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
elephant, some things just stick in your mind
young man gunned down out of focusgus van sant editing elephantimages from gus van sant's elephant, 2003cinematography by harris savides (with work like this, who needs contemporary popular photography?)editing by gus van santsound design by leslie shatz with beethoven’s "für elise" & additional sound by hildegard westerkampthe most beautiful film so far of the 21st century?beauty and chaos......
at last a new dawn, three rooms, cello recycling/cello drowning & breizhiselad described by paul celan
musical examples of melancholia and the divine:peter wright: at last a new dawn, 2007 * "peter wright plays disconnected avant guitar gloop distilled through a series of electronic filters and single malt, heavily influenced by guitar pop, free jazz/improv, atonal guitar noise, cats and city trash.. he was born at 43.3170s, 172.6330e and currently lives at 51.4450n, 0.1510w.(some) influences:
la pianiste II, twilight of the mind
isabelle huppert on adorno on schumann's fantasie in c majormichael haneke: la pianiste 2001
la pianiste
michael haneke: la pianiste 2001cinematography christian berger starring isabelle huppertspecial effects coordinator: lászló kovácsother haneke/berger films:-caché 2005-71 fragmente einer chronologie des aufalls (71 fragments of a chronology of chance) 1994-benny's video 1992"god can thank bach because bach is the proof of the existence of god" isabelle huppert
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
winter house
"My dear friend, what is this our life? A boat that swims in the sea, and all one knows for certain about it is that one day it will capsize. Here we are, two good old boats that have been faithful neighbors, and above all your hand has done its best to keep me from "capsizing"! Let us then continue our voyage—each for the other's sake, for a long time yet, a long time! We should miss each other
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
flug (flight)
photos by sharon harper of train travel in germany(you can see my excitement in finding these)
of mirrors and of the labyrinth
from with borges (by alberto manguel):two nightmares haunted borges throughout his life: of mirrors and of the labyrinth. the labyrinth, first discovered as a child in a copperplate engraving of the seven wonders of the world, made him fear 'a house with no doors' in whose centre a monster awaited him; mirrors terrified him with the suspicion that one day they would reflect back a face that was
love-melancholy
in the precedent section mention was made, amongst other pleasant objects, of this comeliness and beauty which proceeds from women, that causeth heroical, or love-melancholy, is more eminent above the rest, and properly called love. the part affected in men is the liver, and therefore called heroical, because commonly gallants, nobleman, and the most generous spirits are possessed with it. his
melancholia, music, books, film & the sound of duchamp's large glass
(some nice business that has come my way)vikki jackman: of beauty reminiscingasher: the depths, the colors, the objects & the silence****music****-larsen and friends: abeceda (with david tibet, jòhann jòhannsson, baby dee, and the amazing julia kent)2007 important(a great band and performance, especially the lovely cello playing of julia kent)-jgrzinich / mnortham: the absurd evidence1998
some flares, flickers and circles of confusion from the killing of a chinese bookie (long version)
(flicker) (flicker)(flicker)(flicker)(flicker, this whole sequence looks like tony conrad shot it)(looks like cassavetes)(flicker)john cassavetes: the killing of a chinese bookie, 1976 (long version)cinematography: john cassavetes, al ruban, mitch breit, frederick elmesthese are abstractions from the killing of a chinese bookie, purely from the lens/camera.i found from doing this entry; to
hopelessness of not being able to die
before the storm:(fade to red)it is early in the morning and i am in pain (cinematography by sven nykvist)i was asked to look for some frames from ingmar bergman's cries and whispers (1972) that illustrate kierkegaard's hopelessness of not even being able to die* for a ghostly observer of the art of memory (zeyno dagli) who is writing her phd-thesis on death, dying and suffering.here are a few...
