What I’m trying to do is theorize a way to create a brand new Black cinema,” Skinner Myers says. “Like a new Black cinematic language that does not adhere to anything that’s Eurocentric or Hollywood.” And Myers’ feature film, The Sleeping … Continue reading Skinner Myers on THE SLEEPING NEGRO
The story of cinema is the story of excitement. One of the first movies projected was of a train pulling into a station. The directors placed the camera on the edge of the platform, making it look like the train … Continue reading Slow Cinema
Why do people go to the cinema? What takes them into a darkened room where, for two hours, they watch the play of shadows on a sheet? The search for entertainment? The need for a kind of drug? All over … Continue reading Born On This Day — April 4, 1932
I see it as my duty to stimulate reflection on what is essentially human and eternal in each individual soul, and which all too often a person will pass by, even though his fate lies in his hands. He is … Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, April 19, 2013
Cinema is an unhappy art as it depends on the money. Not only because a film is very expensive but is then also marketed like cigarettes. —Andrei Tarkovsky Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, April 4, 2013
The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise. —Andrei Tarkovsky Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, March 31, 2013
My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness. —Andrei Tarkovsky Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, January 6, 2013
Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I’d say that film is the sculpting of time. —Andrei Tarkovsky Continue reading In Their Words — December 13, 2012
I think in fact that unless there is an organic link between the subjective impressions of the author and his objective representation of reality, he will not achieve even superficial credibility, let alone authenticity and inner truth. —Andrei Tarkovsky Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, December 2, 2012
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