Xasthur for Self-Titled Magazine no8
by BRYAN SHEFFIELD
May 2010, Los Angeles, CA
Begotten
E. Elias Merhige, USA, 1991, 78 min
The film heavily deals with religion and the biblical story of earth creation. But as Merhige revealed during Q&A sessions, its primary inspiration was a near death experience he had when he was 19, after a car crash. The film features no dialogue, but rather uses harsh and uncompromising images of human pain and suffering to tell its tale.
What ever this movie is very hard to understand, the film opens with a robed, profusely bleeding « God » (The Thanatos) disemboweling himself, with the act ultimately ending in his death. A woman, Mother Earth (The eros), emerges from his remains, arouses the body, and impregnates herself with his semen. Becoming pregnant, she wanders off into a vast and barren landscape. The pregnancy manifests in a fully grown man whom she leaves to his own devices.
The « Son of Earth » meets a group of faceless nomads who seize him with what is either a very long umbilical cord or a rope. The Son of Earth vomits organic pieces, and the nomads excitedly accept these as gifts. The nomads finally bring the man to a fire and burn him …
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Din Of Celestial Birds (2006) by E. ELIAS MERHIGE (October 22, 2012)
‘The festival of Litha celebrates the arrival of summer when the hours of daylight are there longest and nights at their shortest’
Merci à tous ceux et celles qui se sont déplacés samedi dernier.
TRAVAUX EN COURS:
Continuation, persévérence et contentement
JHS Littérature Apocryphe MMXI : Patrimoine vs. Identité culturelle
Mi Amore ‘the Lamb’ (2005) & ‘the Lion’ (2007) en studio @ Godcity (vidéos)
Sacrement, la grâce sacramentelle de la pénitence, Montréal p.Q., Novembre MMXI
Le site web d’ANNIE-ÈVE DUMONTIER – annie-eve.com – est de retour en ligne après une invraisemblable période de gestation léthargique (d’environ sept mois).
‘Résidente de Montréal, diplômée en Arts (spécialité peinture et dessin) à l’Université Concordia et plus tard en photographie au Collège Dawson, elle cherche à intégrer un des plus grands thèmes de la peinture en photographie: la nature morte. Elle porte maintenant sa recherche vers le spirituel dans l’art, en faisant hommage à l’héritage laissé par le patrimoine religieux québécois.’
Les fins gourmets sauront apprécier la délicatesse du blanc cassé, la navigation entièrement horizontale et la possibilité de trier les photos – pour la section blog – par couleur, par modèle de caméra et par sujet.
Conception & design par Gil Nault, configuration de Worpress & intégration web par Gabrielle Vézina.
Krzysztof Wodiczko: Projections
Derek May, Canada, 1991, 53 min 2 s
This full-length documentary examines the work of Krzysztof Wodiczko, an artist who has taken his art out of museums to project it onto the sides of buildings. The film explores Wodiczko’s philosophy of art as social contract and shows examples of his provocative work, which has lit up walls from London’s Trafalgar Square to Zion Square in Jerusalem.