oh yes of course, but the vehicle is a virtual automaton, implying (to me only perhaps) the horrific yet wondrous automatism of those vectors.. i think Bellmer's libidinous poupee reaches into the same manifold, the enigmatic drives of representation and desire
and these images do seem cathartic (not personally so, per se) to me which in some strange dreamworld of my own design snuggles up to some possibly rogue sense of apotropaicism though what use that sense is, is quite debatable.. the compactifaction (as a sense of effigy) of all the terrors "went before us" as an omen, a doll, twisting within the silent schreamata the filmic copulation an objectification of the copula, the 'is' of mistaken language, that 'babel-as-desiring-machine' which 'draws' forth the 'action' of the 'plague' as a 'praxis' within the inertia of determination.. and from Wolfgang Kayser a nod to the Grotesque, which these surely are: In spite of all the helplessness and horror inspired by the dark forces which lurk in and behind our world and have power to estrange it, the truly artistic portrayal effects a secret liberation. The darkness has been sighted, the ominous powers discovered, the incomprehensible forces challenged. And thus we arrive at a final interpretation of the grotesque: AN ATTEMPT TO INVOKE AND SUBDUE THE DEMONIC ASPECTS OF THE WORLD. in praise lq ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Sondheim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 7:18 PM Subject: Re: two films for large projection
Thanks, I've been working fairly small for the Web, like your image as well. It's not Belmer that's inspiring me, it's the violence of war and the annihilation of space-time by desire, momentarily, nothing holds - - Alan For URLs, DVDs, CDs, books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt . Contact: Alan Sondheim, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] General directory of work: http://www.asondheim.org .
