#messidor

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Messidor (Alain Tanner, 1979)

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Messidor, 1917

Pearl, 1918

L'Épouvantail, 1921

Get it, Pearl

[sacredwhores]

Alain Tanner - Messidor (1979)

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Marseille, il y a maintenant 3 semaines. Il y avait au MuCEM, une expo "Passions Partagées" sur la collection d'Yvon Lambert, face à certains objets du musée.

vitrine-reliquaire des martyrs Saints Emilien et Félix - Gnadenthal, Argovie, Suisse, 1650

Christian Boltanski : "Reliquaire"

ex-voto - Espagne, Grèce, Italie, Pologne, XXe s.

Christian Boltanski : "Les Images noires"

Douglas Gordon : "Self-Portrait of You + Me"

Nathalie Du Pasquier : "Année révolutionnaire"

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[portablefrailty]

Messidor

Fifth in my series of images inspired by the French Republican Calendar. Messidor, which corresponds with the 30 day period from roughly June 20th (the Summer Solstice) to July 20th, is named for the harvest. It is the first summer month, followed by Thermidor and Fructidor.

Among wild plants harvested during Messidor is wormwood, the key ingredient to make absinthe. In honor of the month, I imagined a 19th century absinthe maker foraging wormwood flowers and leaves growing wild along a seaside path in Provence.

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Revolutionary honey

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[warningsine]

"Messidor."

The film that did the "Thelma and Louise" road trip thingy back in 1979, 12 years before Callie Khouri wrote the T&L script. Of course, "Messidor" is grimmer, but it's there.

Men in road trip movies seek to escape feminity [domesticity] whereas women try to escape the patriarchy [oppression].

There's something to be said about the gendered assumptions of this genre though. Thelma and Louise are reinscribed into masculine codes and outmacho their male antagonists.

Jeanne and Marie are not as empowered as Thelma and Louise. They don't get that last "fuck you, we'll die free" moment of defiance when they have their showdown with the police.