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

Melbourne International Film Festival: Film Du Jour

Fig. 1. Love Exposure (2008) - d. Sion Sono

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