Lists 2010

Films 2010

Band A Part JEAN LUC GODARD

F is for Fake ORSON WELLES

Next Movie CHEECH AND CHONG
Ways of Seeing JOHN BERGER'S BBC SERIES

 

I often get criticised for watching movies from other eras especially now that I live in Indonesia, where there seems to be a fascination with the new and whats happening right NOW, but for me personally I think that's a fatal mistake and mainly for people who believe too much in time and chronology. If something is a great work it is great regardless of when it is made. For me if I see a film from the 40's like a Jean Cocteau film or the 60's like Godard's Band A Part in the year of 2010 for me that is contemporary. I don't believe that time lines really ever existed especially now in the 21st Century and especially now that the internet is basically a blue print for that.

The truth is most films at the mainstream cinema sucks ass anyway—the constant barrage of information and Dolby surround sound with insipid predictable vacant story lines just makes me feel flat and 2 dimensional. It is essentially an insult to the depth that each individual carries with their own personal universes. To buy into those thought processes is dangerous and a kind of poison for the mind. As citizens of the 21st century its crucial that we are more conscious of what those kinds of media can do to the way we see the world and how they affect our personal relationships. I try to guard my psychic space as much as possible but living in this century we cannot control everything that the media conditions us to think and feel.

Books 2010

Camera Lucida ROLAND BARTHES

Truth and Actuality J KRISNAMURTI

Sans Soleil CHRIS MARKER (this is actually a film but for me this may as well be a book)

Art of War SUN TZU

Theatre Without Theatre MACBA Publishing

Music 2010

Dara Puspita A GO GO

Luc Ferrari LES ARYTHMIQUES

Les Rallizes Dénudés LIVE '77

Parson Sound PARSON SOUND

Sound of the Bell PLUM VILLAGE 

Acid Mothers Temple TROUBADOURS FROM ANOTHER WORDLY HEAVEN

Glen Branca SYMPHONIES