Last year also had some true gems that are easily overlooked – movies that never got much of a wide theatrical release, but are for their own reasons equally affecting, if not more so, than anything else showing in the past twelve months. Here’s six of the best, all worth seeking out.
Exploring consumerist culture through evidence of accumulation, hoarding and collecting, piles of rubble permeate the works of Hollis Hammonds.
To survive the night / They stand together in the cold / While Earth and time delight / They collide, / Erode / And decimate the older world
In this line of work, grudges are collected like acquaintances. Most come in and out of your life until they lose their usefulness and are forgotten. Others blossom into full-blown hatred. Doesn’t take much. This job, no matter how hard you try, doesn’t stay impersonal.
You’ve got / One night left / What we do / Doesn’t matter
The Things They Carried / The Human Side of Enterprise / Isaac’s Storm
Sometimes, I’m so careless / that the weeks arrange themselves into a routine / I resent for being so predictable.
Every morning he left and I dreamed / of frozen eyelids- brown and blue like the dirt / I see stuck in the sky.
He sees the first flash. It’s a small one, nothing more than a brief line of blindingly beautiful energy.
“Art means the freedom to express myself and to be myself. I can be alone in a room for hours and focus on creating something, and the limits are only my own skills. Art is that hard to pin down and explain part of the brain that nonetheless demands attention. But in a way, trying to explain what art means to me is like trying explain what air means. I can’t live without it.”