Watchings

24 October 2010 • watchings
tags: animals, brain, cinema, comedy, conscience, death, documentaries, drugs, fantasy, fiction, hallucinations, killers, love, mathematics, murder, music, nature, particles, perception, politics, science, sound, space, television, time, tv series

• Fringe, Seasons 1-2 (2008-2010)
J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci

• Человек с киноаппаратом / Man with a Movie Camera (1929) [watch]
Dziga Vertov

• Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly

• The Ghost Writer (2010)
Roman Polanski

• El Abecedario de Gilles Deleuze. A de Animal (1988) [watch]

• Some Like It Hot (1959)
Billy Wilder

• Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Sidney Lumet

El gusto del infinito

15 August 2010 • out of context
tags: books, dreams, drugs, existence, fantasy, hallucinations, imagination, nature, perception, quotes, senses

“Este señor visible de la naturaleza visible (hablo del hombre) ha querido, pues, crear el paraíso mediante la farmacia, mediante las bebidas fermentadas, tal un maníaco que reemplazara muebles sólidos y jardines reales por decorados pintados en tela y montados sobre bastidores”.

Los paraisos artificiales by Baudelaire

Haunted Mind

3 August 2010 • outer
tags: documentaries, earth, electricity, hallucinations, nature, perception

“Broadcaster Don Hill saw and felt a chilling apparition in the basement of his house. The house had reportedly been haunted for years, driving out many occupants. A four-year odyssey to discover the truth behind the ghostly encounters turned up some startling new science which suggests that weak electromagnetic fields, naturally occurring in the environment, are responsible for stimulating mystical experiences, UFO reports and especially, ghostly entities and poltergeist phenomena.”

This quote talks about a documentary entitled Haunted House, Haunted Mind that I haven’t watch. I”m not interested in ghosts, UFOs and paranormal phenomena, but I’m interested in electromagnetic fields and mystical experiences, so maybe it’s worth to remember this film.

Watchings

7 March 2010 • watchings
tags: appropriationism, brain, cinema, comedy, documentaries, dreamachine, economy, fantasy, fiction, flicker, hallucinations, humour, sex, structuralism, television

• Flicker (2008)
Nik Sheehan

• Heroes, Volume 5: Redemption (2009-2010)

• Muchachada Nui, 4ª temporada (2010) [watch]

• The Girlfriend Experience (2009)
Steven Soderbergh

• Outer Space (1999) [watch]
Peter Tscherkassky

• Arnulf Rainer (1958-1960) [watch]
Peter Kubelka

Readings

7 November 2009 • readings
tags: analysis, articles, brain, cinema, dreamachine, flicker, hallucinations, television, video, videoart, visualmusic

• From Stroboscope to Dream Machine: A History of Flicker-Induced Hallucinations
B.C. ter Meulen, D. Tavy and B.C. Jacobs b. European Neurology Vol. 62, No. 5, 2009.

• Décor by Timothy Leary [read]
Mark Alen. The New York Times. January 20, 2005.

• The Touch through Time: Raoul Hausmann, Nam June Paik and the Transmission Technologies of the Avant-Garde
Ina Bloom. Leonardo – Volume 34, Number 3, June 2001.

• Gnosis and Iconoclasm: A Case Study of Cinephilia
Annette Michelson. October, Vol. 83 (Winter, 1998).

• Review: Yann Beauvais (ed.), Paul Sharits
Federico Windhausen. Animation: An interdisciplinary journal. July 2009, Volume 4, No. 2.

• The Films of Peter Kubelka
Earl Bodien. Film Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Winter, 1966-1967).

Wind

3 November 2009 • 1 comment inner
tags: hallucinations, hearing, night, noise, senses, sleep, sound, wind

Tonight was quite a windy night, I wake up at 05:30 a.m. because of the wind noise, and that’s quite unusual in Barcelona. I spent the rest of the night in bed, half sleep half awake. Suddenly the blind that is just next to my bed started making a really loud noise, and it wasn’t because of the wind because the blind is far from the window, it just separates the bedroom from the living room. I thought immediately that someone was in my room pushing the blind, quite a scary idea because I live alone. The fact is that I was having an hypnagogic hallucination, something that happens to me from time to time, I got up quickly and I saw that the blind was absolutely still: no movement, no noise (it was completely up, as usual). The curious thing is that I don’t remember having heard before hypnagogic sounds, I just saw images.