Go Swimming, But It Will Sometimes Be With Sharks

Fig. 1. Joseph Huber - Never Ask Why, 1980


'Love all, trust a few.'

William Shakespeare

Melbourne International Film Festival: Film Du Jour

Fig. 1. Kisses (2008) - Lance Daly

Echoing Footfalls Aroused Her Slumbering Hysteria*

* Fig. 1. Jackson Twins - Echo of Footfalls Heightened Her Flourishing Hysteria, 2009


'The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.'

Cindy Sherman

Melbourne International Film Festival: Film Du Jour

Fig. 1. Troubled Water (2008) - d. Erik Poppe

Once Upon A Time In A Little Place Called Optimism

Fig. 1. Wassily Kandinsky - Krass und Mild (Dramatic and Mild), 1932


'Being an artist means not having to avert one's eyes.'

Akira Kurosawa

Melbourne International Film Festival: Film Du Jour

Fig. 1. Still Walking (2008) - d. Hirokazu Kore-eda

My Body's A Room In Which Everyone Is Whispering

Fig. 1. Marlene Dumas - Death of the Author, 2003


'Death is the sanction of everything the storyteller can tell. He had borrowed his authority from death.'

Walter Benjamin