July 2011
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“As a poet my mind is trained along the path of poetic associations — I’m not...”
– Jerzy Skolimowski. (via dylzo)
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http://www.basjanader.com/ →
thethirdyear:
astoundingly beautiful website.
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winderlist: ON bas jan ader “Following the logic... →
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ON bas jan ader
“Following the logic of the crisis, the practice of getting yourself into a situation is about creating a moment of necessity in a moment of contingency. Basically, there is no need to climb up this tree, no one told Ader to do it, just as no one can or will tell an artist…
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Kardaşlar - Çökertme (1973)
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“There used to be a white streetcar that ran between Bayonne and Biarritz; in the...”
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excerpt from Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes
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Red Desert (1964) - Michelangelo Antonioni
To claim that Red Desert is predominantly about any ‘landscape’ other than Giuliana’s own mental landscape is a disservice to Antonioni; Giuliana is the “red desert,” and we are traversing her passionate, yet ultimately barren existence.
“[Giuliana] must confront her social environment. It’s too...
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“Art is not concerned with environment either; it doesn’t care where it is....”
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excerpt from 1956 William Faulkner interview for the Paris Review.
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Gas - Zauberberg
“Yet once you’ve come to be part of this particular patch [Chicago], you’ll never...”
– Nelson Algren (via toycunt)
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“It may be, rather, that nothing is ever unmixed and the thirst for totality is...”
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“Called by its author a “false novel,” Dark Back of Time begins with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, is witty and sardonic 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a book Marías swears to be fiction, but which its “characters”- the real-life dons and...
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4 Records by Mariah
Mariah was a Japanese New Wave/Experimental Pop group formed in Japan in 1980. Although the majority of the members were formerly jazz/rock fusion session musicians (a designation which their record company continued to promote them under, and which led to derision from their fan base, who were expecting them to sound as such), their manifestation as Mariah, in the aftermath of the Yasuaki...
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“Borges once said that the worst thing that an American can say to another is...”
– Great article about novelist Jorge Luis Borges, Texas, and the nature of legacy and forgetting from Guernica Magazine.
Forgotten But Not Gone by Eric Benson
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manasto:
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery...
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Turkish Pop aka Turkish 'Fantastik' Cinema
The cinema of the Turkish suburban and rural poor in the 1960s and 1970s, also known as Turkish ‘Fantastik’ Cinema, exploited the head-on collision of Western pop-culture with a then rapidly secularizing Turkish society. Free of copyright laws, filmmakers and producers in Turkey unapologetic to plagiarism, “ripped-off” many popular Western icons in a...
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“”No. The reason I brought up the example of sand was because in the final...”
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“[Kobo] Abe, [Hiroshi] Teshigahara, and [Toru] Takemitsu were in total accord in their vison for Woman in the Dunes. While making the film, Teshigahara frequently commented that the film had three main characters, not two: the man, the woman, and the sand.” - Peter Grilli, The...
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Eyes Without a Face (1960) - Georges Franju
“Most French directors would have been insulted to be offered this job, but Franju, having grown up on the films of silent-era fantasists George Méliès and Louis Feuillade, relished the chance to make his own contribution to the genre of the fantastique. Since that genre now included Peter Cushing’s Dr. Frankenstein casually wiping a...
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James Yancey (1898-1951), Chicago, IL. Chicago Piano Blues and Boogie-Woogie.
During the First World War, Jimmy Yancey played baseball on a Negro league team, the Chicago All-Americans. Yancey kept his job as groundskeeper for the Chicago White Sox through most of his life.
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“We don’t have any tradition at all that I know of. I don’t think the isolation...”
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A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) - Kim Ji-Woon
“A Tale of Two Sisters is a work of art. Yes, Jeff Koons can have an ivory statue of Michael Jackson and his chimp carved and painted, and call it a work of art. A Tale of Two Sisters is a real work of art, I am sure you know what I mean.” - Yuhn Myikuk
