Archive for February, 2010
UN LAC
Sunday, February 28th, 2010In a last homage to winter before we embrace spring entirely, we explore the tableau of Philippe Grandrieux’s 2008 film Un Lac. Set in a remote mountain forest somewhere in Northern Europe, we are thrown into a series of disjointed scenes vaguely reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich canvases: awe-inspiring—yet foreboding—icy summits, otherworldly snow clouds, placid [...]
RING OF FIRE
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010When I was a boy, I started a forest fire. It was an accident. I stole a box of matches from the kitchen cupboard where my mother kept them, filled a bucket of water, and journeyed off into the woods behind my house in the rural South Carolina town where I grew up. I must [...]
FLESH OF MY FLESH
Sunday, February 21st, 2010“A lot of our thinking on vision is guided by three axioms that were introduced in the 1960s and ’70s and consolidated in the 1980s. They are that the look is violent, that images are ideologically mystifying, and that politically engaged artists and theorists must expose this violence and undo this mystification. I have never [...]