after long periods in darkness

the blackest moments fromstan brakhage - the dark tower - 1999(an homage to all the dark towers in literary history)darkness itself can be a rich realm of vision for the "untutored eye". it reveals ephemeral shapes and patterns of light seen when the eyes are closed. known as phosphenes, these "wispy clouds and moving specks of light," as gerald oster describes them, may arise spontaneously,

he lived in fear that the state of illumination with which he was blest - or with which he was afflicted - might be untimely withdrawn

one night i dreamt that i had made a pact with the devil: he was my servant, and anticipated my every wish... i found myself handing him my violin to see if he might manage some pretty tunes; but imagine my astonishment when i heard a sonata so unusual and so beautiful, performed with such mastery and intelligence, on a level i had never before conceived was possible! i was so overcome that i

signatures, in the regular edition, is now available

invisible birds is deeply honoured to release the very fine disc by mr. colin andrew sheffield entitled signatures, in the regular edition.here, we have posted a nice review:seattle’s colin andrew sheffield has been quietly destroying sound since the late 1990’s. beginning with 1998’s side one/side two, on his own elevator bath imprint – also home to recordings from adam pacione and rick reed,

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bresson on artificial eye

other's face reflected

train abstractions fromakira kurosawa's high and low - 1963cinematography by asakazu nakai & takao saito

take me to your cinema

michael powell - peeping tom - 1960cinematography by otto heller("take me to your cinema" a great influence on the young arthur de eriomém, finally revisited as a codger)

those living waves, die one after another, monotonously, but they make no foaming sound

magic-hour & darkness (plus day-for-night) inl'armée des l'ombres - jean-pierre melville - 1969cinematography by pierre lhommethe bird of passage rests on the waves, then abandons himself to their movements, full of proud grace, until the bones of his wings have recovered their accustomed strength and he can continue his aerial pilgrimage..... i want to die lulled by the waves of the stormy

falling the evening of people blurrs cats

images:cat people - val lewton & jacques tourneur - 1942&curse of the cat people - val lewton, gunther von fritsch, robert wise - 1944((for colin & holly))

enneigé - covered with snow

jean-pierre melville - l'armée des ombres - 1969cinematography - pierre lhommeactor - lino venturafirst post in a series looking at the difference betweenmagic-hour/night-time photography and day-for-nightin melville's l'armée des ombresbased on an amateur's (lover's) view-point(enneigé images - memories of winter nights in harlem, nyc by young gossamer)

and then everything receded from him (invisible birds)

and the sound of the wind died away and then like the murmur of a lullaby or pealing bells rose up again from the depths of ravines and tips of fir trees and a faint reddishness climbed into the deep blue and small clouds drifted by on silver wings and all the mountain peaks, sharp and firm, glinted and gleamed far across the countryside, he would feel something tearing at his chest, he would

flowers appear (invisible birds)

unir ton système nerveaux au mien dans la nuit profonde de la connaissance, 1936the swan is very peaceful, 1920shoot the moon, 1972illustration from répétitions, paul éluard, 1922kleist, brentano, arnim:caspar david friedrich, seelandschaft mit kapuziner1972loplop, supérieur des oiseaux, 1928paramythes, 1967les diamants conjugaux, 1925quelques animaux dont un illettré, 1973l'oiseau dans la forêt,

edrnia plmnei

los angeles, time, castration, infidelity, darkness, humour, violence, poland, rabbits, prostitution, mercenaries, glistening eyes, alleys, distant melodies, death, penderecki, nonsense, trainsounds, scratching, surface sounds, evil, 47, hollywood & vine, blurring, afterimages, liminality

rounds

richard serra - out-of-round VII - 1999(paintstick on hiromi paper)from richard serra: drawings, work comes out of workkunsthaus bregenz - 2008

he was almost forgotten, in fact, within a few years of his death

lake lugano - 1885 + two detailsfrom edward lear as a landscape draughtsman by philip hoferthe belknap press of harvard university - 1967

the walls are excellent & high & upon an horizontal line

in 1795, when shirley, massachusettes, was a community of 200 shakers living on three thousand acres, an outside observer recorded, "the walls are excellent & high & upon an horizontal line, & as straight as they can be laid."inspired by visionary experiences, the gift drawings bridge the heavenly and the earthly spheres....imaging heaven as a perfectly balanced array of circles, squares, and

univers du western - winchester '73

anthony mann - winchester '73 - 1950james stewart * - lin mcadammillard mitchell * - high spadedan duryea * - waco johnnie deanjay c. flippen * - sgt. wilkesjohn mcintire * - joe lamontwill geer * - wyatt earpcinematography - william h. danielscinematography by william h. daniels *editing by edward curtiss *(number 4 of 500 detailing westerns)((number 5 of 500, anthony mann's the tin star,

before the descent of complete darkness (invisible birds)

törless was still gazing out into the garden. he thought he could hear the rustling of the withered leaves being blown into drifts by the wind. then came the moment of utter stillness which always occurs a little before the descent of complete darkness. the shape of things, which had been sinking ever more deeply into the dusk, and the blurring, dissolving colours of things--for an instant it

four forward drifting down

al reinhart - for all mankind - 1989when the sunlight shines through the blackness of space it's black, but i was in sunlight, and i was able to look at this blackness. i mean, what are you looking at? call it the universe, but it's the infinity of space and the infinity of time. i'm looking at something called space, that has no end, and at time, that has no meaning. you really can focus on

a dream dismissed, as shapeless night, orphaned by immensity

she said, 'the moon is up; and see -how in the height the smoke-shaft gleamsand the shadow glides, uncaught beneath ! -our life resembles, not the smoke,but the shadow flying to its death.'fyodor tyutchev, versions from fyodor tyutchev, oxford university press, 1960the moon, who is caprice itself, looked in through your window as you lay asleep in your cradle, and said: 'this child pleases me.'

robert bresson, jonas mekas, about unfinished playing records

..... a film about diagonals. diagonal angels, diagonal glances. about eyes that never really meet. a film without a single frontal shot. a film about three-quarter spaces. about the sound of closing doors. about the sound of footsteps. about the sound of things. about the sound of water. about shy glances. about unfinished glances. about the sound of glass. about death in our midst. about light