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like passing through a door

"I want them to be conscious and feel a conscious light of vision, and not the dream-state that is often associated with film — I want them to consciously see. That is like passing through a door; some people cannot pass through that door to reach a conscious sense of vision in their seeing films, or seeing any image."
- Robert Beavers

to negate the cave, to disarm the gorgon

from The Owl's Legacy (Chris Marker, 1989)

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The Lovable

"Love is never directed toward this or that property of the loved one (being blond, being small, being tender, being lame), but neither does it neglect the properties in favor of an insipid generality (universal love): The lover wants the loved one with all of its predicates, its being such as it is."
- The Coming Community, Giorgio Agamben

"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