equivalent (series)

peter hutton - boston fire - 1979peter hutton - new york portrait, chapter ii - 1980-81alfred stieglitz - equivalent (series) - 1925-1931

the sounds of the sounds of the sounds of the sounds

twenty three recordings of reality by jean painlevé

and diamond drops turned to half-liquid pearls, and the water went to sleep

joseph goold - watered cross effect(drawing realised with a harmonograph)from harmonic vibrations and vibration figureslondon, newton & co. - 1909from every leaf and petal of these, from every branch-tip and tendril, dropped bright water. it gathered slowly at each point, but the points were so many that there was a constant musical plashing of diamond rain upon the still surface...george

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

often coupled with land, to express the idea of the whole surface of the earth

riccardo morandiconstruction photo of bridge over lake maracaibo, venezuelafrom - the concrete architecture of riccardo morandi by giorgio boaga & benito boni - praeger - 1966

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

robert bresson, francis ponge, a correspondingly particular sound

ciment: do you like poets like francis ponge? your films remind one of him, and his le parti pris des choses.bresson: yes. i no longer see ponge, unfortunately, as he has moved to the south. he wrote me some remarkable letters about my films and about cinema. i like his fondness for objects, for inanimate things.*rainin the courtyard where i watch it fallthe rain is coming down in widely varied

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

robert bresson, georges bernanos, nouvelle histoire de mouchette

the dark west wind, the sea wind, was already scattering the voices in the darkness. it toyed with them a moment and then lifted them all together, dispersing them with an angry roar. the voice which mouchette had just heard hovered in the air a long time, like a dead leaf floating interminably.her secret was not one which could be shared, for it was connected with so many different things. it

then be called ten times a donkey, and a mule, and an ass, and begone, or i’ll clear the world of thee!

classic books (number 4):moby-dick; or, the whale by herman melville, 1851(compiled with great assistance from the famed german librarian, herr t light)such dreary streets! blocks of blackness, not houses, on either hand, and here and there a candle, like a candle moving about in a tomb. at this hour of the night, of the last day of the week, that quarter of the town proved all but deserted. but

all point to that which is now

josef sudek: rembrances series, 1959 josef sudek: sunday afternoon on kolin island, 1924-26there they were, dignified, invisible,moving without pressure, over the dead leaves,in the autumn heat, through the vibrant air,and the bird called, in response tothe unheard music hidden in the shrubbery,and the unseen eyebeam crossed, for the roseshad the look of flowers that are looked at.there they were

there is something going on in the sky like a decomposition, like a corruption of the air, which remains as still as ever

john ford: the long voyage home, 1940(dp: gregg toland)the only spot of light in the ship at night was that of the compass-lamps, lighting up the faces of the succeeding helmsmen; for the rest we were lost in the darkness, i walking the poop and the men lying about the decks. they were all so reduced by sickness that no watches could be kept. those who were able to walk remained all the time on

the sea: void, darkness, mysterious, not a sound

the bay of arcachon and lighthouse on cape ferret, 1871seascape by moonlight, 1873-76 (both images from manet and the sea, by juliet wilson-bareau and david degeneryale university press 2003)after sunset i came out on deck again to meet only a still void. the thin, featureless crust of the coast could not be distinguished. the darkness had risen around the ship like a mysterious emanation from

coordinates what is heard and what is seen

leighton pierce: my person in the water, 2006pierce was a musician before he was a filmmaker. he made musique concrete and became attracted to film in part because "there was this problem with musique concrete; once you've constructed this music electronically on tape, what do you do at a concert? it's very awkward sitting in an auditorium listening to a tape". once he began to work with

the secret of shadows (from francis a. yates)

(please click images to make them bigger)new film finished (35 minutes!) and available soon on dvd. look for it in fine establishments dealing in smut and iniquities.soundtrack: the gentle sound of rainimages: inspired by tarkovsky's driving sequence in solaris

intended to be used for making inscriptions in memory

new film by m swiezynski, 2007(shot at eno river, nc, sound by m swiezynski)ready soon for distribution by joe squirrel production company ltd. with offices in bakersfield, fresno and piedmont california, please contact for more information

quelques chiens, quelques canards et quelques grenouilles

abbas kiarostami: five dedicated to ozu 2003dogs episode: abstraction from gradual overexposure (annihilation), with the subtle sound of waves."this (everything moving towards an absolute brightness) suggests eternity, birth, life, and resurrection" kiarostamiducks episode: 800 ducks pass by the camera (the best kind of direction a director can achieve) with the sound of their feet producing a

which he distorted by decorating with images

new video out by m swiezynski(number one in a series of 10/12 items due on dvd in 4-8 weeks)((including:train films, magic hour films, animals & nature films and studiesof weather, not good in any manner))(for more information, please contact mr. arthur o. memory esquire, booking agent and purveyor of iniquities)ps. if watching film on youtube (with very bad image quality), headphones recommended

camera lucida & lightstreams, jouissance

the meaning of mystery is to be always in ambiguity, with double, triple aspects; in the hints of aspects (images in images), forms which will be, or which become according to the state of mind of the beholder. all things become more suggestive because they appear.odilon redon (from as in a dream: odilon redon)this entry looks at the work of 3 contemporary artists working in filmic abstractions,

abstraction of trees, mondrian

landzicht farm under bluish-grey sky, 1905geinrust farm in watery landscape, 1905-1906the grey tree, 1911composition 10 in black and white, 1915the classic book: piet mondrian: catalogue raisonné by joop joosten and robert welsh, abrams 1996(this is research for a video featuring north carolina trees, some big, some small, all put through the alembic of my camera. i asked old mondrian to help out