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Many thanks to Au carrefour étrange who did me a great favour.
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The Priests They Called Them
These two handsome seminarists in Jean Renoir’s Une partie de campagne are Henri Cartier-Bresson and Georges Bataille in the flesh. Being an extra wasn’t Bataille’s only foray into movies. He wrote a screenplay under the title of La Maison brûlée about a peasant (modeled very clearly after Bataille himself) who marries a woman five [...]
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At Documents you can see Germaine Dulac’s film The Seashell and the Clerygman. Also featured are a text of Antonin Artaud who wrote the screenplay in which he writes favorably about Dulac’s adaptation and an account which fuses various testimonies of the film’s premiere with the surrealists protesting violently against the film. The [...]
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Désœuvrement
“Restent à définir les conditions de la lutte, puisque tant est que la jeunesse et le risque de désœuvrement absolu que nous courions nous l’ont fait engager.”
“It still remains to define the conditions of the fight, since both youth and the risk of absolute idleness that we took led us to start it.”
André Breton, [...]
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Gone to Croatan
I’m leaving for my holidays. So there will be no posts for a couple of weeks.
Just one thing though. What do I think of writing which covers the same ground as I do, but in a more coherent and academic way? Well, I very often appreciate it.
Or as Henri Rousseau said to Picasso:
We are the two greatest painters of [...]
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MUSIC TO READ CRASH BY
Cover of the “Warm Leatherette” single by The Normal
Daniel Miller on his song which is based on J.G. Ballard’s novel Crash:
“Warm Leatherette” got a much better response than I thought. I didn’t think anyone would like it at all, and I did it as a hobby, really. It was in l978, right after Punk had started. [...]
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Thinking Made Me Do It
A couple of days ago I received the ‘Thinking Blogger’ award from Esotika Erotica Psychotica. I don’t know if I deserve an award with such a name as it took me quite a while to understand that I received it.
Well, I accept this award (which is basically a meme) because I’m in such good company and because it looks cute. [...]
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Meet the Kyrous
Still from Un honnête homme directed by Ado Kyrou
Just found out that Jahsonic is currently reading Ado Kyrou’s Le surréalisme au cinéma. Readers of my blog will be aware of my penchant for this author. I think it was in Ian Buruma’s Behind the Mask where I read about the distinction being made by the [...]
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My Education – Prologue
Recently I had some clicks on my about page. As the informations on this page are sparse, I’ll roam in future posts through the topography of my childhood and adolescence with special consideration of its media-landscapes.
In this one I’ll concentrate on my mother and her interests before I was born, for the simple reason that my father hasn’t been talking [...]
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Great Transparents 2.0
Bio-comic on Philip K. Dick by Robert Crumb
At http://www.philipkdickfans.com you can read all of it.
Astonishing passage in Lawrence Sutin’s Philip K. Dick biography Divine Invasions.
In December 1976 came the “Zebra Principle”. Back in the sixties, Phil had read The Mask of the Medusa, a study of insect mimicry which suggested that humans could be as [...]
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