Elsewhere #7

  1. A Funny Thing Happened on His Way to the Movies « OMBRES BLANCHES

    Did Dulac betray Artaud’s intentions?

  2. Morbid Anatomy: Wonderful Depiction of a Popular Anatomical Museum, 1913

    “A. Friedländer, Plakat für ein anatomisches Museum, Hamburg, 1913”

  3. documents: Mauss / Bataille (part 1)

    There is a strong thematic unity between the teachings of the great French ethnologist Marcel Mauss and the work of the so-called ‘philosopher of evil’, Georges Bataille: sacrifice, the sacred, power, shamanism, secret societies are themes that were taken up by Mauss and figured largely in Bataille’s oeuvre.

  4. Cimetières dans la falaise [Cemeteries in the cliffs] « >dmtls Merzbau

    documentary by Jean Rouch on the Dogon [in Mali], shot during a 1950-1951 expedition with Marcel Griaul. Witness sacred death and burial rituals

  5. Propaganda Postcards of the Great War – Alberto Martini (1)

    Introducing Alberto Martini’s horrific cartoons

  6. DC’s: The day my blog becomes a movie projector, screen, a bunch of folding chairs, and a storefront in a bad part of town in honor of Bruce Conner

    Dennis Cooper on Bruce Connor

  7. The art of Jean-Paul Faccon

    Another European artist who enjoys invented and ruined architecture.