“The presence of the camera, critics argue, makes people either self-conscious and inhibited or allows them an opportunity to perform, but in neither case are people acting naturally. For Rouch, though, the camera functions as a “psychological stimulant” that, while perhaps affecting behavior, allows people to do things they otherwise wouldn’t, therefore revealing character. Paradoxically, Rouch sees the camera as adding an element of artifice to a situation that ultimately results in greater truth. As he puts it, the camera is, for him, less a brake than an accelerator.”
Coal miners get to hear the beautiful song of a canary while they work, they are so lucky
Ohhhh my god u are making a structuralist film employing a fixed perspective within a single room in order to play with cinematic notions of space and time? should we tell everyone? Should we throw a party? Should we invite Michael Snow?
They should’ve waited at least 100 years before adding sound to movies.
Scripts bore me. It's much more exciting not to know what's going to happen. I don't think that plot is important. If you see a movie of two people talking, you can watch it over and over again without being bored. You get involved – you miss things – you come back to it ... But you can't see the same movie over again if it has a plot because you already know the ending ... Everyone is rich. Everyone is interesting. Years ago, people used to sit looking out of their windows at the street. Or on a park bench. They would stay for hours without being bored although nothing much was going on. This is my favorite theme in movie making – just watching something happening for two hours or so ... I still think it's nice to care about people. And Hollywood movies are uncaring. We're pop people. We took a tour of Universal Studios in Los Angeles and, inside and outside the place, it was very difficult to tell what was real. They're not-real people trying to say something. And we're real people not trying to say anything. I just like everybody and I believe in everything.
A key design principle for me is Ephemeralization: doing more with less until we can do everything with nothing.
Succumb to joy! By all that is happy or holy, I exhort you to frolic & gambol, to chuckle uproariously, & to delectate and felicitate with hilarity & rapture—let jollity and merriment seem words too slight to evoke the nature of your beatitude—be joyous, & be infectious with joy
“The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.”
- William Blake