WELCOME TO THE ETHER
Whenever binocular vision is depicted in cinema as two circles joined in the middle, you are being told an optical lie. The two eyes are but lenses through which the mind sees together but one image. When you look through binoculars, the mind sees not two circles but one.
And so the circular, telescopic vision of The Forgotten Colours of Dreams produces a forceful distancing effect disembodying the viewer from all the material sense data being…
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This 1991 short cemented Andersson’s conversion away from realism and marked the path to his Living Trilogy. Its Swedish title “Härlig är jorden” comes from a Christian hymn and translates as “Lovely Is the Earth.” Epitomizing the life of a tall, mustachioed, professional-class Swedish man, an estate agent, the film compresses all that needs to be said in 15 brief scenes — carefully composed images statically captured and arranged in a parabolic structure.
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1) Holocaust truck, the screaming…
A wonderful movie I highly admire. ’90s Taiwan, man. I don’t know if I’ve ever spent time before cinematically in this part of Taiwan — Keelung, a port city right next to Taipei — but now because of Darkness and Light I know that I have. The city has a very specific coastline in its harbor, and all the cranes of construction root the movie at a place and time so evocatively. It’s like there’s an instant nostalgia for what…
Ah, another film requiring poetry to describe. I’ve been waiting four months for inspiration of how to review this gem. I’m just going to have to start writing. The camera knows there are other kids in the family. But it can’t look away from the beautiful young woman, still a teenager by the looks of it. She has thin dark brown hair in a stylish bob, dark brown eyes, high cheekbones and dimples. Comfortable among her familiars, her behavior is…
TRACK LISTING
1. Deaf/Punk (1979), by Richard Gaikowski [0:00:13–0:07:11]
2. In the Beginning Was the End: The Truth About De-Evolution (1976), by Chuck Statler [0:07:12–0:17:05]
3. The Residents: The Third Reich ’n Roll (1977), by The Residents [0:17:06–0:21:52]
4. Hello Skinny (1979), by Graeme Whifler [0:21:53–0:24:53]
5. One Minute Movies (1980), by Graeme Whifler [0:24:54–0:29:44]
— Moisture [0:25:18–0:26:21]
— Act of Being Polite [0:26:22–0:27:24]
— Perfect Love [0:27:25–0:28:28]
— The Simple Song [0:28:29–0:29:31]
6. MX-80: Why Are We Here? (1981),…
1. 0:00:51–0:16:42 Apichatpong Weerasethakul, “Luminous People”
2. 0:16:42–0:36:23 Vicente Ferraz, “Germano”
3. 0:36:23–0:52:38 Ayisha Abraham, “One Way”
4. 0:52:38–1:06:36 Wang Bing, “Brutality Factory”
5. 1:06:36–1:22:40 Pedro Costa, “Tarrafal”
6. 1:22:40–1:37:46 Chantal Akerman, “Tombée de nuit sur Shanghai”