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,
the place where they came to grief
"But I always found what Alphonso told us at that time about the life and death of moths especially memorable, and of all creatures I still feel the greatest awe for them. In the warmer month of the year one or other of those nocturnal insects quite often strays indoors from the small garden behind my house. When I get up early in the morning, I find them clinging to the wall, motionless. I
bergman on bergman
ingmar bergman: the silence, 1963from bergman on bergman: interviews with ingmar bergman:it's of no interest, perhaps, but yesterday evening i was reflecting on the origins of the silence. i can no longer lay my hands on the work-books for it, i don't know what i've done with them- but i remember that it was about christmas time, and that the silence, just like winter light, began with a piece of
la région centrale, the great religious work
michael snow, la région centrale 1971 some ideas found in the michael snow project: the collected writings of michael snow, wilfred laurier university press, 1994:the camera is an instrument which has expressive possibilities in itself. i want to make a gigantic landscape film equal in terms to the great landscape paintings of cezanne, poussin, corot, monet, matisse and in canada the group of
keith berry & distant melodies
58º north dvd, images by iain stewart & sound by keith berry(excerpt here)keith berry and the beauty of distant melodiessome ideas on "distant melodies":1. being in a museum at night, with no light, standing in front of a leonardo da vinci, only barely able to make anything out, just some dark colors and shapes.2. being on a ship at night, in the middle of the ocean, knowing you are surrounded by
he couldn't resist the opportunity to get back in the big time
billy wilder's ace in the hole, 1951(aka the big carnival)with kirk douglas, cinematography by charles langother great kirk douglas films i have watched lately:-lonely are the brave, 1962 (d. david miller)(a sad good bye to the west)-paths of glory, 1957 (d. stanley kubrick)-man without a star, 1955 (d. king vidor)-out of the past, 1947 (d. jacques tourneur)title (above) from kirk douglas in his
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no country for old men
no country for old men (d. coen brothers)some movies i am looking forward to seeing:-paranoid park (d. gus van sant)-izgnanie (d. andrei zvyagintsev)-climates (d. nuri bilge ceylan)-4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days (d. cristian mungiu)-the man from london (d. béla tarr)-no country for old men (d. coen brothers)-one hundred nails (d. ermanno olmi)-aleksandra (d. aleksandr sokurov)-secret sunshine (d.
serra, photographer of the sun
images from the richard serra exhibition at the moma, nyc.enjoyment from looking very close at these sublime abstractions, inspired by the tales of dostoevsky getting close to paintings by standing on a chair.do people look or talk about these work's rich surfaces?a great study of serra's work would be to make an imaginary grid on the surface of one sculpture, and photograph each square foot (for
other abstractions of the sun, at the moma
dorothea rockburne: scalar 1971 (details) moma(through a glass darkly)guillermo kuitca: untitled 1992 (details) momamarcel duchamp: network of stoppages, 1914 (detail) momajoan miro: the birth of the world, 1925 (details) momajean dubuffet: soul of the underground from the series materiologies, december 1959 (details) momafranz kline: chief, 1950 (detail) momadonald judd: relief, 1961 (detail)
lovely sadistic appearances
strother martin in john huston's the asphalt jungle, 1950, in his second film appearance (uncredited)i didn't realize this was strother martin, the classic sadist, until i did an image search on him the other day.one of my favourite actors, making lovely sadistic appearances in:john ford's the man who shot liberty valance 1962stuart rosenberg's cool hand luke 1967, and pocket money 1972"what we
music, melancholia
more encounters with musical melancholia:(just a list of some things i have heard lately)lou reed: hudson river wind meditations, 2007for melancholic yogalou reed: berlin, the bed, sad song, and the kids from berlin, 1973jason lescalleet: the pilgrimhomage to lescalleet's father that passed away from cancerdavid lang: the passing measures, 2001bass communion: ghosts on magnetic tape, 2004"
tour de l'apocalypse
robert garcet's tower of the apocalypseimage from: fantastic architecture: personal and eccentric visions, 1980 harry abramstext from the book:born in 1912, robert garcet is a stonecutter by profession. around 1930, he settled in fort ebenemael, belgium, building a house there, then a workshop. in the early fifties, he began the tour de l'apocalypse. garcet sees the church as the cause of today's
dead souls, light, sound, rain, and dogs
......which it was difficult to make out in the darkness. only half of it was lit by the light coming from the windows; also visible was a puddle in front of the house, which was stuck directly by the same light. rain beat noisily on the wooden roof and poured in burbling streams into the rain barrel. meanwhile the dogs went off into all possible voices: one, his head thrown back, howled so
new music, here and there
some new music i picked up, and many discs i heard while traveling through the wilds of north carolina, from my two knowledgeable tour guides.new arrivals (chartier, jgrzinich, roden and basinski):richard chartier + asmus tietchens: fabrications such delicate handling and transforming of asmus tietchens' sound work by richard chartier. much like the cover's image by chartier, the listener moves
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
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the sphere ca. 1890 charcoalfrom the new book: as in a dream: odilon redon, hatje cantz 2007
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yasujiro ozu - hitokomakura & one stone. and arcs and ears.
