Ben Samuel
"Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament."
George King "Primary Terrestrial Mental Channel No. 1"
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Ben Samuel
Mar 17, 20231 min read
The Making of Fanny and Alexander (1984)
Foot age from The Making of Fanny and Alexander
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Ben Samuel
Feb 27, 20232 min read
Jean Vigo (1905-1934)
Jean Vigo's films Zéro de conduite (1933) and L'Atalante (1934)
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Ben Samuel
Nov 1, 20221 min read
My film 'The Magic Lantern'
A celebration of the magic and wonder of early cinema.
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Ben Samuel
Oct 18, 20222 min read
Egon Schiele's death bed sketches of his wife Edith & Gustav Klimt
Egon Schiele's (1890 – 1918) death bed sketch of his wife Edith, who was six months pregnant at the time. He himself was dying even as...
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Ben Samuel
Sep 21, 20224 min read
When Weegee met Alfred Stieglitz
Photographer Weegee describes his haunting meeting with an 81 year old Alfred Stieglitz. From his book Naked City.
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Ben Samuel
Aug 12, 20221 min read
Rembrandt's "dirty little secrets"
Etchings made by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) dubbed by some as his "Dirty Little Secrets"
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Ben Samuel
Jun 21, 20221 min read
Ingmar Bergman interview
An interview with Ingmar Bergman where he discusses "Non-existence" and God's perfection in comparison to human imperfection.
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Ben Samuel
Jun 13, 20221 min read
Jean Genet (1910 - 1986) interview
Jean Genet asks a BBC film crew why they don't rebel.
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Ben Samuel
Jun 13, 20222 min read
Albert Pinkham Ryder - art and decay
The art of decay. Albert Pinkham Ryder's paintings decay over time due to his use of unstable materials.
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Ben Samuel
May 25, 20223 min read
William Blake's Visionary heads
Throughout his life William Blake claimed to have seen visions of people from the remote past, as well as deceased friends.
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Ben Samuel
May 5, 20224 min read
JG Ballard "What I Believe"
‘What I Believe’ is a prose poem originally published in French in Science Fiction #1 in January 1984.
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Ben Samuel
Apr 28, 202210 min read
Bruno Schulz "trying to occur"
The life and imagination of Bruno Schulz including drawings, a film of the mural discovery and a newly discovered short story by Schulz
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Ben Samuel
Apr 12, 20222 min read
Lotte Reiniger (1899-1981)
The films of pioneering filmmaker Lotte Reiniger
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Ben Samuel
Apr 5, 20222 min read
Francisco Goya's Black Paintings (Pinturas negras)
Francisco Goya's Black Paintings
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Ben Samuel
Mar 28, 20221 min read
Akira Kurosawa describes the Great Kantō earthquake of (1923)
Akira Kurosawa describes being shown the aftermath of the Kantō earthquake by his brother Heigo Kurosawa.
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Ben Samuel
Mar 21, 20221 min read
Wax anatomical models by Clemente Susini
Clemente Susini's (1754–1814) vividly accurate but macabre wax models, both beautiful and disturbing.
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Ben Samuel
Mar 3, 20221 min read
Rare footage of Albert Camus
Rare footage of Albert Camus talking about the theatre with an extract of The Possessed written and directed by Albert Camus
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Ben Samuel
Mar 3, 20221 min read
Isaiah Berlin on the power of ideas
"Over a hundred years ago, the German poet Heine warned the French not to underestimate the power of ideas..."
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Ben Samuel
Mar 3, 20221 min read
Albert Camus Quote from The Plague
“He knew what those jubilant crowds did not know but could have learned from books: that the plague bacillus never dies or disappears..."
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Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
Friedrich Nietzsche's Mental Breakdown
Jan 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) is said to have witnessed a cab driver viciously whipping a horse.
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Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
"Advertisements" by J.G Ballard
"I created a series of advertisements which I placed in various publications..Of course I was advertising my own conceptual ideas,
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Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
Sergei Parajanov discussing Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Interview with Sergei Parajanov here he discusses how making Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965) led to his imprisonment
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Ben Samuel
Mar 1, 20221 min read
Experimental text collages by JG Ballard
Four Text Collages (Project for a New Novel), by J. G. Ballard. Experimental text collages by Ballard intended as a condensed novel.
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