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Film Journal: Entry #61 ‘Ten Thousand Waves’ (Issac Julien, 2010) Rating: 8???
This was definitely an unconventional film. Was it even a film? My professor had a personal copy given to him by Julien so it’s not really supposed to be seen on a projector screen. Originally it was shown at art galleries around the world on several different screens, as shown above. But yah a very interesting work that definitely had its moments of brilliance.
Feb 23
Lucy Barker's installation Between the sea and thee is meant to explore the liminality of Morecambe Bay. Barker only really explores the physical space and overlap between land and sea, and does not mention the Morecambe Bay cockling disaster of 2004. But her invitation to explore the liminality of the space I think invites us, in conversation with Isaac Julien's installation Ten Thousand Waves, to think of the liminality that humans may experience within this space. Screen 2's footage and sound evoked the experience of those cockle pickers for me, in a way that Julien's installation piece did not. Julien historicized the men and the migration, while Wang Ping's poetry helped to memorialize them. Ten Thousand Waves focused on life, whereas Barker’s installation leaves the viewer open to think about death as well.
Julien would watch viewers navigate the space in the gallery and construct their own experience from the fragmented nine screens. Similarly, I'm constructing an experience of Morecambe Bay by viewing clips from Barker's installation after Julien's, and with the 2004 cockling disaster in mind. On its own, Barker's installation is disorienting; within the cockling disaster frame, it's macabre.
Izanami at Ten Thousand Waves
Izanami at Ten Thousand Waves: a Japanese-style food tavern/temple in #SantaFe!
Lanterns handmade for Izanami in Nagoya. (Credit: izanami via Facebook)
Last night we finally made it to izanami at Ten Thousand Waves in Santa Fe. What in the world we’re we waiting for? It’s fantastic!
I arrived at izanami shortly after sunset. The upper lots were already full, so I parked near the entrance and romanced the lantern-lit, stone lined ascent to the spa. The moon was still swollen,…
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Maggie Cheung in "Ten Thousand Waves", 2010.