“…this film is my dream about New Zealand, this make-believe country that seems almost empty of people, where love stories are played out in silence and loneliness ... where the land is like a vast quilt of fields, where life seems perfect but we find ways to make ourselves unhappy…” Harry Sinclair on The Price of Milk
Otago, May 2009, JB
"... melancholy would not be so much the regressive reaction to the loss of the love object as the imaginative capacity to make an unobtainable object appear as if lost..." ... "the strategy of melancholy opens a space for the existence of the unreal..." Giorgio Agamben, Stanzas
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Hi Jacky
These two passages reminded me of Samuel Beckett's Ohio Impromptu. (On DVD, seen recently for the 1st 2nd and 3rd times). Comprised entirely of melancholy, loss, and memory, intricately interwoven. 'There is nothing left to tell.'
Cheers, Bruno.
Hi Bruno,
Sounds verrrrry intriguing, shall hunt it down!
Greetings from the frozen expanse of Chch, j...
Jacky, hi - i would love to be able to say something meaningful about the melancholy quotes which touch me deeply, but right now i am caught in the hypnotic veil of your picture... why can't i see it in bigger format when i click on it, as is the case with the others? i'd very much like to...
Hi Roxana ... the clicking thing has me stumped, I am not sure why it sometimes is 'unclickable', I might try to post it again and see if it fixes it.
And the melancholy thing ... well, I am perhaps so immersed in it that it suffuses whatever I touch - like a black, dark version of King Midas ...
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