The Aesthetic of Love
Added 2024-01-16 19:09:57 +0000 UTCAnother instalment of our "The Aesthetic" series. A lot of new formats are coming to our channel in February, but we wanted to start the year with a classic.
Here we explore Love from a variety of perspectives in Cinema.
Thanks for the support,
Luiza
Comments
I just wanted to thank you both for your incredible video essays. I've been a fan / subscriber for several years. Any time I'm feeling stuck or in a creative malaise, I watch one of your pieces and am renewed. Keep doing what you're doing! We need more of this in the world. Jamie Kirkpatrick, ACE
Jamie Kirkpatrick
2024-02-14 17:08:26 +0000 UTCIt was actually this video that finally convinced me to check out ‘Death in Venice’ this month and also how 'The Leopard' became an instant favorite when I first viewed it on my most recent birthday. However, to be honest I still feel incredibly mixed and conflicted on it. Because there was so much that really appeal to me but also a lot I was bothered by. Overall, my main issue in my experience was its overall repetitive nature throughout many sequences. It’s very apparent any time Mahler’s 5th appears because it felt less an evolution of and more of showing the same kind of scene almost. Where it felt like it was giving me a shallow experience on a character I would’ve loved to explore more of in Gustav. It’s a film in which I wanted to love but I ended being indifferent towards. Right now I can summarize my thoughts as being slightly disappointed but of course I am also always glad to see immense love from you and others for any film even if I don’t get it that much. I know that for certain I want to view it again after some time has passed because there is still much from that film that left a decent impression. Definitely am excited to go through more of Visconti. Especially 'The Damned' and 'Ludwig'.
Esteban Rodriguez
2024-01-27 00:52:58 +0000 UTCI'm late to the party but I ADORED this beauty. Firstly, thank you for including Wings of Desire - I last saw it four years ago and Marian's Man and Woman, Tristan and Isolde speech almost made me cry. Thank you also for including Death in Venice, which is one of my most beloved movies of all time. Contrary to most lovers of this film, I don't regard Aschenbach's obsession as pederasty, despite knowing Visconti and Bogarde were gay, and that Thomas Mann had fantasies of that persuasion, and that Benjamin Britten wrote an opera based on the novella. I first heard about this masterpiece from my history teacher when I was 12 years old and asked her (she was a history and history of art graduate) what her favourite film was. She saw nothing sexual in it either. It's John Singer Sargent's paintings and Mahler onscreen. It crushes the viewer. Thank you also for displaying In the Mood for Love and Letter from an Unknown Woman. I haven't seen Ophüls' film but I've read Zweig's novella, which begins with the phrase "By the time you read this letter I'll be dead." You cry from the beginning. Thank you for being the source of my warmth. Love, Sophia
Sophia Lambton
2024-01-27 00:14:25 +0000 UTCThis was wonderful. It's given me such a lot to chew on again!
hyperballadbrad
2024-01-21 20:00:23 +0000 UTCThis may be my favorite video you’ve done so far (and unlike them all)
Jason
2024-01-18 17:56:37 +0000 UTCGreat visual essay. What is the song that is played in the outro?
Travis French
2024-01-17 14:38:40 +0000 UTCA Greek word I learned recently that I adore is "Charmolypi". It can simply mean , "Sad Happiness" or "the joy that emerges out of the middle of sadness and the sadness that merges out of joy." I think to me, that is a pivotal part of the Journey of Love. Amazing video and might already be one of my favorites you have ever created.
Esteban Rodriguez
2024-01-16 20:15:20 +0000 UTC
