putting aside his many pioneering achievements in early experimental film, such as the employment of a new method of film development called solarization (also known as the sabattier effect, previously only used in still photography) for the first time among his filmmaker peers, the ukrainian-french avantgardist eugène deslaw is also notable for his service in the symon petliura army, which carried out the largest in scale antisemitic pogroms in ukraine at the time. while it is unclear whether eugène took…

"leave me, you will get nothing from me. i am dead, you cannot enter death."

reassemblage in a scene at the beach: eyes, lips, sweat, wrinkled skin, brought back layer by layer to embody the memory that refuses evaluative attention to its then commodified fragments, and calls to be taken as a living whole. eroded skin, eroded stone. the sounds overwhelm as the pencil continues sketching: overlapping voiceovers, crashing waves, seagull calls swell and flounce rapidly, disoriented amid the marine…

my god, what a rewatch. two loners exist on the opposite sides of a one-way mirror, their lives magnetized through the commensurability of ritual and obsession that haunts them. both on their respective assignments, both mere instruments in someone else's hands. what is a voyeur if not a captive of his own gaze? it is the two-dimensional property of his gaze—being simultaneously possessed and in possession of—that allows for power to be upheld by and transfered to the observed, or…