Out of the Landscape, into the Portrait
The New Stack of Entertainment, Tensions of the AI Age, & Navigating Cambrian Explosions
Scott Belskyimplications.com
“The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is, above all, an invocation. When cinema is authentic, it does not
I’m certain that there are more examples of this, but having been seduced by the films of Kubrick , Hitchcock, and Fellini, this was a revelation. Good filmmakers use the camera to tell a story, not to take pretty pictures. 13