mel.  imogen.  trentmoller.

movin' and shakin' on yet another dissertation break


status:  full steam ahead.

raf simons + gattaca = YES

another welcome break from my dissertation.

no  //

"...is an important part of Orientalism."

yes  //

"...forms a significant component of the Orientalist strategy."

seriously where would i be without a thesaurus?

thank you Fantastic Man

dissertation fuel.

"...fantastic exoticism."

(Steele 1999: 71)

my new favourite phrase

the third & the seventh

a film by alex roman

light // space // sound // solitude

//

nice film.  could do without the knocked-off michael nyman soundtrack and cheesy nature shots.  but good easy meditation on space.

mary pritchard

'rooted in time'

a welcome break from my dissertation

"different skin; same suffering."

- Le Ly, from Heaven & Earth (1993) directed by Oliver Stone

based on the memoirs of Le Ly Hayslip

7.24 - 9.25

from 'M Butterfly' (1993) directed by David Cronenberg

based on the play by David Henry Hwang

//

i remember watching this film as a child, but not really taking it in.  M. Song reveals and represents Gallimard's Orientalism as pure fantasy; ideological and gendered.


"i am a man who loved a woman, created by man."