On directing > Very Simple Slogans for the Kino-Eye technique | Dziga Vertov, 1926
Still from Man with a Movie Camera (1929) “I am an eye. A mechanical eye. I am the machine that...
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Rythm. Space. People | Paintings by Yuri Zlotnikov, 1971-1999
Yuri Zlotnikov, Rythm. Space. People (series), 1990 Yuri Zlotnikov, Rythm. Space. People (series), 1997 Yuri Zlotnikov, Rythm. Space. People (series),...
Persons [ ] Lies are the religion of slaves and masters | Maxim Gorky, 1868-1936
Young Maxim Gorky “When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.” “The poor people are stupid from poverty, and the...
Alphabetarion # Separated | Mikhail Bakhtin, 1965
Georgia O'Keeffe, Clam and mussel, 1926 “Fear can only enter a part that has been separated from the whole,the dying...
Persons [ ] I am who I am and that’s who I am | Nikolai Gogol, 1809-1852
Portrait of Nikolai Gogol by Otto Friedrich Theodor von Möller (early 1840s) “The longer and more carefully we look at...
On [:] Synaesthesia | Alexander R. Luria, 1968
Mel Bochner, Money, 2015 “It is no wonder that S.’s memories of early childhood were incomparably richer than ours. For...
Alphabetarion # Infallibility | Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1920-21
Yung Cheng Lin “Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith” Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, 1920-21 Also: Days [ ) Faith...
On [:] Laughter | Mikhail Bakhtin, 1965
Konstantin Somov, Two Masks (Pair on the Eve of the Carnival), 1930 “The principle of laughter and the carnival spirit...
Letter to Tatyana Yakovleva | Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1928
Tatyana Yakovleva, 1906-1991 In the kiss of hands lips, in body tremors close to me red Colour my republics too should...
Alphabetarion # Fool | Leonid Andreyev, 1919
Foldout head. The anatomy of the human head and neck, 1895 . “And what kind of a liar is he...