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20 June 2020 13:52![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
haptalaonMidsummer means my annual re-watch of Lucifer Rising (1972). It's been part of my personal tradition for around a decade now, for Midsummers and also for eclipses, solar uses of all kinds. I think what I connect to about it is...it's a wonderful piece of cinema, to start with, but it's also...
...the sense of coming-together-ness. The sense of disconnected figures all over the world doing disconnected things which you gradually understand, is all linked to the same urge, the same momentum, the same moment. I love that, and I think that's part of what Midsummer has always meant to me.
Also, I've been given a couple of invites to this Stonehenge online solstice and, like, wow - I know I fetishise Disconnection to an extent that others don't find appealing, but there's something about...since we can't meet in person let's watch a livestream of the bloody sunrise which...I mean, I guess it emphasises the togetherness of Midsummer which is no bad thing, but also. The sun rises everywhere, I'm not going to watch it through a zoom chat...
...the sense of coming-together-ness. The sense of disconnected figures all over the world doing disconnected things which you gradually understand, is all linked to the same urge, the same momentum, the same moment. I love that, and I think that's part of what Midsummer has always meant to me.
Also, I've been given a couple of invites to this Stonehenge online solstice and, like, wow - I know I fetishise Disconnection to an extent that others don't find appealing, but there's something about...since we can't meet in person let's watch a livestream of the bloody sunrise which...I mean, I guess it emphasises the togetherness of Midsummer which is no bad thing, but also. The sun rises everywhere, I'm not going to watch it through a zoom chat...
