Pour la première fois au monde, la quasi-totalité de l'œuvre de Chantal Akerman est réunie dans un coffret Blu-ray !
46 films (21 longs métrages) et plus de 20 heures de bonus répartis sur 14 disques afin de redécouvrir son cinéma hors norme.
Sortie le 1er octobre.
Each frame of the opening titles was hand drawn, gilded & painted by our incredible graphic designer Katie & her assistant India, then applied in stop motion. It took months to make as a single frame took half a day, but it encapsulates everything: a beauty that drives us mad.
Anne Boyer has resigned as the poetry editor of the New York Times magazine: “Because our status quo is self-expression, sometimes all artists have left is to refuse. So I refuse.”
« Seules quelques féministes prenant les rênes d'institutions vont-elles contrecarrer ce "proxénétisme institutionnel" coutumier, ou au contraire fermer les yeux pour protéger leurs privilèges acquis »@centrepompidoumetz_ ❓👉blogs.mediapart.fr/deborahde…
Nous avons une pensée toute particulière aujourd'hui pour Chantal Akerman, née le 6 juin 1950.
« Le cinéma, pour moi, fait partie du même fantasme qu’ont les drogués : vivre des moments hors du temps et de tout, dans une pure incandescence. »
Volcano politics from Audre Lorde:
"Like the volcano ... in any revolutionary process there's a period of intensification & a period of explosion. We must become familiar w. the requirements & symptoms of each period, & use the differences between them to our mutual advantage."
ALT Mount Nyiragongo in the Virunga Mountains, Democratic Republic of the Congo, erupting in 2021
A reminder that the SUNU Journal website has many free resources (PDFs of books/printed material, links to videos) for you to peruse and download located under the SUNU Studies tab. All material is gathered from the public domain. Translations available wherever possible.
ALT A shallow focus shot from the movie Carol of Carol's hand placing a pair of black leather gloves on the counter of a department store check-out. You can see the sleeve of her fur coat in the shot. She has red nail polish and a ring on one of her fingers.
Here's a thread (from my new article) about Audre Lorde's concept of "the erotic", which is hugely significant for many ppl but also tantalizingly hard to define & describe.
I'm pretty excited to share this work!
ALT Audre Lorde in her office, 1981, photo by Joan E. Biren
« MeToo, c’est le risque de femmes qui veulent régler des comptes », dit Gallant chez @FrancoisHeureux D’après les études, les faux témoignages tournent autour de 4pc (selon @DanieleZucker et son livre Le Viol au delà des idées reçues, Plon).