The Mirror

[version]

 

[william_kent]

the best British film about zombie biker gangs and toad magick has a pivotal mirror scene - mirror as scrying device revealing secrets



Psychomania - mirror scene ( well, it's the whole film but I've done the start at 14:23 thing )

 

[IdleRich]

Yeah, that's why I said it may or may not actually be true but people run with it anyway.

I think I'm saying something slightly different though - it might be literally true in that it is what happens but at the same time still not worth saying as a response to people who are genuinely unhappy about what is being selected for them.

 

[woops]

There's a disturbing arty porno from the 70s called Through the Looking Glass that involves a girl being assaulted by a demon that comes through a haunted mirror in the attic.

Through the Looking Glass (film) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

there's a disturbing Russian art film from the 70s about idk what cos i can't get my head round his stuff

 

[version]

We've already got a doppelgangers thread, but that's another part of it. The sinister double.

 

[Murphy]

soundtrack

 

[woops]

best mirror scenes of ever

 

[version]

I made a thread a few years ago describing genres which could only seem to respond to their own past as being trapped in a hall of mirrors.

Is the game up once the gaze turns inward? Can it ever be diverted once something catches sight of itself? A genre which takes to mining its own past seems to be on the downward trajectory to becoming a spent force. You can see it in the endless refixes of eski stuff scattered across YouTube. A stationary figure starving to death in a labyrinth of its own reflection.

 

[william_kent]

It is not my purpose to try to prove anything; my aim is to construct a magical mirror capable of expressing some of the less elusive images seen as shadows of a future aeon. This I do by means of suggestion, evocation, and by those oblique and ‘inbetweenness concepts’ that Austin Spare defined as ‘Neither-Neither’. When this is understood, the reader’s mind becomes receptive to the influx of certain concepts that can, if received undistortedly, fertilize the unknown dimensions of his consciousness. In order to achieve this aim a new manner of communication has to be evolved; language itself has to be reborn, revivified, and given a new direction and a new momentum. The truly creative image is born of creative imagining, and this is – ultimately – an irrational process that transcends the grasp of human logic.

Kenneth Grant - Outside The Circles of Time

describing his texts as a "magical mirror"

 

[IdleRich]

There's a disturbing arty porno from the 70s called Through the Looking Glass that involves a girl being assaulted by a demon that comes through a haunted mirror in the attic.

Through the Looking Glass (film) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

That's a great film. One of my friends said that there are loads of "art films" that basically end up being porn, but that is the only film he knows where they set out to make porn and ended up accidentally making an art film. You missed out the - I think - important detail that the mirror demon that rapes her is also her father.

 

[version]

One of the most jarring aspects of seeing your reflection is the shift of any asymmetries to the other side, even the subtle ones stand out.

 

[woops]

One of the most jarring aspects of seeing your reflection is the shift of any asymmetries to the other side, even the subtle ones stand out.

how come you're so used to seeing them otherwise?

 

[woops]

do you look at photos of yourself more often than you look in a mirror

 

[Benny Bunter]

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You could read the mirror in this poem as being cracked - fracturing the self into multiple identities.

And no doubt someone can and probably will dredge up a YouTube video of a song called 'cracked mirror' for a larf

 

[woops]

cos as far as I'm concerned i go around looking how i do in the mirror

 

[woops]

You could read the mirror in this poem as being cracked - fracturing the self into multiple identities.

And no doubt someone can and probably will dredge up a YouTube video of a song called 'cracked mirror' for a larf

could do bit of a stretch though imo he's just looking at himself on different occasions

 

[version]

You could read the mirror in this poem as being cracked - fracturing the self into multiple identities.

She who could never live save through one person,
She who could never speak save to one person,
And all the rest of her a shifting change,
A broken bundle of mirrors . . . !

Near Perigord by Ezra Pound

Comments & analysis: You'd have men's hearts up from the dust / And tell their secrets, Messire Cino,

allpoetry.com

 

[version]

do you look at photos of yourself more often than you look in a mirror

I think the reverse is what I meant. The clash of you in the mirror vs. you in a photograph.

 

[Benny Bunter]

could do bit of a stretch though imo he's just looking at himself on different occasions

Same difference

 

[woops]

if you want to get into broken mirrors you're into Tennyson followed by Agatha Christie, lol this might be an even better game then the YouTube one.

Out flew the web and floated wide-
The mirror crack'd from side to side;
"The curse is come upon me," cried
The Lady of Shalott.