VIOLENCE & BEAUTY.
INEXPLAINABLE IRRESISTIBLE ATTRACTION.
DESIRE, CONNECTION, COMMUNICATION & ITS FINAL FAILURE.
SENSUALITY UNLIMITED.
UNTAMED SPIRITS.
MARKED FACES.
SCARS & TRACES.
FEELING ALIVE & FEELING FREE.
BREATHING DEEPLY.
LIQUID TIME.
SPRINGS, RIVERS, WATERFALLS, SEAS, OCEANS.
LIVING WITH AWARENESS OF DEATH & DEGRADATION.
BATTLEFIELDS OF NIGHT IN THE MORNING.
HOW HAPPEN EXPLOSIONS, VOLCANOES, STORMS, TSUNAMIS, EARTHQUAKES, & WHAT REMAIN AFTER.
AMPUTATED BELIEFS ABANDONED.
COULD WE RISE AS WE FALL?
I'd like to meet:
YES: THE ONES WHO CAN TELL ME AN INTERESTING STORY.
NO: SELF CENTERED & PREDICTABLE.
Music:
RADIOHEAD
GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR
MAX RICHTER
PJ HARVEY
SET FIRE TO FLAMES
SIGUR ROS
THOM YORKE
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO
CHOPIN
MUSE/HULABALOO
PLACEBO/WITHOUT YOU IM NOTHING
BEETHOWEN
SCHUBERT
TCHAIKOVSKY
CIRQULAR
MAMO
PETE TEO
JEFF BUCKLEY
TIM BUCKLEY
NICK CAVE
LEONARD COHEN
ARVO PART
OLAFUR ARNALDS
JONNY GREENWOOD
NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN
ASTOR PIAZZOLA
PORTISHEAD
RIVAL CONSOLES
CHRISTOPHE TELLEMAKE
BETH GIBBONS
VINCENT GALLO
AHMAD ZAHIR
LOTTE ARNOLD
ERIK SATIE
BJORK
WINTER FAMILY
VIVALDI
JORDI SAVALL
DAVID BOWIE
NINA SIMONE
BELLINI/NORMA
J S BACH
PROKOFIEV
ANOUAR BRAHEM
Movies:
ANDREI TARKOVSKY: stalker, nostalghia, mirror, sacrifice, andrei roublev, ivans childhood, tempo di viaggio, the steamroller & the violin.
NAGISA OSHIMA: merry christmas mr lawrence, ai no corrida, ai no borei, taboo (gohatto), max mon amour.
DEREK JARMAN: blue, sebastiane, caravaggio, the garden, last of england.
SHOHEI IMMAMURA: the ballad of narayama, unagi, black rain.
VINCENT GALLO: the brown bunny.
KIYOSHI KUROSAWA: cure, cairo, charisma, loft.
THEO ANGELOPOULOS: ulysses gaze, le pas suspendu de la cygogne, landscape in the mist, the beekeeper.
BELA TARR: werckmeister harmonies, damnation.
SARUNAS BARTAS: few of us, the house, the corridor, freedom.
ANDRZEJ ZULAWSKI: limportant cest daimer.
YURI NORSHTEYN: tale of tales, hedgehog in the fog, the heron & the crane.
CHEN KAIGE: farewell my concubine, temptress moon, life on a string, emperor & assassin.
BAHMAN GHOBADI: half moon.
ANTOINE DAGATA: aka ana.
ALEXANDR SOKUROV: moscow elegy, whispering pages, the days of ecplipse, dolce, oriental elegy, humble life, alexandra, taurus, moloch.
GRANT GEE: meeting people is easy, radiohead videos.
JONATHAN GLAZER: radiohead videos.
LILIANA CAVANI: the night porter.
RADIOHEAD: the biggest lying mouth of all times, videos.
CARLOS SAURA: bodas de sangre, cria cuervos, amor brujo, carmen.
RITHY PANH: s21 - machine de mort khmer rouge.
MASAKI KOBAYASHI: kwaidan.
MICHAEL CIMINO: the deer hunter.
ROMAN POLANSKI: the pianist.
CRAIG BREWER: black snake moan.
STEVE BUSCEMI: animal factory.
SIGUR ROS: all music videos.
HIROKAZU KORE-EDA: after life.
DA SEUNG KIM: bunjee jumping of their own.
OLIVER STONE: platoon.
KIMBERLY PEIRCE: boys dont cry.
TSAI MING LIANG: i dont want to sleep alone, the river, rebbels of a neon god.
GLAUBER ROCHAS: black god white devil.
RENE CLEMENT: jeux interdits.
AKIRA KUROSAWA: cobweb castle, ran, dodeskaden, idiot.
