As a child, I went to a jewish school, where we were repeatedly exposed to graphic imagery of the Holocaust. Traumatic videos, countless statistics, several museum visits, and so on… What was the point of all this? We were told it was so that we would “never forget” .
I admit that after years of what in practice amounted to “exposure therapy”, I never know how to feel when I engage with Holocaust-related media. It's not that I'm apathetic, I’m…
“The return” isn’t really a film or a tv show, but more of an 18 hour movement-image, a truly singular filmic text in terms of form, content, and its mode of presentation. One of the great themes or problems that Lynch works through over the course of his career is that of enclosure and world building. Film, for Lynch, is often a world unto itself (exemplified by his love of Hitchcock and Wizard of Oz). In his early career, Lynch…
This film captures well the nauseating madness of how thoroughly our thinking of ‘the political’, as in, the realm of what is questionable, remains thoroughly constricted from the outset by the Romans, and by Western European culture’s total inability to step beyond Roman thinking.
There is an awkward attempt within this film to render the human being within the destiny of the human as such, of what it is that is the human being. This destiny seems to be laid…
This film does a great job of showing that our best shot at getting to the truth of something is through performance and play, and even then we end up with several contradictory results.
