trains in cinema, part 6

train wreck at montparnasse - 1895- ben affleck - gone baby gone - 2007- tomas alfredson - let the right one it - 2008- carroll ballard - black stallion - 1979- john cassavetes - husbands - 1970- jack clayton - the innocents - 1961- john cromwell - since you went away - 1944- olivier dahan - la vie en rose - 2007- stephen daldry - the reader - 2008- david fincher - the curious case of benjamin

to be absolved...

Throughout the first centuries of our era, the Gnostics disputed with the Christians. They were annihilated, but we can imagine their possible victory. Had Alexandria triumphed and not Rome, the extravagant and muddled stories that I have summarized here would be coherent, majestic, and perfectly ordinary. Pronouncements such as Novalis' "Life is a sickness of the spirit", or the despairing one
john cassavetes' husbands distilled into 23 blurs, streaks and abstractions(discovered while listening to toru takemitsu)

à la recherche de la guitare perdue - la troisième partie (collapsing stars)

(jazz, listening-music, etcetery)co-researched by memory contributors tarrl lightowlerdiane granahan and m swiezynski- john abercrombie - november - ecm - 1992- amm (keith rowe) - ammmusic 1966 - rer megacorp - 1989- amm (keith rowe) - the crypt - 12th june 1968 - matchless recordings - 1988/1992- amm (keith rowe) - newfoundland - matchless recordings - 1993- amm (keith rowe) - fine - matchless

pieces

There is no paradise on earth, but there are pieces of it.What there is on earth is a broken paradise.- Pierro della Francesca / Jules Renard

the pinewood frenzy, once,

forthcoming tree film *23five incorporated & ata present a night of projection, video and soundjefre cantu & paul clipsongrasslung & matthew swiezynskipulse emitter & matthew swiezynskisaturday, august 8, 2009 - 8 pm992 valencia street, san francisco ca(for those in the bay area)* stills from as yet untitled tree film inspired by the camera methods of stan brakhage, kirston lightowler and michael