In A World Where Beastliness Is Perilously Beautiful

Fig. 1. Bluebeard (2009) - d. Catherine Breillat

'The perception of beauty is a moral test.'

Henry David Thoreau

Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah ...

Fig. 1. Mel Bochner - Blah, Blah, Blah (maroon), 2008


'Go home. Take a paper bag and cut some eye-holes out of it. Put it over your head, get undressed, and look at yourself in the mirror. Really evaluate where your strengths and weaknesses are. And be honest.'

Joan Halloway (Christina Hendricks), Mad Men

Melbourne International Film Festival: Film Du Jour

Fig. 1. The White Ribbon (2009) - d. Michael Haneke

A Ragtag Confederacy Of Beings Who Can't Decide

Fig. 1. Do-Ho Suh - Who Am We?, 1996–2000


'When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.'

Gertrude Stein

Melbourne International Film Festival: Film Du Jour

Fig. 1. Karamozovi (2008) - d. Petr Zelenka

The Trip That Can't Be Undone By Driving Backwards

Fig. 1. Doug Aitken - Star, 2008


Ferris: Look, it's real simple. Whatever mileage we put on, we'll take off.
Cameron: How?
Ferris: We'll drive home backwards.

On Interrogating Venus: Or, The Trouble With Sally

Fig. 1. Sally Mann - Venus After School, 1992


'Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.'

Susan Sontag