(Ed. Note: Originally published at Image Facts.)   Quite possibly the best filmed incarnation of Buddhist ideology,Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring, is a transcendent and visually poetic ode to one of Eastern mysticism’s core doctrines. An old monk and a young boy live together in a one room temple that floats in the middle of a […]

(Ed. Note: Originally published at Image Facts.) “Exquisite Yearning!… Exotic Living! High in a hidden mountain village of a strange land and extravagant dreams and desires become exciting realities!” (Tagline to the film. No, seriously, it really is.) The successes of Powell’s Black Narcissus are well documented. Scorsese said it was being like “bathed in color,” the over-realized […]

(Ed. Note: Originally published at Image Facts.)   “Big they fought! Big they loved! Big their story!” (This is the actual publicity tagline for the film. How fantastic is that?) The term “horizonless landscape” pops up often both in exhibition catalogs of contemporary photography and descriptions of post-modern culture. In its literal sense, it refers to […]

(Ed. Note: Originally published at Image Facts.)   “Does a passive infrared scanner… see into me – into us – clearly or darkly? I hope it does, he thought, see clearly, because I can’t any longer these days see into myself. I see only murk. Murk outside; murk inside. I hope, for everyone’s sake, the scanners […]