WIM WENDERS: nicks movie - lighntining over water, notes on cities & clothes, paris texas.
SERGEI PARADJANOV: the legend of suram fortress, sayat nova, shadows of our forgotten ancestors.
CHRIS CUNNINGHAM: videos.
RICARDAS MATACIUS: vilkas.
WERNER HERZOG: aguirre wrath of god, fitzcarraldo.
HIROSHI TESHIGAHARA: woman of the dunes.
PIER PAOLO PASOLINI: salo, medee, oedipus rex.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN: car race, gold rush, how to make movies.
WONG KAR WAI: ashes of time, happy together.
CHAN WOOK PARK: old boy.
BERNARDO BERTOLLUCCI: last tango in paris.
PETER CHAN: going home.
JACQUES DOILLON: drolesse, la fille prodigue, ponette.
ROBERT BRESSON: un condamne a mort sest echappe.
KON ICHIKAWA: the burmese harp.
NIKITA MIKHALKOV: 5 evenings, unfinished piece for a mechanical piano, slave of love.
CARLOS REYGADAS: japan.
ROBERTO ROSSELINI: germany year zero.
INGMAR BERGMAN: after the repetition, spring with monika, persona, cries & whispers.
SIMON PUMMELL: bodysong.
CLAIRE DENIS: trouble every day.
BORIS LOJKINE: les ames errantes.
GHERMAN: 20 days without war.
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI: profession reporter, avventura, notte, eclipse.
ANDREI KONCHALOVSKY: diadia vania.
FREDERICO FELLINI: 8 1/2, ginger & fred.
FRANK CASSENTI: la chanson de roland.
CLINT EASTWOOD: letters from iwo jima.
KIM JEE WOON: a bittersweet life.
LUCHINO VISCONTI: death in venice, il gattopardo.
DINO RISI: anima persa.
TAKASHI MIIKE: audition.
YASUJIRO OZU: i was born but.
JEAN VIGO: atalante.
PINA BAUSCH: cafe muller, coffee with pina.
PHILIPPE GARRELL: lenfant secret, la naissance de lamour.
SATYAJIT RAY: music chamber, pather panchali, aparajito.
JIA ZHANG KE: still life, unknown pleasures, xiao wu.
JEAN JACQUES ANNAUD: the lover.
ACTORS.
ADRIEN BRODY (the pianist, the jacket).
DAVID BOWIE & RYUICHI SAKAMOTO (merry christmas mr lawrence).
WILLEM DAFOE (animal factory).
TATSUYA FUJI (ain no corrida).
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN (the deer hunter).
ANTONIO GADES (bodas di sangre).
VINCENT GALLO (the brown bunny).
FABIO TESTI & ROMY SHNEIDER (limportant cest daimer).
CHARLOTTE RAMPLING (the night porter).
JAMES BARNEY (sebastiane).
KLAUS KINSKI (aguirre).
ALEXANDR CHEREDNIK (whispering pages).
TILDA SWINTON (jarman movies).
MERYL STREEP (the deer hunter).
LESLIE CHEUNG (farewell my concubine).
HEDYE TEHRANI (half moon).
ANATOLIJ SOLONYTSIN (tarkovsky movies).
OLEG YANKOVSKY (nostalghia).
LARS RUDOLPH (werchmeister harmonies).
KATIA GOLUBEVA (few of us).
PIERRE CLEMENTI (la chanson de roland).
KOLIA BURLYAEV (ivans childhood).
MADELEINE DESDEVISES (drolesse).
JANE BIRKIN (la fille prodigue).
LEE BYUNG HUN (the bittersweet life).
VITTORIO GASSMAN (anima persa).
CHARLIE CHAPLIN (the car race).
GONG LI (temptress moon).
MONICA VITTI (avventura).
MARIA SHNEIDER & MARLON BRANDO (last tango in paris).
PJ HARVEY & NICK CAVE (henry lee video).
Books:
YUKIO MISHIMA: the sea of fertility (spring snow, runaway horses, the temple of dawn, the decay of the angel), forbidden colors, patriotism, thirst for love, the sailor who fell from grace with the sea, confessions of a mask.
LAWRENCE DURRELL: the alexandria quartet (justine, balthazar, mountolive, clea), poetry.
ALBERT CAMUS: le mythe de sisyphe, la peste, la chute, letranger.
AKIYAMA SHUN: simple life.
ANDREI TARKOVSKY: sculpting in time.
YASUNARI KAWABATA: 1000 cranes, beauty and sadness.
CZESLAW MILOSZ: europe, peoms, essays.
HENRY MILLER: sexus, plexus.
