There is a specific kind of silence that only exists at 3:00 AM. It isn’t empty. It is heavy, humming with the ghost light of a hundred screens gone dark. Tonight, I didn’t queue up a 35mm print. I didn’t scroll through the Criterion Channel. Instead, I stared at a painting. And for the first time in ten years of keeping these diaries, I think I finally understood what I’ve been chasing.
The Turner Film Diaries : A Chilling Dispatch from an Alternate Future the turner film diaries
I started The Turner Film Diaries because I was afraid that watching films alone meant I was disappearing. That without a shared couch or a post-credits debate, the images would just pass through me like rain. There is a specific kind of silence that
The film was co-directed by James T. Hong, an Asian American filmmaker known for exploring philosophical, historical, and controversial race issues, and Chen Yin-Ju. Tonight, I didn’t queue up a 35mm print
Some notable features of The Turner Film Diaries include: