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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls. Bergman's Dreams - An Original Video Essay. youtu.be/JFQtlSvdWxQ

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At the bottom of our garden, 27/03/2023.

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Gwen John. Lady Reading. 1909-11.

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We always have their words. Jorge Luis Borges Carson McCullers Boris Pasternak Marguerite Duras

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Nick Brandt visited five animal sanctuaries in Africa to portray the people displaced by droughts and the creatures whose very existence is under threat. “We need to be far better stewards of the earth. We all need to learn to be good ancestors .” 2020.

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Dulovits Jenő (1903-1972), was one of the most significant and defining creators in the history of Hungarian photography and photo technology, treating aesthetics and technique as a distinctively individual photography style based on backlighting, softening and light-shadow balancing.

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Hugh Hood. Glasgow. 1974-78. This Glasgow was a city of ghosts and rubble, its air a miasma of sandstone dust and occluded sunlight. Hugh’s work was local history reframed as National Geographic anthropology.

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In the 1980s Brian Lomas photographed shops, mainly in Moston, Blackley, Newton Heath and Harpurhey, revealing a little of Manchester's urban history and celebrating its independent shops of the time.

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Birkenhead park. A lovely place to be.

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The Descent. Dir Neil Marshall. 2005. A brilliant claustrophobic shocker I loved to teach in a British horror module. It works not only with movie imagery, but with the stuff of myth and dreams too. It evokes hellish visions, from Goya to Fuseli, gothic gargoyles and Dore's engravings.

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The Story of Temple Drake. 1933. Directed by Stephen Roberts and adapted from the controversial novel Sanctuary by William Faulkner. Steeped in southern-gothic shadows by influential cinematographer Karl Struss and shot through with moral ambiguity, it is a harrowing vision of sin and salvation.

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Harold Ancart. Branches et cercles. 2024.

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RIP Tony Gatlif. Filmmaker. “I have waged a battle against my destiny, against myself, and that is no small thing."

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Edvard Munch. Self-Portrait with a Bottle of Wine. 1906. He had already fallen into alcoholism at this point so the inclusion of a bottle of wine is symbolic. His mental health problems are also apparent in his sad demeanor. He sits alone, reflecting on all that haunted him.

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A Brief History of Italy's Incredible Post-War Cinema - Best Movies by Farr

At a sad and seminal juncture in Italy’s history, its most talented filmmakers found the inspiration to record the moment for posterity with unflinching truth and tenderness. Creating cinematic art of the highest order. Best Movies by Farr. bestmoviesbyfarr.com/history/a-br...

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I’ve always loved Italy and most all things Italian: the country, the language, the food, and most of all, the people. I’ve always perceived the Italian national character as refreshingly open, roman...

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‘Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!’ Derek Jarman.

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Edwin Romanzo Elmer. Mourning Picture. 1890. Elmer shows himself, his wife Mary, and late daughter Effie standing with a pet sheep in front of the house he had built in Buckland, MA. Effie had passed away from appendicitis at the age of eight.

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Ara Güler, the eye of Istanbul. Like Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera (1929), which filmed life in Soviet cities over several years, he recorded the Istanbul of the 1960s and ’70s. Before he became a photographer, he was a projectionist, working at the old Yıldız Cinema.

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Our Lancaster Canal narrow boat trip. The peace and tranquility was heavenly. Wonderful.

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Chris Killip. "His ability to get on with people shaped both his work and his life." A wonderful man. Whenever I need inspiration, or to simply reflect on the art, resonance and power that photography has to unite us all, I invite Chris back into my life.

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Autumn leaves in the bottom of my trug.

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Chris Killip. Simon Being Taken Out to Sea for the First Time Since his Father Drowned. Skinningrove. 1983.

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He selected 24 still images, most of them stark landscapes inhabited only by birds and other wildlife, digitally animating each one into its own subtle four-and-a-half-minute vignette, creating a series of studies in movement, perception, and time. youtu.be/FNSlQ9mmJ4M

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I have rarely reread a book from my youth. When I have attempted to do so, I often gave up in disappointment. This is a huge risk as this book, had a such profound effect on me, and I don’t want to ruin the memory of what I considered to be a masterpiece.

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Steve McQueen - Hunger (Ending Scene)

I used the final scene of Hunger when teaching non diegetic sound. A masterclass in not just the brilliance of so called 'arthouse' independent film, but how it outclasses mainstream commercial cinema in every department, every time. So philosophically reflective. youtu.be/CP_5KMlfnpQ

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Roland Barthes once wrote that “photography touches art not through painting but through theatre.” Few twentieth century photographers have explored the elusive connections between the photographic image and theatre with such haunting poignancy as Ralph Eugene Meatyard.

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Victoria Will. Tintypes. 1860s-Style Portraits of the Stars at Sundance. 2014.

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Igor Melnikov. “For me, these are not portraits of children, but portraits of human souls. Each is a picture of a soul immersed in itself, reticent, perplexed, searching for and preserving a hope. If you take the message of this portrait to your heart, it is a portrait of you.”

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Alessandra Sanguinetti. 'Some Say Ice'. Black River Falls, Wisconsin. “Some instinct to deny or stop death is probably behind every photograph and every selfie being made. No matter how banal. It’s a Sisyphean effort to assert our physicality and existence.”

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Robert Frank. “It’s very hard to get away from myself. It seems, almost, that’s all I have. That’s sort of a sad feeling.”

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A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Benjamin Netanyahu begins his speech.

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Vacancy is all I find;  Every keyhole I have made  Wails a summons, faint and sad,  No voice ever answers me,  Only vacancy.’  ‘Once, once … ’ the cricket shrills,  And far and near the quiet fills  With its tiny voice, and then  Hush falls again. Walter de La Mare.

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Josef Sudek. The Poet of Prague. ‘His work triumphs over darkness, radiating both from the sun and from streetlamps, streaming into windows, reflecting glass objects, and illuminating landscapes, trees and his beloved Prague. Light symbolizes spirituality and transcendence.’

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‘The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.’ Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night. Regardless of his life and politics, Journey to the End of the Night blew me away back in those dark days.

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My wife loves working in stain glass.

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Philip Evergood. Vacationing. 1940.

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‘Has the world changed or have I changed?’ I find the the paintings of George Shaw really haunting. The absence of people gives them such a melancholy edge. They remind me of a photographic essay I produced many years ago where I captured images with a similar aesthetic.

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Andrea Modica. American. Transformational. “Modica’s art is about important and solemn events—those internal, molding moments we are mostly powerless to hold or to articulate.”

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Martine Barrat. French. Tough and tender images of New York. 1977 - 1985.

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Ironbridge. A wonderful atmospheric place to visit.

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In Sunrise, F.W. Murnau used montage for both realist and expressionist ends. The ‘marsh scene’ in particular employs a mixture of double exposures, angular compositions and dynamic juxtapositions, shot by DOPs Charles Rosher and Karl Struss. Breathtaking. youtu.be/0PTffZ3NhOU

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Point Blank (1967) Walking Walker

Point Blank was John Boorman's American film debut, in 1967, and it was truly explosive. Rife with existential malaise, and astonishing nonlinearity, it had Nouvelle Vague written all over it. The use of sound across this montage is hypnotic. One of my favourite montages ever. youtu.be/jwiKbrt5TPY

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