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Black is... Black Ain't (Marlon Riggs, 1994)

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"What is left of me is a big nose and a fourth untrained finger." - Chopin

2013, Aleksander Woronicki

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He Thought He Died 2023 Isiah Medina

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He Thought He Died (2023) is now online. https://quantitycinema.com/he-thought-he-died

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I must Create a System, or be enslav’d by another Man’s I will not Reason & Compare: my business is to Create

William Blake, “Jerusalem. Plate 10.″

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"Europe has nothing to teach us. Europe knows absolutely nothing. They think that by killing us, they will kill our culture. They will try to kill us, but we should also not be ashamed to kill them, without concession."

Ousmane Sembène

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Strange Days (Bigelow, 1995)

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"The very idea of ​​a scheme is childishly simple - so simple, so humble, that no one before me had thought of stooping so low. So "dummy" even, to put it bluntly, that for years and despite the evidence, for many of my savants colleagues, it really seemed "not serious"! [...] It was the kind of exercise, judged in advance stupid and hopeless by any "well-informed" person, that I was probably the only one, among all my colleagues and friends, who could ever have the idea, and even (driven by a secret demon...) to bring it to a successful end against all odds! [...]

In our knowledge of things in the Universe (whether mathematical or otherwise), the renovating power in us is none other than innocence. It is the original innocence that we all shared at our birth and which rests in each of us, often the object of our contempt and our most secret fears. It alone unites the humility and the boldness which allow us to penetrate to the heart of things, and which allow us to let things penetrate us and to impregnate us with them.

This power is in no way the privilege of extraordinary "gifts" — of (let's say) extraordinary cerebral power to assimilate and to handle, with dexterity and ease, an impressive mass of facts, ideas and known techniques. Such gifts are certainly precious, surely worthy of envy for those who (like me) were not thus fulfilled at birth, "beyond all measure".

It is not these gifts, however, nor even the most ardent ambition, served by an unfailing will, which make us cross these “invisible and imperious circles” which enclose our Universe. Only innocence crosses them, without knowing it or caring, in the moments when we find ourselves alone listening to things, intensely absorbed in a child's game..."

— Grothendieck, Récoltes et semailles, I, page 56-57.

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I must have flowers, always, and always.

Claude Monet

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"Time is here, again, the requirement of the Two: for there to be an event, one must be able to situate oneself within the consequences of another. The intervention is a line drawn from one paradoxical multiple, which is already circulating, to the circulation of another, a line which scratches out. It is a diagonal of the situation" (Being and Event, p. 210)

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February 3rd, 19:00 @ Cineteca Madrid

Semi-Auto Colours (Isiah Medina, 2010, 6')

Infinites of Resistance to Division (Alexandre Galmard, 2019, 3’)

Faithful Non-Employment, 2 (Alexandre Galmard, 2020, 3’)

zum Beschluss (Alexandre Galmard, 2020, 3’)

He Thought He Died (Isiah Medina, 2023, 70')

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Towards Mathematical Criticism, Fernando Zalamea (2023)

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Image montage from Hollis Frampton’s Zorns Lemma, 1970 (Clint Enns, 2013)