the essential cinema

personal film canon.a list of movies that have had an influence on me,and have been watched repetitively.- chantal akerman: je, tu, il, elle 1974, jeanne dielman, 23 quai du commerce 1080 bruxelles 1976, news from home 1977, les rendez-vous d'anna 1978, j'ai faim, j'ai froid 1984- woody allen: stardust memories 1980, broadway danny rose 1984, hannah and her sisters 1986, crimes and misdemeanors

best of 2006, or the sublime

train photo by m swiezynskiin no order,dvds of note:satantango, bela tarr, artificial eyethe double life of veronique, krzysztof kieslowski, criterionla bete humaine, jean renoir, criterionyoung mr. lincoln, john ford, criterionpickpocket, robert bresson, criterionpandora’s box, g.w. pabst, criterionthe spirit of the beehive, víctor erice, criterionseven samurai, akira kurosawa,

abstractions, monochromes and minimalism, part 1

a small list of considerations for a chronicle of visual abstraction, with examples from music, photography, painting, film, video, and literature.including minimalism and the monochrome.this is not an all-inclusive list, but only concerned with examples of beauty or the sublime.this list is mostly centered around books and music from the library of herr schinkel / m. swiezynski, and related

"Nobody ever comes back from a "missing" ship to tell how hard was the death of the craft, and how sudden and overwhelming the last anguish of her men. Nobody can say with what thoughts, with what regrets, with what words on their lips they died. But there is something fine in the sudden passing away of these hearts from the extremity of struggle and stress and tremendous uproar - from the vast,

the secret life of plants - melancholia - satantango

new items found and in the process of clarification.or, relationships between abstract art, literature, cinema and drone music.1. anselm kiefer monograph "the secret life of plants" by heiner bastian/schirmer/mosel verlag munchen 2003.2. bruges-la-morte by georges rodenbach dedalus books.written in 1892, concerns the fate of a widower who has turned to the melancholy, decaying city of bruges as