2 recent releases of sound artists dealing with "transcendental" filmmakers (ozu & bresson).yasujiro ozu:and/oar's 2 cd set: yasujiro ozu - hitokomakuraand/oar has invited sound artists to choose one or more "pillow shots" from ozu's films and create sound works.and/oar goes on to explain: "pillow shots" are short poetic pauses that appear between the acting segments of his films. the term "
edward hopper
east river 1920-23the sheridan theatre 1937new york movie 1939r3017 r3170i have been drooling over the edward hopper catalogue raisonné now for a while (it is $250.00). since i can't afford it, i look at it from time to time at work. here are some images from volume IV, the cd-rom of his works, including his journals.a great book on hopper's journals/notebooks is: edward hopper: a journal of
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«der process»
page 1page 30from the kafka project the trial, "im dom" chapter
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fritz arno wagner, cinematographer & 13 stills from mabuse
fritz arno wagner (1894-1958)key cinematographer of the german expressionist movement, wagner worked most notable with directors f.w. murnau, g.w. pabst and fritz lang. wagner received his training from the academy of fine arts in paris, then went on to work at pathe film company as a clerk.his most noteworthy contributions can be seen in murnau's nosferatu, pabst's die liebe der jeanne ney and
dreaming out of windows
joseph cornell's dreamsdecember 18, 1965:dreaming out of windowsmarch 8, 1968:surprise span of the night - going on 5 amvs. earlier awakenings in halluc. experience...eggs + nest converted into childrennovember 15, 1969:field mousedream of mouselive coals walking right into them unscathednew book of catherine corman's anthology of dream entries from cornell's diaries, published by exact change of
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antonio lópez garcía, from la mancha
maria, 1972, pencil on paperhome of antonio lópez torres (uncle), 1972-75, pencil on paper2 drawings by antonio lópez garcía, painter from la manchasome fine sites to cogitate on:tim lowly siteantonio lópez garcía: timeless realism in a spanish key(which has this quote from lópez garcía: "the best art of [antiquity] achieves an emotional intensity that transcends individual achievement, its
bright lights of moscow stations flashing into view and vanishing again behind me
i was on a train, travelling by day, but it was winter-time - late december, the very depths - and to add to it the train was heading north - to leningrad - so it was quickly darkening on the other side of the windows - bright lights of moscow stations flashing into view and vanishing again behind me like the scattering of some invisible hand - each snow-veiled suburban platform with its fleeting
extract - portraits of soundartists
new release from nonvisualobjectsformat: book (hardcover, 96 pages) + 2 cdslimited edition: 500graphic design my raphael mosercd 101 keith berry | finger pointing at the moon02 richard chartier | a field for recordings 203 taylor deupree | live in osaka04 heribert friedl | nbvto05 richard garet | précis06 andy graydon | microclimates for paliku07 bernhard günter | listen to what you see (audio---
having replied with his "good evening", he became surpised at himself
many fine books on melancholia,that i look forward to browsing when visiting the home of mr. arthur de eriomémtitle from f. dostoevsky: the eternal husband 1870 (page 154 pevear/volokhonsky)
prehistoric architecture in the eastern united states
page 75, perkins: scott, mississippiprehistoric architecture in the eastern united states by william n. morgan, 1980 mit pressgreat book on pre-land art structures in the united states, specifically native american architecture from about 2200 bc to ad 1500.
