To The Girl Of Eighteen

Some passages from Irene Claremont de Castillejo's 'Knowing Woman: A Feminine Psychology', some images from Philippe Garrel's 'The Phantom Heart', and a few memories of myself at eighteen. A collage on the themes of love, hate, and indifference—and the blossoming of unique relationships.

‘Birth’ (P.S.)

This is a post-scriptum to my previous entry (which includes my latest film). I've never done one of these before, but when there are discoveries triggering such effusions of belated emotion and refracted recognition, it's only fair that one acknowledges them. Thanks to a beautiful book on translation by Kate Briggs, I've come upon a brief essay by Elena Ferrante about a sentence in (Gustave Flaubert's?) 'Madame Bovary' that has pursued her throughout the years since, at fourteen, she read the novel in the original French...

Reveal Thyself

The first essay in James Hillman's 'The Myth of Analysis' is titled "Psychological Creativity". It explores the myth of Eros and Psyche as the main archetypal structure that is experienced and re-enacted by therapeutic analysis—in fact, experienced and re-enacted by any close relationship (between and within each person) where soul-making is involved...

The Outline: Milner/Watkins/Munch

A word/image collage on the outline. With quotes by Marion Milner, Peter Watkins, and Edvard Munch...

An Experiment in Non-Smoking (III): Reading Lesley Stern’s ‘The Smoking Book’

David Bowie ("Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth …") makes a stellar appearance in 'The Smoking Book'. In 'Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence', playing a war prisoner about to become ashes to ashes, Bowie mimes the act of having a last cigarette. In Stern's story, the narrator's cigarette is put on hold (…) and the description of Bowie's enactment (already a ghost of the real act) operates as the substitute of her own smoking...

Two Notions of Fatherland: Godard/Kafka

A word/image collage on home, fatherland, writing, and cinema. With quotes by Franz Kafka and Jean-Luc Godard...

Looking and Seeing: Lang/Decker/Magritte

A word/image collage on de difference between looking and seeing inspired by images of Fritz Lang, John Decker, and René Magritte...