Marguerite Duras reflects on cinema and making of India Song - e-flux
“We are all so overwhelmed by culture that it is a relief to see something which is done directly, without any intention of being good or bad, done only because one wants to do it.”
Moyra Davey • Index Cards
David Lynch on the limitations of language:
“Cinema is a language. It can say things—big, abstract things. And I love that about it. I’m not always good with words. Some people are poets and have a beautiful way of saying things with words. But cinema is its own language. And with it you can say so many things, because you’ve got time and sequen... See more
In this sense, the cinema is one way that contemporary society keeps the symbolic life and mythological world alive.
Helena Bassil-Morozow • Jungian Film Studies: The essential guide (Jung: The Essential Guides)
“If I did not live in a time when film was accessible to me as a medium, I would have been a dancer, perhaps, or a singer. But this is a much more marvellous dance. In film, I can make the world dance!”
—Maya Deren
—Maya Deren
Maya Deren: A Study in Choreography for Camera - The Culturium -
The creative process utilizes whatever materials we have at our disposal to keep our hands busy so that challenging ideas and emotions have a chance to burn, churn, and turn into something else — clarity, new conceptions, or compassionate action.
Adina Allen • The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom
