Vale Ken! A farewell to muffin@labyrinth Last week I received this sad note from Inge, a close friend of Ken Mogg: Dear Peter, Just a sad note that our friend Ken Mogg passed away yesterday, 2nd Feb 2023. He had been in and out of hospital with breathing problems, was not eating properly, and had gone into a care home just recently, maybe a week or so ago. His sister rang me and said he had passed away peacefully yesterday. I hope you are well. Love -- Inge. Ken and Inge made the effort to attend a screening when some of my films were shown at the AFW workshop some years ago. (Photo taken by Bill Mousoulis) So many years have passed since I first met Ken at film screenings at the Bughouse in Carlton, the MUFS screenings and Melbourne Film Festival screenings in the late sixties. We got to know each other better when we shared an office for about a year at Melbourne State College, 1974. We shared a great enthusiasm for the works of many directors but foremost was our l...
Great stuff Wheeler. Haunting. I kept thinking of the algorithms 'hunting' for the ideal object elements for each scene, and never quite 'arriving' or settling on something... the looping, returning to the same... the futility of the frantic 'search'... but most of all that 'distant whistling' in the soundtrack. I had to stop a few times to check if it was actually IN the soundtrack or something in my own local environment. You got me. Congrats. Love it... unsettled by it... thanks for sharing Peter!
ReplyDeleteGood to have your response Richard... others have responded privately to my email address, but Wheeler doesn't get to see their positive comments. I'm astonished at what he's doing with public domain images and audio sources. pt
ReplyDeleteImpressive ! Thank you for sharing Peter
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