Emma Varley

Stream of Conscious X’ing #EclecticAnthropology #ShadowsideMedicine #Conflict #WW2 #Archives #Spectrality #Haunting #Presence #Ethnography #Ekphrasis

[Emma Varley @AnthReproHealth]

Helene Cixous, 1993

[Louis Xavier RUEDA ZILLI @loxaruzi]

'Je lègue ce dernier poème visuel à tous les jeunes gens qui m’ont fait confiance, malgré l’incompréhension totale dont mes contemporains m’entourent.'
[Le Testament d'Orphée, Jean #Cocteau, 1960]
#cinema @CocteauCinema #litterature

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

John Lennon describing his UFO encounter over the Hudson River, 1974.

[Best of Kubrick @KubrickPoint]

In The Shining Danny wears an Apollo 11 sweater this is because it is cold in Colorado during the winter.

[King of Fårö @KingofFr1]

Los mayores triunfos formales y artísticos son hijos de la austeridad: con cartulinas negras, tijeras, hilo, alambre, una mesa con una fuente de luz y una cámara, Lotte Reiniger ideó un mundo de fantasía que aún fascina por su poderío creativo.
Las aventuras del príncipe Achmed

[Old Canada Series @oldcanadaseries]

In 1888, a wooden hotel opened on a bluff above the Bow River in the Canadian Rockies. It was the dream of railway baron William Cornelius Van Horne .. who famously said, "since we can't export the scenery, we'll have to import the tourists."

But legend has it that on opening day, something went wrong. Somewhere inside the new hotel, a room was sealed off by mistake. And it was never opened again.

This is the story of Origins of @FairmontSprings

[Love Classical Music and Movies 🎺🎻💖🎥🎬 @AlexTran677026]

🎬 Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

One of the greatest transitions in movie history almost looked completely different.

David Lean originally planned a slow dissolve. Editor Anne V. Coates suggested a hard cut instead — turning a blown-out match into the endless desert in one unforgettable moment.

Sometimes cinematic genius is just one edit away.

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

Leta Powell Drake was a Nebraskan celebrity interviewer who more often than not left her subjects staring wide-eyed in disbelief at what the hell she’d just said.

[King of Fårö @KingofFr1]

Leemos conceptos de Pudovkin acerca de la yuxtaposición de imágenes (o montaje de contraste) y la geografía creativa (o el arte de crear espacios ficticios) pero no hay que olvidar que su primer cortometraje fue "La fiebre del ajedrez" (1925) con un tono deliciosamente cómico.

[Mike Constantine @Moonpans]

Apollo HD - The Beauty of the Apollo Missions

This short film is a compilation of stunning Apollo film footage upscaled using modern techniques set to a beautiful music score. The film is a compilation of several missions from the unmanned Apollo 4 test flight thru to the incredibly successful Apollo 17 which saw the last men on the moon

Made by Mike Constantine of @Moonpans using film footage from the NASA Johnson Space Center and The Apollo Flight Journal.

[S p r i n t e r @SprinterPress]

Red sprites were filmed over Tibet.
The camera captured a large-scale emission of "red ghosts" - electrical discharges that occur in the upper layers of the atmosphere.

[FilmoteCanet Cinema @CanetCinema]

Persona
by Ingmar Bergman

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

Did you know PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON’s Dad — ERNIE ANDERSON — was the voice of ABC TV from the late 70’s to the mid-90’s.

Here’s a little piece on him.

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

The late great DAVID LYNCH becomes visibly moved talking about Frank Capra’s stone cold classic — “It’s A Wonderful Life”.

[Vahid Chaychi @vahidchaychi]

And, “if you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” -Einstein

[FilmoteCanet Cinema @CanetCinema]

José Luis Guerín

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

In 1973, AMC and Levi’s teamed up for the wildest factory option ever: an AMC Gremlin with real denim seats, copper rivets, and classic jean stitching.

A jeans car

[Richard Morris @ahistoryinart]

The intense gaze in 'Madame Canals,' (1905) is the most remarkable feature of Picasso’s markedly classical portrait; a composition inspired by traditional Spanish portraits and evokes the typology of figures in Picasso’s previous works, characterised by their slenderness.

[King of Fårö @KingofFr1]

Chaplin notó que las películas mudas aprendieron su oficio casi en el momento de su ocaso: por eso no extraña el efecto de "Los muelles de Nueva York" (1928) de von Sternberg, donde los recursos visuales son tan poderosos que no precisan negociar el sonido para su comprensión.

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

The ATC scene in Close Encounters (1977) fascinates me. As the tension rises, more bodies crowd the frame: tighter compositions, overlapping bursts of chatter. We can’t make out the words, yet we feel the fear and confusion. It’s raw; no music, just voices and mounting panic.

[Vashi Nedomansky, ACE @vashikoo]

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The climax challenges the audience from two directions. If you believe only in science, it asks you to accept the unprovable. If you believe only in faith, it demands evidence. The film becomes a meditation asking: What if the most important truths can never be proven?