Art
AFS PRESENTS: JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES : Austin Film Society : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
archive.org"Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles" (1975) directed by Chantal Akerman, is probably going to be one of the most unique films your eyes could feast on, and is undoubtably a pioneer of feminist cinema.
In this country ... if you’re an artist, you’re guilty of a crime: not that you’re aware, which is bad enough, but that you see things other people don’t admit are there.
Maria Popova • The Doom and Glory of Knowing Who You Are: James Baldwin on the Empathic Rewards of Reading and What It Means to Be an Artist
- “Art exposes us to the universal experience of being a meaning-making animal in a universe where meanings falter. A good definition of art, it seems to me, might be the science of making meaning-making tools.”
Garth Greenwell • Just a moment...
The earliest experience of art must have been that it was incantatory, magical; art was an instrument of ritual. (Cf. the paintings in the caves at Lascaux, Altamira, Niaux, La Pasiega, etc.) The earliest theory of art, that of the Greek philosophers, proposed that art was mimesis, imitation of reality. — Susan Sontag
The Society of the Spectacle - Annotated Edition by Guy Debord
files.libcom.orgGuy Debord Society of Spectacle
In the old romance of the artist, any person who has the temerity to spend a season in hell risks not getting out alive or coming back psychically damaged. The heroic avant-gardism of French literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries furnishes a memorable pantheon of artists who fail to survive their trips to hell. Still, there
... See moreSusan Sontag • On Photography
Tarkovsky on Bresson, Bach, Tolstoy, Leonardo and Shakespeare
youtube.comExcerpts from the 1983 Italian documentary "A Voyage in Time" and the 2019 documentary "Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer". Tarkovsky states that his only teachers in art have been Robert Bresson, Johann Sebastian Bach, Leo Tolstoy and Leonardo da Vinci. He also talks about the asceticism of Bresson's cinema. In the end, the Russian master argues that all of them are poets.
Art was a way of storing our brains in each other’s. It wasn’t until fairly recently in human history, when rich landowners wanted something pretty to look at in winter, that the idea of art-as-mere-ornament came around. A painting of a blooming rose to hang on the mantel when the flowers outside the window had gone to ice. And still in the twenty-
... See moreKaveh Akbar • Martyr!
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youtube.comFederico Fellini: Don’t interrupt an emotion
"I think cinema entered a serious crisis"
the remote controller as "scrolling"
"incapacity to let yourself be seduced by a story"
more screens, less paying attention to anything