
"Ruspoli has succeeded in creating a film that not only compliments
Los Angeles' multi-faceted landscape, but meditates on it. While FIX
is everything one would hope - a frenetic, Odyssey-like journey
through an underbelly of drug culture and addiction, it's when the
film reaches moments of silence that its true voice speaks clear,
deeply exploring notions of family, loss, and ultimately redemption."
- Daniel Casey, Slamdance Programmer
"Fix has the gritty energy of 'Go', the speedy with of 'Arrested
Development' and a magnificent visual panache!" - IndieWire
"Funny, sad, dangerous, endearing; all the hallmarks of a big-money
blockbuster are here, delivered with an effortless reality and
spontaneity that no budget can buy ..." - M. Bradley, edhat.com
a film by Tao Ruspoli
more at www.fixthemovie.com
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Flamenco: A Personal Journey part 1 of 10 A Film by Tao Ruspoli
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An unprecedented look at the Gypsy Flamenco lifestyle in Spain.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Friday, February 08, 2008
Friday, September 28, 2007
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
FIX trailer Starring Shawn Andrews, Olivia Wilde, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Dedee Pfeiffer
Trailer for Fix, a new feature film by Tao Ruspoli
Starring Shawn Andrews, Olivia Wilde, Megalyn Echikunwoke, & Dedee Pfeiffer
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Olivia Wilde Interview
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Momenti con Papa' Dado
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¡Viva Barstow!
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Skateboard Diaries
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Dado Ruspoli: A Portrait
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Saturday, April 28, 2007
Out of Control
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a film by Tao Ruspoli, 2001
music by the chemical brothersÂ
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Camjackers
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Trailer for LAFCO's first feature film, Camjackers.
"It´s cool, man. We´ve got black friends!"
Two rich, clueless film school grads ( The Filmfakers) are shooting a ghetto interpretation of an ancient Greek play on the mean streets of Los Angeles. Their equipment is borrowed by three street youths (The Camjackers), who shoot a compelling documentary on underground hiphop. The Filmfakers rip off The Camjackers´ film and rise to fame and fortune. The Camjackers see their stolen work on TV and seek revenge.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
COUNTERVIEWS: Robbie Conal, guerilla poster artist - Interview by Tao Ruspoli
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Robbie Conal is an American guerilla poster artist noted for his gnarled, grotesque depictions of U.S. political figures of note. A former hippie, he is noted for his use of snipes to distribute his poster art throughout a city overnight.
Conal's parents were both union organizers, and he grew up in Manhattan. He received his bachelor's degree in fine arts from San Francisco State University in 1968 and his MFA from Stanford University in 1978. He moved to the Los Angeles area in 1984, where he currently resides. Conal is an Adjunct Professor of Painting & Drawing at the University of Southern California's Roski School of Fine Arts.
Conal's work has been featured in numerous publications, including Time, Newsweek, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, as well as CBS's This Morning and Charlie Rose. He was the subject of the 1992 documentary Post No Bills directed by filmmaker Clay Walker. He has also written two books, Art Attack: The Midnight Politics Of A Guerrilla Artist and Artburn, a collection of his work published in the alternative newspaper L.A. Weekly. He has been awarded grants by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Getty Trust.
In 2004, Conal joined artists Shepard Fairey and Mear One to create a series of "anti-war, anti-Bush" posters for a street art campaign called "Be the Revolution" for the art collective Post Gen.
Conal was also one of the 112 members at the "Table of Free Voices" event in Berlin.
One of Conal's posters is prominently displayed in a scene in the 1999 film The Insider.
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
COUNTERVIEWS: Peter Linebaugh on slavery, the Magna Carta, Guantanamo, self-governance and more...
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Tao Ruspoli interviews historian Peter Linebaugh.
