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Notes on Cosmia “About 25% of LGBT people suffer through violent or threatening relationships with partners or ex-partners which is about the same rates as in as domestic abuse against heterosexual women”. endthefear.co.uk/information/help-and-advice/same-sex-domestic-abuse/ I did not make this film with either the LGBT people or heterosexual women in mind. It was made from the perspective that this happens and is purposefully produced to be ambiguous as to who the perpetrator is. It is...

Music: Dinah Washington / Max Richter - This Bitter Earth Time Pressure Andrei Tarkovsky the Russian film director wrote, “ We cannot comprehend the totality of the universe, but the poetic image is able to express that totality.” In relation to the haiku poem he says “ The lines are beautiful, because the moment, plucked out and fixed, is one, and falls into infinity”. I believe that Tarkovsky was able to apply these thoughts on totality and infinity to his slow films, such as...

"The psyche reveals herself in the form of images for that is her experience. If we wish to befriend her, to love her, we must take great care in how we react to her, as her life speaks of itself to us. Our relation to the image, therefore, becomes all important. When a friend tells us of an experience, how do we move in relation to it? We do not want to be interrupted in our story; nor do we wish to be rushed. When our experience has moved us we are connected with it through the telling. It...

"The psyche reveals herself in the form of images for that is her experience. If we wish to befriend her, to love her, we must take great care in how we react to her, as her life speaks of itself to us. Our relation to the image, therefore, becomes all important. When a friend tells us of an experience, how do we move in relation to it? We do not want to be interrupted in our story; nor do we wish to be rushed. When our experience has moved us we are connected with it through the telling. It...

Jon Hopkins on sound cloud http://soundcloud.com/jonhopkins http://www.jonhopkins.co.uk/ "The psyche reveals herself in the form of images for that is her experience. If we wish to befriend her, to love her, we must take great care in how we react to her, as her life...

"The psyche reveals herself in the form of images for that is her experience. If we wish to befriend her, to love her, we must take great care in how we react to her, as her life speaks of itself to us. Our relation to the image, therefore, becomes all important. When a friend tells us of an experience, how do we move in relation to it? We do not want to be interrupted in our story; nor do we wish to be rushed. When our experience has moved us we are connected with it through the telling. It...

"The psyche reveals herself in the form of images for that is her experience. If we wish to befriend her, to love her, we must take great care in how we react to her, as her life speaks of itself to us. Our relation to the image, therefore, becomes all important. When a friend tells us of an experience, how do we move in relation to it? We do not want to be interrupted in our story; nor do we wish to be rushed. When our experience has moved us we are connected with it through the telling. It...

Music You're Hot Heidi's Theme Soundtrack to the film Somersault. The description below this is about the film Somersault and not I want To Kiss You. Exploring the themes of teenage sexuality and emotion, Somersault is about a 16-year-old girl named Heidi (Abbie Cornish) who runs away from her Canberra home to the ski fields of Jindabyne in New South Wales. There she meets Joe (Sam Worthington), the son of a local farmer, and tries to form a relationship with him, despite his difficulty in...

dauðalogn by Sigur Ros. http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/ "The psyche reveals herself in the form of images for that is her experience. If we wish to befriend her, to love her, we must take great care in how we react to her, as her life speaks of itself to us. Our relation to the image, therefore, becomes all important. When a friend tells us of an experience, how do we move in relation to...