Alex

How am I to protect my wax built castles of love from the devouring heat of your fires?

Marina Tsvetaeva, from Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922; “A Hero of Labor”

1. The Lovers of Valdaro are a 6,000 year old Neolithic skeleton couple who were found buried together in Mantua, Italy. 

 They were both around 20, both 5′2, and had no physical trauma evident in their bones. They were buried with flint tools. Their limbs are entwined in an endless embrace.

2. The Hasanlu Lovers are 2,800 year skeletons found locked in an eternal kiss in Solduz Valley, Iran. 

SUBLIME CINEMA #301 - ARRIVAL

Denis Villeneuve is one of the most interesting new gen filmmakers to come along for a while, along with the Safdie Brothers, Celine Sciamma, Chloe Zhao, and a select few others. There is not a windfall of new young talent with their own particular artistic signatures, but Villeneuve has specialized in epic, stark landscapes, and vast worlds of a dark unknown for over a decade. He now commands bigger budgets than his contemporaries could dream of. His earliest short ‘The Next Floor’, looked inspired by Roy Andersson, but then he pared down the elements to some kind of pure essential starkness which seems distinctly his. Mixed results ensued - Incendies, Sicario, Prisoners and Arrival approach masterpiece material, and show an artist in command of his talent. Blade Runner 2049 was haphazard, Polytechnique polarizing. But he’s an artist I will go out of my way to watch. 

“The first film [Before Sunrise] is about what could be, the second [Before Sunset] is about what should have been. Before Midnight is about what it is.”