The Turner Film Diaries [work] Now

Nighthawks (1942) / The Assistant (2019) – Watch them back to back. They are the same movie about the violence of waiting.

I started The Turner Film Diaries because I was afraid that watching films alone meant I was disappearing. That without a shared couch or a post-credits debate, the images would just pass through me like rain. the turner film diaries

4 cups (black, turning cold). Current Spool: Leonard Cohen’s “Famous Blue Raincoat” on the turntable. Tomorrow’s Reel: Paris, Texas (1984). I need to see a desert after that diner. Nighthawks (1942) / The Assistant (2019) – Watch

Keep watching the shadows, friends. — Turner [End of Entry] find our way to the stool.

That is the contract. The filmmaker (or the painter) leaves the light on. And we, the insomniacs, find our way to the stool.