Realism(s) #46

untitled - Ali Bosworth, from the series 2013 C & Milos

Realism(s) #45

-

I was a few years out of a heavy relationship. We still weren't really talking; things seemed worse than right after we split. I hadn't processed any of it, had instead dived straight in to the basement and worked on A I A. Stopped hanging out with friends; didn't occur to me to try to date, or pay attention to the news, what else was going on in the world. At that time I still wasn't talking about my problems with anyone. I was living by a popular myth, that if I didn't talk about something, it wouldn't be a problem. Ruins helped crack me open.

--Liz Harris, interviewed by Maya Kalev, October 2014. Drawing by Liz Harris, from the series Vessel (undated).

Illuminations #23

Cloud 9 Bar, Elko, Nevada, 1979 - William Albert Allard, from the series Out West

The Wind #10

Mount Sinabung, as seen from Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia - Dedy Sahputra, 09/10/2014

Llora cuando te pase

-

It'd be remiss of me not to mention here that Laida Lertxundi's superb Cry When it Happens / Llora Cuando Te Pase (2010, 16mm) is streaming at Vdrome for another week, thankfully in HD.

Some other recent-ish links of note: Questions for the Frozen Sea; The Everyday (Once More); obligatory notation of the existence of new Dorskys; wind, rain, glass; an interview with Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub by Hans Hurch (1981) and Introduction to a Straub-Huillet Retrospective (1982); Entrevista con Jean-Claude Rousseau: La Vallée close.

I'm out of the loop when it comes to screenings, but: there are still two A Nos Amours presentations of Sátántangó on 35mm to come in Leeds and Newcastle; Alonso (see Quintin), Beavers, Costa ('all we have are sandwiches'), Diaz, Godard, Lertxundi, Petzold (etc!) at LFF; Markopoulos at Tate Modern; Alexandre Galmard's NM. Also still on: Malevich at Tate Modern.

Realism(s) #44

L'ami de mon amie - Eric Rohmer, 1987, 35mm

Realism(s) #43

À propos de Venise - Jean-Marie Straub, 2013, HD video

The Wind #9

Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip - Wissam Nassar, 04/08/2014

The Wind #8

Smoke rises after an Israeli air strike on a Palestinian house in Gaza City - Ashraf Amra, 18/11/2012

Realism(s) #42

Les jours où je n'existe pas - Jean-Charles Fitoussi, 2003, 35mm

Realism(s) #41

Julia - Mustafah Abdulaziz, 2013

History Lesson(s) #31, or: living is erasing

Untitled - Francesca Woodman, 1975-1980

Realism(s) #40

Ferien - Thomas Arslan, 2007, 35mm

Forests #13

Untitled (camp smoke) - Missy Prince, from the series It's Never Sunny

Des animaux #11

Nana - Valérie Massadian, 2011, HD video

History Lesson(s) #30

City of Fuling, 2011 - Chen Jiagang, from the series The Great Three Gorges

Realism(s) #39

-

Jean-Claude Rousseau's Senza Mostra (2011) is currently streaming at Dérives.

Also of note: a James Benning Tribute at Bradford IFF (including BNSF, Deseret and casting a glance on 16mm, and a special assembly of some of the best work produced by his students at CalArts); a conversation with Nicole Brenez; a great interview with Raya Martin; and a new, ongoing translation of Antonio Porchia's Voices.

History Lesson(s) #29

The Immigrant - James Gray, 2013, 35mm

Everything or nothing #7

Les trois désastres - Jean-Luc Godard, 2013, digital/HD video

History Lesson(s) #28

Elle a passé tant d'heures sous les sunlights - Philippe Garrel, 1985, 35mm