New work from my friend Darko

The other day I received this new work from Darko who many of our friends know from our Facebook connections. Darko has recently been banned for life by the Facebook algorithm. 

 Darko Duilo - Marija, Marina, Martina (2021)

While I was running the "Armchair Traveller" on FB Darko was a prolific contributor to our site, in every way, with his own striking images, with films by others which he suggested to us, and for his hugely intelligent commentary on many occasions.

Now he has found a home on this blog and he will not be censored!

Here are a few words which Darko sent me which may provide you with some points of reference:

"It could be said that this work was primarily inspired by the classic psychoanalytic novel "The Three Faces of Eve" (1957) by the American psychiatrist Corbett H. Thigpen. At the end of the same year director Nunnally Johnson shot a visually impressive mystery drama feature film based on that book. I brought the demons of connection doomed to fall into passive abandonment (as an excluded analytical "object" physically accessible to the masses of witnesses in the same places) to the traditional notion of a slut, a whore and a corrupt woman at the risk of being labeled as a hard misogynist, and indeed with a lot of understanding for the person who attracted me at first, according to the natural energy of establishing spontaneous / uncorrupted male - female relationship as an ideal of a kind. M from the checkout foil alludes to my mother, and the mere form of the objectification can be adapted by anyone who finds themselves in a similar situation. If necessary, once again I record one big SORRY for the lady."

When someone looks at a work like Darko's movie one may think at first it is some sort of jumble. Many films in the independent, avant garde, experimental scene are mistakenly judged as messy, inarticulate and even empty, when they are actually deeply reflective and loaded with references which may seem oblique or appear gratuitous. 

I find that has often been the case when people react negatively to works which I would call poetic, because they have failed to read the film, or are put off by the apparent disorder of the work and their own desire for clarity and neatness.

So I welcome Darko to his new home on this blog, a place where his work will be presented without interference from some insidious algorithm by a social media platform which has failed at so many levels to protect its members from misinformation, bullying, spreading lies, even posting self-glorification by terrorists. 

Thanks Darko!

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