the essential cinema, condensed
top 30 from the essential cinema list1. robert bresson: pickpocket 19592. andrei tarkovsky: andrei rublev 19693. akira kurosawa: seven samurai 19544. michael snow: la région centrale 19715. ernie gehr: signal-germany on the air 1982-856. jean-pierre melville: le samouraï 19677. john ford: my darling clementine 19468. william wellman: the ox-bow incident 19439. bela tarr: satantango 199410. howard
the tin star
an exciting opening sequence found in anthony mann's the tin star, 1957.masterfully photographed by loyal griggs.the sequence is 10 shots over 2 minutes and thirty seconds. henry fonda as a bounty hunter rides into town with a dead man.reminiscent of tarkovsky, or the ending of the passenger, but with less attention to its form.also, take a look at this months film comment for an interesting
prouvé in queens
jean prouvé house beside the queensboro bridge, awaiting its sale at christie's.more images here
the dark side of nature
some nice books to read during the summer or just finished:-fyodor dostoevsky, the idiot 1898 (everyman's library)-konstantin mochulsky, dostoevsky: his life and work 1967 (princeton)-leonid tsypkin, summer in baden-baden 1981 (new directions)-robert walser, selected stories 1907-1929 (nyrb)-francis ponge, selected poems 1935-1974 (faber and faber)-george macdonald, the complete fairy tales mid
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parker 51 & chopin
some beautiful things (shot in soft focus like garbo)parker 51sparker 51 ink montblanc meisterstück hommage à frédéric chopin
owen roizman, cinematographer
owen roizman (1936-)one of the most respected new york cinematographers (born in brooklyn) and son of a newsreel cameraman. known for his street realism, and low-light photography on such films as the french connection, the taking of pelham one two three, the exorcist, three days of the condor and straight time. certainly one of the finest contributors to seventies cinema.the french connection
killer of sheep
photographic additions to my essential cinema list.charles burnett's killer of sheep, 1977.my teachers in film school were obsessed with this film and showed it at least once a semester. it is certainly a classic in american cinema, surely in the same league as the work of john cassavetes. now hopefully this and shirley clarke's the connection and the cool world will make it to dvd.
remember the red river valley, or dogs in the ox-bow incident
the opening and closing shot of william wellman's the oxbow-incident, 1942, each with trotting dog and the song red river valley.riders are henry fonda and harry morgan.a nice structural touch to have the 2 riders going into town (at the beginning of the film), and leaving town (at the end of the film), with the same melody from red river valley, but the dog added a strange element. reminiscent
en état d'ivresse
a new (bl)ind (o)scillating (g)oat named dipsomania. the french call him dipsomane.this goat plans to dedicate his/her life to the study of alcohol and its effects on cinema, literature, art and design. other posts will include studies of fine spirits, words related to, and interesting products.
paul klee, une dévotion aux petites choses
highways and byways, 1929twittering machine. 1922view of ancient city, 1927books:-paul klee et la nature de l'art: une dévotion aux petites choses, hazan/les musées de strasbourg (exhibition catalogue)-klee by nello ponente, skira-klee drawings, dover publications-paul klee: painting music by hajo duchting, prestel-paul klee and the bauhaus by christian geelhaar, new york graphic society ltd.-
munch in louisiana
edvard munch jealousy 1896recently acquired exhibition poster from an edvard munch exhibition at the louisiana museum in denmark.purchased from richard press in sacramento, my favourite bookseller in northern california.
