Mieko Shiomi, Music For Two Players, 1963

Never try to convey your idea to the audience – it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life and they’ll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.

— Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema, page 152

Nikos Kazantzakis, from “Report to Greco”, tr. by P. A. Bien

Pierre Gassmann - Hommage à  Man Ray, Mains à la cigarette, ca. 1940

Stéphane Mallarmé, from Collected Poems and Other Verse; “The Afternoon of a Fawn,” (x)

John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale

A MOMENT OF ROMANCE 天若有情 (1990) Dir. Benny Chan

Anne Frank | The Diary of a Young Girl | 1947

VIY (ВИЙ) dir. Konstantin Yershov & Georgi Kropachyov, 1967