{"id":2194,"date":"2007-07-28T01:16:10","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T00:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=2194"},"modified":"2024-01-22T23:13:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T23:13:29","slug":"impressions-de-la-haute-mongolie-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/07\/28\/impressions-de-la-haute-mongolie-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Impressions de la Haute Mongolie revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Impressions de la Haute Mongolie \u2013 Hommage \u00e1 Raymond Roussel (1974-75). <\/em><\/p>\n

When I wrote a short reminiscence<\/a> about Impressions de la Haute Mongolie<\/em> last March I really didn’t expect I’d be watching it again just over a year later having waited thirty years for the opportunity. But now we can all see Jos\u00e9 Montes-Baquer’s collaboration with Salvador Dal\u00ed, thanks to the indispensable Ubuweb<\/a>. The copy there doesn’t have English subtitles, unfortunately, but the visuals are still beguiling and not too difficult to follow if you can understand some French and Spanish. It was a curious experience seeing this again, some parts I remembered very well, others I’d completely forgotten about. Most surprising was the soundtrack of electronic music, much of it taken from recordings by Wendy Carlos<\/a>, including a part of her ambient Sonic Seasonings<\/em><\/a> suite and portions of her complete score for A Clockwork Orange<\/em><\/a>. There’s more about this deeply strange film in Tate Etc<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And speaking of surreal landscapes, it’s worth mentioning that I’ve spent the past few weeks working on a new piece of Lovecraft-themed artwork for an exhibition at Maison d’Ailleurs<\/a>, the Museum of science fiction, utopia and extraordinary journeys in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland. The exhibition of newly-commissioned work based on themes from HP Lovecraft’s Commonplace Book<\/em> will be launched in October 2007. More details about the event, and my contribution, closer to that date. In the meantime, the European edition of TIME magazine<\/a> has a short feature about the gallery and its ethos.<\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Dal\u00ed and Film<\/a>
\n\u2022 Ballard on Dal\u00ed<\/a>
\n\u2022 Fantastic art from Pan Books<\/a>
\n\u2022 Penguin Surrealism<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Surrealist Revolution<\/a>
\n\u2022 The persistence of DNA<\/a>
\n\u2022 Salvador Dal\u00ed\u2019s apocalyptic happening<\/a>
\n\u2022 The music of Igor Wakh\u00e9vitch<\/a>
\n\u2022 Dal\u00ed Atomicus<\/a>
\n\u2022 Las Pozas and Edward James<\/a>
\n\u2022 Impressions de la Haute Mongolie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Impressions de la Haute Mongolie \u2013 Hommage \u00e1 Raymond Roussel (1974-75). When I wrote a short reminiscence about Impressions de la Haute Mongolie last March I really didn’t expect I’d be watching it again just over a year later having waited thirty years for the opportunity. But now we can all see Jos\u00e9 Montes-Baquer’s collaboration … Continue reading “Impressions de la Haute Mongolie revisited”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,29,7,25,26,18,23],"tags":[170,209,1511,1687,1478,2834,746,1054,87,119,877],"class_list":["post-2194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-electronica","category-film","category-kubrick","category-lovecraft","category-surrealism","category-work","tag-a-clockwork-orange","tag-ambient-music","tag-edward-james","tag-hp-lovecraft","tag-igor-wakhevitch","tag-jose-montes-baquer","tag-maison-dailleurs","tag-raymond-roussel","tag-salvador-dali","tag-ubuweb","tag-wendy-carlos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-zo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}