![]() His ‘trick of the light’ takes on new resonances when considered in relation to the unique power of cinematic seeing. DeLillo’s appreciation for the film’s qualities meant that I came to it through him - the master of seeing, for whom, as he writes in his story ‘The Starveling’, ‘all human existence is a trick of the light’. After reading him on Wanda, I imagined him sitting in the same dark room, watching with me. I was finishing my PhD on his work and editing a book about him at that point I was drawn to all things DeLillo, and wanted to see a film that I had read he admired. ![]() I went to see Barbara Loden’s Wanda at a screening at the ICA, not for Nathalie Léger, but for Don DeLillo. ![]()
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