PAUL CELAN: poems, essays.
DAISETZ T. SUZUKI: zen and japanese culture.
SIGITAS PARULSKIS: mirusiuju.
ERNEST BECKER: the denial of death, escape from evil.
RAINER MARIA RILKE: poetry, prose.
KENZABURO OE: teh catch, personal matter.
ABE KOBO: red cocoon, the stick.
ISHIHARA SHINTARO: ambush.
LAO DZE: tao te ching.
bhagavadgyta.
dhammapada.
i ching.
DAVID BROWNE: dream brother.
TIMMO K. MUKKA: earth sinful song.
RIMBAUD: saison en enfer, illuminations.
R.NUNES: postface of far cry by paolo nozolino.
SHOSHANA FELMAN: writing and madness.
ANTOINE D'AGATA: manifeste.
DANIEL ARASSE: anselm kiefer.
ORTEGA Y GASSET: revolt of the masses.
KAZUO ISHIGURO: the remains of the day.
HANIYA YUTAKA: cosmic mirror.
HERMAN HESSE: the glassbead game, narcissus & goldmund, steppenwolf.
SALMAN RUSHDIE: the moors last sigh, shame.
lyrics by:
THOM YORKE.
NICK CAVE.
PJ HARVEY.
JEFF BUCKLEY.
PETE TEO.
WINTER FAMILY.
LEONARD COHEN.
various works by
FRIEDRICH NIETSCZHE.
ZHUANGZI.
JIMENEZ.
TAMURA RYUICHI.
TSUJII TAKASHI.
BASHO MATSUO.
SHIRAISHI KAZUKO.
TAKAHASHI MUTSUO.
YOSHIOKA MINORU.
ANZAI HITOSHI.
TANIKAWA SHUNTARO.
MIZUSHIMA HATSU.
LORCA.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN.
FIODOR DOSTOYEVSKY.
JOHN CAGE.
NICHIDATSU FUJII.
SCHOPENHAUER.
SALMAN RUSHDIE.
FRANZ KAFKA.
LITERARY CHARACTERS.
sisyphe (from le mythe de sisyphe by camus).
justine & nessim (the quartet of alexandria by durrell).
kiyoaki & satoko, isao & makiko (the sea of fertility by mishima).
etsuko (thirst for love by mishima).
orpheus (sonnets to orpheus by rilke).
martta (earth sinful song by mukka).
keiko (beauty & sadness by kawabata).
lieutenant takeyama shinji & reiko (patriotism by mishima).
PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS.
SCHAFFER: die ewige schafe.
CHIEN CHI-CHANG: the chain.
MASAHISA FUKASE: ravens.
YUKATA TAKANASHI: toshi-e (towards the city), the city.
(VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS): the world of tatsumi hijikata.
KIKUJI KAWADA: the map.
ANTOINE DAGATA: insomnia, vortex, hometown.
RONG RONG: rongrong's east village.
SHOMEI TOMATSU: 11.02 nagasaki, i am the king, nippon, okinawa diary.
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: sea of buddha, theaters, time exposed.
EIKOH HOSOE: barakei - 1st edition, kamaitachi.
SEIICHI FURUYA: memories.
INOSE KOU: visions of japan.
RONGRONG & INRI: liu li tun.
THE ATLAS GROUP: my neck is thinner than a hair.
FRANCOIS PUYPLAT: cardis cagibis garages.
DAIDO MORIYAMA: bye bye photography.
KRATOSHVILI:vanishing.
STROMHOLM: poste restante.
STEVE MCQUEEN: barrages.
RONI HORN: dictionary of water.
STEPHANE DUROY: l'europe du silence, cercle de famille.
SOPHIE RISTELHUEBER: eleven blowups.
NAN GOLDIN: the ballad of sexual dependency.
PAOLO ROVERSI: libretto, studio.
JOEL STERNFIELD: walking the high line.
KEN DOMON: hiroshima.
Heroes:
FEW PEOPLE WHOSE WORK/LIFE ARE QUITE EXTRAORDINARY.
