Om and Bra

Avere paura della propia ombra
English Equivalent
Afraid of one’s shadow

Om-Bra Om and Bra digital image by Fung Lin Hall

(Previous posts on fear, here and here.)
To escape from the world I created 8 shadow images and decided to show the above. Also, I have watched a number of films in the last few days.

1) with Volver (Penelope C and Almodovar) I was underwhelmed.
Here is someone who articulates better than me.

But nothing about what he does with this cinematic playfulness thrills me or even seems intellectually intriguing

(If you want to see a film about Women I recommend “Water” instead of this film by Almodovar.)

2) John Malkovich plays Stanley Kubrick’s impersonator in this offbeat film – Color Me Kubrick. He had fun putting on BBC costumes and being wild and crazy. (We never get to know the reason for his need to be Kubrick and con people.)

3) The three directors Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami, and Ken Loach got together and made this movie called Tickets.

The film picks up with the second portion directed by Abbas Kiarostami and Ken Loach finishes with a bang.

Past disjointed, piecemeal attempts at shoehorning visionary filmmakers into a three-volume feature could’ve learnt a thing or two from this Ermanno Olmi/Abbas Kiarostami/Ken Loach trifeca: it succeeds, in part, through continuity by locating its trio of stories on the same Euro-train line headed from Austria to Rome. Strangers on a Train