Film

The Pasolini system

Adam Thirlwell on the poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Joyce’s electric theatre

On 20 December 1909, with funding from business acquaintances from Trieste, James Joyce opened the Volta Cinematograph, Ireland’s first dedicated cinema.

Nothing & silence

Richard Marshall on Béla Tarr’s The Turin Horse.

Street of Crocodiles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgqmXK1pf7Y

Language of nightmares

Matthew Barney and Gaspar Noé in conversation in BOMB magazine.