James A. Reeves
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September 5, 2022

Berenice Abbott’s portrait of a magnetic field reminds me of fireworks beneath the eyelids.

Film Notes

The Running Man

My ur-text for a sleazy future of trashcan fires, black markets, station hijacking, and vicious game show hosts.

Film Notes

Hiroshima, Mon Amour

Lovers speak in monologue and monotone. They thrash and sulk in shadows.

Reading List

The Memory Police

In Yōko Ogawa’s fable, the residents of an unnamed island suffer the ritual disappearance of objects big and small. Flowers. Lemons. Perfume. Calendars.

Journal

Mahjong

Two games later, she said something to me that roughly translates as “you are still breathing but you have no strength.”

Journal

Max

“You’re looking at the future: people translated as data.” This line from Max Headroom holds up thirty-five years later.

Film Notes

Melancholia

I cannot shake the airless world of this film that lives in the eerie twilight between calamity and silence.

Film Notes

Long Day’s Journey into Night

One of the best films I’ve seen in years. I never thought wearing 3D glasses could be so heartbreaking.

Film Notes

Blade Runner 2049

Ghosts in the machine, glitches in the sublime, and rain-streaked neon. Watching Blade Runner 2049 felt like returning to church.

Journal

Decree #1 on the Democratization of Art

A manifesto written by Mayakovsky, Kamensky, and Burlluk on March 15, 1918.

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