artpost: people I will always appreciate

[foxtongue]

via karen meisner of strange horizons:

Tilda Swinton, from her second State of Cinema address, San Francisco, 2006:

Can I be alone in my longing for inarticulacy - for a cinema that refuses to join all the dots? For an a-rhythm in gesture, for a dissonance in shape? For the context of a cinematic frame, a frame that - in the end - only cinema can provide. For the full view, the long shot, the space between... the gaps... the pause... the lull... the grace of living…

The figurative cinema’s awkward and rather unsavoury relationship with its fruity old aunt, the theatre, to her vanities, her nous, her beautifully constructed and perennially eloquent speechifying, her cast iron – corset-like - structures, her melo-dramatic texture and her histrionic rhythms. How tiresome it is, it always has been. How studied. The idea of absolute articulacy, perfect timing, a vapid elegance of gesture, an unblinking, unthinking face. What a blessed waste of a good clear screen, a dark room and the possibility of an unwatched profile, a tree, a hill, a donkey...

How I long for documentary, in resistance - for unpowdered faces and unmeasured tread - for the emotionally undemonstrative family scene - for a struggle for unreachable words, for the open or even unhappy ending? The occasionally dropped shoe off the heel, the jiggle to readjust; the occasionally cracked egg; the mess of milk spilt. The concept of a loss for words. For a State of Cinema - as the state of grace that it affords us - in which nothing much happens but all things are possible, even inarticulacy, even failure, even mess...

tilda swinton painted by (her partner) john byrne

Comments

[obliterati.livejournal.com]

God I love her so much. I would eagerly get inarticulate with her any day.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

I've been rather in love with her ever since the glass coffin happening, where she slept in it in an art gallery.

[obliterati.livejournal.com]

I saw her first in Orlando when I was in high school, which I thought was kind of cute. Then a few years later something about her enormous eyes seemed to create actual gravity which made it hard to look away. "tilda swintons alien eyeballs" is actually on my LJ interest list since a few years ago.



They are soooo not normal.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

Few people are the physical incarnation of themselves, if you know what I mean, but I think she most certainly is. I don't see a thing alien about her eyes, except that they seem to be more alive than most people's bother to be.

[jupiterjuniper.livejournal.com]

oh my.
i was directed over to your lj from a post in vancouver but i was captured by the content of your journal and wanted to friend you. feel free to take a look at mine and do so in return.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

Oh? I haven't posted over there in a long while. What was it?

And of course you're welcome. The more the merrier, I figure! Pleasure to meet your acquaintance!

[jupiterjuniper.livejournal.com]

oh, no you were cited on a post of mine regarding things to do in vancouver. which of course, i'd love to pick your brain about.

and likewise! thanks for having me :)

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

Ah-ha! Oh, that Duncan. Always outing me. *grins*

And yes, sure. We should do cake when you're up here, (which is like going for coffee for people who don't drink coffee).

As for Architecture, it depends on what you're looking for. If you're hoping for anything on the level of Frank Gehry, you're 100% out of luck.

Also, I've got a listing of Vegetarian/Pescatarian restaurants I should get around to posting. Maybe this will finally be my impetus.

[jupiterjuniper.livejournal.com]

cake sounds amazing! i mean, on top of cake sounding amazing.

architecture-wise, i'm not necessary looking for a specific style (i can appreciate art deco to victorian, novelty architecture to ultra modern)--it's just things that catch my eye. this goes for just about everything...interesting bike racks, sculptures, parks...

but i have a feeling i'll be fine :)

definitely let's keep in touch though!

also, i'm leaning towards one of a couple hostels (the samesun or the hihostel), have you heard anything good/bad i should know about?

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

Not sure, really. I've never stayed in one, and when my friends come to town, unless they've got a place, they generally stay with me. How long are you here for and when do you arrive? I can put the word out and see if my friend Chad knows, he works for the backpacker's international down on Granville st.

[jupiterjuniper.livejournal.com]

we're staying 5 nights from the 15th november. i think the one on granville is on my list.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

Well he talks about that place like it was his home. He loves working there, being there, everything. If I had to recommend a place, it would be there.

[jupiterjuniper.livejournal.com]

sold! booked. awesome.

[volksjager.livejournal.com]

God, when is "Female perversions" going to be out for US DVD ????

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

Seriously, and I live in Canada.

[volksjager.livejournal.com]

You can't even download carp versions of it :/

It's funny how somw stuff is just not available anywhere. Dunno why.

[inri33.livejournal.com]

Tilda is the poetic definition of win.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

I think she's better than win, she's Victory.

[mallinson.livejournal.com]

I remember how I thought that you with the cotton-hair looked strikingly like Tilda Swinton, and loved it. I snuggled you a little bit more those days.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

I do remember that. Of course, having wool hair makes anymore more snuggly, to be fair.

[kindelingboy.livejournal.com]

I've always had a soft spot in my heart for movies with actors that fumble lines, who talk over each other. I wish there was more of that too.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

Leave it to her to be so articulate about being inarticulate.