 | MOVIE #1,748 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 06.24.24 I have been spending a lot of time contemplating my mortality lately. The number only goes one way. Whether or not this contemplation is a fear or fascination, it seems to collide into an obsession with record-keeping and documentation. If we don’t create a document, some memento, did the day even happen? Was I even alive for any of it? Mark was a kindred spirit in this regard and it’s one of the main reasons why I’m so drawn to his work, and why I feel like it endures and should be highlighted. In many ways he ran roughshod over the very concept of being alive, of being human, but even he couldn’t outrun the pervasive need for some order and classification. “I’ve been alive 9538 days,” the film — and all subsequent “day #” films — ends. This figure is maybe the only thing we know for certain at any given time: the simplest equation and one of the first things we ever learn, +1 and +1 and +1 and +1 and so on. Until the counting stops (and some stranger tries to make sense of the tally). |
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⫷ MOVIE #1,747 - (YOU ARE HERE) - MOVIE #1,748 ⫸
⫷ MOVIE #1,747 - (YOU ARE HERE) - MOVIE #1,748 ⫸
Mark Baumer (December 19, 1983 – January 21, 2017) was an American writer, adventurer, and environmental activist. I am attempting to form a canon around his work as a filmmaker. This was released on February 4, 2010.
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