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A door of perception?
The first time that I read something about The Black Dahlia murder was in Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon . It must have been around the same time that I read Robert Lebel’s study on Marcel Duchamp. I was immediately struck by the similarities of the gruesome photo to be found in Anger’s book [...]
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Illustration by Winsor McCay
As far as I know laziness is rarely treated as a subversive strategy. My next posts will deal with various aspects of this trait which was classified by Thomas Aquinas as one of the seven capital sins.
Paul Lafargue, son-in-law of Karl Marx, wrote in 1880 the pamphlet The Right to be Lazy as [...]
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Strange Guy
What is it that I stumble on Guy de Maupassant everywhere?
He made his first appearance in my blog as a forerunner of surrealist mythology. Then I covered The Bel Ami International Art Competition, which was held for Albert Lewin’s adaptation of Maupassant’s novel. Two of his novellas were the source for films which I’ve recently seen on behalf [...]
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Far too many coincidences
Around the age of ten or twelve I was struck more than anything by The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and the fear of seeing a gorilla appear at the window haunted my childhood insomnia for a long time (at the age of three I had been extremely frightened of a small marmoset which suddenly [...]
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Most vivid images
Images du monde visionnaire is a film which would match very well with UBUWEB. But in this case the place to go is Canal-U a French website for medical films. And it’s indeed not an experimental but an educational film which was produced in 1963 by the film department of Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz (best known for synthesizing LSD in 1938) in order [...]
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The YouTube of the Avant-Garde
I guess you’ll have to forget YouTube for a while, because at www.ubu.com/film you can see loads of “really” magnificent films.
UbuWeb was founded in November of 1996, initially as a repository for visual, concrete and, later, sound poetry. Over the years, UbuWeb has embraced all forms of the avant-garde and beyond. Its parameters continue to expand [...]
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I was able to track down “the first summary study” (Gérard Lenne) of horror and science fiction cinema. The list of authors who contributed to this special issue of Cinéma 57 is really impressive:
Included are articles by favorite surrealists Robert Benayoun and Ado Kyrou; Lotte H. Eisner (The Haunted Screen); Raymond Borde and Étienne Chaumeton, [...]
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Three Aspects of the Outsider…
… as a foretaste of my upcoming post on Kooks, Outsiders and Fous Littéraires
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Things are not as they seem
Hans Holbein The Ambassadors
Anamorphosis is a distorted projection or perspective requiring the viewer to use special devices or occupy a specific vantage point to reconstitute the image. “Ana – morphosis” comes from the Greek words meaning “formed again.” more…
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Phantastische Bibliothek Suhrkamp: One of Germany’s best series of fantasy and science fiction. Stanislaw Lem called it the “pink ghetto”. My collection includes books by Algernon Blackwood, Jonathan Carroll, H.P. Lovecraft, Jean Ray, Clark Ashton Smith. Not visible are the science fiction titles – J. G. Ballard and Philip K. Dick for instance.
Complete Short Stories [...]
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