Incidentally, Theatrically, For Screening Purposes Only

While in Milan, I was lucky enough to finally stand in front of some prints of one of my favourite photo series... Hiroshi Sugimoto's 'Theaters'. Aside from being based on a good, old fashioned, stroke-of-genius photographic concept (the lens is open, and the film exposed for the entire length of the film playing), the images are stunning, especially in the inky forest flesh.

There it is again, that symmetry... yet there is something tense and almost frustrating about this series', especially in print; Sugimoto's symmetry is not quite perfect... As a consequence, there is something post-apocalyptic and Lynchian about the atmosphere, sort of 28 Days Later meets Eraserhead...