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Henri Prestes.

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Yayoi Kusama, Six immersive infinity mirror rooms in the Hirshhorn Museum 

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Kusama:Infinity (2018)

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Welcome to the end of your life. The mercy of your God can be estimated based on the strength and frequency of your bouts of déjà vu - how often does he let you reroll, when is spacetime peeled back for your benefit, has the universe accrued scar tissue at the joints of your life, the crossroads where your choices matter? How many times have you repeated a phrase - are you locked in a timeloop, tightly wound around your body’s deterministic failure to adapt? Are you waiting for quantum syzygy to free you from a sinister, ceremonious routine; the wood-panelled pentagonal basement, the thunder and wind, your cowardice, the skulls clattering to the pavement outside, scalps hanging from the power lines.

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You are reminded of a snuff video in which a hired killer makes latte art using the fluids of his victims, white and red brushstrokes on the dark surface of the pond under which bodies twitch: a woman, a man, a preteen girl (their daughter?), an infant, hauled limp out from the trunk of a black van. They are drunk or sedated and except for the baby their struggles barely disturb the liquid illustrations of pandas, cats, and owls.

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Furthermore, the mercy of a god directly corresponds to its form, running approximately from cthulhu (cold-hearted) to cherub (forgiving). While living your torments again and again and again and again may not seem beneficent, the tentacled alternative is an arrow straight to death.

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Do you feel as though your life is accelerating toward its end? Are the days passing faster and faste

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Can you feel time slipping from betw

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The thrum of the generator over the fault, which was displaced by an earthquake 300 miles to the south, disturbs the vibrationally sensitive, many-whiskered titan slumbering below: a sliver of its power crawls up the shaft and out from the pipes wearing a malleable humanoid skinsuit and slaughters the bungalow’s inhabitants as they sleep, stuffing the smashed generator and their bodies (all six of them) into the linen closet before returning to the chasm. There are no redos.

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Dead but conscious inside the closed circuit, the labyrinth, the great happenstance collider. I will never fade back into the universe because these events cannot be escaped without regret, without spilling the blood necessary to summon the being that resets the situations. I watch him die again.

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Your own suicide denied as your friends drop dead, each corpse another stitch tethering you to consciousness. The pills don’t work; you wake up yesterday.

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{2018} from electric dreams, a series of animated digital collages [found footage (lidiya ishimbayeva & boris nirenburg, {1968} солярис (solaris); vortex), gimp]

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Nigel Cooke

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Salvador Dali Caravaggio Van Gogh Zdzisław Beksiński Henri Fuseli Hokusai Francis Bacon James Ensor

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Francis Bacon, Man in Blue #5, 1954.

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Two Figures at a Window by Francis Bacon (1953)

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#1 Gambling, Gods and LSD (2002, Peter Mettler) #2 Mandy (2018, Panos Cosmatos) #3 All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001, Shunji Iwai) #4 Emporte-moi (1999, Léa Pool) #5 The Hunger (1983, Tony Scott) #6 Zazie dans le métro (1960, Louis Malle) #7 버닝 / Burning (2018, Chang-dong Lee) #8 Good Time (2017, Josh & Benny Safdie) #9 Climax (2018, Gaspar Noé) #10 Seconds (1966, John Frankenheimer)

#11-#20 #21-#30 #31-#40 #41-#50 #51-#60 #61-#70 #71-#80 #81-#90 #91-#100 #101-#111 ^ favourite first film viewings of 2018

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#11 Mauvais Sang (1986, Leos Carax) #12 Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991, Leos Carax) #13 Face/Off (1997, John Woo) #14 mother! (2017, Darren Aronofsky) #15 Cold War (2018, Paweł Pawlikowski) #16 Tekkonkinkreet (2006, Michael Arias) #17 leviathan (2012, Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel) #18 Spaced (1999-2001, Edgar Wright Here Wright Now) #19 Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (2015, Alberto Vázquez & Pedro Rivero) #20 Être et avoir (2002, Nicolas Philibert)

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#21 Scissere (1982, Peter Mettler) #22 Call Me By Your Name (2017, Luca Guadagnino) #23 Phantom Thread (2017, Paul Thomas Anderson) #24 Razredni sovraznik / Class Enemy (2013, Rok Bicek) #25 Alice in Wonderland (1966, Jonathan Miller) #26 Le rayon vert (1986, Éric Rohmer) #27 Passion (1990, Jürgen Reble) #28 The Passing (1992, Bill Viola) #29 Fanny and Alexander (TV version) (1982, Ingmar Bergman) #30 河童のクゥと夏休み / Summer Days with Coo (2007, Keiichi Hara)

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#31 Images (1972, Robert Altman) #32 고양이를 부탁해 / Take Care of My Cat (2001, Jeong Jae-Bun) #33 犬ヶ島 (Isle of Dogs) (2018, Wes Anderson) #34 Hundstage (2001, Ulrich Seidl) #35 Please Vote for Me (2007, Weijun Chen) #36 The Last Picture Show (1971, Peter Bogdanovich) #37 The End of Time (2012, Peter Mettler) #38 Le feu follet (1963, Louis Malle) #39 宵闇せまれば / When Twilight Draws Near (1969, Akio Jissôji) #40 Golgo 13: The Professional (1983, Osamu Dezaki)

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#41 Aka Ana (2008, Antoine d’Agata) #42 Picture of Light (1994, Peter Mettler) #43 пl3nk▲ - nightmare (2016-18) (various montages) #44 Quick Billy (1971, Bruce Baillie) #45 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018, Joel & Ethan Coen) #46 Simon Killer (2012, Antonio Campos) #47 Pop Skull (2007, Adam Wingard) #48 The Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up (1997, Jonas Åkerlund) #49 La chute de la maison Usher (1928, Jean Epstein) #50 50 Feet of String (1995, Leighton Pierce)

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#51 Tiger Girl (2017, Jakob Lass) #52 Baby Bump (2015, Kuba Czekaj) #53 Baby Face (1933, Alfred E. Green) #54 Bad Santa (Unrated Cut) (2003, Terry Zwigoff) #55 Man on Fire (2004, Tony Scott) #56 哥 / Uta / Poem (1972, Akio Jissôji) #57 曼陀羅 / Mandala / Mandara (1971, Akio Jissôji) #58 Rohfilm (1968, w&b hein) #59 Kazetta / Cassette (2011, Péter Lichter) #60 Dishonored (1931, Josef von Sternberg)

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#61 Manoel dans l'île des merveilles (1984, Raoul Ruiz) #62 The Innocents (1961, Jack Clayton) #63 The Dreamers (2003, Bernardo Bertolucci) #64 Le tout nouveau testament (2015, Jaco Van Dormael) #65 Eighth Grade (2018, Bo Burnham) #66 Split (2016, M. Night Shyamalan) #67 Vampyr (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1932) #68 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, Steven Spielberg) #69 The Fourth Dimension (2001, T. Minh-ha Trinh) #70 One Hour Photo (2002, Mark Romanek)

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