Chris Marker teamed with filmmaker Yannick Bellon to create Remembrance of Things to Come (2003), a photo essay set to film that documents the work of director Bellon’s mother, photographer Denise Bellon. Now is where description becomes difficult, as the film has an almost surr... Read More »
Chris Marker’s The Sixth Side of the Pentagon (1967), co-directed by Francois Reichengach, draws its title from a Zen proverb reading “If the five sides of the pentagon appear impregnable, attack the sixth side.” If that sounds enigmatic, it is but it is also a great place to st... Read More »
La Jetée is an interesting short film from the legendary (and recently deceased) French filmmaker Chris Marker. Not only is it interesting in its plot, that of a boy who sees his own death take place in front of him (more on that in a moment), but that it is told without moving ... Read More »
“You’re glued to that thing,” my mother would moan in my youth when, enticed by the enveloping glow of whatever new gadget found its way into my palm—be it Gameboy, phone, MP3 player perhaps—I would grow further and further distanced from the physical world, trading tangible for ... Read More »
The gentle macabre voice of Kenneth Anger ushers in one of the most important and defiantly expressive films in the avant-garde canon, the “homosexual” intonation of his voice offering a beacon of light to the hopelessly lost and subversive confrontation to the unsuspecting react... Read More »
Posited though it might be as a documentary, Lewis Bennett and Calum McLeod’s witty short Asian Gangs doesn’t take long to divorce itself from reality and take a more farcical, frankly more entertaining turn toward deadpan mockumentary style. Rooted in a schoolyard fight the form... Read More »
In keeping with the spirit of this week’s Chiropteramania, I have paused my exploration of Amos Vogel’s Film as a Subversive Art in the hopes of joining in on all of this excitement. What better way than with the scientific explorations of Jean Painlevé and his uncanny ability t... Read More »
Roman Polanski’s Two Men and a Wardrobe witnesses the emergence of two young men from the depths of the sea, carrying with them a wardrobe that acts as an albatross of unspoken ideological dissonance from the status quo. The nature of their burden is of little consequence, as yo... Read More »
Age will always seek to suppress youth in varying degrees of severity because of a deep resentment over eroded ideals and waning passions that age and complacency have made the aged forget. The young still live under the (mostly) false assumption that they have the power to chan... Read More »
Politics are shaded by a collection of unrighteous rulebooks that we self-impose in the aim of fostering the prehistoric tribal instincts of the human animal. The rules lose their power when humanism is valued over nationalism because one objective path must be laid out for the ... Read More »
Language is one of those necessary evils that results from a need to communicate objectively in a world of strict rationalism. Its syntax and structure invade our thoughts and dreams and our inner stream of consciousness is often reduced to its clumsily confining borders. Some ... Read More »
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