pferguson | September 9, 2017
“We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.” Joseph Conrad, 1899 In 1978 I read Heart of Darkness. In 1979 I watched Apocalypse Now. I went to the cinema on my own that early evening and still, to this day, recall the opening. Rotating sound across a black screen, jungle, the hint of smoke, silence, […]
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Tags: Apocalypse Now, Darkness, Film History, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Francis Ford Coppola, Heart, Heart of Darkness, Ideas, Imagery, James M. Lundberg, Joseph Conrad, Ken Burns, Less, More, Passion, Photo-Journalists, Soundtracks, Symbolism, The Civil War, The Doors, The Vietnam War, This is the End, Vision, War Correspondents
pferguson | May 7, 2017
Echo 1 Finding Tales within the Mortar The days turn warm and the flowers come out sharing their colours for all of us who walk by, as steadfast pollinators dance between petals. Their steady hum another song to this ear. I watch as a robin on duty, fleet of foot, tilts its head towards the […]
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Tags: David Lean, Echo, Echoes, Film, François Ozon, Frantz, Imagry, James Gray, Lawrence of Arabia, Lone Scherfig, Mortar, Storytelling, The Lost City of Z, Their Finest, Vision
