ABSTRACT
I don’t really go to the cinema that much (I have always felt a sense of unease in that dark place) though there are certain films that I know in great detail (Citizen Kane, Blade Runner, Performance). I don’t have a camera although I secretly enjoy having my picture ‘taken’, and I am something of a collector of photographs that ‘catch’ the eye. My interest is therefore both amateur and academic; I’m familiar with the technologies of analysis that are taught in the academy. These languages have enabled me to engage in a great deal of talk about film and photography. However, when all is said and done there is something missing…
1963: THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY
Sure everybody remembers what they were doing when…but a more important memory is the recollection of Zapruder’s grainy Super 8 that has become part of a collective mnemosyne. As J.G. Ballard has pointed out, there is poetry in disaster and the death of popular icons that remains profoundly unspoken in our culture.
