War: Toads Against Chameleons

February 6th, 2013

Essentially all wars look like this: confused individuals, ridiculous justifications, and lots of terrifying gore. The Conquest of Mexico scene from Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain:

One Man Fell Asleep

February 1st, 2013

One Man Fell Asleep by Daniil Kharms

Daniil Kharms

Vis-à-vis

December 29th, 2012

An animation project made with Toby Fox. In it I narrate some of my ‘visions’: scenes I see when I close my eyes.

Before Coming to See You

August 31st, 2012

Daniil Kharms

Murmurs

August 9th, 2012

Murmurs

I watched Murmurs without knowing what I was going to watch and a while into it, I still had no idea whether I was watching a play, a dance performance, a mime, a magic show or a comedy. Murmurs is the story of a young woman’s surreal experience of moving out of her home.

The charming protagonist, Aurelia Thierree, is Charlie Chaplin’s granddaughter, and the director is her mother – these are facts I learned post watching.  What was incredible about the show is that the magical reality it drags the audience into is completely natural. Moving buildings, faceless men with an unknown agenda, a couple dancing in the air, an ocean that appears out of the blue, sweeps everything off the ground only to disappear and leave the world untouched, shoes that know which feet to fit and boxes that digest furniture and spit out working light bulbs, broken umbrellas and a woman getting to know her new world with confidence constituted a beautiful new reality to walk into with Aurelia Thierree’s lead.

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