silent version 1750-1950

new film in progress - due august in the silent version,late 2009 in the sound version

cloud erosion

covers of erosion of the analogous eye by matt shoemakerdesign by jim haynes(recent drones floating in and around the art of memory)- alio die - khen introduce silence - hic sunt leones - 2003- alio die & werner durand - aqua planing - hic sunt leones - 2005- alio die - aura seminalis - hic sunt leones - 2008- alio die & aglaia - private history of the clouds - infraction - 2009- william basinski

difficult and invisible

Today it is difficult to asses the enormous extent of Nietzsche's solitude at the time. Having become a shadow for most of his old friends, a difficult and invisible man, by now accustomed to publishing his books at his own expense, accustomed too to counting his loyal readers on his fingers and having to reduce their numbers as each new book comes out, Nietzsche seems to have circled as far from
...that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been,is half owning to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life,and rest in unvisited tombs.- George Eliot

two and a half

Man has here two and a half minutes -- one to smile, one to sigh,and a half for love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.- Jean Paul
trees from michelangelo antonioni's il grido - 1957cinematography by gianni di venanzo

accomplished gestures

Crown prince Rudolf and Marie VetseraIn Vienna the world was often coming to an end;usually to winegarden songs.He must be saved by some midnight beyond reason: the logic of daytime was sinking so fast.How beautiful the leaves aged on ten thousand twigs!No politics could produce such glory in a forest. Only so natural and simple a thing as death.Rudolf had conjured the glistening anticipation of

delicate and dreamlike: mikalojus konstantinas čiurlionis

mano kelias IItriptychs: my road - 1907ziema Iwinter: cycle of eight pictures - 1906-7ziema Vwinter: cycle of eight pictures - 1906-7ziema VHwinter: cycle of eight pictures - 1906-7tyla - 1905fuga(musical painting - other preludes and fugues)ziema - 1907sonata of the springpavasario sonata - allegro (musical painting) - 1907pavasaris IIspring: four pictures - 1907-8aquariusthe zodiac: cycle of