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I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.
Amator a.k.a Camera Buff, dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1979
“When the protagonist turns the camera on himself, he realises that one can only portray the world through oneself.”
Krzysztof Kieślowski on Amator (1979)
And Then We Danced (2019) dir. Levan Akin
I must not think of the solar system — of innumerable galaxies spanned by countless light years — of infinities of space — I must not look up at the sky for longer than a moment — I must not think of death, of forever — I must not do all those things so that I will not know these horrible moments when my mind seems a tangible thing —more than my mind — my whole spirit — all that animates me and is the original and responsive desire that constitutes my “self”— all this takes on a definite shape and size— far too large to be contained by the structure I call my body — All this pulls and pushes — years and strains (I feel it now) until I must clench my fists — I rise — who can keep still — every muscle is on a rack — striving to build itself into an immensity — I want to scream — my stomach feels compressed — my legs, feet, toes stretching until they hurt.
I come closer and closer to bursting this poor shell — I know it now —contemplation of infinity — the straining of my mind drives me to dilute the horror by the opposite of abstraction’s simple sensuality. And knowing that I do not possess the outlet, some demon nevertheless torments me — brims me with pain and fury — with fear and trembling (wrenched, racked I am —most wretched —) my mind mastered by spasms of uncontrollable desire —
What, I ask, drives me to disorder? How can I diagnose myself? All I feel, most immediately, is the most anguished need for physical love and mental companionship —I am very young, and perhaps the disturbing aspect of my sexual ambitions will be outgrown— frankly, I don’t care.
If every language is acquirable, its acquisition requires a real portion of a person’s life: each new conquest is measured against shortening days. What limits one’s access to other languages is not their imperviousness but one’s own mortality. Hence a certain privacy to all languages.
Dirk Maassen - Fjara
We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet - for the sake of hamburgers
Peter Singer, Animal Liberation
Animal Liberation / Peter Singer
Many philosophers and other writers have proposed the principle of equal consideration of interests, in some form or other, as a basic moral principle; but not many of them have recognized that this principle applies to members of other species as well as to our own. Jeremy Bentham was one of the few who did realize this. In a forward-looking passage written at a time when black slaves had been freed by the French but in the British dominions were still being treated in the way we now treat animals, Bentham wrote:
Men I Trust - Numb
(Source: youtube.com)
To ask “What is an animal?” – or, I would add, to read a child a story about a dog or to support animal rights – is inevitably to touch upon how we understand what it means to be us and not them. It is to ask, “What is a human?
There is only one way this war ends. Last man standing.
1917 (2019) dir. Sam Mendes, cinematography by Roger Deakins
Αντώνης Απέργης - Έλα (Antonis Apergis - Come)
