in marfa now mostly to see the landscape (and to clear my head),
but was very taken today by the architecture of donald judd, especially looking at it through the eyes of henry plummer's new book stillness and light: the silent eloquence of shaker architecture.
more to come on the landscape and light of west texas, from the eyes of a western director.
(scouting locations for a new western taking place in the marfa area, and possibly kraków poland, with a limitation of one word every 5 minutes, and each shot not to be less than 4 minutes and not to exceed the length of the film. in addition, 4 animals [as actors] for each actor, on and off-screen violence to be equal. inspired by lonesome dove, john ford, robert bresson and ingmar bergman/sven nykvist, chantal akerman/michael snow/ernie gehr, howard hawks, la monte young and the border trilogy)
1 - 2 : shaker light / minimalism
3 : western
4 : chinati kitchen
5 - 7 : shaker light / minimalism
8 : exterior (military minimalism)
9 : window
10 : untouched building
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as long as you're out there you might as well drive down to big bend - talk about land, talk about empty....
i drove down there, went along the rio grande for quite a while, empty is right.... thanks, might go back today, so amazing down there
ps.
went on both judd foundation tours today and found many examples of shaker furniture. very very lovely.
also -
lovely works by aalto, rietveld, schindler, wiener werkstatte, mies van der rohe, wagenfeld? and of course, judd.
tons of barnett newman, etc etc
oh, was reminded of the other major western directors/writers of influence on the site - beckett, tarr, tarkovsky. good gunslingers.
also of note - joseph cotten's melancholic character in the third man....
when I was out there I was impressed by how different any art thing looked in that austere environment, meaning and significance changed, and books read in such a place change also in unexpected ways...
ingólfur arnarrson....
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