Sisters With Transistors - Thank you, Lisa Rovner for making a necessary documentary about electronic music pioneers Clara Rockmore, Daphne Oram, Bebe Barron, Pauline Oliveros, Delia Derbyshire, Maryanne Amacher, Eliane Radigue, Suzanne Ciani, and Laurie Spiegel. Laurie Anderson’s narration is my favorite kind of ASMR.
Trickster - The Many Lives of Carlos Castaneda - My pal Tia turned me onto this riveting podcast about a wily, enigmatic man who wrote books that inspired me to rethink space/time in my early twenties. I’m still trying to figure things out in that realm.
We Were The Universe - By Kimberly Kim Parsons - Please read this novel without distractions because none of its sentences should be missed. The book sinks into the boredom of motherhood, lusty desire, and buried grief. It unpacks a slow and heavy sort of ordinariness that feels painfully relatable, but Parsons is a wise and very funny woman who pays close attention. She turns the ordinary on its head and digs into its magic.
Epistemic curiosity - Or finding patterns and connections to the things you’re already drawn to to deepen the curiosity.
Sometimes I Think About Dying - Shot in Astoria, Oregon, this lovely to-look-at film is an unrushed ooze about isolation, the dullness of office life, and the serendipity of strangers.
A list within a list of music that’s been keeping me company the last few weeks:
Wet Sketch of Horses
The motion picture wonders of Bill Domonkos
In search of the sublime, Mr. Fireman spends most of his time conducting radical experiments of self-obliteration, an ecstatic process in which he puts himself into a hypnotic trance, mentally deleting parts of his body.
Inspired by Vladimir Nabokov's "The Original of Laura", his incomplete final novel.
Evoking a sense of time and nostalgia, the film uses archive film footage which is manipulated, reconstructed and combined with newly created digital animation, special effects and sound, provoking new ideas and experiences.
Directed by Bill Domonkos
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Music: Excerpts from "Carnival of Light" 2010
by Aero-Mic'd www.aeromicd.com
A note about copyright: All of my films use archive photos and film footage that are in the public domain. I only use music/sounds that are under the creative commons license or I purchase the rights to use a specific piece of music—or I have permission from the author.
Jeanette Winterson - My Monster and Me
What to watch on Sunday. My Monster and Me, a little film about Jeannette Winterson (one of my lady heroes) and her quest to find her birth mother, her recent suicide attempt and how the power of books helped her to survive.