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NED RIFLE
Hal Hartley
USA, 2015

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THE APOLOGIES (2010)
ADVENTURE (2010)
ACCOMPLICE (2010)

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PLEASED TO MEET ME

MICHEL DE MONTAINE
Essays

To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

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Mayra vom Brocke
LOS DEMONIOS DE LA BEBIDA (2022)

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THE BOOK OF LIFE
Hal Hartley
USA, 1998

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MEANWHILE
Hal Hartley
USA, 2011

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IMPLIED HARMONIES (2010)

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Carion Wind Quintet
LIVE AT J PIERPOINT MORGAN LIBRARY

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Ligeti - Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet
Stravinsky - Suite No. 2
Shostakovich - Theatre Suite
Ibert - Trois pièces brèves
Liszt - Grande études de Paganini No. 6

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CHARLES WRIGHT
"Time Is a Graceless Enemy, but Purls as It Comes and Goes"

I’m winding down. The daylight is winding down.
Only the night is wound up tight.
And ticking with unpaused breath.
Sweet night, sweet steady, reliable, uncomplicated night.

September moon, two days from full,
slots up from the shouldered hill.
There is no sound as the moon slots up, no thorns in its body.
Invisible, the black gondola floats
through down-lid and drowning stars.

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Max Ernst
PLEIADES (1920)

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FAY GRIM
Hal Hartley
USA, 2007

Bonus Shorts:

REGARDING SOON (2004)
THE SISTERS OF MERCY (2004)
A/MUSE (2010)

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The National
FIRST TWO PAGES OF FRANKENSTEIN

MARY SHELLEY
The Last Man

I felt convinced that however it might have been in former times, in the present stage of the world, no man's faculties could be developed, no man's moral principle be enlarged and liberal, without an extensive acquaintance with books. To me they stood in the place of an active career, of ambition, and those palpable excitements necessary to the multitude. The collation of philosophical opinions, the study of historical facts, the acquirement of languages, were at once my recreation, and the serious aim of my life.

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Michele Del Campo
THE TWINS (2013)

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NO SUCH THING
Hal Hartley
USA, 2001

*Last day to watch on The Criterion Channel is Sept 30th.

**It seems like every brilliant auteur have that one film destroyed by moronic suits that one time the independent filmmaker got involved with The Studios™?

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Stephen Bachelor
THE ART OF SOLITUDE

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Real Life
HEARTLAND

JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS
"Happy"

                  She knew if she loved him she could make him
happy, but she didn’t. Or she did, but it sank
into itself like a hole and curled up content.
Surrounded by the blur of her own movements, the
thought of making him happy was very dear to her.
She moved it from place to place, a surprise she
never opened. She slept alone at night, soul of
a naked priest in her sweet body. Small soft hands,
a bread of desire rising in her stomach. When she
lay down with the man she loved and didn’t, the
man opened and opened. Inside him an acrobat
tumbled over death. And walked thin wires with
nothing above or below. She cried, he was so
beautiful in his scarlet tights and white face
the size of a dime.

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John French Sloan
MOVIES, FIVE CENTS (1907)

Malcolm Drummond
IN THE CINEMA (1913)

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THE GIRL FROM MONDAY
Hal Hartley
USA, 2005

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Reto Bieri
CONTRECHANT
Music for Clarinet Solo

Luciano Berio
Lied

Heinz Holliger
Contrechant

Salvatore Sciarrino
Let Me Die Before I Wake

Elliott Carter
Gra

Heinz Holliger
Rechant

Péter Eötvös
Derwischtanz

Gergely Vajda
Lightshadow-trembling

Franz Ackermann
UNTITLED (PACIFIC NO. 22 - MR PIGMAN, YOU ARE NOTHING) (1998)

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HENRY FOOL
Hal Hartley
USA, 1997

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My Morning Jacket
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HAL HARTLEY
Henry Fool

FAY

Have a drink. 

FAY

Do you find me attractive?

HENRY

Yes.

FAY

I look young for my age, don't I?

HENRY

How old are you?

FAY

How old do you think I am?

HENRY

You look … young.

