bouncing off the satellites 🌀
soft-headed film archivist // softest spots
~~~~ ERNEST TRUEX ~~~~
is MARY TODD LINCOLN
in
“OH, MARY!”
They should really bring The Warrior’s Husband (or the musical version, By Jupiter) back to Broadway! Naming your title character Sapiens is the all-time silliest sissiest curlicued little flick of the pen.
the blinking eye as camera shutter, but optography is as much a pseudoscience—a faulty method of knowledge attainment—as our attempts to fully capture our dreams and memories. we’re insatiable.
one of the most unexpectedly moving moving-image works ever made about image-making. despite the “affectless” delivery, this is hugely affecting, nearly brought me to tears and totally made me laugh out loud (“how fucking far do you want to see??”)
It’s almost summer and I like to sit next to the open window and watch this reel, it makes me feel less in my head, more present in the world.
“I sat down at my mother’s electric typewriter every day and recorded my dreams, the weather, and the accomplishments for the day. I was trying to do a bit of Gestalt therapy, to stay in the now and record the events of my life as a part of knowing what…
