Cinema – N I H I L S E N T I M E N T A L G I A,

August 10, 2014June 4, 2015

⁞ L’Hasard Photographique ⁞

Sofia Silva, Untitled, from L’Hasard Photographique, 2013/2014 Sofia Silva, Untitled, from L’Hasard Photographique, 2013/2014 Sofia Silva, Untitled, from L’Hasard Photographique, 2013/2014 Sofia Silva, Untitled, from L’Hasard Photographique, 2013/2014 Sofia Silva, Untitled, from L’Hasard Photographique, 2013/2014 Sofia Silva, Untitled, from L’Hasard Photographique, 2013/2014 Sofia Silva, Untitled, from L’Hasard Photographique, 2013/2014 Sofia Silva, Untitled, from L’Hasard Photographique,…

November 15, 2013November 15, 2013

٠ “Either abolish your reverences or – yourselves!” ٠

stills from The Turin Horse, by Béla Tarr, 2011 Like Kierkegaard, Nietzsche presents the ‘coming generations’ with the ‘terrifying Either/Or: “Either abolish your reverences or — yourselves!”’ CREATIVE SUBLIMATION OF INSTINCT INTELLECTUAL TOLERANCE SELF-SUFFICIENCY GENEROSITY NOBILITY HEROISM COURAGE VITALITY TRADITION SELF-CONTROL FAITH IN ONESELF LACK OF BAD CONSCIENCE ABILITY TO ACCEPT CONTRADICTION

November 14, 2013November 14, 2013

٠ Tim Hetherington’s quest for signs of humanity ٠

The Documentary Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington, directed by Sebastian Junger, full str**ming here

October 2, 2013October 2, 2013

٠ F for Fake, M for Masterpiece ٠

September 29, 2013

٠ The animated femme fatale ٠

“The combination of film noir and cartoon intensifies this possibility for upset. By and large, the separate worlds and characters of these two genres are shown to coexist and eventually to learn from one another, but Jessica is a character caught in the interface between them. (Even her full name poses an existential problem: Jessica…

September 10, 2013September 10, 2013

٠ on the quest for [visual] intimacy II ٠

JEAN-LUC GODARD: Le Petit Soldat (1963) excerpts from: Being Singular Plural, by Jean-Luc Nancy, Stanford University Press, 2000, pp.10-81: “As a consequence, gaining access to the origin, entering into meaning, comes down to exposing oneself to this truth. What this means is that we do not gain access to the origin: access is refused by…

July 14, 2013July 14, 2013

٠ Varda’s feminist tableaux (l’une chante, l’autre pas) ٠

Feminist performance, the Engelian way PAPA ENGELS La double journée pauvre maman c’est bien épuisant et c’est mal payé Friedrich Engels l’avait dit dans la famille aujourd’hui l’homme est le bourgeois et la femme est le prolétariat Il avait raison papa Engels il avait raison car à la maison l’homme est le bourgeois et la…

July 13, 2013July 13, 2013

٠ Varda: Qu’est-ce qu’être femme? ٠

Each time I see a poster like that, I think it’s absurd to constantly see naked women. It feels like I’m on the poster. Each time a woman is undressed to sell a product… – It’s me they undress. – Me they display. – Me they despise. – Me they desire. – Me they criticize.…

May 30, 2013

┐ Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt, “I hate Portugal” & “I hate Algarve” └

from 30th of May to the 6th of June, the complete film can be seen online here “Palácios is a film about Portugal, and the line about hating Portugal and the Algarve is indicative of how part of that project was made. Gabriel wanted to make a film in Portugal, and was very interested in…

April 1, 2013April 1, 2013

┐ Object on Screen └

still from Untamed Heart, 1993 II. Pleasure in Looking/Fascination with the Human Form A. The cinema offers a number of possible pleasures. One is scopophilia. There are circumstances in which looking itself is a source of pleasure, just as, in the reverse formation, there is pleasure in being looked at. Originally. in his Three Essays…

February 24, 2013March 9, 2019

┐ Jacques Audiard’s obsession with human resilience └

Jacques Audiard’s “trilogy”, very worth watching: De rouille et d’os (Rust and Bone), 2012, De battre mon coeur s’est arrêté (The Beat That My Heart Skipped), 2005 and Sur mes lèvres (Read my Lips), 2001

February 6, 2013February 6, 2013

┐ Bertolucci and The Sculptural Moment └

If in doubt about cinema being as much of an art form as drawing, painting and sculpture are, just watch Bertolucci’s art trilogy “Stealing Beauty”, “Besieged” and “The Dreamers” (1996, 1998 and 2003) and see how harmoniously all art forms join in to become One.

December 22, 2012March 9, 2019

┐ Eric Rondepierre └

photo caption (above) © Eric Rondepierre, Couple, passant, 1996-98 © Eric Rondepierre, Confidence, 1996-98 © Eric Rondepierre, Le Voyeur, 1996-98 “That impossible photogram, as Roland Barthes said. An object which is not (even) an object, but at the same time is actually two objects. It doesn’t (really) belong to the cinema or (simply) to photography…

December 20, 2012July 2, 2018

┐ WR: Mysteries of the Organism └

“As for Wilhelm Reich himself, upon whose ideas and career the film is largely based, today he seems less like a sex radical than like a crypto-conservative without knowing it. Reich’s glorification of the orgasm is actually quite heteronormative and prescriptive, as well as being entirely caught up within the discursive deployment of sexuality-as-liberation, described…

December 4, 2012March 9, 2019

┐ Le Tempestaire └

from Karl Hansson‘s essay Screening the Figural in Film an New Art Media

October 18, 2012March 9, 2019

┐ Diogo Simões └

© Diogo Simões, Untitled, from the series Miratejo © Diogo Simões, Untitled, from the series Miratejo © Diogo Simões, Untitled, from the series Miratejo Influenced by current-events (this is a circumstantial analogy) Diogo’s (b.1988, Miratejo, PT) photographs remind me of a kind of portrait of youth that makes me think of Gus van Sant’s universe.…

June 2, 2009June 2, 2009

║ Aaron Hobson ║

© Aaron Hobson, Far Away, from the series Femme Vérité, 2009 © Aaron Hobson, Subterranean Encounter, from the series Even Darker, 2007 “Where does the image begin for you: the setting, the character, a story you’re trying to build? Definitely the setting. I try to find a location that has interesting natural lighting, stand there…

November 24, 2008June 2, 2018

║ E-J Major ║

© E-J Major, Postcard, from the series Love is… © E-J Major, Postcard, from the series Love is… © E-J Major, Postcard, from the series Love is… “Love is… Three years ago, London-based artist E-J Major began asking strangers to divulge their thoughts on this most profound, yet indefinable subject. The answers, sent…

September 12, 2008August 2, 2020

║ Philip Dembinski (Chicago Project – part I) ║

caption (image above): © Philip Dembinski, Reason to Believe, Nothing Just Happens. © Philip Dembinski, Hasty Departure, 2008 © Philip Dembinski, Under The Stars, 2008 More about Philip Dembinski’s work here.

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