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\u2022 “In the mid-Seventies the influential stop-motion animators, Stephen and Timothy Quay, embarked on a series of dark graphite drawings, conceived as imaginary film posters. They kept their first autonomous art project hidden for decades, allowing only a few glimpses to transpire in some of their animation classics such as Noctura Artificialia<\/em> and Street of Crocodiles<\/em>. In hindsight, the Black Drawings can be considered as a blueprint for their future work. This book offers a first in-depth exploration of this important graphic series that reveals many of the themes and techniques that would come to life in their celebrated animation films.” Quay Brothers: The Black Drawings 1974\u20141977<\/em><\/a> is a book by Edwin Carels and Tommy Simoens.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The first of the BFI’s forthcoming blu-ray boxes of Derek Jarman films is now available for preorder<\/a>. In addition to what I presume will be an uncensored presentation of Sebastiane<\/em> (1976) the set also includes the digital premiere of In the Shadow of the Sun<\/em> (1980) an “alchemical” blending\/transmutation of Jarman’s early Super-8 films with a score by Throbbing Gristle. Related: Adam Scovell<\/a> on another of the films in the set, Jubilee<\/em> (1978), and one that Jarman disliked even though it incorporates many of his obsessions, especially in the punk-baiting sequences derived from Shakespeare and Elizabethan metaphysics.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mixes of the week: FACT mix 638: Circuit des Yeux<\/a>, XLR8R Podcast 528 by Huxley Anne<\/a>, Secret Thirteen Mix 246 by Hiro Kone<\/a>, and drone works from Abby Drohne<\/a>. And since the untimely death of composer J\u00f3hann J\u00f3hannsson was announced a few hours ago, a return to his sombre mix for FACT<\/a> from 2015.<\/p>\n

Nabokov’s ambitions weren’t interpretive. He “held nothing but contempt for Freud’s crude oneirology,” Barabtarlo explains, and in tracking his dreams he wasn’t turning his gaze inward. For him, the mystery was outside\u2014far outside. Nabokov had been reading deeply into serialism, a philosophy positing that time is reversible. The theory came from JW Dunne, a British engineer and armchair philosopher who, in 1927, published An Experiment with Time<\/em>, arguing, in part, that our dreams afforded us rare access to a higher order of time. Was it possible that we were glimpsing snatches of the future in our dreams\u2014that what we wrote off as\u00a0d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu was actually a leap into the metaphysical ether? Dunne himself claimed to have had no fewer than eight precognitive dreams, including one in which he foresaw a headline about a volcanic eruption.<\/p>\n

Daniel Piepenbring<\/a> reviewing Insomniac Dreams by Gennady Barabtarlo<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 Gavin Stamp 1948\u20142017: a eulogy to the late architectural writer by Jonathan Meades<\/a>. One of Stamp’s more offbeat assignments was providing illustrations for the George Hay Necronomicon<\/em> in 1978.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Embassy of the Free Mind<\/a> is the name of the new online library whose digitisation of rare occult volumes was financed by author Dan Brown.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Dangerous Minds: Meet Princess Tinymeat<\/a>, the obscure genderbending trashglam post-punk goth offshoot of Virgin Prunes.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Why are film-makers obsessed with the story of doomed British sailor Donald Crowhurst?” asks Jonathan Coe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Asian music influenced Debussy who influenced me\u2014it’s all a huge circle,” says Ryuichi Sakamoto<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Spoon & Tamago: The birds of Tokyo beautifully illustrated by Ryo Takemasa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mark Pilkington is In Wild Air<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Professor Yaffle<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 The Sun’s Gone Dim And The Sky’s Turned Black<\/a><\/em> (2006) by J\u00f3hann J\u00f3hannsson | The Great God Pan is Dead<\/a><\/em> (2008) by J\u00f3hann J\u00f3hannsson | A Pile of Dust<\/a><\/em> (2016) by J\u00f3hann J\u00f3hannsson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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