sitting, becoming ghost

Tina Barney, 1984

PAINTING (DEVIL AND LAUGHING MAN), PETER BOOTH 1981

“I hope you live without the need to dominate, and without the need to be dominated. I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people. And when you fail, and are defeated, and in pain, and in the dark, then I hope you will remember that darkness is your country, where you live, where no wars are fought and no wars are won, but where the future is. Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing — instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.”

Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)

Wild Strawberries (1957), directed by Ingmar Bergman

Women in Love (1969), directed by Ken Russell

Run Lola Run (1998), directed by Tom Tykwer

Cool Hand Luke (1967), directed by Stuart Rosenberg

Spellbound (1945), Alfred Hitchcock