Dr. Roentgen by day, Mr. Lumière by night. Wrote a few atrocities for n+1 Film Review, MUBI, Undercurrent, Kinote, Seance. Now on a permanent silent sabbatical.
Wenders is withdrawing WRONG MOVE (1975) from circulation at Nastassja Kinski's request. My translation of JC Biette's review of the film is now on Substack.https://t.co/vrOSUMeBPj
The new mix, a 2-hour descent into the Unhurried: from sun-licked psychedelia and library exotica of the late 1960s to the slow-burn dispatches of 2025–26.
https://t.co/uinhYnxm0t
The courtroom on her left, a cashier's office on her right. Harry Baer has just walked into the bright white light of the courtroom. Hanni hops forward, hops back. The shot freezes.
Lisa Haegele notes that the German word for hopscotch is Himmel und Hölle (heaven and hell). In the final scene of WILDWECHSEL (RWF, 1972), Eva Mattes plays it alone in a courthouse corridor, on squares of light and shadow cast by the Gothic arches.
Topics discussed: French verb conjugations, le fantastique, and the advantages of mono sound, with passing and not-so-passing invocations of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Paul Vecchiali, Antonin Artaud, Luc Moullet, Vladimir Jankélévitch, Baruch Spinoza & Clément Rosset.
I recorded a new song called Line Missing.
Not much else to say, except for these two quotes:
“Very seldom does a poem simply emerge: a poem is made.” — Gottfried Benn
“A poem does not arise from feelings, but from words.” — Mallarmé
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Just in time for the Day commemorating the beheading of Saint Valentine, I’m thrilled to announce the release of the digital single Time Will Place, recorded by the detective agency/law firm/funeral home Martov & Rochester: https://t.co/1cLpM3Rbso
New mix. Creation and Curation outsourced to Chance. The tracks were randomly selected by the Shuffle button on my media player from the desktop folder titled "Further Investigations". https://t.co/ctNgVBtHNc