Tag Archives: Frederico Fellini

flaneurs and collectors

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Dave

A fascination with the banal, the purely mediocre or downright almost instantly obsolescent; the unspectacular and all that is the antithesis of the Society of the Spectacle. An effort to exploit, better still, to redefine and re-perceive the radical potential … Continue reading →

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hide and seek: the workingman’s burden

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Dave

Does it pay never to work a day in the life? Save no money. Have no marketable assets. Yes and no. It does depend on the lifestyle one is accustomed to. It would be pushing “voluntary simplicity” to an extreme … Continue reading →

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future crock

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Art

Italian futurism….. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): This is something I clipped somewhere a while back. No recollection of where it was, or when it was. I don’t know who did this and I don’t know when it was created, or whether … Continue reading →

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8 1/2 disruptions of syntax

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Dave

In Fellini’s 8 1/2 an intellectual laments that the director, Guido, has no central idea, no clear intellectual concept. An English journalist wedges in,”What do you think about the marriage of Marxism and Catholicism?” In 8 1/2  Fellini doesn’t just … Continue reading →

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wicked gravity and nonreality: fellini version 8.5

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Dave

Is the idea of having no free will frightening? Fellini’s 8 1/2 is a film filled with unreality: Dreams, daydreams and memories.A daydream believer in a mid-life crisis.  It was a final discarding of the stark neorealism that permeated his … Continue reading →

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eight and a half : memories & the backward walk

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Dave

Having trouble dealing with reality and fantasy? Are the forces of discontent overwhelming? Can daydreams and memories at least give us clues to the elusive breakthrough gestating within the psyche? Can we find a way back to ourselves? As one … Continue reading →

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futurism: hygiene for the unwashed

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Dave

In the parade scene of Fellini’s Amarcord,the director seems to surgically probe at the roots of Italian fascism. The evidence seems to indicate that even strong-armed fascism cannot control the id. In fact, its swollen and pussy ideology and exaggerated … Continue reading →

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the future was now: faster faster

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Dave

There has always been a link, an association, between Italian futurism and different strains of fascism. Ironically, futurism’s desire to overthrow the old and was followed in a parallel manner by the Dadaists and Marcel Duchamp to overturn existing aesthetic … Continue reading →

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free fall: pax americana?

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Dave

The idea of decadence is hardly novel, in fact it has been carry on luggage since expulsion from the Garden. But what exactly constitutes decadence, and whether we are, in our time suffering its effects is not so easy to … Continue reading →

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VIRIDIANA & NEW WORDLY IMPULSES: Free and Imprisoned Old Sicknesses

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Dave

Luis Bunuel tells us that the comfortable man ( or woman ) , self-concerned, attempting to embrace more comfort, bores us stiff. And what Bunuel is telling us in cinema is what De Tocqueville forecast in “Democracy in America” . … Continue reading →

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