richard serra
richard serra sculpture: forty yearsnew richard serra catalogue available, and moma exhibition soon......richard serra sculpture: forty yearsjune 3–september 10, 2007, moma new york
killing in tarkovsky & kurosawa
similarities between andrei tarkovsky'sandrei rublev, 1966& akira kurosawa's seven samurai 1954andrei tarkovsky andrei rublev, 1966rublev's assistant is shot in the back by an arrow and struggles toward the camera, then dies in the water. all in slow motion. notice water hitting the lense.akira kurosawa seven samurai 1954two classic death scenes in seven samurai. first, a thief is killed by
that my memory is broken, i do not wonder
i have examined maps of the city with the greatest care, yet have never again found rue d'auseil. these maps have not been modern maps alone, for i know that names change. i have, on the contrary, delved deeply into all the antiquities of the place; and have personally explored every region, of whatever name, which could possibly answer to the street i knew as the rue d'auseil. but despite all i
magic hour series, or liminality
(location shots for the magic hour series, pre-abstraction images)work has finally begun on the magic hour series,a planned 6-9 month series of hd videos photographed mainly in pastoral locations (with some urban) around northern california and north carolina.these works will all be photographed 20-30 minutes prior to sunset and diminish into the darkness of the night.(sound will be recorded
visions of the divine
m swiezynski st francis 2005(a small list of artists interested in the divine)f=film, m=music , b=books1 (f). the work of robert bresson.esp. diary of a country priest 1951, au hazard balthazar 1966, mouchette 1967.see: robert bresson: a spiritual style by joseph cunneen, transcendental style in film by paul shrader, the hidden god: film and faith by the moma2 (m). current 93: black ships ate
films as if they were vegetable gardens
images of water in nostalghia 1983, andrei tarkovsky.one doesn't need to explain in film, but rather to directly affect the feelings of the audience. it is this awakened emotion that then drives the thoughts forward. i am seeking a principle of montage that will allow me to expose the subjective logic-the thought, the dream, the memory-instead of the logic of the subject. page 11he (dovzhenko)
h3o, or how to slice a loaf of bread
works by the hafler trio (one andrew mckenzie).including lovely drones, provocative texts and graphic design.-the sea org 1986, touch (re-release 2006 korm plastics)-intoutof 1988, kk (re-release 1998 soleilmoon recordings)-kill the king 1992, touch (re-release 2005 korm plastics)-mastery of money 1992, touch (re-release 2005 korm plastics)-all that rises must converge 1992, touch-resurrection (
after long silence
speech after long silence; it is right,all other lovers being estranged or dead,unfriendly lamplight hid under its shade,the curtains drawn upon unfriendly night,that we descant and yet again descantupon the supreme theme of art and song:bodily decrepitude is wisdom; youngwe loved each other and were ignorant.w.b. yeats from words for music perhaps, 1932.to hear jorge luis borges read this, take
recent descents into melancholia
(music-wise)maurizio bianchi & jozef van wissem: das platinzeitalterwilliam basinski: shortwave musicearth: hibernaculumarve henriksen (with helge sten & stale storlokken): strjoniron & wine: worksjóhann jóhannsson: ibm 1401, a user´s manual (esp. the track: the suns gone dim and the sky's turned black)roy orbison: best of earth: hibernaculum maurizio bianchi & jozef van wissem: das
some flickers from saul levine & ken jacobs
saul levine: light lick series, 2000-2003, super 8 films.get it while you canget it while you canget it while you canget it while you cani saw the light, praise the darki saw the light, praise the dark (with beautiful references to the bauhaus)i saw the light, praise the darki saw the light, praise the darki saw the light, praise the darkamazing gracedetourdetourdetourdetourdetourborn under a bad
the duck of death*
rain in the films martin and unforgiven.martin, 1977 directed by george a. romero, cinematography by michael gornick.great rain montage between the bizarre murders committed by the (possible) vampire.this section and others really stood out and gave the film the feeling of an european art-house film, which i found to go nice with the senseless murdering. the ending of michelangelo antonioni's
wonderous and divine (of or pertaining to a god, esp. the supreme being)
"he would pull these songs out of nowhere," robbie robertson said. "we didn't know if he wrote them or if he remembered them. when he sang them, you couldn't tell." that, in the basement tapes laboratory, is the alchemy, and in that alchemy is an undiscovered country, like the purloined letter hiding in plain site.from greil marcus', the old, weird america: the world of bob dylan's basement tapes
lenz, darkness had fallen
m. swiezynski..........grey clouds marched across the sky, but everything so close, and then the mist came swirling up and drifted dank and heavy through the bushes, so leaden, so sluggish....................and the mist devoured the shape of things then half revealed their giant limbs; the surge swept through him, he sought for something, as though for lost dreams, but he found nothing..........
