Gorgomancy

Is Chris Marker’s collage/collection of all sorts of works. Respectfully clunky, but maybe the only way to see Immemory without Macintosh OS9. Gorgomancy Here’s a little thing about formats.

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It Follows

The trailer for this 2014 tense horror makes it appear bland and ordinary, but things are going on in David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows. Carpenter and Romero influenced (there’s a lot of it about) but also cinematography straight from Gregory Crewdson and Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #92 & #167. After effects similar to those experienced post Exorcist III/Ringu.…

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Chat écoutant la musique – Chris Marker

In honour of Method’s appreciation of The Soft Machine earlier today, here’s the first of three Chris Marker films… Chat écoutant la musique From his collection Bestiaire aka Petit Bestiaire (1990), consisting of three ‘video haikus’. And now for owls and the zoo… An Owl is an Owl is an Owl Zoo Piece

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Puce Moment 1949

I think this is what La La Land was trying to get at. Anger does old Hollywood glamour to perfection in a yoof-friendly six minutes. No tap dancing. Instead, multiple dogs. 1949? – it seems impossible. Puce Moment On Puce Moment

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Rabbit’s Moon (1972 version)

Also on today’s revisiting list is the 16-minute version of Kenneth Anger’s Rabbit’s Moon. Here’s his 1979 version; speeded up and with the A Raincoat’s “It Came In The Night” looped…

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David and Peter Frampton Search for a Beer in 1987

Oh David. Nice skipwork. For me though, Frampton never really comes alive. Thanks to Bickerton. David smoking in Madrid here. And while on David’s perambulations, here are some of his official walks… D.J. Boys Keep Swinging Ashes to Ashes

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Bruce Nauman’s corridors…

…come in many forms. Here’re two: Live Taped Video Corridor (1970) Walk with Contrapposto (1968) And here he is doing some walking: Slow Angle Walk (Beckett Walk) (1968) Walking in an Exaggerated Manner (1967-68) and the ubiquitous Lego version is here.

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Phillip Jeffries

In other words, barely there David in Fire Walk with Me. Look, this film is just not as disastrous as t’lad in thon Uni Film Club of 1994/that internet that they have nowadays would have you believe. Nicked off of Bruce Nauman bien sur. Can you see where my Sunday morning ‘research’ is heading, one foot…

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