“Staring into the Sun is the latest ethno-folk cinema classic from Sublime Frequencies. Ethiopia is known to be one of the oldest areas inhabited by humans and presently has over 80 diverse ethnic groups. Photographer/filmmaker Olivia Wyatt explores 13 different tribes throughout Ethiopia in this visually stunning film. Traveling from the northern highlands to the [...]
There’s been a lot going on. Threading the film to run in reverse: I’m in a chair at home in Brooklyn, with an increasingly vegetal right foot: swollen, and mottled in patches with bruising like the peel of a banana. The puffiness of my toes gives them a budlike quality, as though they might split [...]
(You may ask, dearreader, why “mistaken memories”? All my life, for various reasons, I’ve been obsessed with destroying documents and erasing traces, giving things away, dropping friends, abandoning things, taking no photographs and having no photographs taken of me. The traumatic events that have happened have always been easier to deal with by walking away, [...]
“It has all the things you really want out of an info-doc: the calm, female Voice of God, the Moog soundtrack, the sans-serif title cards, the primitive animation to demonstrate science, and it executes these things with a workhorse-like professionalism that is simultaneously unremarkable and exquisite.” Exactly. There is something perfect, beautiful, and hypnotic about [...]
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