The Night Hunter by Stacey Steers

I saw this amazing film/installation at the Denver Art Museum. It was mysterious, beautiful, moving --  a very profound and fascinating work that works on many levels simultaneously. It draws you into a world of nightmare and dreams in a way that even the most skilfull surrealist work rarely does.

All images by Stacey Steers

Rollins - angry and curious

Britannica: You’re a singer, songwriter, poet, disk jockey, television host, prose writer, spoken-word performer, actor, publisher—and, as we’ve said, traveler, and probably I’m leaving something out of even that long list. For the budding Henry and Henrietta Rollinses in the audience, what’s the secret of your productivity?

Henry Rollins: I am angry and curious. These two things propel me forward. I come from the minimum-wage working world. I have no illusions as to where I should have ended up. I have really nothing to lose, and so I go.

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Fun

Who are you?

“When you first get married, you have a relationship that’s so important to you, and you’re working on it together,” he explains in one routine, which he performed while he was still married. “But then you have a kid. And you look at the kid and you go, ‘Holy shit, this is my child! She has my DNA, my name. I would die for her.’” He takes a short, killer pause. “And you look at your spouse and you go, ‘Who the fuck are you? You’re a stranger. Why do I take shit from you?’”

Louis C.K.

Apache Dance/ danse apache

The Apache Dance started in Paris, an aestheticized version of a fight between a pimp and whore. It spread through the world and even ended up in a few frothy 1930s musicals.

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A cold glass of water

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 "In the end, like in Stardust Memories, we all get flushed. The beautiful ones, the accomplished ones, the Einsteins, the Shakespeares, the homeless guys in the street with the wine bottles, all end up in the same grave. So, I have a very dim view of things, but I think about them, and I do feel that I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day," - Woody Allen.

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Hazel eyes

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Lungs

Culture

Les Allemands avaient Schiller, Goethe, Beethoven, les Simbas du Congo ne les avaient pas. La différence entre les Allemands héritiers d’une immense culture et les Simbas incultes, c’est que les Simbas mangeaient leurs victimes, tandis que les Allemands les transformaient en savon. Ce besoin de propreté, c’est la culture.

Romain Gary, La Danse de Gengis Cohn

The Germans had Schiller, Goethe, and Beethoven; the Simbas of the Congo did not have them. The difference between the Germans who inherited a great cultural tradition and the uncultured Simbas is that the Simbas would eat their victims while the Germans would turn them into soap. This need for cleanliness is what makes for culture.

(loosely translated by me)

Lazy eye

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Sam Peckinpah's "The Westerner"

Woodman doc

I took a few classes from her father, who remains one of the best instructors I ever had. Rumors circulated about his daughter's suicide and her photographs, then mostly unknown.
It was, even then, the worst fate you could imagine for a parent. For someone, like him, who owned a refinement far beyond my peasant nature, it must have been excrutiatingly horrible (not that it's the sort of tragedy that requires sensitivity to feel). In many ways, his sensibility shaped hers. She had already taken it past him by the time she was in art school, and I think, leading to echos in his own photography later.
For him, too, there was a Persephone/Euridice element to the story that may have ruined a life and haunts me now.