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Monday, March 12, 2007
Friday, March 09, 2007
Just Say Know part 5
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Tao Ruspoli's award winning documentary about heroin and opium addiction in his family. part 5 of 5
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Just Say Know part 4
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Tao Ruspoli's award winning documentary about heroin and opium addiction in his family. part 4 of 5
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Just Say Know part 3
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Just Say Know part 2
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Friday, March 02, 2007
Just Say Know part 1
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MOVING PHOTOS: Olivia Wilde 2
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"Moving Photographs" by Tao Ruspoli
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Thursday, March 01, 2007
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
COUNTERVIEWS: Francisco Letelier Interview
Tao Ruspoli interviews Francisco Letelier
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
COUNTERVIEWS: Patrick Cockburn talks about Iraq (part 1)
Tao Ruspoli interviews Patrick Cockburn (pronounced kÅbÉËn) (born March 5, 1951) is an Irish journalist who has been a Middle East correspondent since 1979 for the Financial Times and the Independent . Among the most experienced commentators on Iraq, he was one of the few journalists to remain in Baghdad during the first Gulf War. He is based in Jerusalem as a correspondent for the Independent, and has been filing reports on the war in Iraq. He has consistently displayed a pessimistic outlook for Iraq's future and considers the 2003 invasion of Iraq and its aftermath as a catastophic failure.
Cockburn was born in Scotland and grew up in County Cork, Ireland. His father was the well-known socialist author and journalist Claud Cockburn. He was educated at Glenalmond College, Perthshire, and Trinity College, Oxford.
Cockburn married Janet Montefiore, daughter of Rt Rev Hugh William Montefiore, and has two children, Henry Claud and Alexander. He has two brothers, Alexander Cockburn and Andrew Cockburn who are also journalists.
His most recent book, following award-winning reporting from Iraq, is "The Occupation" published by Verso Books. Mixing first hand accounts with reporting, Cockburn's book is critical of the invasion as well as the Salafi fundamentalists who comprise much of the resistance.
Cockburn's memoir is The Broken Boy, a memoir of his childhood in 1950s Ireland when he caught and survived polio. His previous books include Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein, written with Andrew Cockburn.
Monday, February 05, 2007
Sunday, February 04, 2007
SEX & POLITICS: Tao Ruspoli interviews Dr. Susan Block, Part 2 (CounterViews)
Part 2 of Tao Ruspoli's interview with sex therapist and free speech activist Dr. Susan Block at her downtown LA speakeasy.
Part of counterpunch.org's counterviews series.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Jeffrey St. Clair Interview (part 2), co-editor CounterPunch
Friday, January 19, 2007
An Interview with Jeffrey St. Clair, co-editor of Counterpunch (Tao Ruspoli)
Tao Ruspoli talks to Jeffrey St. Clair about Iraq, the state of the left, 9/11 conspiracy theorists and more.
Part 1 of 2.Â
Monday, January 15, 2007
A Conversation With M1 of dead prez
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Grimy World by Malachi (Dungeon Family) New Music video from LAFCO
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Grimy World
Malachi (Dungeon Family)
Directed by Tao Ruspoli
Shot by Tao Ruspoli and Cody Lucich
Edited by Cody Lucich James Wade and Tao Ruspoli
Produced by James Wade
Album: Workaholic Mixtape Vol. 2
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Friday, December 01, 2006
Monday, November 27, 2006
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Friday, October 27, 2006
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Outlawz: Fork in The Road Video
Monday, October 09, 2006
New music video for hip hop soul duo Slick and Rose
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Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Tao Ruspoli interviews Alexander Cockburn Part 2
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PS: Welcome Counterpunchers! We think you would like the interview with stic.man below. He brings revolutionary politics to hip hop and we had a great chat...
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Monday, October 02, 2006
Runaway Slave: Music Video for a new song by stic.man of dead prez and Young Noble of The Outlawz
And, here is an interview with stic.man about his roots, influences, inspirations, his art, his politics and more...(click to watch)
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Thursday, September 28, 2006
Going
An expressionistic explosion of images about travel, motion, memories, and overwhelming sensory overload. Shot on super 8, still photos, and hi def by Tao Ruspoli. With Steve Newman, Olivia Wilde, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Dado Ruspoli, Ray Flores and others...
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Shannon Mccollum: Photojournalist
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Friday, September 22, 2006
Tao Ruspoli interviews Alexander Cockburn
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