Violet Burns pens a personal essay about how the portrayal of teen grief in 'Talk To Me' helped her process her own childhood trauma. Check it out: https://t.co/1hdmvzKUWl
“Cinema has shown an image of women from a male perspective that is completely fake.”
— Chantal Akerman in a 1976 interview, discussing her ground breaking film "Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels".
His photography is such a neglected topic. I always feel like that granular surreal, unsettling quality of his work is even more tangible in this medium.
Irony is dead.
Widely circulated report that slams the humanities for a lack of rigor is ... not itself rigorous.
Humanities certainly have lots of issues, but we can do better than this.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa: "I recently rewatched "A Brighter Summer Day" when it had a revival screening, and I was struck by how blatantly influenced I am, to the point of being almost disgusting." https://t.co/i5QtR60h4a
"I imagine myself covered with blood, broken but transfigured and in agreement with the world, both as prey and as a jaw of TIME, which ceaselessly kills and is ceaselessly killed."
Georges Bataille, "The Practice of Joy Before Death"
I keep thinking about Backrooms, that it’s a movie made by someone young now, about people being trapped in and forced to wander and sift through the banal and garish detritus of the late 20th century, warped and monstrous things being built from flimsy memories of that era