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The Seashell and the Clergyman 1928
Watching this with And The Ambulance Died In His Arms by Coil in the background is one of the most powerful cinematic experiences you can grant yourself.
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Fortune Teller 2009
This is one of the best films I’ve ever seen. Tradition and modernity co existing, colliding with brute force. Chinese trad folk blasted through a PA via a Bluetooth headset. The way Li and Pearls lives are explored grants them agency to re enact daily ritual and memory in a way that summons ambiguity around their relationship without invasive interviews. Li is an ambiguous human and this mystery around his own life and relationships compared to what he knows of…
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The Sweet East 2023
Masterful on so many levels. Picks up the slack that poor things left behind. Traces of southland tales in the digitised, dreamlike plot movements remediating the old medium of 16mm. Hollow re-enactments of utterly pointless masculine tradition clawing for authentic time in the face of an incredibly powerful and probing apathy, born of the future that the LARPers created. One of the great internet Bildungsromans along with ‘we’re all going to the worlds fair’. Everything that would be considered traumatic…
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Sleep Has Her House 2017
I love a film where the human is made invisible or minuscule via the size and intensity of its subjects. There is an observational slow cinema at play along the lines of castaing-taylor/paravel/ben Russell. Through this mode the human re-emerges behind the camera lens. This produces the strange and dislocating yet harmonious phenomena that arises from being within nature. The viewer is at once absorbed and dwarfed by the landscapes whilst they can only observe this effect from a distance.…
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