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Favorite films

  • The Olympian
  • The Sparrow Dream
  • Concertino
  • Kodachrome Dailies from the Time of Song and Solitude (Reel 1)

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  • Graal

  • Ruling Star

  • Bagatelle II

    ★★★★★

  • Bagatelle I

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Swain

1950

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

joyous collision!
ultroneous fortune!
near dick's folly you chant
in west point uniform:
radiant calligrapher
in the strand of our sex.

swain was anything but swain.
it was only later that swain became swain.

warning: swain, as a visual phenomenon, possesses an ousia that transcends the structural schema that may be abstracted from it, resisting full noetic reduction. while certain motifs and configurations can be delineated, they remain mere fragile reflections of a more elusive and aporetic truth. the ultimate…

Sotiros

2000

★★★★★ Liked Watched

he said, "the trunk of the olive tree turning,
waves..."
 light from the dark blue sky reflects brightly
on the white frieze and pilaster "... the shadows of foot-
steps crossing the street, the same quantity of shadow'
as the glass of water and cup of coffee." he said.
ve zeytin ağacının gövdesinden oydu yatağını,
kimse kıpırdatamazdı onu yerinden..

(alone) = not alone.
the self is not a self-portrait.
the filmmaker. the filmmaker's creation. the filmmaker's creation creating the filmmaker.ingenium.

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Himself as Herself

1967

★★★★½ Liked Rewatched

sakalsız bir oğlanın tragedyası, the film as film.

Autoportrait

1968

★★★★★ Liked Watched

önce elektromanyetik hışırtılar pirelenecek tenin yüzölçümünde.öyle ki artık soyunabilirim.çünkü benim "yaşamak'ım" sözyitimlerini anla[t]mak istemiyor.yaşamak özlemine inecek bir aydınlık için, s-s-sinemaya çatlarcasına inanıyorum.
ve 
autoportrait,,,,..! ahh filme içkin anemonlar ve anılarla dolu bir yatakta süptil bir hareketsizlikle bir arada yatıyorum şimdi.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA A   A         A! 
bir başka yaşamımda bu filmin içinde kırık bir sekans olmalıyım.

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