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Recent articles on Marginalia (by Gracia) alongside news and exhibitions.

The sting in November

November 17, 2014 Gracia Louise

Recently landed: The sting in November, a new post on High Up in the Trees (by Gracia)

One parcel of zines for Sir David Attenborough, delivered to the stage door of the Regent Theatre

One parcel of zines for Sir David Attenborough, delivered to the stage door of the Regent Theatre

Meanwhile,

Though the gap between sessions is tight, very tight, I don’t want to miss #MIFF2017 film 46, with former #Batsheva dancer BOBBI JENE (D Elvira Lind). To breaking boundries. To creative independence. And staying true to your own voice. *heads into the darkened cinema just as the ads finish and the lights dim* Made it. Phew. Let’s go.
#dance
#process
#choreography
#55filmsin16days
#batshevadancecompany

Full circle. Leaving Pop Aye (Bong) the elephant. A square as a gathering point, hostile design in public spaces to discourage lingering, sleeping, and all things inappropriate (at the Comedy Theatre), and the promise of a little performance art. #MIFF2017 film 45, THE SQUARE (D Ruben Östlund). "I think that everybody has a relationship to the topics and the thematics of 'The Square'. I really, really hope that people will still be interested in going to the cinema to both be entertained and laugh, but at the same time have something to deal with when you leave the cinema. To talk about what you have seen. I'm #curious, very curious."— #RubenÖstlund (in interview with Scott Roxborough)
#TheSquare
#hostiledesign
#ComedyTheatre
#55filmsin16days
#hostilearchitecture

Vincent van Gogh’s 'Women Picking Olives' (1889). For his mother and sister. "I hope that the painting of the women in the olive trees will be a little to your taste—I sent [a] drawing of it to Gauguin, . . . and he thought it good. . . ." Thinking about nature. And human nature.
#nature
#olivetree
#thisisthursday
#VincentvanGogh
#WomenPickingOlives
(Image source (detail): The MET)

'From now on it's just you and me.' Two peas in a pod, 'old, fat and homeless,’ umbrella aloft. Returning to homeland, peace, possibly, and nature, #MIFF2017 film 44, POP AYE (D Kirsten Tan). "….because #elephants, both in Thailand and in the wider world, …. kind of symbolise hopelessness. So much of the forest in #Thailand has been cut down…. So then a lot of times these elephants have become forced to live among men. So then this idea of finding a #home and that home still exists also came about when I was thinking about elephants."— #KristenTan (in interview with Jeremy Elphick, 4:3, 2017)
#nature
#habitat
#homeland
#conservation
#55filmsin16days

Grace Cossington-Smith (1892–1984), 'Kuringai Avenue', 1943, oil on composition board.
#inthegallery
#cathedrallike
#betweenfilms
#thisisthursday
#GraceCossingtonSmith

'Oak Struck by Lightning, Badger, 1856' (detail), albumen silver print from paper negativeby Alfred Capel Cure (1826–1896), as an analogue for #MIFF2017 feels.
#tree
#nature
#lightning
#AlfredCapelCure
#albumensilverprint

#MIFF2017 film 43, BLUE (D Karina Holden), because "at least 8m tonnes of #plastics [is leaked] into the ocean — which is equivalent to dumping the contents of one garbage truck into the ocean every minute. If no action is taken, this is expected to increase to two per minute by 2030 and four per minute by 2050. In a business-as-usual scenario, the #ocean is expected to contain one tonne of plastic for every three tonnes of fish by 2025, and by 2050, more plastics than fish [by weight]." (Ellen MacArthur Foundation)
#Blue
#nature
#55filmsin16days
#moreplasticthanfish
#EllenMacArthurFoundation

Caspar David Friedrich's 'Two Men Contemplating the Moon' (c. 1825–30).
#tree
#nature
#ruminating
#contemplating
#CasparDavidFriedrich
(Image details: "These two figures are seen from behind so that the viewer may participate in their communion with nature. They have been identified as Friedrich, at right, and his friend and disciple August Heinrich (1794–1822). Fascination with the #moon ran high among the German #Romantics, who regarded the motif as an object of pious #contemplation. This is the third version of one of Friedrich's most famous #compositions, of which the first was #painted during Heinrich's lifetime (1819; Gemäldegalerie, Dresden) and the second soon after his death (ca. 1824; Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin)." The MET)

'A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.' And cake, and a 7th string, Virginia Woolf. A room to place the furniture just so. A chair by the window, looking out on the world. Thinking about those green tree views within 'My Happy Family', and sharing our equivalent from our artists' book, 'Dim wood, spark bright', currently on display at @library_vic as part of our exhibition in the La Trobe Reading Room, 'Looped'.
#green
#space
#MIFF2017
#MyHappyFamily
#ARoomofOnesOwn
#GraciaLouiseLooped

