darkness moves
(detail)(detail)m swiezynski - drawings 2006 (mont blanc chopin + water colour)(front & back + 2 details)
les arbres en tout ce ciel part - the trees in all this sky leaves - les arbres dans tout ce ciel laisse - trees in all that heaven allows
douglas sirk: all that heaven allows, 1955
ponies
The midnight, the morning, or the middle of day, Is the same to the miner who labors away. Where the demons of death often come by surprise,One fall of the slate and you're buried alive.Merle Travis - Dark as a dungeon (additional stanza, rarely performed...)
closing doors
Eilidh, Eilidh, Eilidh, heart of me, dear and sweetIn dreams I am hearing the whisper, the sound of your running feetthat like the sea-hoofs beat a music by day and night, Eilidh,On the sands of my heart, my sweet.O sands, of my heart, what wind moans low along thy shadowy shore?Is that the deep seaheart I hear with the dying sob at its core?Each dim lost wave that lapses is like a closing door:'
"...and love, though in a sense it may be admitted to be stronger than death, is by no means so universal and so sure. In fact, love is rare - the love of men. of things, of ideas, the love of perfected skill. For love is the enemy of haste; it takes count of passing days, of men who pass away, of fine art matured slowly in the course of years and doomed in a short time to pass away, too, and be
edvard munch, the flaming sky, like blood
red images from:peter watkins: edvard munch, 1974 (long version)cinematography by odd-geir sætheri saw the flaming skylike blood, like a sword over the fjord and the town (image 35)also, see earlier entry on munch, ending with:i felt as if there were invisible threads between us,i felt as if invisible threads from her hair still twisted themselves around me,and when she completely disappeared
bell-derived drones which resonate peacefully even as they twist and turn
tarrl lightowler: l'eau de vie (forthcoming film)beyond the horizon of visible things - little tunes amid the sound of wind or water, feelings flickering through people.(from robert musil: 5 women)new books & musicmusic:- °sone: passerelle, and/oar, 2008a site-specific sound installation / performance by yannick dauby, christophe havard & hughes germain.if i were forced to bring 10 cds with me to
the perfect mediocrity, no better, no worse
stanley kubrick, the killing, 1956cinematography by lucien ballardwith kola kwariani and sterling hayden
overcome
Nothing, for us, can fill the place of undiminished brightness except the unconscious dark, nothing that of what once we might have been, except the dream that we had never been born.- Adorno, Minima Moralia
m swiezynski - films 2007
new dvd availablerecent films of m swiezynski(includes)1. which he distorted by decorating with images2. intended to be used for making inscriptions in memory3. this invisible art of memory - magic hour number 14. the secret of shadows5. an occult memory systemmusic by a broken consort6. mysterious and invisible - magic hour part 2music by asher7. fludd's memory system8. images of heaven - magic
substitutes
At first sight I really believed that the only reminders in the Piana graveyard of the nature which, we have always hoped, will endure long after our own end, were the artificial purple, mauve, and pink flowers, obviously pressed upon their customers by French undertakers, made of silk or nylon chiffon, of brightly painted porcelain, wire, and metal appearing not so much a sign of enduring
The cuckoo
The cuckoo is a merry bird, she sings as she flies,She brings us good tidings and tells us no lies;She sucks the sweet flowers to make her sing clear,And she never sings "cuckoo" till summer is near.O meeting is a pleasure, but parting a grief,An inconstant lover is worse than a thief;For a thief will but rob you and swear to be true,And the very next moment they'll bring you to the grave.The
toys
"All children talk to their toys. The toys become actors in the great drama of life, reduced in size by the camera obscura of their little brains. The child twists and turns his toy, scratches it, shakes it, bumps it against the walls, throws it on the ground. From time to time he makes it restart its mechanical motions, sometimes in the opposite direction. Its marvelous life comes to a stop. The
robert bresson, olivier messiaen, i listen to my films as i make them
the composer olivier messiaen comes to mind as the closest parallel to bresson in the other arts. a devout catholic, the organist of the trinité in paris, messiaen has always been a radical modernist and a seminal figure in the evolution of modern music (in addition to his compositions, he deserves the credit of teaching stockhausen and boulez). nevertheless, the material of messiaen's art,
robert bresson, murder sequence from l'argent
robert bresson, l'argent, 1983cinematography by pasqualino de santis and emmanuel machuelediting by jean-françois naudonfirst and last frame of each shot from bresson's murder sequence.shot 1.1.16.28 - 1.16.58shot 21.16.59 - 1.17.14shot 31.17.15 - 1.17.25shot 41.17.26 - 1.17.36shot 51.17.37 - 1.17.43shot 61.17.44 - 1.17.45shot 71.17.46 - 1.17.47shot 81.17.48 - 1.17.49shot 91.17.49 - 1.17.56shot
robert bresson, given by the eyes of john cage
radically suppress intentions in your models.*not to use two violins when one is enough.*no intellectual or cerebral mechanism. simply a mechanism.*hide the ideas, but so that people find them. the most importantwill be the most hidden.*all those effects you can get from repitition (of an image, of a sound).*practice the precept: find without seeking.*to translate the invisible wind by the
robert bresson, ingmar bergman, free from all impurities
coffee in mouchettei felt a strong affinity with bernanos' and bresson's mouchette. it's a film i would have liked to have made myself, but which i didn't understand. in mouchette the motif is expressed clearly and explicitly, free from all impurities. the girl in mouchette and the girl in the devil's wanton are sisters, sisters in two similar worlds.but while the devil's wanton is full of
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