Sunday, December 10, 2006

Not Being There - Or, We Like To Be Watched




Gilbert and George (b, 1943 and 1942) - Spat On , 1996


"We don't have anything to say except with our pictures."

"We don't want to think. It's exhausting enough without that."

"We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought."

"We don't want to know what we're doing. It's much better not to know."

"A clergyman once said to us, 'Jealousy is a bad thing'. But I must confess that I am sometimes jealous of the artist because the artist is closer to creation."

Gilbert and George


The Week in Review

Viewing:

All About My Mother - d. Pedro Almodóvar (1999)
Bad Education - d. Pedro Almodóvar(2004)
Il Bidone - d. Federico Fellini (1955)
Heat - d. Michael Mann (1995)
The Insider - d. Michael Mann (2004)
Jezebel - d. William Wyler (1938)
Now, Voyager - d. Irving Rapper (1942)
Palindromes - d. Todd Solondz (2004)
Pickpocket - d. Robert Bresson (1959)
Thief - d. Michael Mann (1981)


Reading:

Dada and Surrealist Film - ed. Rudolph E. Kuenzli
Forces of Desire: A Theory and Analysis of Surrealist Film - Linda Williams
From Enchantment to Rage: The Story of Surrealist Cinema - Steven Kovacs
Surrealism and Film - J. H. Matthews


Listening:

Different Trains - Steve Reich (1990)
Desert Music - Steve Reich (1990)
The Cave - Steve Reich (1995)
Music for 18 Musicians - Steve Reich (2000)


Exhibitions: