The Devil is in the Detail
Glimpse inside the NOMOS Glashütte Atelier
Glimpse inside the NOMOS Glashütte Atelier
“Alice came to a fork in the road.
'Which road do I take?' she asked.
'Where do you want to go?' responded the Cheshire Cat.
'I don't know,' Alice answered.
'Then,' said the Cat, 'it doesn't matter.”
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
Lewis Carroll, 1865
"Those without dreams are without ideals.
Those without ideals are without beliefs.
Those without beliefs are without plans.
Those without plans are without actions.
Those without actions are without results.
Those without results are without happiness."
Japanese proverb told by Murray Carter, a 17th Generation Yoshimoto Bladesmith.
"Western beauty is radiance, majesty, grandness & broadness.
Eastern beauty is desolateness. Humility. Hidden beauty."
WAY OF THE SWORD
Directed by Brady Welch & Colin Sonner
2014
“When early explorers first set out West across the Atlantic, most people thought the world was flat. Most people thought if you sailed far enough West, you would drop off a plane into nothing. Those vessels sailing out into the unknown, they weren't carrying noblemen or aristocrats, artists or merchants. They were crewed by people living on the edge of life: the madmen, orphans, ex-convicts, outcasts like myself. As a felon, I'm an unlikely candidate for most things. But perhaps not for this. Perhaps I am the most likely.”
ANOTHER EARTH
Directed by Mike Cahill
USA, 2011
“When all is said and done,
our lives are like houses built on foundations of sand,
One strong wind and all is gone.”
HARAKIRI
Directed by Masaki Kobayashi
Japan, 1962
Narrator: And when the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour... And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
Block: Who are you?
Death: I am Death.
Block: You have come for me?
Death: I have been for a long time at your side.
Block: I know.
Death: Are you prepared?
Block: My body is afraid, but I am not.
[Death approaches Block.]
Block: Wait a moment.
Death: You all say that. But I give no respite.
Block: You play chess, do you not? … As long as I resist you, I live. If I win, you set me free.
THE SEVENTH SEAL
"Det sjunde inseglet"
Written & Directed by Ingmar Bergman
1957
"Perhaps the only difference between me and other
people is that I've always demanded more from the sunset.
More spectacular colors when the sun hit the horizon.
That's perhaps my only sin."
NYMPHOMANIAC
Written & Directed by Lars von Trier
2013
“Hear what the Prophet says,
today you sell the ring,
tomorrow the chain,
in 7 days the watch,
and in 77 days you won’t have
even your eyes to weep with.”
ACCATTONE
Written & Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italy, 1961
“Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had beenor what would be,and precisely what she desired, she did not know.”
ANNA KARENINA
Leo Tolstoy, 1873