impressions in the upper atmosphere
images collected of the work of josé antonio sistiagainspired by last nights screening ofere erera baleibu icik subua aruaren - 1970impressions in the upper atmosphere - 1989(one of the big influences on the art of memory)(first seen at articulated light: the emergence of abstract film in americacurated by bruce posner)
abstraktes bild
stan brakhage - love song - 2001stan brakhage - stellar - 1993collaboration with sam bushgerhard richter - watorcolours
it is breathed by stars
sb: have you seen my last hymn to the night: novalis?pt: no, i haven’t.sb: that’s a short film, maybe four and a half minutes, where i scratched sections of that poem onto the film, so the words appear as electrical fires interwoven with paint. the other version i made this past year, pulling out from under all this awful cancer treatment i’ve been through. i tried to imagine what novalis’ last
yggdrasill whose roots are stars in the human mind
stan brakhageyggdrasill whose roots are stars in the human mind - 1997brakhage and landscape artimages from fred camper's site
remedies
The wonderful, of which the miraculous is a subcategory,was never boring.- Jacobus de Voraigne
the stars are clear sounds; the sun a magnificent silence; the moon?...whispers that are almost sounds in the undulating wave of noise the universe is
cracks in stan brakhage's dog star man - prelude - 1964painting in dog star man - preludepainting and some scratching in dog star man, part 3.- related work -jackson pollock - triad - 1948 jackson pollock - number 22a, 1948 - 1948jackson pollock - untitled ca. 1950 (detail)jackson pollock - one: number 31 - 1950jackson pollockbarnett newman - untitled - 1961clyfford still - painting - 1951-
it is a furry animal - the stars are silver hairs
stan brakhage - prelude - dog star man - 1964(cat abstractions from the prelude)(title from brakhage's the stars are beautiful)(the same cat found in cat's cradle?)
plato's cave (the visible region)
stan brakhage - dog star man - 1964(representations of plato's cave)"imagine mankind as dwelling in an underground cave with a long entrance open to the light across the whole width of the cave; in this they have been from childhood, with necks and legs fettered, so they have to stay where they are. they cannot move their heads round because of the fetters, and they can only look forward, but
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,
any gathering of dust motes in the light records the passage of angels
stan brakhage - the wold shadow - 1972angels... move thru the shadow in a diffraction of light -the doors of illumination / home of angelical forces (as georgemacdonald would have it: "... home ... is the only place whereyou can go out and in.") ...... and the shadows of shadows are the shadows of angels ...... and the fixed instants of constantly changing shapes are the pic-tures they take of
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
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
isn't it rich?are we a pair?me here at last on the ground,you in mid-air.send in the clowns.isn't it bliss?don't you approve?one who keeps tearing around,one who can't move.where are the clowns?send in the clowns.just when i'd stopped opening doors,finally knowing the one that i wanted was yours,making my entrance again with my usual flair,sure of my lines,no one is there.don't you love a farce?
to a current's ear --
lucile hadzihalilovic - innocence - 2004sound from opening creditstitle - emily dickinson - i think that the root of wind is water
now light blue, now green, almost always pellucid
a still every 60 seconds from larry gottheim's fog line - 1970,including first and lastthe image of the railroad on the shore of the pond figures an ambiguity at the heart of walden. man-made power, the machine with its fire, smoke, and thunder, is juxtaposed to the waters of walden, remarkable for their depth and purity and a matchless, indescribable color - now light blue, now green, almost
univers du western - lonely are the brave
david miller - lonely are the brave - 1962(landscape photography)kirk douglas - john w. "jack" burnswhiskeygena rowlands - jerry bondigeorge kennedy - deputy sheriff gutierrezwalter matthau - sheriff morey johnsoncarroll o'connor - hintonwilliam schallert - harrybill raisch - one arm(he was stand-in for burt lancaster)cinematography by philip h. lathrop *music by jerry goldsmith *screenplay by
first we must deal with the light of nature, then with nature of light
trees found in saul levine's note to patti - 1969title from stan brakhage's a moving picture giving and taking bookfrontier press - 1971
equivalent (series)
peter hutton - boston fire - 1979peter hutton - new york portrait, chapter ii - 1980-81alfred stieglitz - equivalent (series) - 1925-1931
by its own delicacy, caressed
more sluggish the snowy hive,clearer the window’s crystal,
on a chair, a turquoise veil,thrown there, carelessly, lies.
a tissue, self-intoxicated,as if it never felt winter’s
touch, experiencing summer’s,
by its own delicacy, caressed:
and, if in icy diamonds
frost is eternally streaming,
here — it’s dragonflies flickering,
blue-eyed, living, and gone.osip mandelshtam - the stone - translated
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