new moon:aesthetics of injury

art horror, Dario Argento, beginnings of thought

Stendhal said beauty is the promise of happiness, Rilke said it’s the beginning of terror, Bataille said seduction and horror are neighbors, extreme seduction being at the boundary of terror. I had the absolute pleasure of talking to Mary Wild, aka the Freudian cinephile, for her Patreon channel, about two art-centric films by Dario Argento, episode rel…