The absence of the paternal and maternal figures, or more specifically their physical distance as a child, and the consequent virtual relationship when the technological virtuality did not yet exist has marked, in a sense, the work of María Ruido. In her film essays, however, we could almost say that the feminist motto “the personal is political” is reversed because intimate only appears in her work in an indirect manner, through complex webs that weave the social with the […]
La ausencia de las figuras paterna y materna, o más concretamente su lejanía siendo niña, y la consiguiente relación virtual cuando la virtualidad tecnológica no existía, han marcado toda la obra de María Ruido. En sus ensayos fílmicos, sin embargo, casi podríamos decir que se invierte el lema feminista “lo personal es político”, porque lo confesional no asoma en su trabajo más que de forma elíptica, intrincándose en complejas tramas que tejen lo social con […]
Moths, those butterflies that have a tendency to get lost, that feel a fatal attraction by light to the point of being burned to death, seem to us disturbing creatures. Their scorched wings remind us of Icarus’ suicidal impulse. On the other hand, perhaps they look to us unsettlingly familiar because we do nothing but flit around blinding electronic lights. Moths have fascinated writers and poets. The glimmer of light they leave in their wake […]
Las falenas, mariposas negras con tendencia al extravío, atraídas por la luz hasta el punto de dejarse abrasar por ella, nos parecen criaturas inquietantes, incluso nos causan un familiar extrañamiento, ¿acaso nosotros hacemos otra cosa que revolotear en torno a cegadoras luces electrónicas? Sus alas chamuscadas, por otro lado, nos recuerdan el impulso suicida de Ícaro. Polillas y falenas han fascinado a escritores que, como a Sebald, la estela fugaz que dejan en torno a […]
In pagan periods myths and legends abound, stories and oral narratives in which coitus between species, far from being stigmatized, exalted the animist communion with nature, virility of gods and heroes, transmuting power of the erotic imagination… With Christianity, the priapic nature spirits become evil beings, the bucolic image of satyr chasing nymphs is replaced in the popular imagination by the goat copulating with witches. Secular societies labeled bestiality among sexual deviations, and then exploited […]
The life of Henry Darger was spent between the pages of a book he was writing and illustrating over the years. He called it realms of the unreal and were his only reality, where he found the meaning of his existence in his redemptive role or guardian of the hosts of girls who daily fought against evil forces. When Darger died and his landlords found those intimate epics, one of the questions that incited his […]
