Posts tagged joy
"Everything is Everything: Alternate Version for Single Channel," by Koki Tanaka, 2007 :: via Coudal Partners
There's an odd decisive joy to this short film of odd decisive actions. I love the sense of deadpan discovery as the filmmaker finds abbreviated new uses and gestures for everyday plastic things, conjuring up a dance of objects for an audience of food. Really.
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"Low Rising," from the album Strict Joy, by The Swell Season, 2009 :: via Boing Boing
Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, The Guy and The Girl from the wonderful movie Once, have a new album out as The Swell Season, gloriously titled Strict Joy. This video, from the first single, was directed by Sam Beam, a former professor of cinematography better known for his own musical career as Iron & Wine. I love its gentle good humor about the running together of joy and sadness, solitude and partnership, our personal storms and the weather outside.
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When critique becomes a posture, we end up strangely passive, waiting for culture to deliver us some new item to talk about. Critique as a posture, while an improvement over condemnation as a posture, can leave us strangely unable simply to enjoy cultural goods, preoccupied with our interrogation of their “worldview” and “presuppositions.”
—Culture Making, p.93