The Pendulum, The Pit And Hope (Kyvadlo, jáma a nadeje)
Jan Švankmajer, Czechoslovakia, 1983, 15 min
Adapted from Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum
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Autres films de Jan Švankmajer publiés précédemment : The Ossuary (1970) ici et The Fall of the House of Usher (1982) ici.
Urfaust ‘Vom Geist Der Schwere’ du split 7 » avec The Ruins Of Beverast (2007)
Vidéo produit par un fan à partir d’images du film ‘Altered States‘ (1980) de Ken Russell (ici).
« The descent to Hades is the same from every place. » – Ἀναξαγόρας
Caméra 87, TQS, production René Ferron vous présente le Pape de Verdun fondateur de l’Église de la Raison Universelle. Chaîne Ferron International.
Altered States
Ken Russell, USA, 1980, 102 min
Audio excerpts from Voile D’Orphée by Pierre Henry
A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically. – IMDb
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On le met en relation avec le Cerveau Mystique (2006) d’Isabelle Raynauld (on en parlait ici), les Witches’ Cradles (2009) du Center for Tactical Magic (ici), la Hofmann’s Potion (2002) de Connie Littlefield (ici) et la pochette du groupe Godflesh pour l’album ‘Streetcleaner‘ (1989)
Eraserhead
David Lynch, USA, 1977, 89 min
‘Eraserhead is my most spiritual movie. No one understands when I say that, but it is.’ He went on to write about the difficulties he was having making sense of the way the film was « growing » and didn’t know the thing that just pulled it all together. He then reveals it was the Bible that provided the solution:
‘So I got out my Bible and I started reading. And one day, I read a sentence. And I closed the Bible, because that was it; that was it. And then I saw the thing as a whole. And it fulfilled this vision for me, 100 percent.’ – WIKI
