- Roland Barthes' thoughts on photography {Camera Lucida} paired with Donnie Darko's discovery of the effluence of Time {Donnie Darko, Directed by Richard Kelly}
"The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here; the duration of the transmission is insignificant; the photograph of the missing being, as Sontag says, will touch me like the delayed rays of a star. A sort of umbilical cord links the body of the photographed thing to my gaze...’





