I’m hiking in order to save myself – At 22 she lost her mother, in the four years following – everything unravels. Thats why Cheryl Strayed decided to walk the the Pacific Crest Trail. Strayed’s memoir about the hike, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, is a fantastic story about transformation and becoming oneself. The movie…
Tag: film
Job without God
To all my nature loving friends, if you can manage to tear yourself free from the wilderness for just a short while, here is a film to watch; the Russian movie Leviathan is a beautiful story about the strength of nature and the weakness of man. It’s a story about Job without God, about the…
Why Beauty Matters
the search for beauty, cont. I think we are loosing beauty, and there is a danger that with it, we will loose the meaning of life. In this post I will present you for Roger Scruton’s view on beauty. It is not because I agree with what he says, but because he is one of…
how to be alone
Some years ago I read Sara Maitland’s book A Book of Silence. It’s a beautiful book based on Maitland’s own experiences of living alone in the Scottish highland. Now she is out with a new book, in a way it’s a continuation of the first, but How to Be Alone is also an attempt to…
La grande bellezza
Yesterday my study of beauty led me to the movies, to see Paolo Sorrentino’s La grande bellezza (The Great Beauty) (2013), a film which has been described as Sorrentino’s modern take on the themes of Fellini’s La dolce vita. La grande bellezza is a film about Jep Gambardella, a journalist (and a stalled author) who…
true art
Isn’t it strange how some authors manage to create a true masterpiece within just a few pages?! Here is one of the most compressed, significant, and strange texts I’ve ever encountered: Franz Kafka A Country Doctor If you are interested in a surreal & energetic visual adaption of the story, have a look at this: . “The…
WE THINK ALONE
I have been a hardcore fan of Miranda July ever since I first watched ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW. Today I received a mail from her, reading like this: Hello! You are getting this email because you signed up for my mailing list at mirandajuly.com. You might have signed up a long time ago and…
more than honey
political art (cont.): More Than Honey (2012) The documentary More than Honey is an in-depth look at honeybee colonies in California, Switzerland, China and Australia. Without the pollination provided by honey bees an incalculable amount of the food we eat would simply not be produced. Oscar-nominated documentary maker Marcus Imhoof – grandson of a…
The Floating House
– rediscovering blueness; in all its strange and wonderful variations. Paulette Phillips, The Floating House, 2002. Video still from the 16mm film. . Paulette Phillips made a beautiful video of a house adrift on the Atlantic Ocean, a house which slowly gets pulled under by the force of the sea. The film has a very interesting…
Less is more
Pablo Giorgelli’s film Las Acacias has the simplest imaginable plot: a man, a woman & a baby, sharing a drive from Paraguay to Buenos Aires. The man, a truck driver, has done the trip many times before, the woman are going to Buenos Aires to get a job. This is the first time they meet,…
sub rosa 