![]() ![]() The Quay Brothers’ short film, The Street of Crocodiles (1986), based on Bruno Schulz’s story of the same title, captures the essence of the uncanny in animation, and, indeed, the animated form the film apparatus. – ‘ou les enfants regardent grand’ (where children see enlarged), Gaston Bachelard, ‘miniature’ in The Poetics of Space (2) ![]() With this glass in his hand, he returns to the garden. It gives him back the enlarging gaze of a child. The botanist’s magnifying glass is youth recaptured. The man with his magnifying glass – quite simply – bars the everyday world. – Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project (1) The other prophylaxis: ‘optical illusions’. ![]() The bookcase with the oval panes from which it was taken. Tempo of reading: two anxieties, on different levels, vie with one another. Interiors of our childhood days as laboratories for the demonstration of ghostly phenomena. ![]()
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