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

100 Cats

August 21, 2014 Gracia Louise

You're invited to
100 Cats
(Supporting Ingrid's Haven)
Friday 5th to Friday 19th of September

Off the Kerb
66B Johnston Street, Collingwood, 3066, Victoria

Gallery hours
Thursday and Friday 12.30 – 6pm
Saturday and Sunday 12 – 5pm

Opening Friday the 5th of September, 6-9pm, we hope to see you there.

Meanwhile,

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

Giant's Causeway (Fionn mac Cumhaill of Gaelic #mythology) in Ireland, anonymous, c. 1850 – c. 1870.

#nature
#rijksmuseum
#basaltcolumns
#palettecleanse
#volcaniceruption
#GiantsCauseway

A circus, or an orchard. Oklahoma, a utopian promise. #MIFF2017 film 37 with reference to Kafka (once more), and playfulness. Danke schön, SELF-CRITICISM OF A BOURGEOIS DOG (D Julian Radlmaier). On the heels of the corruption in Egypt ('The Nile Hilton Incident'), Russia ('A Gentle Creature'), and Iran ('A Man of Integrity'), and the greed and disregard of man plundering the landscape ('Dawson City: Frozen Time' etc.), this might be just what I need. "….for me the #message of the movie has something to do with individuals getting the rights to speak in their own words and think what they want to think…. When I get the chance to #laugh at something, I feel as a viewer, respect. Someone who can watch something, who can make his opinion about something, who can laugh about something, …. engages my intelligence in another way. If it were a melodrama or a realist movie that just tries to convey a message I would feel much more that someone wants to push something into my head. I hope this way it creates a freer and more #joyful relationship between the movie and the one who receives it, [that] this freedom and joyfulness is always something you take out of the movie. Perhaps this is, in a way, the message. This experience you make with the movie is perhaps an experience that should be translated into structures of society. If I see a Chaplin movie I laugh a lot and I get the feeling [for] how a good society could work much more than if I see a well-meaning social drama."— JulianRadlmaier
#playfulness
#thisiswinter
#thisistuesday
#politicalsatire
#55filmsin16days

Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen (1859–1923) drawing of 'Two Siamese Cats' accurately describing the view behind the laptop today.
#pets
#drawing
#feelslike
#catsofinstagram
#TheophileAlexandreSteinlen

Injustice and corruption filmed in secret to draw Monday to a close. #MIFF2017 film 36, A MAN OF INTEGRITY (D Mohammad Rasoulof). "When I start to shoot the script, for me the selection of cast and crew is the most important element. When I select crew members because of their expertise, I attach equal importance to how well I can communicate with them. This communication has a direct effect on the quality of the project. I think that a great filmmaker draws most pleasure sharing his emotions with his crew. Creating a film is a #collaborative process. I belong to that lucky group for whom the filming process is calm and pleasurable. Even when we’ve been shooting in secret and without permit, in a fearful and anxious atmosphere, we've tried to react to the fear by humor and optimism."— #MohammadRasoulof (Tarik Khaldi, Festival de Cannes)
#Iran
#Lerd
#AManofIntegrity
#55filmsin16days

Claude Monet, I'm moving in.
(Image credit: 'Cabin of the Customs Watch' 1882)
#painting
#seaside
#painting
#ClaudeMonet

#MIFF2017 film 35 calls for a black and white heartbreak. LOVER FOR A DAY (D Philippe Garrel), because, in part, it is nice to stay in the same darkened cinema for the next session, and because "I’ve been [we've all been] had by love."
#monochrome
#Loverforaday
#PhilippeGarrel
#stillattheforum
#55filmsin16days

Stretching the legs. Taking in the nearby sights. Chapter House Lane. Gonzalo Ceballos, 'Distant Relatives', until the 31st of August.
#MIFF2017
#thisiswinter
#inthewindow
#thisismonday
#ChapterHouseLane

This time next week, it will all be over for another year. This time next Monday, I will be pining for #MIFF2017, for my time spent pinballing from session to session, from Hoyts to ACMI, Kino to Forum, and back to the Comedy. But let's not lose our heads just yet. Time for film 34, A GENTLE CREATURE (D Sergei Loznitsa) with a cast that reads: 'Woman', 'Plump Woman', 'Man with Plaster Cast', 'The Compassionate', 'Blue Face', and 'Gap Toothed'. Somewhere in a remote area of Russia, am I ready? No. Yes. Let's go.
#Forum
#Krotkaya
#goodmorning
#SergeiLoznitsa
#55filmsin16days
#AGentleCreature

We've so enjoyed seeing some of your #GraciaLouiseLooped photos of our #exhibition in the #domedais, and as part of 'Self-made: zines and artist books', but our two favourites remain one of my Dad, taken by my Mum, and one of Louise's Dad (at #SelfMadeSLV), taken by her Mum, both sent as a 'look where we are' happy, happy message.
#zines
#collage
#inthelibrary
#artistsbooks
#StateLibraryVictoria

We've so enjoyed seeing some of your #GraciaLouiseLooped photos of our exhibition in the #domedais, but our two favourites remain one of my Dad, taken by my Mum, and one of Louise's Dad, taken by her Mum, both sent as a 'look where we are' happy, happy message.
#collage
#inthelibrary
#gracialouise
#artistsbooks
#StateLibraryVictoria

Beneath a tree, so tiny. #tree #nature #inreverse #ruminating (Image source: The MET) https://t.co/0h73ryL3op
about 51 minutes ago
"The animal was subjected to the curious who wanted to photograph and touch it." https://t.co/xO3PHV0gba
about 2 hours ago
'Mr Pussy was my cat. How I miss him now I mourn him.' XO https://t.co/YBU0f9aIb7
about 2 hours ago
From the #Georgian A Room of One's Own ('My Happy Family') with a traditional song in my ear and… https://t.co/RALJ87hViD
about 15 hours ago
As Elvie Thomas sings 'Motherless Child Blues'. (Image credit: Never a Pal Like Mother: Songs &… https://t.co/XZswugf7Ey
about 17 hours ago
Eating cake before dinner in Tbilisi. In Georgia, still, tucking my hair behind my ears.… https://t.co/MpzE1BQvhk
about 17 hours ago
Yesterday's 'Self-criticism of a Bourgeois Dog' (with its "communism without communists" and… https://t.co/x6iYxL3Boe
about 17 hours ago
With my timber chair over my shoulder, somewhat reluctantly leaving the lush green enchantment… https://t.co/GyjLzOWk5a
about 20 hours ago
I listen to the wind that obliterates my traces the wind that resembles nothing understands… https://t.co/xEaR2UOMti
about 20 hours ago
'Please, could you say something in Zikril? I'd love to hear it in your own voice.' The promise… https://t.co/0lkT0QUAWN
about 22 hours ago