Ingmar Bergman on his artistic influences
Swedish Television, 1966
Criterion Collection
Ingmar Bergman on his artistic influences
Swedish Television, 1966
Criterion Collection
Prism Chromography Light - 1960s
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
— Pablo Neruda, from Love Sonnet XVII.
jenny holzer, SURVIVAL (1983-85)
Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)
“I love that word. Forever. I love that forever doesn’t exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it all the time. It’s beautiful and doomed.”
— Viv Albertine
Chantal Akerman’s News From Home (1976)
i’m still trying
to be better
than who i was
yesterday
but who the fuck
will i be
tomorrow?
“There is no purpose in remaining in the dark except long enough to clear from the mind the illusion of having ever been in the light.”
— T.S. Eliot, from The Cocktail Party.
“I feel like a dead blue sea – can’t feel any more.”
— Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Ethel Smyth c. January 1935
“Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief” - taken from Anne Carson’s “Tragedy: A Curious Art Form”
“You could have had me forever if you had wanted me,”
— Iris Murdoch, from “Under The Net,” published c. September 1954
I went to the beach with friends last night
only to be haunted by the onslaught of memories
of U & everything else that has faded away