The Terminal (Steven Spielberg, 2004)

octave denis victor guillonnet / gordon mortensen / santiago rusiñol / raoul dufy / albert marquet / henry moret

Wallace Polsom, A Cat Is Not a Dog (for T. S. Eliot) (2021), paper collage, 21.9 x 28.2 cm.

"Studies of sedentary flesh, painted by men who'd never been there. These pictures were supposed to be erotic, and I thought they were, at the time; but I see now what they were really about. They were paintings about suspended animation; about waiting, about objects not in use. They were paintings about boredom. But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men."

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

Frank Dicksee, Leila (1892) / John William Godward, The Favourite (1901) / Thomas Couture, The Romans in their Decadence (1847) / Frederic Leighton, Flaming June (1895)

Then he puts the TV on

Turns it off and makes some tea

Says Modern Life Is Rubbish

For Tomorrow, 1993

Sex on the TV

Everybody's at it

End of a Century, 1994

Now stay up nights

Watch TV

I'm country sad

I'm a ballad man

Country Sad Ballad Man, 1997

TV says it's alright

'Cos everybody's hung up on something or other

Look Inside America, 1997

So give me coffee and TV

Coffee & TV, 1999

TV's dead and there ain't no war in my head

Good Song, 2003

Our lives are on TV

You switch off and try to sleep

People get so lonely

Sweet Song, 2003

And I'm going out of my mind

TV got me going blind

Freakin' Out, 2004

In an old house, in an old street 

You've found me and a TV

Ribbons and Leaves, 2004

When lies become reality 

You numb yourself with drugs and TV

Demon Days, 2005

I had a dream you were leaving

It's hard to be a lover when the TV's on and nothing's in your eyes

The Selfish Giant, 2014

Little Women (2019) | dir. Greta Gerwig 

Don’t worry. You’ll make it through. And you’ll have quite the ride on the way. 

The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) dir. Armando Iannucci

Shoplifters (2018) // dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda