Category Archives: Cinema/Visual/Audio

restez KALLLLM: vlog-on

High Anxiety meme descends by form of free-fall into the physical world. Mental wealth is nothing to joke about it, if you can find it. French version of marketing “maquette” for perhaps a future Vlog. Unlike Marsahll McLuhan and his … Continue reading

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petronius redux

Petronius’s Satyricon and Fellini’s film version. Two versions of a pagan world as it was in Nero’s time and may be in ours… For Fellini, Satyricon is not crude melodrama or pure fantasy, but a view of paganism as it … Continue reading

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satyricon: fellini and creative crudeness

Fellini’s Satyricon- a pagan spectacle as it was in Nero’s time and certainly may be in our own… All the scenes of Fellini’s Satyricon possess a nightmarish vividness. Fellini took Petronius’s account and gave it a suitably phantasmgoric story line, … Continue reading

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kathak style

Those renown for their virtuosity in the Kathak style, a hybrid of Muslem and Hindu influences, put a premium on the footwork, which alone controls the dozens of ankle bells, whose sound may range from a loud jangle to the … Continue reading

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call of the wild: frozen delirium

Delirium. Soviet Union. It’s what is not us, not only separate from us but alien,and so different that to confuse with us is to flirt with madness, like a visceral fear of mad love, a temporary insanity that may have … Continue reading

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first world war: hysterical tremors

No doubt we shall never understand the First World War completely. The malaise, the something sinister and strange lying beneath the prosperity of a seemingly newly minted modern age. The lust for violence, the belief in death and the ominous … Continue reading

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paris 1919

When simplistic views of the working class are no longer valid. The machine, in post WWI Europe, had not, after all, turned out to be the instrument of social liberation; and in just about every country in the world the … Continue reading

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zohra

At one time Zohra Lampert was one of the most sought-after young actresses in New York; even having a play being expressly written for her. Lampert’s “presence,” the quality that saw her through a number of star-crossed and mediocre plays … Continue reading

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satyricon: angering the sex-god priapus

Did Fellini mine the original to create his own brutto spettacolo of a pagan world- as it was in Nero’s time, and as it may be in our own? … In his film adaptation of Petronius’s Satyricon Frederico Fellini created a … Continue reading

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seine: inseinity

What was it while gazing at the Seine that Verlaine came upon his definition of water,”that impure liquid, a drop of which is enough to spoil the transparency of absinthe.” ? What was it about the Seine that attracted so … Continue reading

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