“Living in Your Imagination”: A Conversation About Filmmaking with Durga Chew-Bose

Reclaiming Attention

But do remember, it’s the same thing! It’s the same thing, forever and always. Look at this:

Houllebecq - value detaches from human experience

Dostoyevsky - rapid progress can fracture human psychology

Philip K. Dick - our struggle to distinguish reality from simulation

Kurt Vonnegut - automation would both solve and create problems... See more

Does she ‘go crazy’? No, not at all: after a few moments of bewildered fugue, Heather Lelache accepts the ‘new’ world as the ‘true’ world, editing out the point of suture. This strategy – of accepting the incommensurable and the senseless without question – has always been the exemplary technique of sanity as such, but it has a special role to play

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When things become difficult some people find solace in music and religion, but when I read my diaries so many years after I wrote them, what became evident was that in the turmoil of production I took refuge in language. It has forever been a powerful anchor for me, and I suspect that my true voice emerges more clearly through prose than cinema. I

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