The Cassandra Cat

Corpos que morrem - Dying bodies

"Hunger", Steve McQueen

"Amour", Michael Haneke

"How far can one go in the pursuit of true detail?"

- Jean-Pierre Gorin in his film "Routine Pleasures"

THE PROCESS

"Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?", Pedro Costa

"Mystery Picasso", Henri-Georges Clouzot

If I can just convince somebody...

"When a scene plays awkwardly or something goes wrong, I don't criticize it, change it, or call cut. I look at it and say, alright, it's not exactly the right reading, but life doesn't always have the right meaning. We stutter, we stammer through life. We sometimes say things we're sorry for later. We make fools of ourselves constantly. In life this is frowned upon, but in a movie this is revealing. The mistakes that you make in your own life, in your own personality, are assets on the film. So if I can just convince somebody not to clean themselves up, and not to be someone they're not and just be what they are in a given circumstance, that's all that acting is to me."

(in his book "Shadows", Ray Carney quotes John Cassavetes).

"The Fortune Teller"

I saw this 'new' painting today at the Met Museum. Because of the two dominant horizontal lines - the one on the eyes and the one on the hands -, it reminded me of Robert Bresson.

It's "The Fortune Teller" and it was painted by Georges de La Tour.

Bresson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBycPS414FY

Sr. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Mr. Hiroshi Sugimoto

"I'm a habitual self-interlocutor. Around the time I started photographing at the Natural History Museum, one evening I had a near-hallucinatory vision. The question-and-answer session that led up to this vision went something like this: Suppose you shoot a whole movie in a single frame? And the answer: You get a shining screen. Immediately I sprang into action, experimenting toward realizing this vision. Dressed up as a tourist, I walked into a cheap cinema in the East Village with a large-format camera. As soon as the movie started, I fixed the shutter at a wide-open aperture, and two hours later when the movie finished, I clicked the shutter closed. That evening, I developed the film, and the vision exploded behind my eyes."

http://www.sugimotohiroshi.com/