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Art on film: Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

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Published: April 27, 2026 15:30

Continuing an occasional series about artworks in feature films. This is a minor entry but a worthwhile one if only to draw some attention to an unusual fantasy film by Albert Lewin, an equally unusual director. Pandora and the Flying Dutchman was made in…

Weekend links 827

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Published: April 25, 2026 18:00

Dante in his Study with Episodes from the Inferno (1978) by Tom Phillips. • “This set, featuring two of the surviving members of Cabaret Voltaire, is as clear and powerful as any of the live albums the group released while Richard H. Kirk was alive.” Derek…

Kay Nielsen’s Book of Death

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Published: April 22, 2026 15:30

Disconsolate. More unknown Kay Nielsen, although “little-known” would be more accurate since the sombre nature of these drawings has made them popular among the image-hoarders in the Tumblr labyrinth. Nielsen created the series known as The Book of Death…

Dell Mapbacks

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Published: April 20, 2026 15:30

Dell 5, Four Frightened Women by George Harmon Coxe, was the first of the mapbacks. On the back cover of each of these books is, naturally, a map—a cutaway bird’s-eye view of the apartment building, house, hotel or city-section in which the events of the…

Weekend links 826

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Published: April 18, 2026 18:00

Hexa (1971) by Victor Vasarely. • New music of the week is Tape 05, three minutes from Boards Of Canada following their thirteen-year silence, which was released on Thursday after several days of the group and their record label teasing a comeback with…

Three short films by Piotr Kamler

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Published: April 15, 2026 15:30

Telemann. The DVD of Piotr Kamler’s animations released by aaa a few years ago contained almost all of the director’s works, comprising a handful of short films together with the 50-minute Chronopolis. The most recent film in the collection was Une mission…

Kay Nielsen’s Arabian Nights

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Published: April 13, 2026 15:30

Prologue. Last week a Kay Nielsen illustration passed through my RSS feed, a picture I thought for a moment I hadn’t seen before. A quick search revealed that the illustration is in fact present in a book on my shelves, The Unknown Paintings of Kay Nielsen…

Weekend links 825

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Published: April 11, 2026 18:00

Hexagon Sequence II (c. 1970) by Rosalie de Meric. • Boards Of Canada obsessives have been in a frenzy this week following the appearance of mysterious VHS cassettes sent at random to a small number of users of the Warp Records mail-order service. The…

Visa de censure numéro X

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Published: April 8, 2026 15:30

Synopsis: This flamboyantly poetic film includes two works of art: Livret De Famille and Carte De Vœux. A hallucinogenic voyage, psychedelic images float across the screen, of family and friends (Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Yves Beneyton, Valérie Lagrange…) as…

Clearlight: Symphonies

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Published: April 6, 2026 15:30

The Clearlight that concerns us here is a French musical ensemble with a shifting line-up, formed by and oriented around the activities of its keyboard-playing composer Cyrille Verdeaux. Clearlight, in other words, shouldn’t be confused with the…