Saturday Shoot (mobile pics)

casa de lava

I think this is probably a masterpiece. It speaks to me the way Godard and Carax first did.

Let’s go.

Remix Rohmer

An installation in my kitchen. What we did was play divx encoded Rohmer films on the tube and then fuck with the contrast and brightness. It was only viewable at night because the best effect was in a completely dark room. I still have epileptic episodes sometimes in my dreams. But it does make your everyday vision more vivid. Everything looks more like Fuji stock.

Me and my girlfriend are re-calibrating our vision. All that time in Barcelona where things are so red and rosy and sand yellow and white. Errr. We like Montreal better, more of a variety of colors. A very nice mix between the organic and the industrial.

Installation ran for 6 days only. Ran out of drugs and alcohol.

Police Interrogation

police interrogation:

are you gonna tell us what this piece is about? what is this? why is it the first image? why’d you put it as the first image. Are you gonna tell us that?

Hey, what do you wanna know? Why you asking me all these questions?

aren’t you gonna tell us you little fucker? We need to know you prick!

Okay. Take it easy would ya? It’ like this you see…It’s simple. This is the start of the film, right? This is the start of cinema. And what is the start of cinema? Well it’s those Lumiere bros. And that train station. And those people who ran away from the theater cuz they thought the train was coming at them. That is cinema. That is the birth of cinema. So you have to show trains when you start a film. It’s a rule. It’s a tradition. It’s like the cinema religion. You just have to pay respect. So all good directors do that. They start their film with trains or railways. So what I did here, I filmed the railway that is close to my crib. It’s nice there. And when you film that, you sorta add to the catalog of railroad images worldwide. Your shot is a reference now. So you have to try and make it nice, so that it can be really representative of the space it’s in.

You know you’re crazy you fucker! Hit him, Tony!

Arrghhhh….

The. Start. Of. This. Cinema.

ah la couve!

This is a good cover

But why is this one so awful:

The Eye in Double Life of Veronique

An Andalusian Dog

ohsomobile

Around Montreal.

Double Vie de Veronique

Why ever stop anyway?

The lawyer as a little man.

The vision of the church both Veroniques had that begins in Poland with the painting, then the drawing her dad is reproducing, then the vision she has on the train, then the dream the French Veronique has and explains to her dad.

It might be interesting to wonder why a church? There are catholic allusions in the film. But I prefer to think of the church tower in Vertigo. Fitting, in this story about doubles (and a puppeteer who writes a story about doubles).