"There is no common ground between those who uphold the status quo and those who seek to destroy it."

Communiqué from an Absent Future: On the Terminus of Student Life

GOODBYE NEW YORK

JONAS MEKAS, ON NEW YORK:
"Exciting! The word is exciting. To me, when I come back from any country — and I love Paris — but still when I come back, already driving from the airport I already am trembling with excitement!"
via Sophie Harris's love letter to New York.


“Those who didn't understand will never understand”: Whit Stillman’s "The Last Days of Disco"

Empire State Of Mind [Jay-Z + ...

Black Breakfast

Interview with Zhangke Jia on "Black Breakfast"

As a sweet apple reddens

As a sweet apple reddens
on a high branch

at the tip of the topmost bough
The apple-pickers missed it.

No, they didn't miss it:
They couldn't reach it.

- Sappho [Ψάπφω/Σαπφώ], translated by Jim Powell

A Candle (for Alexis and Nika) by John Gianvito

A Candle (for Alexis and Nika) from Eric Gulliver on Vimeo.

the occupation of images

"When I watch French television today, I think I know exactly how the French resistance felt during the German occupation."
- Jean-Luc Godard, Soft and Hard (Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, 1986)

CINEMA IS DEAD. LONG LIVE ALEXIS TIOSECO + NIKA BOHINC

CINEMA IS DEAD. LONG LIVE ALEXIS TIOSECO + NIKA BOHINC

finance is something too important to entrust to financiers

"When I wanted to produce my first feature-length film, I didn’t have any money. So I was forced to rethink the economic system of production. In the end, it’s something fascinating. It’s generally thought that the economic side of filmmaking is a bloody nuisance for a filmmaker and that it doesn’t correspond to his ‘vocation.’ […] I think that finance is something too important to entrust to financiers."
- Luc Moullet