the ultimate goal of a British artist while British culture continues to revolve around, be obsessed with and be addicted to authenticity, is to contain yourself fully in an object. And then die.
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Landscape Suicide 1986
Benning is the greatest American artist; one who communicates better than anyone else that land and soil stares at everything we do, and it will never stop; we can look back, at the hills, the trees, buildings and snow: we must blink; the world does not.
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Anora 2024
1. Please inform yourself about the impact of criminalisation.
2. This is a film about reflexive thinking (or perhaps a lack thereof in a severely broken late-stage capitalist system) — I loved seeing the camera dance around every mirror in a mansion full of them; avoiding the reflection in the same way many of these characters do.3. Watching a woman try to do something she’s used to doing, but without the participation of money, in a car slowly being…
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Cold Turkey 2001
The night before Cold Turkey aired for the first time on Channel 4, Neil McCormick, for The Guardian, used the phrase 'fly-on-the-wall' to describe the documentary.
I've watched Cold Turkey countless times now and those four words took me by surprise, as I associated them with media with little to no intervention from a camera crew. I think of Wiseman, or Wang Bing - not Leo Regan.
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