No image. No color. Just blackness
“Dreams getting worse. Usually in nightmares you see what you’re scared of. Not in my case. No image. No color. Just blackness and then in the distance, getting closer and closer, beginning to pierce...
View ArticleIf sound is power, then listening seems like submission
We seem thoroughly persuaded that looking is active while listening is passive. So looking is always liable to become a violating, objectifying and diminishing action, while listening is thought of not...
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November Film
This is what I’ve been doing lately. You can watch all my November one-minute films in this Twitter thread. All the films are similar, just tones and noise. I generate the frames using data bending...
View ArticleNovember Film (complete)
*WARNING: This film contains flashing images.* *Some of the frequencies are quite low, so I recommend you to watch the film with headphones, but be careful with the sound volume.* This film is the...
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“Clavilux”, short story by Robert A. Wait (1929)
The audience stirred in an uneasy manner. The curtain should rise in one minute. The absence of music seemed to bother a few. Others raised their heads expectantly from the bright colored programs in...
View ArticleI love flashing lights warnings from films and TV shows
Warning: This film contains flashing images and stroboscopic sequences This one is from A Field in England by Ben Wheatley. I remade the original intertitle that I had because it was a bit small for a...
View ArticleRetinal response to rapidly changing frames
“They rejected subjectivism, expressiveness, narrative, and direct social reference and focused instead on the medium’s formal and material properties … flicker films were about retinal response to...
View ArticleIn structural film sound does exactly the opposite
“If one of the main functions of sound in traditional filmic mimesis is to ‘naturalize’ the image and anchor it in the real, in structural film sound does exactly the opposite. It openly contradicts...
View ArticleThe interminable murmur of the world and the hiss of static
“Before a message comes on, there is the interminable murmur of the world and the hiss of static; at once no sound and (potentially) all-sounds, murmur and static indicate that the channels are open,...
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Psycho 60/98
WARNING: This film contains flashing images. “Psycho” (1960) by Alfred Hitchcock and “Psycho” (1998) by Gus Van Sant collide in a frame-by-frame editing that assaults the eyeballs and assassinates the...
View ArticleInto each life some rain must fall
“…it seems to me that rain is a mirror of one of our key emotional states: not a negative one at all, but deeply necessary – just as necessary as joy. Water, after all, both reflects us, and brings...
View ArticleRain is essential to my sense of identity
In the first page of Rain: Four Walks in English Weather, Melissa Harrison writes: “…rain is as essential to our sense of identity as it is to our soil.” She is writing about the English countryside,...
View ArticleNew concepts for new words: shorthearinged
Definition of shorthearinged : not considering what will or might sound in the future : made or done without thinking about how it will sound in the future
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The mind struggles to regain its composure
“What is terrible – or sublime – for Kant, in his ‘Analytic of the Sublime’ of 1790, is formlessness. Beauty, so say the Kantian aestheticians, has form. Its objects have definable ‘boundaries’, while...
View ArticleY el mundo quedó cortado en dos
«Mientras recorría el andén cerraba de golpe las puertezuelas al pasar. Con cada cierre de puerta se abría el abismo entre los que se van y los que han venido a despedirnos. Finalmente, la puerta...
View ArticleLooking out across a river on a day of heavy rain
“V.’s depression was partly due to the emotional toll of these studies, which she once described as looking out across a river on a day of heavy rain, so that she couldn’t be sure whether the activity...
View ArticleHechos
«Nacer es un hecho. Nacer en una época y no en otra, ya os lo he dicho; y de este o de aquel padre, y en esta o aquella posición social; nacer varón o hembra; en Laponia o en el centro de África; y...
View ArticleA different kind of hearing
“When I put it on in the club…I’m struck by how much it alters my experience, aurally. The latex stretches tightly over my ears and it’s immediately as though I’m underwater. Voices are muffled and...
View ArticleForm is outdated and vulgar
“Pierre who was so wonderfully clever and sensitive about painting that if a canvas had anything but one colour painted on the same colour he would almost faint with horror. Form, he said, was...
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