Friday, March 15, 2024

Santos mirando hacia el escenario

 



Dos collages digitales 14 de marzo de 2024

Saturday, March 9, 2024

Santos mirando hacia abajo



 Dos collages digitales 9 de marzo de 2024

Friday, March 8, 2024

Drôle de drame, 1937





directed by Marcel Carné

written by  Jacques Prévert

designed by Alexandre Trauner

photographed by Eugen Schüfftan




Something I watched at the UConn Film Society when I was a student, maybe sixteen or seventeen years old at the time.  The first of the Carné/Prévert pictures I got to see.  Projected in sixteen millimeter and well worn, but better than not seeing it at all.  A movie that makes me laugh uncontrollably, as it should.




It's a feast for actors, Françoise Rosay, Michel Simon, Jean-Louis Barrault, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Louis Jouvet, Nadine Vogel, Pierre Alcover. Finest of their time.



Watched it again the other night, then read a couple of essays regarding it.  Then came up with my own interpretation, especially on the central threesome of Rosay, Simon and Barrault.  Barrault, the serial killer enables Simon as the writer and horticulturalist to love his wife as well as his Mimosas and Carnivorous Flowers. The killer also enables the Wife to see that she is capable of being loved.





Better to be thought of as a killer than as one who has fallen beneath their station in life.

Saturday, March 2, 2024

12 favorite books


Metamorphoses

Decameron

Journey to the West (西遊記)


A Midsummer Night's Dream

Leviathan

Les Liaisons dangereuses

Faust, Eine Tragödie

Penthesilea

Les Chants de Maldoror

Une Saison en Enfer


A Frolic of His Own

Against the Day

Friday, March 1, 2024

Unauthorized DUNE Remake Drawings

Wax crayon & graphite on toned paper; 8.5 x 5.5 inches or 12 x 9 inches, each; September 2023 - March 2024
















Related Gaza and Journey to the Center of the Earth drawings included. Of late I’ve been working on a multimedia adaptation of Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s DUNE. Taking in his half-done screenplay for his adaptation of its sequel, Dune Messiah. As it came to light. The next drawings will be from the opening scenes of Lynch’s DUNE 2 showing Duncan Idaho’s resurrection performed by Scytale (never filmed) and of John Lydon as Vladimir Harkonen and maybe his brother. Scytale was the Baron's Doctor, played in Lynch's DUNE by Leonardo Cimino. 




Thursday, February 22, 2024

Santos with I-Phone, Completed Again


 Digital Collage 22 Febrero 2024


Digital Collage 15 Diciembre 2023

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Multiple Personalities in INLAND EMPIRE

The three main characters in the picture (we will call them Sue, Billy and Smithy to begin) each have at least two Alter Egos; and the supporting characters all have their doppelgangers too. It all began with a Gypsy folk tale that was transformed into a radio play, though the reverse could also be the case. 

To begin we start with the recording. 









Nikki Grace has got the role to play Sue, the latest incarnation of the lost girl in the hotel room, seen directly above, though digitally masked when she first appears in scene one.











The original of Devon's character is the Phantom, played by Krzysztof Majchrzak in this initial encounter, though he reappears as himself at the house next door to Smithy's in Inland Empire. The Phantom sells watches and casts spells. Devon makes cappuccinos and acts.







Smithy is the lost girl's husband, but he's also Nikki's at the beginning of her story.  He ends up reunited with his Polish wife, but in the house in Inland Empire.  Nikki ends up in the ornate mansion in Beverly Hills, where she first appeared having coffee with the Folklorist, as the credits roll.