olivia babel
Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd – She Will Destroy You
“Every film needs internal logic, some sort of theme, a satisfying and unifying element, an idea the audience can take away and mull over. Without that, however coherent your images and scenes, they will be unbound and disunified. However graceful a poem is, if it has no application to my life – some potential effect – I lose interest. A beautiful poem is even more beautiful when it has meaning. Form for its own sake goes only so far. I long to be useful.”
— Abbas Kiarostami
Milla (Valérie Massadian, 2017)
Milla (Valérie Massadian, 2017)
Milla (Valérie Massadian, 2017)
“And as long as you think there is something to understand and someone to understand it, you are doomed. Trying for this understanding is the most trying thing of all. Yet trying not to try for it is just as trying. There is nothing more futile than to consciously look for something to save you. But consciousness makes this fact seem otherwise. Consciousness makes it seem as if (1) there is something to do; (2) there is somewhere to go; (3) there is something to be; (4) there is someone to know. This is what makes consciousness the parent of all horrors, the thing that makes us try to do something, go somewhere, be something, and know someone, such as ourselves, so that we can escape our MALIGNANTLY USELESS being and think that being alive is all right rather than that which should not be.”
— The Conspiracy against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti
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