The Sheer Impossibility Of Being Absolutely Nobody

Fig. 1. Cindy Sherman - Untitled, 2007-2008


'Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.'

Paul Ricoeur

Melbourne International Film Festival: Film Du Jour

Fig. 1. Antichrist (2009) - d. Lars von Trier

Ode To The Most Mature Child Of My Acquaintance

Fig. 1. Kees Van Dongen - The Spotted Chimera, 1895-1907


'It takes a long time to become young.'

Pablo Picasso

Melbourne International Film Festival: Film Du Jour

Fig. 1. Che: Part One (2008) - d. Steven Soderbergh

All Hail The Subtle Thief Of Youth (And Other Foes)*

Fig. 1. George Nelson - Ball Clock, 1948


'[We] get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.'

Paul Bowles

* 'Time, the subtle thief of youth.' (John Milton)

Melbourne International Film Festival: Film Du Jour

Fig. 1. 35 Shots of Rum (2008) - d. Claire Denis

Private Regrets And Hopes Of The Man Love Forgot

Fig. 1. Damien Hirst - Requiem, White Roses and Butterflies, 2008


'Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.'

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry