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Symmetry (1966) is a PIF (public information film) by Philip Stapp (1908–2003), an American animator who made a number of other films in this vein while also working on group projects like the ...

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/05/06/symmetry-a-film-by-philip-stapp/

Design, as before, by Julian House. The trees full of new leaves offering green tears to the earth to be picked and split for the tell of green of what’s fair and unfair and between the twigs, ...

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/05/05/spell-blanket/

Dr Faustus Conjuring Mephistopheles (1928) by Eric Ravilious. • Materialising in July from a cloud of sulphurous smoke: The Devil Rides In – Spellbinding Satanic Magick & The Rockult 1967–1...

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/05/04/weekend-links-724/

And speaking of Max Ernst… These are pages from a catalogue for a exhibition of Ernst’s prints and book illustrations held at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris in 1975. Ernst was such a ve...

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/05/01/max-ernst-estampes-et-livres-illustres/

Another artist portrait, this short silent film is one of the earliest cinematic efforts by Alain Resnais, following some amateur experiments which are now lost. Resnais made several of these art...

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/04/29/visite-a-oscar-dominguez/

Flags of the Undiscovered Planets: 3 (1985) by César Manrique. • “That mysterious font is Festive, not Stymie.” Ray Newman goes looking for a typeface that immediately says “Britain in t...

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/04/27/weekend-links-723/

After watching Providence again I yielded to further temptation and ordered a copy of the book that first introduced me to the film itself and to the Resnais oeuvre as a whole. I’d been itching...

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/04/24/monaco-on-resnais/

Documentaries about art in the 20th century are often compromised by a lack of interview material, as a consequence of which you tend to see the same few clips used again and again. What you don�...

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/04/22/man-ray-1972/

Desert Sunrise (no date) by Kay Robinson. • RIP Richard Horowitz, a composer and musician whose soundtrack work makes the headlines but who I’ve always known best via his appearances on album...

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/04/20/weekend-links-722/

Cover artist unknown. A selection by JG Ballard of six favourite Surrealist paintings, or five Surrealist ones and a Metaphysical picture if you want to be strict about the definitions. These wer...

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/04/17/ballards-sextet/

Continuing an occasional series about artworks in feature films. The Dark Corner (1946) was the subject of the last entry which ended with the words “I’ve been wondering what other Dalínean ...

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/04/15/art-on-film-crack-up/

Incomparable Pleasure (1952–3) by Judit Reigl. • Steven Heller’s Font of the Month is Atol. Heller’s other haunt, The Daily Heller, looked this week at the incredible calligraphy and illu...

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/04/13/weekend-links-721/

Providence (1977). Polish poster by Andrzej Klimowski. After mentioning Alain Resnais’s Providence in the Sibylle Ruppert post I tried searching eBay again to see if any of the long-deleted Fre...

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/04/11/providence-on-dvd/

I upgraded my DVD of David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch to blu-ray recently. The film is one of my favourites in the Cronenberg oeuvre even though its connection to the novel is minimal at best. Af...

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/04/10/the-japanese-sandman-a-film-by-ed-buhr/

Drift Study 4:37:40-5:09:50 PM 5 VIII 68 NYC (1968) by La Monte Young. One of the links at the weekend was to the late Marian Zazeela’s poster designs of the 1960s and 70s. She also designed a ...

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/04/08/marian-zazeela-album-covers/

The Poet and the Siren (1893) by Gustave Moreau. • “Some books become talismans. Because they are strange, wildly different to the common run of literature; because they are scarce, and only ...

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/04/06/weekend-links-720/

La Bible du Mal (1978). I’m late to this but it’s worth passing on the news about an exhibition of paintings, drawings and collages by Sibylle Ruppert (1942–2011) which is currently running...

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/04/03/sibylle-ruppert-frenzy-of-the-visible/

In the mail at the weekend, a pair of reissued Opal CDs that I didn’t expect to see any time soon, Happy Nightmare Baby (1987) and Early Recordings (1989). Opal were an American group who were ...

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/04/01/rare-opals/

The Decoy (1948) by Edith Rimmington. • “Among other things, storyboards involved Bergman turning into a statue that would then break up into ants.” Tim Jonze talks to film scholar John R...

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/03/30/weekend-links-719/

The previous post reminded me of this, one of my favourite examples of ornamented alphabets from the 18th century. Liber Artificiosus Alphabeti Maioris (“Artistic Book of the Major Alphabet”,...

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/03/27/liber-artificiosus-alphabeti-maioris/

I like extravagant calligraphy, the more extravagant the better, as with these examples from Schreib-Kunst (1716) by Michael Baurenfeind (1680–1753). The book is a recent scan by the Getty Rese...

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/03/25/michael-baurenfeinds-extravagant-calligraphy/

Chatting Cats (c.1960) by Tomoo Inagaki. • New/old music: Follow The Light by Broadcast, a song which will appear on Spell Blanket—Collected Demos 2006–2009 in May. The album will be follow...

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/03/23/weekend-links-718/

Chion-in (Sanmon) Temple Gate. My favourite season is here at last although we haven’t had much spring sunshine here today, just a lot of rain. I like the spring, as do the Japanese who have go...

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/03/20/eight-views-of-cherry-blossom/

It looks like I’m still in the Synchronicity Zone. This PDF of the fourth and final issue of Arsenal: Surrealist Subversion turned up when I was searching for something that had nothing to do w...

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/03/18/more-surrealist-subversion/

Bookplate of Charles P. Searle (1904) by Sidney Lawton Smith. • “If Minute 9 is the first time we hear the names Deckard and Blade Runner, it’s also the first time we meet the plainclothes ...

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/03/16/weekend-links-717/

In the mail today from Burning Shed, the debut album by Air French Band in an expanded three-disc set, housed in a card wallet and featuring blu-ray audio and video. On the second CD there’s a...

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/03/14/new-moon-safari/

René Magritte with a newspaper. La Nouvelle Médication Naturelle Traduit de l’Allemand – Vol. 2 (1899) by FE Bilz Man with a Newspaper (1928) by René Magritte Fuzz Against Junk (1959) by A...

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/03/13/man-with-a-newspaper/

Under Water/In Air. This recently-released video for Under Water/In Air by Starfucker (or STRFKR, as they often have to style themselves) is an animated production by Edward Carvalho-Monaghan, an...

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/03/11/the-groovy-video-look/

The Vision of Endymion (1902) by Edward John Poynter. • The Art and History of Lettering Comics by Todd Klein. Eight of the pages in the forthcoming Moon & Serpent book have been lettered by To...

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/03/09/weekend-links-716/

Synchronicity is as universal as gravity. When you start looking you find it everywhere. Thus Discordian anarchist Stella Maris, making her first appearance in my re-reading of Illuminatus! (prev...

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/03/07/the-werewolf-of-anarchy/