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- Film SparkSpark 019Letter19 days ago
A kind of reverse sublime
Dağhan Dönmez, from a letter to the salon, 27 September 2026 · translated from the Turkish
Just as in Wim Wenders's film Wings of Desire. In the film, one of the angels who drift above the city of Berlin, listening to people's thoughts, asks to give up his immortality and become an ordinary, embodied, imperfect human. When a piece of armour falls on his head from the sky, he wakes half-conscious and sees the blood on his head. He smiles. He returns to the happiness of small things, of ordinary things. Against Kant's concept of the sublime — that blend, in short, of admiration, awe and divinity — it is the beauty of the ordinary that captivates. A kind of reverse sublime!
PhilosophyArtPsychology0 replies · Enter the thread → - Film SparkSpark 017Question20 days ago
Which film frame still lives in your mind?
Cinema is the art of the frame — yet the frames that matter most are the ones that follow us out of the theatre. A hallway in Kış Uykusu, a train platform in Cinema Paradiso, a river spirit in Spirited Away. Beyond the Frames is the salon's cinema room: more than a hundred films to watch, and the questions they leave behind. Which single frame from a film has stayed with you for years — and what does it keep asking you?
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