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VAMPYRES (1974) directed by José Ramón Larraz
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i will not stop doing peace signs in photos until there is world peace
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MICHELE MORRONE 365 Days (2020)
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Saya: Perspective in Love (Seiji Izumi, 1986)
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“As Roscoe and Hight have argued, documentary has traditionally been valued for its truthful relationship to and accurate representation of the world as it actually is. This is reliant upon an assumed indexical bond between photography as a scientific record and the real-life phenomena it seeks to document. The representation of these events or moments is therefore assumed to be identical. The very thing that these films seek to mock is “the belief in science (and scientific experts) and the essential integrity of the referential image.” In the case of the first Paranormal Activity film, Sébastien Lefait has observed that director Oren Peli “chose to exploit the intrinsic supernatural aspect of the camera rather than the spectacular quality of what comes into its field. He drew from the entrenched belief that the camera is endowed with a revelatory power to stage a paranormal appearance that never comes.” Put simply, in Paranormal Activity “the nature of the footage as surveillance draws on the revelatory power of the camera to make this nothing exist.” The pleasure of found footage horror in part stems from spectatorial knowledge that something we rationally know not to be true (the supernatural) can momentarily be reimagined (consciously or otherwise) as “real” because the vehicle in which that information is delivered is one we otherwise trust to provide reliable information.”
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, from “Found Footage Horror Films: Fear and the Appearance of Reality”, 2013.
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do you guys remember when azealia banks posted this... because I remember at least once a week
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remember when jane eyre is like “I cant live here anymore” so she just leaves and like. walks into the moors or whatever and almost dies of exposure? bc I really feel that
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Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003)
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Once when I was eight years old my grandmother asked me, what will you do when you grow up? And I answered, I want to die. I want to die when I grow up. I want to die soon.
Fleur Jaeggy, from “I Am the Brother of XX,” I Am the Brother of XX (via lifeinpoetry)
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