Tabu - Miguel Gomes, 2012, 35mm & 16mm
29.1.13
23.1.13
Realism(s) #22, or: you keep me going here and sometimes I even sing, though last night the song didn't go too well
-
Yes, I have just looked through the window,
and I have to report to you that it's
snowing, snowing again. So it's all very
promising, very very promising,
my friends. A thin snow, a miserable
snow, but snow.
so I wish you strength and endurance and
faith and humor and trust persistent trust
in angels & everything that really matters and
frees and opens and heals & yes, yes, poetry
poetry of being
whatever happens, whatever is the decision,
I am with you this evening -- this rainy thundering
and very very hot evening writing you this
long line letter with a glass of Veltliner next
to me which means I am thinking also about Peter
and P. Adams besides you -- which means, the present
is mitigated -- as Peter would say -- with the
past.
We are all still here, separately but
together --
Even the flesh is not
burning.
I want to see the eyes.
Tell me, tell me -- and do not
turn away.
I want to look into them. But I do not
dare, from fear what's in
them --
as I keep moving ahead,
ahead.--extracts from three separate letters by Jonas Mekas: a mid-January letter to friends (2002), to Stan Brakhage (June 27, 2002), and A Requiem for the XXth Century (January 3, 2000). All published in a collection of nine letters (first edition of 100) by Calico Grounds (CG18), in May 2012.
9.1.13
Everything or nothing #4
-
Eine Freundschaft, diese Freundschaft,
die ein Leben überdauert,
die währt, sich bewährt hat, ständig.--Peter Nestler's poem for Jean-Marie Straub, on the occasion of his eightieth birthday.
26.12.12
18.10.12
Realism(s) #21
-
Just noticed that Lee Ann Schmitt's California Company Town (2008), one of the best American (and political) films of the last few years, is available to watch in full here. Highly recommended.
-
Other links: A Very Special Generation, After the Riots, The Equator of Alienation [pdf], Concrete and Longing, the trailer for Thom Andersen's Reconversão, and Laida Lertxundi at the ICA (next week).
8.9.12
At sea #12
-
Links: a couple of interviews about Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel's Leviathan ("a heavy metal film"), which looks very impressive. This year's Experimenta line-up is strong: Dorsky & Hiler, complete Kubelka, Luke Fowler's The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott, etc). Afterwards, in November: an extensive retrospective of Peter Nestler's work at the Goethe-Institut and Tate Modern, including Die Nordkalotte, From Greece & Being Gipsy, and Straub-Huillet's Itinéraire de Jean Bricard. Also: a trip to Greece (forget exit); how to starve the beast; China in Revolt; on the missing variable and abundance; a Bill Kouligas mixtape; and last words ("only stupid spaces") to László Krasznahorkai.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)