Curiosity Pill Awards Season Part 2
The best articles, videos and podcasts for the year of 2020
After the well deserved holiday break, what better to think about than what were the highlights of sending the Curiosity Pill newsletter in the last half of year.
I want to send a personal thank you to each subscriber, without you this newsletter would not be possible and I hope you will have a wonderful 2021 and keep on reading!
The inaugural edition of the Curiosity Pill Awards Season will be split in 4 parts:
1st Part: Best Article Section #10-8; Best Video Pills #10-9; Best Podcast Pills
2nd Part: Best Article Section #7-6; Best Video Pills #8-6; Best Design Pills; released on 7th January
3rd Part: Best Article Section #5-3; Best Video Pills #5-4; Best Poetic Pills; released on 10th January
4th Part: Best Article Section #2-1; Best Video Pills #3-1; Best Underground Pills, released on 14th January
Best Articles of 2020
#7 Donald Hall’s Amanuensis
This article almost brought me to tears, a heartfelt account of the relationship between the American poet Donald Hall and his scribe, Kendel Currier. An amanuensis is someone who is employed to write down what someone else dictates, or copy writings. But for Kendle and Don it has gone beyond the line of duty, from Don finding a place for Kendle to live after her divorce to Kendle bringing breakfast every morning to Don in his last years. ”Hall and his amanuensis fell into their daily rhythm: he drove ten miles to her home in Andover to drop off the tape she was to transcribe with a guide sheet, and she typed up letters for the next day, when he brought her another tape. Because they used two briefcases for their transactions, the two rarely spoke. She would leave her briefcase with its finished work between her storm and front doors, where he could easily exchange it with his briefcase containing new work.”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/08/18/donald-halls-amanuensis/
#6 This Sweet Sickness: Frank Beauvais On His Obsessive, Archival-Based Memoir, Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream
An interview with Frank Beauvais, the director of the best film I have seen this year, Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream, in which he collages and narrates sequences of the over 400 movies he watched during one of the most troubled periods of his life. A great film by a great puzzlemaker and cinephile. “It’s an affective portrait of the historical present—what Lauren Berlant would describe as “a scene of constant bargaining with normalcy in the face of conditions that can barely support even the memory of the fantasy.” Personal hopelessness is inextricable from political hopelessness, and the question of this film is how to exist in this world. It’s situated firmly in the present tense; it captures, unlike any work I’ve seen, the anxiety of our current era.”
https://filmmakermagazine.com/109365-this-sweet-sickness/
Best Video Pills of 2020
#8 Making Tragedy Meaningful
#7 Shorelines, 1977—A Short Film by Al Jarnow | From the Vaults
#6 Existentialism in anime; serial experiments lain and Sartre
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Best Design Pills of 2020
#3 Stahlwerk 014 by Bernhard Lang
#2 Fish, Fruits, and Flowers by Kathryn E. Cherry(c.1923)
#1 S By Seb Lester
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