Sorting Facts, or Nineteen Ways of Looking at Marker - Susan Howe

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Sorting Facts, or Nineteen Ways of Looking at Marker - Susan HowePoetic musings of a powerful filmmaker. Poetry and cinema collide in Susan Howes masterful meditation on the filmmaker Chris Marker, whose film stills are interspersed throughout, as well as those of Andrei Tarkovsky. Sorting word facts I only know an apparition. Scribble grammar has no neighbor. In the name of reason I need to record something because I am a survivor in this ocean. New Directions, 2013 English Softcover, 48 pages 150mm x 230mm

32 pages220mm x 220mm

focusing on her authorial stamp on Inland Empire – a movie in which her phenomenal performance shatters every scene – and her enduring and revelatory collaborations with director David Lynch

“I was feeling split

This volume

a monumental painting on which the San Francisco artist Jay DeFeo (1929–1989) worked almost exclusively from 1958 to 1966

for me who already feels neurotic and … yes

while keeping within the tradition

demanding instead an utter—and utterly pleasurable—immersion

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much body art and performance conformed to the anti-expressive ethos of minimalism and conceptualism

While his music is known for its extreme quiet and delicate beauty

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