Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit

An ongoing digital archive of 1,212 items (and counting) proving that I read, I saw, and I actually paid attention.

  • La jetée

    Directed by Chris Marker

    “Nothing tells memories from ordinary moments. Only afterwards do they claim remembrance on account of their scars.”

  • The Invention of Morel

    by Adolfo Bioy Casares

    “The habits of our lives makes us presume that things will happen in a certain foreseeable way, that there will be a vague coherence in the world.”

  • The City and the Pillar

    by Gore Vidal

    “Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the specific combination which was he would never exist again.”

  • In Praise of Shadows

    by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki

    “The quality that we call beauty, however, must always grow from the realities of life, and our ancestors, forced to live in dark rooms, presently came to discover beauty in shadows, ultimately to guide shadows towards beauty’s ends.”

  • The Novices of Lerna

    by Ángel Bonomini

    “The path of the people is a backward path that goes forward, in a time that comes from the future and will end in the past, because the time of our countrymen more than path is time, and more than time is path.”

  • Persona: Photography and the Re-Imagined Self

    Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

    Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley, Stills from The Rape of Europa, 2025

  • Any Person Is the Only Self

    by Elisa Gabbert

    “Anything you do every day—that’s your life.”

  • Blue Moon

    Directed by Richard Linklater

    “What do you call a tireless, relentless homosexual? ‘Inde-faggot-ible.’”

  • Disneyland Handcrafted

    Directed by Leslie Iwerks

    “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.”

  • Bugonia

    Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

    “We need to send the message that we have a new culture here now. Where people should, of course, feel free to leave at 5:30 and be with their families. No one is going to be overworked like in the past. No more unpleasant incidents. But, of course, it’s not compulsory. And obviously, if people still have work to do, they should absolutely stay and continue to work. But it’s not strictly enforced. Although we still do want to meet quotas. So if we can do that, just remembering, you know, we are running a business here, so “let your conscience guide you” kind of thing. Yeah? Good.”