Beneath a tree, so tiny.
#tree
#nature
#inreverse
#ruminating (Image source: The MET)

From the #Georgian A Room of One's Own ('My Happy Family') with a traditional song in my ear and the taste of cherries, up the hill, with what we have left. #MIFF2017 film 42, THE PARTY (D Sally Potter), in glorious black and white awaits. The perfect cap to a four-film day, we have been assured.
"In one sense, the entire #film is a political comedy, but it’s a light and loving comedy, a light and loving look at the state of England, a kind of broken England. But the film is more of a meditation on the notion that politics is everywhere, including in human relations. The most important thing is the language of truth-telling and the healing power of love in overcoming tragedy, but watch out if you’ve got a gun in the laundry basket."— #SallyPotter
#TheParty
#ComedyTheatre
#55filmsin16days
#thisiswednesday
#ingloriousblackandwhite

As Elvie Thomas sings 'Motherless Child Blues'.
(Image credit: Never a Pal Like Mother: Songs & Photographs of the One Who's Always True, Dust-to-Digital compilation)
#longago
#photograph
#dusttodigital
#ElvirThomas
#NeveraPalLikeMother

Eating cake before dinner in Tbilisi. In Georgia, still, tucking my hair behind my ears. #MIFF2017 film 41, MY HAPPY FAMILY (D Nana & Simon). "During my childhood I saw how women in my family spent their lives giving to others. They did what society dictated. The most important thing for my mother was her #family, her children, her husband — no matter what. As we got older, my sister and I asked her, 'Why are you doing this? Now it’s time for you to do something for yourself.' And then she started doing her own thing, taking piano lessons and some other banal things. It's not just my mother who was like that, but a lot of women. They have many abilities and a lot of talent, but aren't able to realise them. This also affects young women in my generation. All this inspired me to tell a story about an ordinary woman who spends her life serving others while remaining free and independent inside. Nothing in her has died. It’s all still alive — this small light shining from within." (Screenwriter #NanaEkvtimishvili in interview with Brigitta Wagner, Senses of Cinema, 2017)
#SimonGroβ
#collaboration
#athteforum (still)
#55filmsin16days

Yesterday's 'Self-criticism of a Bourgeois Dog' (with its "communism without communists" and talking sparrows) and #Haneke’s 'Happy End' with three very fine hounds indeed. Today, a dachshund in 'Hostages' in the foreground of a square (as well as the wonderful sounds of an orchestra tuning their instruments as goodbyes are made). And thinking of Lottie's #MIFF2017 tales on @pasadenamansions.
#afternoon
#mourning
#thisiswinter
#cabinetcard
#thisiswednesday

With my timber chair over my shoulder, somewhat reluctantly leaving the lush green enchantment of 'I dream in another language' for the 80s. 'Are you afraid we’ll try to swim to Turkey?’ #MIFF2017 film 40, in the Black Sea of HOSTAGES (D Rezo Gigineishvili) calls.
#Georgia
#intheBlackSea
#intheForum (still)
#55filmsin16days
#RezoGigineishvili

I listen to the wind that obliterates my traces
the wind that resembles nothing
understands nothing nor cares what it does
but is so lovely to listen to.
The soft wind
soft like oblivion
(Pär Lagerkvist) (Image credit: from Steve Roden's Dust-to-Digital compilation of photographs and music, I listen to the wind that obliterates my traces)
#past
#traces
#present
#memory
#dusttodust

'Please, could you say something in Zikril? I'd love to hear it in your own voice.' The promise of a fading language, recorded for posterity, for memory, for love, for #MIFF2017 film 39. Listening, dreaming still, on a Wednesday morning. I DREAM IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE (D Ernesto Contreras).
#Zikril
#linguist
#language
#55filmsin16days
#Idreaminanotherlanguage

Calling to canary birds, several hundred of them. (Image credit: from Steve Roden's Dust-to-Digital compilation of photographs and music, I listen to the wind that obliterates my traces)
#song
#feelslike
#dreaming
#springlike
#thisiswednesday

Good morning. Still, and always.
(Image credit: from Sarah Bryan and Peter Honig's compilation, Lead Kindly Light: Pre-War Music & Photo)
#feelslike
#longago
#thismorning
#goodmorning
#LeadKindlyLight

(Leaving that handsome if reluctant to dig, caramel greyhound and fast stepping like the monk in 'Bourgeois Dog'.) Ready to be buttoned up at the table with Georges and Anne, Pierre and company, after a long day away from the cinema, and longing for the comfort of home. #MIFF2017 film 38, HAPPY END (D Michael Haneke), or otherwise (though please spare the hamster an overdose), at the Comedy.
#HappyEnd
#thisiswinter
#thisistuesday
#MichaelHaneke
#55filmsin16days

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