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Dana Andrews

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About Me

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My Interests

French literature ++ German philosophers (the funniest of all philosophers) ++ Belgian beer ++ Italian food and architecture (Roma, Firenze, Siena, etc.) ++ Art history ++ Movies, movies, movies and more movies ++ Coffee and chocolate ++ Walking at night (Midnight Walkers in general) ++ Chronophotography ++ Oh, music also, I'm afraid ++ Animation films ++ Zippo lighters ++ Dark angels ++ Maximum Black ++ The fresh smell of decaying nitrate in the morning ++ Images falling apart.

I'd like to meet:

Gene/Laura, of course. Like-minded people. Maybe even French-speaking persons. Let's hang unreliable people.

Music:

Well : Françoise Hardy, Federico Mompou, Eglantine Gouzy, Erik Satie, My Bloody Valentine, Pixies, early Swans, Smiths, Fennesz, Sunn O))), Oren Ambarchi, some Kevin Drumm, Pale Saints, Samuel Barber, Steve Reich, Cluster, John Adams, Dälek, Public Enemy, Monoton, early Mogwai, Text of Light, Pita, Tim Hecker, KTL, Mitchell Akiyama, Bohren und Der Club of Gore, Chopin, Bach, Maurice Ravel, Deaf Center, Kevin Saunderson, Carl Craig, Colleen, AGF, Lightning Bolt, Jazkamer, Troum, Boris, Plastikman, Photek, early Labradford, Earth, Pan Sonic, Alva Noto, Laurie Spiegel, Glenn Branca, AR Kane, Cocteau Twins, Laika, Joy Division, Nina Simone, Alvin Lucier, Claude Debussy, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Squarepusher, Suicide, Arvo Pärt, Chet Baker, Ulver (thank you, bly-T), Belong, Windy & Carl, Greg Davis, The Domestic Front, Lexaunculpt, Black Boned Angel, the almighty Nadja, etc.

Movies:

Anything by Louis Lumière, Feuillade, Keaton, Chaplin, Eisenstein, Vertov, Murnau, Borzage, Féjos, King Vidor, Ernst Lubitsch, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder, Michael Curtiz, Joseph Leo Mankiewicz, Anthony Mann, Joseph Lewis (especially "Gun Crazy" and "The Big Combo"), Edgar Ulmer, Douglas Sirk, Fritz Lang, Jacques Tourneur, Max Ophuls, Stanley Donen, Samuel Fuller (especially "Underworld USA" and "Shock Corridor"), Robert Aldrich, Jules Dassin.+++ contemporary experimental cinema (Stan Brakhage, Bill Morrison, Martin Arnold, Gustav Deutsch, Peter Tscherkassky, Mara Mattuschka, Rose Lowder, etc.).

Books:

Nietzsche, Proust, Schopenhauer, Didi-Huberman, Arasse, Freud, Kafka, Walser, Mallarmé, Bergson, Louis Marin, Maupassant, Desnos, Robert Musil und Thomas Mann, Leiris, hmm, Hornby, etc.

Heroes:


End, (pelechian),
envoyé par zohilof

My Blog

M. Brzezinski + A. Zagaewski - Mnemosyne

"Mnemosyne" : une histoire de fantômes pour grandes personnes - selon les mots d'Aby Warburg....
Posted by Dana Andrews on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:54:00 PST

Norman McLaren

Norman McLaren - tout part d'un point et tout y revient....
Posted by Dana Andrews on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:46:00 PST

Psycho vs. the Algorithm

Avant (classique) : Après : Bien joué, Maurice....
Posted by Dana Andrews on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:38:00 PST

Mara Mattuschka vs. Francis Bacon (auto-portraits)

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Posted by Dana Andrews on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 06:15:00 PST

1 and the 2

1 and the 2Who the hell are you ? ...
Posted by Dana Andrews on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:07:00 PST

P.O.E.T.

PeterOttoEmil Tscherkassky ...
Posted by Dana Andrews on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:02:00 PST

The State of Decay

Celluloid nitrate is such a fragile, volatile, combustible, beautiful and fascinating thing. ...
Posted by Dana Andrews on Thu, 24 May 2007 01:44:00 PST

Georg Simmel

"L'Suvre d'art se trouve dans la situation en réalité contradictoire de devoir former un tout homogène avec l'espace qui l'entoure alors qu'elle constitue déjà un tout à elle seule ; elle répète en ce...
Posted by Dana Andrews on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 06:44:00 PST

Fernand Léger

"Le cinéma, c'est l'âge de la machine.Le théâtre, c'est l'âge du cheval"(Fernand Léger, 1930) ...
Posted by Dana Andrews on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 07:07:00 PST

La Passerelle (Nietzsche, of course)

Avec les gens qui ont la pudeur de leurs sentiments, il faut savoir dissimuler; ils conçoivent pour vous une haine subite si vous les prenez en flagrant délit de tendresse, d'enthousiasme ou de nobles...
Posted by Dana Andrews on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:57:00 PST