“The Limits of Culture – We don’t really know where we are” – Carlos Dengler
Me and my overalls, my hushpuppies and the fringes around my ears. It is all I can bear not to laugh at myself, at the five-year-old version of me innocently looking off-camera. “A prisoner of his time,” I often think when I look at the photo of which I speak, snapped in 1979, a year […]
Framing Our Receptivity, redux: Carlos Dengler on Joker Folie a Deux
By Carlos Dengler Watching a movie in an empty theater reminds you that film remains (at least putatively) an art form. Like visiting a church in between services, sitting amid vacant seats munching popcorn can be a kind of private encounter with the sacred: the ritual and its underlying beliefs, now unmediated by social context, […]