photogénie

In the summer of 1925, Meher Baba took an oath of silence that he preserved until his death forty-four years later in 1969. Universal culture in his lifetime remained rife with speculation about the gesture. Droves of his followers – called masts (the...

Yet we love those heavy materials which Flaubert’s sentences lift and let fall again with the intermittent noise of an excavator… Fortunate those who are alive to this obsessive rhythm…
— Marcel Proust
In the later years of his life, misunderstood and ridiculed, his work as a director forgotten by all but a few loyalists, Erich von Stroheim was known to recall, in detail, all the material minutiae of his long-ago butchered films: the furnishing of...

2019 and 2020 saw the slightly surreptitious emergence of a strange object, stemming from another time and manufactured by one of cinema’s most unaccountable, errant minds: Artavazd Pelechian. Nature (2019) is the first film in 26 years from the sui...

Cinema had no choice but to be silent during its first few decades of existence, yet after the emergence of sound technology, the oscillation between sound and its absence introduced itself as a force to preside over the emotional journey of the viewer...