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The above image from Japan’s Knowing Shutterbug: An atomic bomb survivor chronicles a nation’s unraveling, and rebirth. By Deborah Garwood.
Skin of the Nation (SFMoma multimedia page on Shomei Tomatsu)
The Love/Hate World of Shomei Tomatsu
The above photo from Yalepress.
Thanks Hal for Sho(w) me (i) reminder.
Happy Birthday Google!
I am going to hide this and that.
(Mark Rothko meets Jackson Pollack at Google 8, well, sort of.)
Speaking of mess just saw this from Wooster Collective.
Shit We’re Digging: Kaza Razat Video For Control Arms.
Guard Dog
Weekend at the park, many suspicious cars are parked outside the gate.
Owl and the pussy dogs or two chihuahua patrol.
Who are questioning the wisdom of dogmacracy?
(Daisy the brown and white cowchihuahua is a Mexican and possibly illegal. She will defend this adopted land with great determination.)
From greencinedaily came this sad news, Sven Nykvist (1922 - 2006) passed away.
Obituary from guardian here.
Face to face (from Ingmar Bergman site)
A genius of cinematography with an outstanding feeling for light.
Born Sven Vilhem Nykvist on 3 December 1922 in Moheda, Kronobergs län, the son of non-conformist missionaries to Africa.
See Persona: The beginning of this outstanding film (from youtube)
Slide show - Sven Nykvist was the medium’s Rembrandt
Photo of Ingmar and Sven
When Ingmar and I made Winter Light (1963), which takes place in a church on a winter day in Sweden, we decided we should not see any shadow in it at all because there would be no logical shadow in that setting. Read more here (Shooting With Ingmar Bergman: A Conversation with Sven Nykvist)
The trailer for “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” (Sven did that one as well!)
From On the shooting of the Sacrifice.
As a rule, however, it was Tarkovskij’s own visions that counted even if he at times had a hard time communicating them, partly due to the language barrier - he had to constantly work through an interpreter - but primarily due to the fact that he first and foremost wanted to communicate emotions, moods, atmosphere. By images, not by words. He wanted to impart a soul to objects and nature. Here he actually went further than Bergman ever did.
Cries and Whispers
List of films he worked on here.
(Don’t forget Pretty Baby and Fanny and Alexander.)
Sven directed “Oxen” (from In the Company of light)
Sven was a father figure to Lasse Hallstrom with whom he made several films most famously What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993).
A Review of Starling Lawrence, The Lightning Keeper 2006.
Fuzzy Romain Duris in youtube, much better and more interesting than the actual trailer.
Romain was great here, the remake and an improvement of Fingers.
Doesn’t he remind you of Bruce Lee?
This image was made a few hours before the US Open for Federer vs. Roddick. Federer took Roddick out.
Sept 11, 2006 is remembered for a day after for the wonderful match, merci Roger.
The question always floats around as to whether Happy Together would have been a ‘better’ film with the Shirley Kwan sequence in. There is no clear answer. (Long Reviews:Exiles, Escapees and Emigrés - a look at Buenos Aires Zero Degree (1997)
Shirley Kwan
in Happy Together.
We can view the deleted sequence of Shirley Kwan from Happy Together on youtube.
(It has become our tradition to pay attention to deleted scenes from Wong Kar Wai films. See previous post here.)
Love me or leave me, we (Max and Thomas) are happy and jubilant together.
More great dance links from metafilter, here.
Two Artauds 
(Marat played by Artaud from Abel Gance’s Napoleon.)
It’s the birthday (Sept 4, 1896-1948) of Antonin Artuad,
Actor, director, writer, artist, founder of the “theatre of cruelty”.
A visionary and a mystic. He saw the theatre as a ritual able to give rise to a numinous experience within the spectator.
To Have Done with the Judgement of God, a radio play by Antonin Artaud
And war is wonderful, isn’t it?
For it’s war, isn’t it, that the Americans have been preparing for
and are preparing for this way step by step.
In order to defend this senseless manufacture from all competition
that could not fail to arise on all sides,
one must have soldiers, armies, airplanes, battleships,
hence this sperm
which it seems the governments of America have had the effrontery
to think of.
In Carl Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, Artaud acted as the monk Jean Massieu.
Godard perfectly uses “The Passion of Jeanne D’Arc in Vivre Sa Vie.
Derrida and Artaud
Derrida emphasized the
performative aspect of the work, stating
that “All of Artaud’s works participate in
an urge to DO something not just EXPRESS
something.” They “produce an event in the
act of writing and drawing … they are
events directed at an addressee.” Instead
of projecting a “French” sensibility
they, evoke an “immediately universal glosso-
poetics.” Thus countering the reductive
view that Artaud’s works are signs of
pathology, Derrida asserted that they are
“not only lucid–they illuminate us on what
it means to be dispossessed.”
2001 - Derrida’s discussion on Artaud
The Minotaur 1946
graphite and wax crayon by Antonin Artaud
A New Scène Seen Anew:Representation and Cruelty in Derrida’s Artaud
by Colin Russell
Glossopoeia, which is neither an imitative language nor a creation of names, takes us back to the borderline of the moment when the word has not yet been born, when articulation is no longer a shout but not yet discourse, when repetition is almost impossible, and along with it, language in general: the separation of concept and sound, of signified and signifier, of the pneumatical and the grammatical, the freedom of translation and tradition, the movement of interpretation, the difference between the soul and the body, the master and the slave, God and man, author and actor. This is the eve of the origin of languages, and of the dialogue between theology and humanism whose inextinguishable reoccurence has never not been maintained by the metaphysics of Western theater. (Derrida 240)
Who am I? Where do I come from? I am Antonin Artaud(The page includes three great drawings.)
French site dedicated to Artaud - with many interesting photos.
