danielcoffeen's Podcast

We look at, and discuss, the beauty and brilliance of Marc Lafia's multiscreen films, Permutations. You can see some of them here: http://www.marclafia.net/cinema_engine/

An odd, complex discussion of the terms of the limit: the limit here is not a constraint, is not external but is the very terms of a thing, its difference.

A continued discussion of Deleuze's Painting Before the Painting....and different strategies and tactics for fighting cliches.

We're reading the chapter entitled, The Painting Before Painting from Deleuze's book on Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation.

It's in 2 parts b/c I stopped the recorder.....

A brief, pithy discussion about why we're choosing to see the world this way. Why? you ask. Because it is joyful, affirmative of this life, healthy. And then we read the beginning of Bergson's Matter and Memory. And look at an image or two.

Proffering the very odd relationship between the material and the affective.

When we see images, a space is forged between and amongst ourselves and the image: the space is created right then and there. An image is not a mnemonic. A bit more on Jl Godard's Contempt and Wes Anderson's Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

We watch the opening of Godard's Contempt and see the seeing of the camera seeing the seeing of Bardot's body.

We look at some images.

We watch the beginning of The Life Aquatic, which I interrupt often to comment on.

We discuss the chiasm of the visible and the invisible, focusing on style as the invisible mechanism that assembles this or that, this and that.

Things get a little nutty: you've been warned.

More on his great essay, "The Intertwining—The Chiasm" from The Visible and the Invisible.

What questions do we ask of an image (in this case, David Shrigley's "Try to be happy")?

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