andrei tarkovsky
tatsumi hijikata
mishima yukio
albert camus
zhang huan
thom yorke
nagisa oshima
derek jarman
lawrence durrell
czeslaw milosz
hasegawa tohaku
muqi
zhu ming
pina bausch
shohei immamura
leonardo da vinci
jules marey
daisetz t. suzuki
ernest becker
kazuo ohno
rudolf nureyev
egle spokaite
yohji yamamoto
jonny greenwood
jeff buckley
tim buckley
rainer maria rilke
yasunari kawabata
(VISUAL?) ARTISTS WHOSE WORK I REALLY LIKE:
zhang huan
zhu ming
masahisa fukase (the ravens)
yukata takanashi (towards the city, the city)
eikoh hosoe (kaimaitachi, barakei)
zhang daqian (panorama of mount lu)
guanxiu
hasegawa tohaku
cai guo qiang
mona hatoum
ren xiong (self portrait)
rongrong & inri
douglas white (lilith)
tacita dean
cy twombly
muqi
roger ballen
ma liuming (early works)
ran slavin
johan hedback
jules marey
antoine dagata
huan yongping
toshio shibata
guo xi (early spring)
shomei tomatsu
ikkyu sojun
tadao ando
eva hesse (late works)
jin nong
zhu derun (hunlun tu - primordial chaos)
gintautas trimakas
richard greaves
leonardo da vinci
turner (sketches & unfinished paintings)
brueghel the elder
yuan shangtong (the bustle of west watergate)
hendrick van cleve (tower of babel)
zhu duan (tiger crossing the river of hongnong)
shi lu (on the way to nanniwan)
kukai
uragami gyokudo
fan kuan (travellers by streams & mountains)
cui bai (magpies & hare)
li cheng
liu cai (fish swimming and falling flowers)
watanabe kazan
walid raad & the atlas group
fukumori hakuyo (the solitary walker)
anselm kiefer
hiroshi sugimoto (nightscapes, drive-ins, pines, sea of buddha)
tracey emin (works including texts: there is no one in this room who has not though of killing, every part of me is bleeding, people like you need to fuck people like me, the last thing i told you is not to leave me here)
jh engstrom
jean luc moulene
gu wenda
sophie ristelhueber
anders krisar
li zhaodao (emperor minghuang journey into shu)
cerith wyn evans
rachel whiteread
hreinn fridfrinnsson (works with spider webs)
craigie horsefield
geert goiris
allora & calzadilla
cyprien gaillard
paulius raciunas
jan fabre
miguel rio branco (mona lisa, madman, man dog, dog man)
naoya hatakeyama
luo zhichuan (jackdaws in old trees)
jing hao (mount kuanglu)
zhao mengfu
zou fulei (a breath of spring)
jiang zhaohe (refugees)
james turrell
van gogh
basho matsuo
buson yosa
diane arbus
victor burgin (photopath & zoo)
ugo rondinone (works that include texts)
luc delahaye
gordon matta clark
steve mcqueen
michal rovner
jenny holzer
trisha donnely
alastair mackie
DESIGNERS.
haider ackerman.
yohji yamamoto
alexander wang.
rick owens.
nicolas andreas taralis.
hedi slimane.
comme des garcons.
damian yee.
moon young hee.
DANCE.
tatsumi hijikata
sankai juku
marie chouinard
angelin preljocaj
kazuo ohno
pina bausch
rudolf nureyev
maguy marin (may b & eden)
alain platel
anne teresa de keersmaeker
trisha brown
PLACES.
all stormy oceans & seas.
seaside with broken trees (in wintertime) north to klaipeda, lithuania.
road from manali (himachal pradesh) to leh (ladakh), in a jeep for 20hours, with high altitude sickness.
getting lost when the night falls on the simatai great wall, in late autumn, hebei, china.
all ladakh area, india.
pashupatinath temple burning ghats, kathmandu, nepal.
nagasaki memorial hall, japan.
khardung la mountain pass (some 5600m above sea level), ladakh, india.
manali views while paragliding, india.
high mountain passes in bhumthang, bhutan.
alexandria seaside in wintertime early in the morning, egypt.
listen people singing in foggy summer palace early in the morning, late autumn, beijing, china.
shanghaiguan in late autumn, hebei, china.
three shadows photography art center, caochangdi, beijing.
sanjugesando temple, kyoto, japan.
a-bomb dome, hiroshima, japan.
the bar of onno-san, golden gai, shinjuku, tokyo, japan.
darjeeling when foggy, west bengal, india.
getting lost in small streets & quaint cafes in alexandria at the end of the day.
rusne island, lithuania.
fushiminari taisha walks, kyoto, japan.
near fuji-san among floating clouds.
small old photography book libraries in tokyo.
sunrise in vieng xai, laos.
climbing the mountain ar sunrise in wat phu champasak, laos.
sunrise in ta prohm, siem reap, cambodia.
sunset in bayon, siem reap, cambodia.
cafes & tailor shops of hoi an, vietnam.
mai chau, vietnam.
sleeping on water in halong bay, vietnam.
luang prabang markets, laos.
bodnath stupa early in the morning, kathmandu, nepal.
enlightenment tree during sunset, mahabodhi temple garden, bodhgaya, bihar, india.
