Quiescent.

Aftersun (2022) dir. Charlotte Wells

Director: Tom McCarthy Cinematographer: Masanobu Takayanagi

10. Daughters of the Dust (dir. Julie Dash, 1991 / USA) 09. Seven Beauties (dir. Lina Wertmüller, 1975 / Italy) 08. Meshes of the Afternoon (dir. Maya Deren, 1943 / USA) 07. Cléo from 5 to 7 (dir. Agnès Varda, 1962 / France) 06. Lady Bird (dir. Greta Gerwig, 2017 / USA) 05. Daisies (dir. Věra Chytilová, 1966 / Czechoslovakia)  04. A League of Their Own (dir. Penny Marshall, 1992 / USA) 03. The Piano (dir. Jane Campion, 1993 / New Zealand, Australia, & France) 02. Beau Travail (dir. Claire Denis, 1999 / France) 01. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (dir. Chantal Akerman, 1975 / Belgium & France)

“There is a silence where hath been no sound,   There is a silence where no sound may be,   In the cold grave—under the deep deep sea, Or in the wide desert where no life is found, Which hath been mute, and still must sleep profound;   No voice is hush’d—no life treads silently,   But clouds and cloudy shadows wander free, That never spoke, over the idle ground: But in green ruins, in the desolate walls   Of antique palaces, where Man hath been, Though the dun fox, or wild hyena, calls,   And owls, that flit continually between, Shriek to the echo, and the low winds moan, There the true Silence is, self-conscious and alone.”

The Piano | Jane Campion | 1993

Beach in Pourville, Claude Monet (1882) / Sweet Life, Frank Ocean

— Miranda July

Bergman’s shooting script for Persona.

— Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Music in Film: Booksmart (2019) dir. Olivia Wilde Music supervision by Bryan Ling

10. We Can Get Them For You Wholesale by Neil Gaiman — A man named Peter searches the phone book for an assassin to kill his unfaithful fiancée.

— Louise Glück, from “From the Japanese” in Poems 1962-2012

— Louise Gluck, March