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Thinking about the floating blue fetus—the starchild—at the end of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, the film’s final shot where the baby looks right into the camera, as if to say, This is about you; do you see the vision?

Entry on movies: watching and re-watching some James Benning pieces, since they are widely accessible on YouTube in variable quality: This is a movie that’s opening itself to the natural space from its camera position and for the period allowed by the film magazine; minimal intervention (editing) is like maximum truth, or indexical, visible evidence. But at the same time, the slowness of the movie puts us in a dream space. This is the central interest for me in these contemplative, or post-minimal, or post-neorealist movies, the tension between documentary and dream.

News: ceasefire negotiations in Cairo between Hamas and Israel; Israel is bombing Rafah.