Cold War (2018) Dir. Pawe Pawlikowski / The Lighthouse (2019) Dir. Robert Eggers

cold war (2018) dir. paweł pawlikowski / the lighthouse (2019) dir. robert eggers

“There once was a man who lived in an empire preoccupied with food. It was said of him that he opened an underground business that sold soups so good that when government officials tasted them, their eyes lit up and they carried that light into the higher offices and courts but could no longer pretend to be loyal to the system that ruled us—and they all lost their offices. But the soup factory kept going, tomato soups and spinach soups and onion soups with fish.”

— Ilya Kaminsky, “Little Pot,” My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales (Ed. Kate Bernheimer)

“Inexorable frankness but painfully obtained. You have moments of reserve, of feeling you are violating sacred intimacies, the secret life of your own being as well as of others. At moments I am willing to help you because of our common objective passion for truth. But it hurts, Henry, it hurts.”

— Anaïs Nin, from Henry & June; A Journal of Love: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1932–1934)

medianeras (2011) dir. gustavo taretto

I know what you want: a burial inside me. Have you ever opened an apricot, warmed by the sun, and found worms?

Diana Marie Delgado, from “The Kind of Light I Give Off Isn’t Going to Last,” Tracing the Horse  (via bluebeardsbride)

Fear works to align bodily and social space: it works to enable some bodies to inhabit and move in public space through restricting the mobility of other bodies to spaces that are enclosed or contained… It is the regulation of bodies in space through the uneven distribution of fear which allows spaces to become territories, claimed as rights by some bodies and not others.

Ahmed, S (2015) The Cultural Politics of Emotion. New York: Routledge (via muybarra)