W.H. Auden Wrote Poetry for a Beautiful Short Film About Running

Posted by helloworld on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @02:06AM
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Re:W.H. Auden Wrote Poetry for a Beautiful Short Film About ... by hprotagonist on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @03:26PM (#16268700)

Auden and Benjamin Britten collaborated on what is surely the most talent-heavy documentary about a postal service to exist.

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Re:W.H. Auden Wrote Poetry for a Beautiful Short Film About ... by ahdroit on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @06:58PM (#16270224)

Aphex Twin/ AFX - Nightmail

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Re:W.H. Auden Wrote Poetry for a Beautiful Short Film About ... by hprotagonist on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @11:29AM (#16275069)

Man, i have no idea what W. H. would've made of this! I did not know Aphex Twin sampled this, though.

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Re:W.H. Auden Wrote Poetry for a Beautiful Short Film About ... by ahdroit on Thursday February 01, 2018 @01:42AM (#16280024)

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Re:W.H. Auden Wrote Poetry for a Beautiful Short Film About ... by danburbridge on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @05:32PM (#16269703)

Thanks for this, a lovely piece of film making. Reminds me of Jorgen Leth's "A Sunday in Hell"

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Re:W.H. Auden Wrote Poetry for a Beautiful Short Film About ... by ahdroit on Thursday February 01, 2018 @01:18AM (#16279927)

http://www.ubu.com/film/niblock_movement.html The Movement of People Working (1973-74) Director: Phill Niblock

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Re:W.H. Auden Wrote Poetry for a Beautiful Short Film About ... by ahdroit on Thursday February 01, 2018 @12:07AM (#16279743)

this is just silly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCDke1qxOG8 Aphex Twin - Heliosphan "Small tribute to Jørgen Leth's timeless film,"

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