8 1/2
Asa Nisi Masa
I have loved Federico Feliini’s films as much as I have loved other movies including the influences of East Indian films that I watched as an early age of 3 to 18. I watch a lot of films, they influence me with not simply the dramatization, rather, it is the context, speed of motion, the shadows of color and transition of movement when contrasted to the script or spoken dialog that fascinates me much like raised eyebrows when one is not aware the eye brows did raise!
The contradictions of what you are taught at an early age to accept as real is one that dumbfounds my understanding for when you watch a motion reel then those contradictions come up, of course, depending on the Story, however, every thing is a Story, is it not?
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Czech: Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí 1984 Milan Kundera has philosophical underpinnings to relationships - Two Women, Two Men, and a Dog! - 1968 Prague Spring. French L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être - artistic and intellectual life and the impact of invasions, much like what we are seeing today although we have the benefit of nonsense in the reporting where we are only given a glimpse of less than half a percentage, instead we are told our couch is better for our butt and the bowl of ice cream will make Daddy make it better and no such thing ever happened. Fantasy!…is for the bedroom! Be Married, Have Babies and Buy a House - it will be your mark of achievement for your Parents and Tribe. Vraiment?
IMDB “A Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman…” Perhaps, watch the Film.
"Asa Nisi Masa" is a well-known nonsense phrase in 8 1/2. Guido is a little boy, being pampered by the women in his life; bathed in wine,…
"Asa Nisi Masa" has no translation in any known language… becomes a central plot point, as a gateway to crucial memories of the central character…
To quote Alexander Sesonske’s Essay 8½: A Film with Itself as Its Subject - asa nisi masa. “Say the magic words, then when the picture moves its eyes, we’ll all be rich.” … the Italian word for soul or spirit.
Fellini explored the fantasies and illusions that both sustain and destroy us. Then, 8 1/2, making the challenge itself his subject, thus, stultification in confusion and inability becomes an opportunity to probe the mystery of artistic creation.
Sure, I am quoting what I took from Alexander, … problems of human relations created by a society whose traditional education portrays women as either sacred or profane, either mother or whore.
Questions not answered, nothing to say, mastery, film technique, an imaginary dance, acceptance and communion, darkness.
asa nisi masa - “the root word is anima” then obsure them A-sa + Ni-si + Ma-sa - dual significance, not only is it the Italian word for "soul" but also a concept: Carl Jung, Swiss psychotherapist, where "anima" is the term for the female aspect of the personality in men, animus as the unconscious masculine side of a woman, and the anima as the unconscious feminine side of a man, each transcending the personal psyche.
8 1/2 is unfinished - as do we, or must we - are set up as galleries of certain bodies of work. A Visual Sensory Journey. Art Print best viewed at Night. Voyeur Nocturne.
People don’t belong to People.
Alexander Sesonske 8½: A Film with Itself as Its Subject
My friend Connie Pretula asked in what context - 8 1/2, to me, feels unfinished as I often feel when I am photographing a story it is unfinished for if it was then, to me, that would be all there would be and what happens thereafter to the characters… did they vanish, is it really over, was it a story for a story is never really over, is it? The collection gallery 8 1/2 is never really done for it just simply is not with other work being added.
Connie Pretula - The Menopause Navigator
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How It Happened
I LOVE Slim Aarons photographs particularly the one of the women “Poolside Glamour”! What are they talking about! Why am I not there? The Yellow makes me feel so particular. The woman walking over, it seems to be the place to be. Well, here’s the details…
A desert house designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann, Palm Springs, California, January 1970. Lita Baron approaches, while in the foreground Nelda Linsk (right) wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, is talking to her friend, Helen Dzo Dzo.
Now, the Light and Luminescence, simple as it is, is mesmerizingly perplex! Well, I have always had that imprint embedded in my brian cells.
I had the opportunity to photograph a story at the Stanbridge House at the Movie Colony area in Palm Springs, California, and when I took one look at the pool location where it faced, I had a gut reaction that said I must photograph this in a manner captivating timelessness. The day I did the photo production was a gorgeous day, however the sun had to be in the right spot and the light had to dance glossy, be behind the palm trees and I made a mental note I had to catch the transparent chairs in the pool invisibly, the palm tree in the distance had to be wonderfully backlit like it was coiffed and of course the luminance on the concrete had to deliver bright tonal values. The palm tree in the far middle distance, the one on the right and the far right all had to frame the frame. It would all frame the two flower pots in the front to make it a photograph - not a picture, a photograph. Colour values that expressed affluence opulence in a mid-century style, one that no one has here, a first.
It was all forming in my head. It was only one shot. Literally. I got the shot, I was distracted then distracted again. And, the light had gone as had that moment and shot.
The thing with fashion shoots is to have an opportunity to capture as much of everything with having the team understand it is all about YOU. Get the shot. And, really, get the shot for often, the light passes as does the set up. Yes, you have to get all the pages and fashion as well… Well, well… then!
Glossy! Silver rich paper with a sexy shine and framed, it is a voyeuristic sensory journey.
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The Little House that fought demolition - Voyeur [a] Nocturne | story | nasserstudio
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