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

Melbourne International Film Festival: Film Du Jour

Fig. 1. Yuri's Day (2008) - d. Kirill Serebrennikov

A Reflection On Seeing The Tree Of Hanging Knights

Fig. 1. Excalibur (1981) - d. John Boorman

'Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.'

Carl Jung

Melbourne International Film Festival: Film Du Jour

Fig. 1. Krabat (2008) - d. Marco Kreuzpaintner

Twitch interview With Marco Kreuzpaintner and Daniel Brühl

Romance Is Love's Way Of Making Eternity Present

Fig. 1. Still from the closing shot of Wuthering Heights (1939) - d. William Wyler


'Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.'

Nelly Dean (Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë)

Savouring The Pleasures Of Sweating On The Inside

Fig. 1. Hans Haacke - Condensation Cube, 1963


'Masochism is above all formal and dramatic: this means that its peculiar pleasure-pain complex is determined by a particular kind of formalism and its experience of guilt by a specific story.'

Gilles Deleuze