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Wim Crouwel at the Stedelijk (2019). Rigid opinions of graphic design but also a man of his craft. 

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Cinema Paradiso (1988)  Giuseppe Tornatore 

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Mid90s Jonah Hill 2019

I didn’t think this film was very good. I think it had so many opportunities to be good and missed almost all of them. Of course stylistically and atmospherically catching skater kids in the 90s is cool but that already lends itself quite nicely. There was almost 0 character development or story depth, everything jumped around and was quite erratic, like all these little things kept happening but nothing was connected or delved into. There’s was not much substance, story or even opportunities for us to emotionally invest in this film. I think there could’ve been a lot more which is a shame, it had the potential but left you feeling a bit like “oh okay I guess that’s the end”. The sound editing was also garishly noticeable.

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Leave No Trace Debra Granik

 A delicate mature story of a child having to make the decision that her father needs to be free. The acceptance of her father's inability to live within ‘normal’ life structures after fighting in the army. A beautiful observation, often wordless, connection between father and daughter, and especially the extreme understanding of one another.

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Tampopo Juzo Itami

I love that the end of this film, the credits is the most purest form of nourishment and contentment - a baby sucking on its mums breast - everything is full and rich and delightful and content. The same way the men are when they slurp the end of tampopos perfect ramen bowl. He same way the man is when he devours cream of his partners breast. The same way the vagabond is when he slices open his perfect stolen omelette and sneaks out with his meal successfully. There’s so many levels of joy and satisfaction in food and relishing in it - their mothers last meal - it has such weight and memories. It’s a film overflowing with sensory stimulation, sound and flavour. The women eating pasta ! So much slurping ! Trying to detach from the way they eat noodles but it’s too pleasurable to eat silently. Uh such a rich film in so many ways. I want to make an omelette like how that homeless man made his omelette. It was so perfect. Everything so simple but if you do it right, if you perfect even 2 ingredients together, done with the right technique, can bring pure joy and be so everyday but so spectacular.

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Olaf Eliasson at the Tate Your Double Lighthouse Projection

Everyone’s in it for the gram. Look at the colour, look at my skin, look at immersive art, look at me in colour light art. Look at it with your eyes let people go monochrome from staring at blue, don’t look through your phone it’s a different eye it’s not your own it’s not connected to your brain let it go.

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Bohemian Rhapsody - Bryan Singer

“The in between bits are very difficult.”

People with a vision and ambition and passion are kind of unstoppable, also unbearable if you know them, but if you don’t, make magic for the rest of us.

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Climax - Gaspar Noé

Holy mother fucking shit that was one of the most intense overwhelming nauseating stimulating stressful films I’ve ever seen in my life. Honestly feel dizzy from the constant camera moments about death and life and cycles and reality and safety and insanity and escalation. My mind is struggling adjusting to normality. Worse than the worst acid trip I could ever imagine. Cinema should not always be comfortable and as far as it being an escape it was one I wished to escape from.

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Eighth Grade - Bo Burnham

Extremely American but wonderful intimate, honest filming. Ability to capture teen angst and awkwardness especially in the digital age, how this has changed how we think of ourselves and how others perceive us. Sometimes painfully awkward.

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Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography, FOAM 

I love dusty plums

Sometimes a pepper looks like leather or a taught contorted back (ref. Edward Weston Pepper Nr.30)

Who invented putting candles on a cake to blow out to make a wish on your birthday?

Oh I love terribly garish old saturated food photography with strikingly orange foods and red pops, some form of dull green thing usually on kitsch crockery and surroundings, ridiculous formations. (Ref. Nickolas Muray)  

There’s also nothing I love more that seeing people carelessly eat an overflowing forkful of spaghetti (ref. Weegee)

Caviar looks like jewellery  

Food can be SO distasteful

Section 1 still life Section 2 - at the table Section 3 - playing with food

Section 2 definitely engages me the most, the community, the connotations about eating food together, and act, an experience

FOOD IS SO MUCH MORE THAN HUNGER

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1970 Weight Watchers cards, FOAM 

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Poster, Portobello Market

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Asian Super Market packaging always. 

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Crazy old painting in Gdánsk National Gallery (The Last Judgement Hans Memling) which felt so incorrectly photorealistic was super reminiscent of the super 3D-rendered hyper-reality coming into the digital world now. 

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Flirt Game, Toy Museum, Gdánsk 

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Exhibition, Sopot 

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Solidarity Museum, Gdánsk, Poland