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Remembrance Of Things To Come
“I’m writing you all this from another world, a world of appearances. In a way the two worlds communicate with each other. Memory is to one what history is to the other: an impossibility.” -...
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Men In Love With Images
“To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares,- to be in love with one of those images was worse than being in love with a ghost (perhaps we always want...
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Ellipsis #65
anders, Molussien (2012) (differently, Molussia) Nicolas Rey German “Materialism is a theory of the invisible and is about those who have a material interest in the invisible above them and the...
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Favorite Films Of 2012
Die, die, die, 2012! Besides being a period of personal lows, it was a bad year at the movies for me. Not only did the quantity of the films I watched come down, but the enthusiasm with which I...
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Ellipsis #74
Paradies: Glaube (2012) (Paradise: Faith) Ulrich Seidl German/Arabic Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise: Faith (2012), the second film in the Paradise trilogy, could be seen as a complement to its predecessor...
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Notes From Experimenta 2013
By the time I got to know the details, I’d already missed half of this year’s Experimenta, India’s most prominent experimental film festival founded by Shai Heredia in 2003. This year’s edition was...
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Favorite Films Of 2013
A glance at the lineups of the major film festivals reveals how strong a year 2013 was for cinema, though the most important films, as is usually the case, wouldn’t see the light of day until about a...
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Favorite Films Of 2014
While my writing on this blog came to a grinding halt in 2014, watching and reading hit an all-time high, with the year practically spent in the eight feet between my bookshelf and computer screen. The...
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Nostalgia For The Future
“Life is a moment which is always past, which doesn’t exist anymore. It’s the genius of artistic creation to attempt to retain life. This is the function of literature, of painting, of sculpture,...
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Favorite Films Of 2015
2015 was a fine period for me. I went to the Mumbai Film Festival, something that I’d been meaning to do for some time now. I could also go to Experimenta to meet and interact with several interesting...
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