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STARDUST MEMORIES: "I can't be alone. But I can't be too close."

Four faces, appearing or disappearing; the faces of a ghost, a haunting memory from a film about a film about spiritual bankruptcy.

Four faces from a black and white movie by the name of Stardust Memories. Four faces appearing or disappearing:

Dorrie, a fictional character played by Charlotte Rampling – an actress not among the 'Most Wanted'; her face is not 'an Idea' like the face of Greta Garbo, nor 'an Event' like that of Audrey Hepburn, nor an endlessly repeated 'Simulacra' like the visage of Marilyn Monroe.

Four appearing or disappearing faces that resembles each other; that resemble Dorrie; that resemble partly forgotten memories; the presence of the past, like an echo from the 'stardust melody'; the three times 'Oh memory' that the trumpeter sings in an alternate take of the 'song about a song about love.'

Mutually 'hijacking' each other, text and images, tied to each other in an endless 'tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centers of culture.' With minimal 'individual presence', as if appearing on the impenetrable, opaque surface of a monochrome or disappearing 'like a face drawn in the sand at the edge of the sea.'