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Mickey 17 (2025) dir. Bong Joon Ho
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In 2017, American film researchers recovered “Something Good – Negro Kiss,” a short film depicting a playful kiss between a Black couple which had not seen the light of day for more than a century. A long-forgotten artifact from the earliest years of American film, the sweet, humanizing vignette, produced by the Selig Polyscope Company, makes a startling contrast to the overwhelmingly racist and blackface-ridden contempory portrayals of African Americans. Four years later in 2021, archivists in Norway, halfway across the world, identified a sister short in their collections—an extended alternate cut which reveals more of Chicago stage performers Gertie Brown and Saint Suttle’s vaudeville-like routine, a theatrical, hot-and-cold romantic dynamic between two lovers which parodies the popular and controversial short “The Kiss” (1896). Both films, which had previously been lost, were known from entries in old motion picture catalogs but had been assumed to be era-typical, anti-Black “race films” until their rediscovery in the 21st century. Together with its more famous sibling, which has since been inducted into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, this alternate version of “Something Good” represents the first-known instance of Black intimacy ever captured on-screen.
SOMETHING GOOD [Alternate Version] (1898) Directed by William Selig
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Walter: "You know, about six months ago, a guy slipped on a cake of soap in his bathtub, knocked himself cold, and was drowned. Only, he had accident insurance, so they had an autopsy, and she didn't get away with it"
Phyllis: "Who didn't?"
Walter: "His wife. Then there was the case of the guy who was found shot. His wife said he was cleaning his gun and his stomach got in the way. All she got was a 3-to-10 stretch in Tehachapi [a California women´s prison]
Walter: ...
Phyllis: [Wearily] Perhaps it was worth it to her.
Double Indemnity (1944)
Director: Billy Wilder.
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Dishonored (1931) dir. Josef von Sternberg
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Surrealist Leonor Fini
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The Tatter Textile Library in New York put out a call for volunteers to stitch the names of the 146 garment workers who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on March 25, 1911. They sewed all the names into a banner, which was placed on the site of the fire in commemoration. On Instagram the Library wrote:
In this alarming era of callous governmental deregulation at home, continued abuses against textile workers globally, and rampant anti-immigrant sentiment, our community has found potent meaning and purpose in this collective project and is excited to unfurl our banner at this year’s commemoration.
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Ikko Narahar - the horse crossing the sea
Source: more-than-ideas
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Berenice Abbott, The Parabolic Mirror, 1958
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THE 400 BLOWS 1959, dir. François Truffaut
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Antoni Miralda - ELLE (April 1971)
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Source: instagram.com
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LANA CONDOR FLAUNT MAGAZINE MARCH 2022
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Audrey Hepburn beholds her reflection in a mirror on the set of Funny Face, portrait by Richard Avedon, 1956.
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