looking for things in places where there’s nothing

Alphabet Chart

Egyptian, Phoenician, Palmyrene, Syro-galileen and Hebrew, plate 5 from the ‘L’Encyclopédie’ by Diderot and d'Alembert.

Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer. He was a prominent person during the Enlightenment and is best known for serving as co-founder and chief editor of and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783). Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.

“Eric Rohmer - He used to say that Cinema’s an art of limits. If you go beyond a certain limit it’s no longer a film, it’s no longer Cinema. These limits, he called it reality. He didn’t call it “realism”, he called it reality. So I think what I was in need for or was searching for, and I’m talking about limitations, these people, the neighbourhood and everything else, is not doing what I used to do in normal productions or films that I did and I still see my colleagues doing, which is: escaping from reality like the vampire from the sun. Every filmmaker tries to escape reality like the cross. And you should confront some sort of reality. Real reality, not fake, fantasized or projected. I have no other way because I am so with these people, in these places, with this kind of budget, with my own limitations, my own obsessions. Its pure reality, its nothing else.”

The first trailer for Josh and Benny Safdie’s Uncut Gems, starring Adam Sandler, has arrived! 

“Those are egg yolks, Blanche…”

from  Panelkapcsolat, The Prefab People (1982)

I, III. Vozvrashchenie (The return) - Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2003.