following the ring
milos forman: loves of a blonde, 1965joseph cornell rose hobart, 1936milos forman: loves of a blonde, 1965sequence where married man looking to meet young girl, takes off his ring, puts it in his pocket, but then it falls out as he is talking with her and he follows it under a table.i watched this sequence over and over this weekend, much of the appeal for me was the music forman used. it added
cosmos, κόσμος
hubble image, carina nebulathe ancient and medieval cosmos as depicted in peter apian's cosmographia (antwerp, 1539).or, nebula & hubble
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'a moving aria for a vanishing style of mind''a noble debut trackling vertiginous demands''has absence ever sounded so eloquent so sad i doubt it?with an arm across the torsoface on the nailswith an arm across the torsoface on the pale monkey nails'touching in the shattered lives it unearths''a nocturne filled with glorious ideas''a chilling exploration of erotic consumption'with an arm across
you cracked like the ice general nobile
krasnaya palatka (the red tent) 1969, directed by mikheil kalatozishvili, cinematography by leonid kalashnikov, music by ennio morricone & aleksandr zatsepin.a flawed film, but worth watching. the highlights being: peter finch's performance, the stunning cinematography by leonid kalashnikov, and the music, which at times is quite frightening, and of course the beautiful land(snow)scape
being an eye for nothing
bunkers & fog in marin, images from last year"to be a cinematographer of nothing, to express its own impossibility? to imagine one being an eye for nothing, an eye for the impossibility demand such vulnerability at times. maybe cursed and blessed at the same time" z, kafka's ghost
la mélancolie et le christ mort
hans holbein the body of the dead christ in the tomb 1521andrea mantegna the lamentation over the dead christ c. 1490dostoyevsky said after viewing hans holbein's the body of the dead christ in the tomb, one might lose their faith and proceeded to write the idiot. that holbein's painting was so visceral then (and still is), is quite wonderful.paintings of - beauty, melancholia, love and
nothingness
i know nothing about nothingness 4/17/2007the deeper you go, the more you get lost (both quotes from mekas)
it is a grimy establishment with some dusty trade goods....
photographs of conté and ink drawings done by the late mister futterman, or m. swiezynski.(photos of conté drawings):(night time photographs of an oed definition written with a mont blanc on a small paper and submerged in water):more info here and here.
and the bells were ringing
virgil caine is the name,and i served on the danville train,'til stoneman's cavalrycame and tore up the tracks again.in the winter of '65,we were hungry, just barely alive.by may the tenth, richmond had fell,it's a time I remember, oh so well,the night they drove old dixie down,and the bells were ringing,the night they drove old dixie down,and the people were singin'.they wentla, la, la, la, la,
generated most commonly through either thermal convection or frontal lifting
cloud imagesi gave up my lucrative career as a cloud photographer to be an antiquarian, which i regret now. but here are some of my previous studies that were published in numerous scientific magazines and periodicals, mainly in the fine french journal ivrogne (soûlard, alcoolique).
beauty, chaos and destruction from dassin
more images from brute force, 1947 directed by jules dassin cinematography by william h. daniels.chaosbeauty; passing lightda vinci, durer, bosch and bruegel destructiontrue chaosother great prison films:-the big house 1930 (d. george hill)-un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou le vent souffle où il veut 1956 (d. robert bresson)-le trou 1960 (d. jacques becker)-cool hand luke 1967 (d. stuart
rain & snow.......daniels & zsigmond
2 cinematographers and their use of water (or weather).-rain in brute force, 1947 directed by jules dassin, cinematography by william h. daniels.the beginning of this classic prison break film by jules dassin has various shots of the building in extreme rain, and sets the tone for the rest of the film (turbulent and unpredictable).-snow in mccabe & mrs. miller, 1971 directed by robert altman,
monochromes and architecture
monochromes and interior design by david ireland.folded paper landscape, 1973landscape, 1974dirt work with flakes, 1974a portion of: from the year of doing the same work each day,1975waxed cement with hole, 1975capp street, 1986headlands center for the arts, 1986-1987
trains in cinema, woyzeck
woyzeck directed by jános szász, 1994hungarian version of georg büchner's 1837 play woyzeck.instead of a soldier we find woyzeck as a flag man in a train yard in hungary.like bela tarr making a train film, although less minimal.with examples of; smoke, darkness, rain, snow, mud and fog (obscuring the trains and characters that pass by).close up of the tracks as a train passes by in slow motion
catscratchers
preston sturges' unfaithfully yours, 1948one of my favourite parts of unfaithfully yours; the great comic actor lionel stander praises the skills of conductor rex harrison, after his gut-wrenching performance:"flatter you?, compared to the truth i am insulting you, what did you have in your head, what visions of eternity, armageddon, the final battle of the planets in the end of creation, to
....choreograph her teacup to synchronize with her dialogue....
