Art
Art is craft: all art is always and essentially a work of craft: but in the true work of art, before the craft and after it, is some essential, durable core of being, which is what the craft works on, and shows, and sets free. The statue in the stone. How does the artist find that, see it, before it’s visible? That is a real question. One of my fav
... See moreUrsula K. Le Guin • Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin
The Society of the Spectacle - Annotated Edition by Guy Debord
files.libcom.orgGuy Debord Society of Spectacle
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youtube.comFederico Fellini: Don’t interrupt an emotion
"I think cinema entered a serious crisis"
the remote controller as "scrolling"
"incapacity to let yourself be seduced by a story"
more screens, less paying attention to anything
AFS PRESENTS: JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES : Austin Film Society : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
archive.org"Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles" (1975) directed by Chantal Akerman, is probably going to be one of the most unique films your eyes could feast on, and is undoubtably a pioneer of feminist cinema.
Bresson (on Cinema)
youtube.comAn interview conducted by some French pupils in which Bresson discusses his filmmaking methods.
Tarkovsky on Bresson, Bach, Tolstoy, Leonardo and Shakespeare
youtube.comExcerpts from the 1983 Italian documentary "A Voyage in Time" and the 2019 documentary "Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer". Tarkovsky states that his only teachers in art have been Robert Bresson, Johann Sebastian Bach, Leo Tolstoy and Leonardo da Vinci. He also talks about the asceticism of Bresson's cinema. In the end, the Russian master argues that all of them are poets.
- “Art exposes us to the universal experience of being a meaning-making animal in a universe where meanings falter. A good definition of art, it seems to me, might be the science of making meaning-making tools.”
Garth Greenwell • Just a moment...
Art was a way of storing our brains in each other’s. It wasn’t until fairly recently in human history, when rich landowners wanted something pretty to look at in winter, that the idea of art-as-mere-ornament came around. A painting of a blooming rose to hang on the mantel when the flowers outside the window had gone to ice. And still in the twenty-
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