James Hansen

Favorite films

  • City Lights
  • Twin Peaks: The Return
  • Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
  • Wavelength

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  • Capital

  • Home Movies Gaza

  • O, Persecuted

  • Study for Three Streams

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Reporting from the Ghost Cities of the Metaverse: Decentraland

2024

Rewatched

This played extremely well in the LM traveling program, I have to say.

A Visit to the Louvre

2004

★★★★ Watched

Usually, S/H are working through texts and thinking about how they can be adapted/translated for a present moment. How does history continue to live for a person in a different present? So, of course, works of art make a lot of sense, in a modified way, as open works of history and historical thinking. Whether museums are the venue to open the level of engagement Huillet illustrates in her dissection of (mostly) painting is perhaps a different question, but this…

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Empire

1965

★★★★★ Liked Watched

16mm AFA.

Eight hour study of light and architecture. How it takes shape, form, dimension. And also how it gains more via loss. There’s a lot in here that never gets mentioned in the writing about duration. Unfortunate.

Industrial innovation as outer space.

Absolutely flabbergasted by the delicacy and tenderness.

A lot more to say, but let’s just be clear that this isn’t a gallery stunt. It’s a great film that works because it is a film.

Movie That Invites Pausing

2020

Watched

No rating yet since I couldn't accept the invitation to pause during a live stream. But now I can pause and so can you.

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