beautiful new things: music:arvo part (paul hillier): da pacem, harmonia mundi.these compositions are just so beautiful.michael cashmore (with antony, john contreros & others): the snow abides (great title), dutro/jnanarecords.another fine cd, especially for those interested in current 93 and antony. it is a shame it is so short.books:interviews with tarkovsky.ozu, by donald richie, univ. of
writing with light
nostalghia 1983 (d. andrei tarkovsky) dp: giuseppe lancia small list of considerations for the cinematographer series.with select filmographies.néstor almendros: domicile conjugal 1970 (d. françois truffaut), le deux anglaises et le continent 1971 (d. françois truffaut), days of heaven 1978 (d. terrence malick), sophie's choice 1982 (d. alan j. pakula).john alonzo: harold and maude 1971 (d. hal
michael chapman, cinematographer & abstractions from raging bull
michael chapman (1935-)new york cinematographer known for starting out as gordon willis' camera operator for the films klute, the godfather and bad company. chapman went on to be the director of photography for many of the classic martin scorsese films: taxi driver, american boy: a profile of steven prince, the last waltz, and raging bull. reading masters of light and listening to chapman's
addendum to the essential cinema
more titles for the essential cinemaamerican mutoscope & biograph co.: the ghost train 1903lloyd bacon (busby berkeley): footlight parade 1933bruce baillee: mr. hayashi 1961, castro street 1964, all my life 1966sarunas bartas: *works (*in memory of a day gone by 1990, *three days 1991, *the corridor 1994, *few of us 1996, *the house 1997, *freedom 2001)frank borzage: moonrise 1948paul burnford:
hymns to the night
endless and full of mysterysweet trembling courses through us-to me it seems an echo soundsout of the deep distance of our grief.our loved ones too may be longing for us,and sent to us this yearning breath.down now to the sweet bride, onto jesus, to the beloved-take heart, evening's darkling greysto the loving, to the grieving.a dream will break our fetters off,and sink us forever in our father's
vladimir g. suchov
images of the work of russian engineer vladimir g. suchov (1853-1939), found in this fine german book published by dva.works:kaufhaus gum in moskau 1889-1893banhofs in moskau 1912-17wasserturm in polibino 1896sabolovko-radioturm in moskau 1919funfstockiger-nigres 1927
jonathan coleclough and andrew liles, torch songs
"»torch songs« is a collaboration between jonathan coleclough and andrew liles. they met in october 2004 when they both performed at intergration 3 in preston, uk. liles subsequently reworked the recording of coleclough's solo performance from that evening. he went on to add, subtract, multiply and divide further live recordings supplied by coleclough, and the eventual result was this double lp.
plants & earth
hugo simberg in the garden of death 1896 max klinger terrace 1879 johann wolfgang von goethe budding, flowering, and branching systems 1786/87 robert rauschenberg dirt painting (for john cage) 1953 & untitled (gold painting) 1953 jean dubuffet la physique du sol (texturologie xxiii) 1958 jean dubuffet vie exemplaire du sol (texturologie lxiii) 1958books:-the painter's garden: design, inspiration,
paris, sf, nyc
pandit pran nath: raga cycle, palace theatre, paris 1972with la monte young & marian zazeela: tambouras, terry riley: tabla.and also,pandit pran nath: midnight, raga malkauns 4 viii 71 sf, 21 viii 76 nycwith terry riley: tabla, ann riley & simone forti: tamboura + k. paramjyoti: tabla, la monte young & marian zazeela: tamboura.two recordings with a quiet intensity, like a cecil taylor played by
manhattan
highlights from recent trip to manhattan.moma:otto piene.untitled (smoke drawing). 1959arnulf rainer.bird scratches. 1968william anastasi.60 minutes. (1987)william anastasi.untitled (11.13.01 wynn kramarsky 14:50). 2001jean dubuffet.soul of the underground. vence, december. 1959andy warhol. empire. 1964 day andy warhol.empire. 1964 eveningrobert rauschenberg.untitled (asheville citizen). c.
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