Category Archives: contemplation
Machine art
Thanks to Unspoken Cinema for Casualty of Design‘s Lost in a moment – Tokyo.
Filed under contemplation, documentary, film
silencio
I’m ashamed to admit that I love The Silentists.
Filed under confession, contemplation, Lynch
Better Things
This film is about lives in which nothing happens. Nothing happens because the characters live in small rural towns in which nothing happens and they have too little money or knowledge or confidence to make anything happen. Several of them … Continue reading
Filed under contemplation, film
Tarkovsky and boredom
I’ve met a few people who think that the films of Andrei Tarkovsky[1] are boring. I understand. These films are slow.[2] Most don’t have much of a story. There’s not much sex or violence or snappy dialogue. I was bored … Continue reading
Filed under contemplation, film, Tarkovsky
Atmospherics
On Friday, when Channel 4 News was over and there was nothing else to watch before we went to bed, as usual, early and sober, L decided to burn some incense, something she does more for entertainment than for smell … Continue reading
Filed under art, contemplation, the wonders of science
Public transport
Last night I dreamt that a bus route ran through my kitchen. It’s amazing what narrow spaces a double-decker can get through. Between the breakfast bar (it was a dream, remember) and the wall units without a scratch. I have … Continue reading
Filed under contemplation
Nothing more than feelings
Tom Lubbock says that Rothko’s paintings are like power ballads: Rothko made a real discovery when he found that, by using a very restricted language, a few bars and panes and rectangular frames of strong colour, blurry-edged and set in … Continue reading
Filed under art, contemplation, Rothko
Black, Lynch and Rothko
When I was at primary school a teacher told my class that there was no such thing as black paint or ink or dye: anything that was called black would, if you looked hard at it, turn out to be … Continue reading
Filed under art, contemplation, film, Lynch, my past, Rothko, television
Spiritual Voices
Episode 1 How did contemporaries describe the composer whose music we are about to hear? “Small and fussy, with a slightly stupid look in his eyes. All in all, an unprepossessing figure. Plumpish, just over five feet tall, always on … Continue reading
Filed under contemplation, dialogue, documentary, fill in the blanks, film, serendipity, Sokurov
