I'm an incorrigibly geeky transboy with a love for neuropsychopharmacology, cacti (or plants and botany in general), weird music, spiders (and other cute animals), experimental film, might and magic, daggerfall, pokemon, and math (especially when symmetries are involved).
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Norman McLaren - Begone Dull Care (1949)
Only seen clips and samples of Norman McLaren´s work in the past, but was introduced to this cheeky, quirky, hyper energetic film at the Whitechapel Art Gallery earlier this week.
It took me a while to ‘get it’, but now this is definitely my favorite of Norman McLaren’s works. And given that he’s my favorite experimental filmmaker of all time, that’s saying something.
Dog Star Man: Part 1 (Stan Brakhage, 1962)
Up Close & Personal: A HOLLIS FRAMPTON ODYSSEY
Criterion’s packaging for A Hollis Frampton Odyssey is almost as cracked and arresting as any of the filmmaker’s avant-garde work. the design of this set speaks so lucidly to who Frampton was as an artist, articulating as much about his nature and fixations as any of the (mandatory) essays that are included inside the booklet. might not be an obvious choice for some of you, but this is one of the essential Criterion releases of the year.
#609 A Hollis Frampton Odyssey hits stores on 4/24/2012.
I should be getting this as a birthday present. I hope.
I want it so bad!
pro tip: bang screw while watching.
(other pro tip: please do not watch this if flashy lights make you in any way ill.)
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Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) - Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid
This woman inspires me like no other.
Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of ‘Green’? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye? How aware of variations in heat waves can that eye be? Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of color. Imagine a world before the ‘beginning’ was the word.
— Stan Brakhage, Yggdrasil: Whose Roots Are Stars In The Human Mind (1997)
love this film. hope to see it again someday.
Just ordered the Criterion Collection’s Stan Brakhage anthology, parts 1 & 2 on blu-ray.
Guys, I’m pretty fucking excited about this.
I’m so jealous D:
Stan Brakhage, Dog Star Man, still (via timeimmemorial)
“Begone Dull Care” (1949), Norman McLaren
Watch it here.
it took me a few watchings to get this but when I did… ahhh such a good film. it has now become a part of my soul.
