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México
Distrito Federal
The first picture I saw of Ottoniel was
the one at the top of the page where he’s wearing that plastic iron
crown that suits his insolent beauty. It was some time back, maybe a
couple of years. I figured I needed to find more of him and did. He
doesn’t take a lot of naked pictures of himself or pose for them for
others, but they can be found, a few more than those I’ve put up here.
He appears to be in his mid twenties, takes great care of his body and
is a proud pasivo. One can’t help but envy his fuckers.
Abbas Kiarostami
Tehran 1998
Kiarostami’s body returned to Iran the other day and some friends were
waiting at the airport to pick him up. One of his sons was allowed to
accompany him. There were also official honors. I had a good cry over
the image of his cohorts hoisting the bag containing his remains. I
hadn’t been thinking a lot about Kiarostami lately. I had almost
forgotten how much he affected the way I went about shooting and editing
my videos. He was a great teacher, by all accounts.
Robert Siodmak, Hollywood CA, 1946
special optical effects by Eugen
Schüfftan
starring Olivia de Havilland
(born July 1, 1916)
This should have been done a week ago but I
wasn’t feeling myself or any other at the time and now take the
opportunity (following the reintegration of my personalities) to
celebrate the first hundred years of Olivia de Havilland’s exemplary
life and work with images from a film she made seventy years ago with
two of the finest collaborators she ever had: Robert Siodmak and Eugen
Schüfftan. Nunnally Johnson’s script certainly isn’t as finely tuned as
the visual design and its extraordinary execution, but Siodmak and de
Havilland subvert it’s more conventional aspects through ambiguous line
readings and spacial arrangements. There’s a great deal more intentional
humor at play in this film than is usually acknowledged.
