artpost: people I will always appreciate

[porphyre]

via karen meisner of strange horizons:

Tilda Swinton, from her second State of Cinema address, San Francisco, 2006:
Can I be alone in my longing for inarticulacy - for a cinema that refuses to join all the dots? For an a-rhythm in gesture, for a dissonance in shape? For the context of a cinematic frame, a frame that - in the end - only cinema can

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[obliterati]

I saw her first in Orlando when I was in high school, which I thought was kind of cute. Then a few years later something about her enormous eyes seemed to create actual gravity which made it hard to look away. "tilda swintons alien eyeballs" is actually on my LJ interest list since a few years ago.



They are soooo not normal.

[porphyre]

Few people are the physical incarnation of themselves, if you know what I mean, but I think she most certainly is. I don't see a thing alien about her eyes, except that they seem to be more alive than most people's bother to be.