A quick montage and doodle for the morning of January 22nd… Happy 128th birthday, Mr. Eisenstein. 🥸🎂🎞️
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27 • she / her • part time artist 🍑 soviet films, trains, and witches in funny hats. ↳ NO FASCISTS. хуй войне.
It is SUCH a shame that Joan Neuberger’s multimedia essay about the historical and biographical context of Eisenstein’s “Ivan the Terrible” films is really only available for public viewing on the Criterion Collection DVD release because MAN are those hard to find these days.
Today’s insanely-niche-and-unrelated-hyperfixation Christmas included: a car-mount ham radio antenna, and of course, a first American edition copy of Otto Rank’s “The Trauma of Birth” published in 1929. 🤞🏻😌🎄
Merry Christmas, everyone!! I have GOT to get better about posting on here too… 🎄❤️🩹
this is literally like meeting a celebrity for me you guys have NO idea… 🥹
local bumpkin blows the steam whistle on a steam logger tractor
My absolutely insane take of the day is that Eisenstein’s Fyodor Basmanov has notable connections to Glumov from Eisenstein’s very first film of 1923 more than twenty years prior and that they have a remarkably similar function in terms of their “plasticity” and motives.
SPECTACULAR stuff going on in the Hannaford parking lot right now.
IVAN THE TERRIBLE - PART III DIR. SERGEI M. EISENSTEIN WAS DELISTED FROM LETTERBOXD I’M ON MY KNEES…
Now this is all actually exceptionally funny because as far as I’m concerned, nowhere in the original dialogue does Vladimir mention “lambs” at all—it seems like something Mosfil’m just added to the subtitles to dress up the imagery. But this was the first sub I ever watched of the film so I—
b r o o k e *:･ﾟ✧@peachlybeloved.bsky.social · last yr.
Ah yes. My two sacrificial lambs. I think I’ll name them Vladimir and Fyodor.
Throughout my studies in global queer history over past year or so, the main takeaway that I've constantly encountered is that Oppressors have never once succeeded in effectively killing off the homosexual collective. Us Queers will live forever so long as we continue our dissent.
I gauge the severity of local heatwaves based on what state of matter my jar of coconut oil is in.
I think that HDDs are inherently better than SSD because a HDD makes fun sounds and whirrs when you use it
Things I need to get into immediately: - Offline digital archival - Ham radio
“and if a son should betray his father… then kill him like a dog.”
b r o o k e *:･ﾟ✧@peachlybeloved.bsky.social · last yr.#nrw: bezhin meadow (1937) dir. s. m. eisenstein, reconstructed by naum kleiman (1968)