FAY

How young?

HENRY

I don't know. Young.

FAY

But how young? Do I look more like 20 or, you know, 30?

HENRY

Thirty.

FAY

Listen, you geek. After a couple of drinks, plenty of people mistake me for 18.

GEORGE ORWELL
Nineteen Eighty-Four

"If you mean confessing,' she said, 'we shall do that, right enough. Everybody always confesses. You can't help it. They torture you."

"I don't mean confessing. Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter: only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you — that would be the real betrayal."

She thought it over. "They can't do that," she said finally. "It's the one thing they can't do. They can make you say anything, but they can't make you believe it. They can't get inside you."

"No," he said a little more hopefully, "No; that's quite true. They can't get inside you. If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.”

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Max Beckmann
THE BATH (1930)

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THE BOOK OF LIFE
Hal Hartley
USA, 1998

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FLIRT
Hal Hartley
USA, 1995

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HOUSE OF BALLOONS

HANNAH WEINER
"It Walks"

It walks.
That is,
it puts one foot in front of another
and moves in the direction of its face,
which is in the front of it,
and in the direction its eyes are looking,
if its eyes are in its face.

While it walks
it can look at scenery,
or think, if it thinks,
or just move closer to an ant
or a new job
or a piece of log to sit on
in between the walking.

Then it sits:
it lowers its ass, which is the hind part,
onto the log,
if it has an ass.
Because if it doesn’t
it lies.

That is,
its entire body rests upon the log
and all its legs fold under
or spread out
or go in the air
depending on how its legs are attached,
and where.

And arms,
if it has arms,
which are legs
that are not needed to walk on.

If it has arms
and legs
and an ass
it can ride a bicycle!

Then the scenery goes by much faster
if it is looking at scenery,
and it gets where it is going faster
if it is going somewhere.

Faster:
it can do it more often
between sunrise and sunset
or between sunset and sunrise
if it does it at night.
That is,
if it can do what it is doing
on a bicycle.

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Paul Serusier
INCANTATION IN THE HOLY WOOD (1891) 

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AMATEUR
Hal Hartley
USA, 1994

Bonus Shorts:

THE OTHER ALSO (1997)
THE NEW MATH(S) (2000)

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SIMPLE MEN
Hal Hartley
USA, 1992

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Marin Marais
DIALOGUES

Mieneke van der Velden
Wieland Kuijken
Fred Jacobs

ITALO CALVINO
Cosmicomics

And, thinking of this judgment I would no longer be able to change, I suddenly felt a kind of relief, as if peace could come to me only after the moment when there would be nothing to add and nothing to remove in that arbitrary ledger of misunderstandings, and the galaxies which were gradually reduced to the last tail of the last luminous ray, winding from the sphere of darkness, seemed to bring with them the only possible truth about myself, and I couldn’t wait until all of them, one after the other, had followed this path.

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Gabrielle Garland
UNTITLED NO. 156 (2018)

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THE BOOK OF LIFE
Hal Hartley
USA, 1998

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SURVIVING DESIRE
Hal Hartley
USA, 1992

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Bonus Shorts:

DOGS (1988)
NYC 3/94 (1994)
THE NEW MATH(S) (2000)

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Gorillaz
CRACKER ISLAND

ITALO CALVINO
Cosmicomics

When a body succeeds in emitting or in reflecting luminous vibrations in a distinct and recognizable order--I thought--what does it do with these vibrations? Put them in its pocket? No, it releases them on the first passer-by. And how will the latter behave in the face of vibrations he can't utilize and which, taken in this way, might even be annoying? Hide his head in a hole? No, he'll thrust it out in that direction until the point most exposed to the optic vibrations becomes sensitized and develops the mechanism for exploiting them in the form of images. In short, I conceived of the eye-encephalon link as a kind of tunnel dug from the outside by the force of what was ready to become image, rather than from within by the intention of picking up any old image.

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Frank Frazetta
THE DISAGREEMENT (1985)

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TRUST
Hal Hartley
USA, 1990

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Bonus Shorts:

THEORY OF ACHIEVEMENT (1991)
KID (1994)