Notes: Daratt dir. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
I wrote about this movie sometime last year and then forgot I wrote anything. I really liked this movie but I’m not sure about these thoughts anymore. I don’t know if I engage with it like this now but I might as well share.
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun is a Chadian filmmaker, born 1960 in Abéché, Chad. He studied cinema in Paris, journalism in Bordeaux and began making films in his home country in 1995. One of Haroun’s goals as a filmmaker is to share intimate portraits of his little known homeland, a crucial mission that if abandoned only leaves, as Haroun says, “a colonization by images.”
Paranoid Apartment by Lala Albert
Internet Comics 2 by Maré Odomo
Notes: Personal Film Canon
A small list of films that I consider formative. This list was written last year and so my favorites have shifted but I still find these movies important and they still resonate with different aspects of me in a powerful way.
Out of Skin by Emily Carrol
Horror works when it upsets the boundary between life and death, the mundane and sublime.
CARE by Matt Sheean & Malachi Ward
Care is the collected form of a three-part back up comic that ran in Prophet #34-#36 made by Matt Sheean and Malachi Ward. It tells the story of a society founded on an alien planet whose wellbeing depends on the health of a massive living organism that controls their civilizations atmosphere and ecosystem. Continue reading “CARE by Matt Sheean & Malachi Ward”
Notes: The Terrorizers dir. Edward Yang
Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don’t know the difference.
George: No, but we must carry on as though we did.
Martha: Amen.– Who’s Afraid of Virgina Woolf?
Traffic lights, all red. Chance obstacles. A cop car blaring its sirens as it cuts diagonally across the screen under a bleak dawn sky.
trust not the eye; make of your meat an imaging device 