Zholtochnik-blog - I Am The Shepherd

Look, I think we can all agree that “Baby It’s Cold Outside” is a highly problematic song. Miss Piggy serenading Rudolf Nureyev with this rendition of it is probably the only version I can tolerate.

The Eve of Ivan Kupalo/Vecher nakanune Ivana Kupala, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 1968

“A master of Ukrainian poetic cinema, Yuri Ilyenko gained world-wide acclaim as the cinematographer of Parajanov’s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. As a director, he stands proudly in the anti-realist tradition of Dovzhenko: of his nine films, all but one were banned until last year, when A Spring for the Thirsty stunned SFIFF audiences. The Eve of Ivan Kupalo-based on Gogol’s rendering of a Ukrainian folk tale-is probably Ilyenko’s most inspired and experimental work. The opposite of what one expects from a film taken from peasant mythology, it is neither quaint nor corny, and doesn’t depend on broad acting and hearty singing. Suffused with the earthly pantheism of a half-pagan Christianity, Ilyenko’s film celebrates the unbridled passions of a people linked to nature and the rites of the seasons, to animals and the spirits of the forests. The story-a young peasant’s pact with the evil spirit in order to win the hand of a rich man’s daughter-is a simple parable of the evil power of gold over man. The cinematic treatment is dazzlingly complex, a series of astonishing and inventive images-boldly composed in color Cinemascope-married to an equally ambitious sound montage of music and stylized effects.”

Hayv Kahraman, Iraq

Argentine Polka, 1911, Kazimir Malevich

https://www.wikiart.org/en/kazimir-malevich/argentine-polka-1911

Vaslav Nijinsky and Serge Diaghilev. 1911.

Photo by A. Botkin

(Happy Birthday, Vaslav!)

Idyllic stretch of childhood gives rural Maori youngsters in New Zealand freedom to roam with their friends and pets

National Geographic | October 1984

Uh oh sisters! *containment breach alarm*

Roma women, 1949, Sweden.

Marc Chagall, Circus, 1967