beautiful silhouette films by lotte reiniger. i’m in awe. 

There cannot be a happy ending to the fight between the raging gods and humans. However, even in the middle of hatred and killings, there are things worth living for. A wonderful meeting, or a beautiful thing can exist. We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict [...]

WHAT WE SEE AND WHAT WE SEEM ARE BUT A DREAM, A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM. PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK, 1975

a friend sent this link to a beautiful set of photos of old new york. above: union square 1910, lower east side 1908, police parade 1989, fifth avenue 1900.

from silhouette masterpiece theatre