Jorn Straten, Cetona, Italy.

The king, being pleased with the appropriate discipline of the tutor and with his explanatory reply, bestowed upon him a robe of honour with other gifts and raised him to a higher position.

S.

Almost all bodies were removed after intense clashes; however, cars were scattered around like bodies. Most of the cars were used in barricade and for carrying bombs, waiting to be removed like bullet-riddled bodies that died prematurely.

Barbaros Kayan in Daguerreotypes 20 / Dead or Alive.

They should think their (coarse) food sweet; their (plain) clothes beautiful; their (poor) dwellings places of rest; and their common (simple) ways sources of enjoyment.

L.T.

Carsten Witte, Hamburg, Germany.

There was something undefined and complete, coming into existence before Heaven and Earth.
How still it was and formless, standing alone, and undergoing no change, reaching everywhere and in no danger (of being exhausted)! It may be regarded as the Mother of all things.

L.T.

1976 meditates on presentiment and sound. The surreal short crafts an unsettling atmosphere of foreshadowing and immanent change.
A clever combination of live footage and CGI, the film allows its soundtrack to drive the visuals. Everyday objects reverberate, twist and react to an oncoming pulse of events as they converge on a farmhouse lost in rural America.

A film by Aggressive, The Loop & Echoic.

Jerome Bizien, Bern, Switzerland.

The philosopher Tsang said, “I daily examine myself on three points: -whether, in transacting business for others, I may have been not faithful; -whether, in intercourse with friends, I may have been not sincere; -whether I may have not mastered and practiced the instructions of my teacher.”

C.