IN ORDER TO LOVE
SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO
HAVE SEEN IT OR HEARD IT
FOR A LONG TIME YOU BUNCH OF IDIOTS —Francis Picabia
 Ke y p e o p l e w h o w i l l o p e n d o o r s i f y o u l e t t h em ...

 

T h e w r i t e r s

 Antonin Artaud, with theTheater and its Double, and most of his other writings
 Roland Barthes for his Mythologies, and his humane humor
 Bertolt Brecht writings on theater (Brecht on Theater,Willett ed.), especially his verfremdung/alienation principle
 René Daumal with his group Le Grand Jeu, his booksMont Analogue (Mount Analogue),and Le contre-ciel,and his ties to the
 College of Pataphysics (the Science of Imaginary Solutions)
 Emmanuel Levinas for his openings on the face, and the Talmudic text
 Henri Michaux for Plume, his writings/scribblings and his portrait on Mt. Joly
 Antonio Porchia's frozen aphorismsVoices

 

T h ef i l m m a k e r s

Robert Bresson, and his Pickpocket, Au Hazard Balthazar, Four Nights of a Dreamer, and his aphorisms in Notes sur le Cinématographe on
 editing and sound. Some related homage in Spanish and a bit on what Bressonian might mean.
 Bruce Conner and Peter Kubelka, master alchemists of the cinema
 Wojciech Has' Saragossa Manuscript, based on Jan Potocki's book
 Chris Marker, when he is not too fixated on the face of a woman, all of it... from Les Statues Meurent Aussi (with Resnais, as
 director) to Sunless, La Jetée,and The Last Bolshevik
 Roberto Rossellini with his neo-realist cinema, but more specifically his later works, the so-called historical films, and his writings
 on education and film
 Masahiro Shinoda'sPale Flower and Double Suicide
 Dimitri Kirsanov's Ménilmontant with Nadia Sibirskaia

 

T h e o t h e r s , p r a c t i c a l a n d i m p r a c t i c a l s e e k e r s

 Augusto Boal with his invisible theater and his theater-forum
 Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel 's writings, especially the last anthology Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity
 Harvey Jackins, for the quiet revolution of Re-evaluation Co-counseling
 Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan and his rich legacy
 The Situationists, for their creative ways to escape our co-optation, with Guy Debord' Society of the Spectacle and
 Raoul Vaneigem's Revolution of Everyday Life (Traité de Savoir-Vivre à l'Usage des Jeunes Générations )
 Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and his mastery at linking times, places and traditions

 

T h e l i st i s e n d l e s s a n d i n c l u d e s :


as well as (in no particular order and far from being all inclusive) Andrei Tarkovsky, Jacques Tati, Karl Blossfeldt, André Kertész, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Juhani Pallasmaa, Wong Kar-Wai, Avivah Zornberg, Jean Améry, Sander Gilman, Prophets Without Honor, David Meisel, Yehoshua Leibowitz, André Chouraqui, Hanns Eisler, Samuel Beckett, Jean Vigo, Jacques Prévert, Boby Lapointe, Hugues LeBars, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Jorge Luis Borges, Antonio Porchia, Franz Kafka, Violetta Parra, Atahualpa Yupanqui, Les Frères Jacques, Raymond Queneau, Georges Brassens, Rokia Traoré, Baaba Maal, Astor Piazzola, Tom Zé, Invisible Theater, Jerzy Grotowski, Alain, Alain Resnais, Agnès Jaoui, Agnès Varda, Attila Jozsef, Kocani Orkestar, A.S. Neil, John Berger, The Strange Life of Ivan Osokin, Aribert Munzner, Robert Cahen, Patrick Bokanowki, Jean Baudrillard, Found Photos by Dick Jewell, Claude Lanzmann (with Shoah and Sobibor), Abraham Burg, Léo Ferré, Sviatoslav Richter, Fréderic Chopin, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Erik Satie, Accordion Tribe, Kudsi Erguner, Djivan Gasparyan, David Krakauer, Enrique Morente, Sundanese Music, Yair Dalal, Masaccio, Giotto, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Piranesi, Kardes Turkuler, Martin Buber, Wilhelm Reich, Marcel Ophuls, Anna Rosmus, Marcel Rayman, Michel Leiris, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Glauber Rocha, Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino, Pierre Goldman, Frantz Fanon...
 Arthur Rimbaud, from his explosion of words to his silence
 John Heartfield for his sharp scissors and mind
 James Turrell, his ganzfeld and desire "to see the seeing", one of the very few who looks beyond
 Jean-Marie Le Clézio for his l'Extase Matérielle (Material Ecstasy) exhausting the power of words to describe
  Deep Ecology & Arne Naess for a way to have ecological concerns affecting one's entire being and actions, away from reformist formulas
  Thich Nhat Hahn, a rare individual who follows his rigorous compassionate logic to the end
Charlotte Joko Beck, the founder of the Ordinary Mind Zen School in San Diego, California