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David Lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 176.253.75.25
Posted on Thursday, May 01, 2014 - 11:26 pm:   

'The already-tiny village of Nagoro in eastern Iya on Shikoku, Japan is shrinking. Only a few dozen people still live there. The others have died or moved away. Ayano Tsukimi, 64, makes life-sized rag dolls to replace them and positions them in places that were important in their lives in Nagoro. Director Fritz Schumann made a mini-documentary about this "Valley of Dolls." '

http://boingboing.net/2014/04/30/woman-makes-dolls-to-replace-p.html

Village of Small Shadows?
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 109.153.107.130
Posted on Tuesday, March 26, 2019 - 12:37 pm:   

This is beautiful. So many things on here I never noticed. Like life, again.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.170.88.199
Posted on Wednesday, March 27, 2019 - 08:36 am:   

And the dolls, they remind me that a lot of art comes from the imaginary friend thing, even movies. Things designed to fill gaps or help us understand things. I thought recently that quietly the artists are the most influential people in the world.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.233.147.166
Posted on Friday, March 29, 2019 - 12:45 am:   

They do have a soft power, like water. Maybe art is the only legitimate form of power: it's based on truth and so floppy it can't be used directly to enforce one's will on anyone.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.169.180.118
Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 01:00 pm:   

Have you seen that Hypernormalisation film Adam Curtis? So frightening. Russia has a politics of jelly we can't get a handhold on. They deliberately bombard us with contrasting, contradicting truths come up with by a former theatre director, and so it's hard to tackle them. We do it too, or it feels like we are. We end up attacking or being hurt by dummies, false targets. My son told me to turn it off, it was disturbing him too much.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.169.180.118
Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 01:01 pm:   

*BY* Adam Curtis.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 147.252.230.86
Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 01:14 pm:   

Sounds like a fascinating idea! I'll try to find that doc.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.169.180.118
Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 01:19 pm:   

It's a documentary, on Iplayer. Three hours long but it flies by. It uses clips from Hollywood movies and music from things like Poltergeist. It's eerie. A real work of art.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 51.37.86.52
Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 02:42 pm:   

Okay, I look forward to it! Adam Curtis has such an authoritative '70s BBC narrator voice that I have to remind myself he might be wrong!
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.169.180.118
Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 08:38 pm:   

Yes! God, fighting authority figures we admire is so hard. I can a bit - I think autism is nature's way of stopping us conforming so easily. Kind of evolutionary.
Sorry, I'm going on about that now.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.233.147.124
Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 09:20 pm:   

Go on about it!

I just watched the first episode and it's excellently edited and interesting.

(But does it need to include genuine bloody footage? Out of context they add nothing to the ideas being communicated and feel exploitative of those in them.)

I'll watch the rest. It's interesting how theories about postmodernism and simulacra seem to be becoming true. Did I post footage of ordinary people filmed in New York in 1979 recently? They seemed so natural compared to how groomed people are today.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.169.180.118
Posted on Saturday, April 13, 2019 - 05:21 am:   

I reacted at the horrible footage, mind. I'm not sure of why, though. Just shock?
I think we talked about seventies people and places in old films. I know I brought up the Raimi Spidermen because the sets looked authentic for these days, the extras ordinary people. In fact in my mind those ilms have become about the backgrounds as much as the drama.
I got a great cd of 100 US TV themes. The Cheers one made me cry ('Sometimes we just wanna go where everybody knows our name'), and Taxi (that flute! Go listen!), and the cheeriness and upbeat nature of the songs, the wistfulness. It felt like a back catalogue of feelings we don't have anymore, sweet things. The thing is so uncynical it could ever only now be played over a show in irony.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
Username: Protodroid

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.233.147.109
Posted on Monday, April 15, 2019 - 01:20 am:   

Oh yes, TAXI is a lovely one. We do need more simple sweetness. And less cuteness.

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