"No harmony. No melody. No rhythm. No bullshit."  Phill Niblock Friday.

"Få gånger tidigare har jag sett så imponerande utnyttjande av bilder där motiven, en bordsfläkts pendelrörelse eller majestätiska trädkronors konturer, endast anas i dunklet." Erik Ogenstedt om The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) bcnvt.se/2023/05/25/ver…

As much a memoir as it is a documentary / Anders EDSTRÖM “Shiotani” / アン... youtu.be/DhI_ZR85dx0 via YouTube

Nearly 300 and counting leading film figures call for Berlinale’s Carlo Chatrian to stay in open letter screendaily.com/news/nearly-30…

uk.news.yahoo.com/martin-scorses…

yammering on with stoffel vimeo.com/656091512

Farewell to the wonderful Phill Niblock. We will miss you. Pic by Bradford Bailey taken at his final show here on the 6th of May 2023, in a trio with Rie Nakajima and Thurston Moore.

It championed films no other big publication championed. I’d wish for other big pubs to fill the void, but, yeah, that won’t happen. They either wouldn’t care enough to or wouldn’t know how. #GapingHole

For those in the UK: Tickets now on sale for a screening of the final three Godard films. Followed by a Q&A with Fabrice Aragno. On January 23 at the Ultimate Picture Palace in Oxford. oxfordculturalprogramme.org.uk/event/film-in-…

Launch of the Oxford Schwarzman Centre film program. First up: JLG/Fabrice Aragno

Last week’s Schwarzman Film series #2: Alain Guiraudie’s Misericordia

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Full circle: on-set screening