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René Magritte

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Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996), dir. Elia Suleiman

On the one hand, there is a man sitting in front of the Holy Land. I am there, as part of the scene, as part of the place, but I'm there with a sense of alienation. I'm stagnating. For me this is what it is like to be in a ghetto. I wanted to convey that sense that nothing is happening, nothing is moving. Nazareth has that air. Now on the other hand there is the Biblical sense of the place, which I chose to represent as a commodity. According to this view we are not a nation or people, we are simply products to buy and take home, and we exist in the midst of something ancient. When Israel took this country, they made a minority out of the Palestinians, they ghettoized them. And they took their image as a product for consumer consumption. (x)

currently on the netflix catalogue

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Cyril E. Power, British, 1872-1951 The Tube Station, 1932 Linocut on Japanese paper

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El Paso, Danny Lyon

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Fish Tank | Andrea Arnold | 2009

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Händler der vier Jahreszeiten (The Merchant of Four Seasons) | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1971

Irm Hermann, Hans Hirschmüller, Karl Scheydt

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Ninth Avenue, 1924. George Copeland Ault (1891-1948). Oil on canvas

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Joyce at 34 (1972), dir. Joyce Chopra

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Nan Goldin has always been a documentarian. The new film “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” feels less like a biography than a natural extension of her life’s work, a kind of collaboration between director Laura Poitras and the famed photographer on a cinematic memoir. 

 The film’s structure forcefully posits multiple parallels between the world Goldin grew up in and the one she fights in today — between AIDS and the opioid crisis, between historical and contemporary neglect of the marginalized, between queer life then and now. 

Read the full review.

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Carmen Pinart  1957, Barcelona, Spain paints with wood grain and a painted terrain across her textiles and hair.

via artroomplant

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"Sometimes I feel so sad — when I go to bed — I feel . . . just so relieved to become unconscious — it's like wanting to be dead."

—Iris Murdoch, from The Philosopher’s Pupil

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Cheyenne Julien Untitled 65"X72", OIL ON CANVAS

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Link to Buy: Travel Europe City Shape, Ana Rut Bre Fine Art

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Jacques Demy and Agnès Varda.

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"And the leaves die entering a stranger beauty, knowing nothing of our troubles or the lust to grieve."

— Alex Dimitrov

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Andy Warhol,

Flowers

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I have such strong tendencies to abandon myself to someone with whom I’m in love—

—Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980