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Shame
Steve Mcqueen 2011
Steve Mcqueen's new film shows the tale of Brendan, a sex addict barely coping with the needs of his addiction while trying to balance a normal life. Fassbender's character is in total isolation and only in feeding his addiction can true relief be found. Lust probably one of the most relatable subjects, Mcqueen has touched upon an idea so powerful it has your heart pounded throughout.
Shame / IMBD
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John Carpenter
Dark Star, 1974,
Teaching Bomb 20 phenomenology,
In this scene we see Doolittle convince the newly formed character of Bomb 20 to not explode in the ships loading bay, here we see Dark Star evoke a crash course in philosophy.
ref. > Patrick Keiller
francis
Knut Asdam
Abyss, 2010
43 min, 35mm
Transcript
“What’s the first thing you notice in a place? it’s not because it has nice curves or proportions, it is if their are people in it or not. If you go into an empty restaurant you don’t think if it is beautiful or not, you think if it is safe to eat at.
The derelict place is caught between meaningless and meaningful.
Its about letting go, first it’s slow, you only notice it in the eyebrow, the walk, the speech, then the body sinks and goes down the ground, and gravity takes hold.
At first you don’t notice it, at first it’s too slow.
It’s like you can’t move it now, you can’t do anything, it’ll do something by itself later, all you can do is be around something, I dont know what to do, I don’t know how to handle this I have no idea, I guess in a while I could just get up.
It’s broken down as your routine, as your habits, it’s the way you see yourself everyday, it’s all you built up around to keep your body and the things around you the same everyday. And when one of those things stops working,
Everything shifts.”
ref. > Abyss
francis
Knut Asdam
Tripoli, 2010
24 min, colour, stereo.
"Tripoli emphasizes political history and architectural traces through the preserved relics of our recent past."
While prevailing to visually stun me Tripoli hits hard confiding in us humans presence and perception of architecture in a worldly, somewhat distant formality, I found myself comfortably lost within.
watch. > Knut Asdam
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