not sure if connor has released anything prior to this but possessing this level of aesthetic discernment right out the gate is beyond impressive. even the most obvious of influences (brakhage, barley etc) have been effectively distilled into a register that is his own. images so powerful i felt like i was absorbing the history of these locations. akin to the feeling of visiting a place that is unknowable in the moment but the beauty is recalled in those short bursts of consciousness that reside in your memory and nervous system

a camp recreation of psycho. everything down to the hokey acting, candy coloured sets & costumes, extreme dialing of the original’s iconography (spliced in footage of thunder during the shower scene, mrs. Bates’ body being surrounded by live birds in the cellar scene) it’s aware that all immersion with this film is nullified due to your history with hitchcock’s version, so it instead embraces that inherent detachment with an uncanny valley experience. it only highlighted the intensity of my relationship with the images in the original and demonstrated the surreal value in experiencing them differently. kind of an ode to the footprint cinema leaves on your psyche.

we're a bisexual nation living in denial, all because of a bunch of nerds, a bunch of nerds who got off a boat in the 15th century and decided that sex was something to be ashamed of. all the pilgrims did was ruin the american Indian orgy of freedom