Cinema
When people are enjoying a film they say ‘I didn’t see the time go by’... but I think that when time flies and you don’t see time passing by you are robbed of an hour and a half or two hours of your life. Because all you have in life is time... With my films you’re aware of every second passing through your body.... See more
– in Chantal Akerman, From Here ,
I Didn’t See Time Go By – Senses of Cinema
Sometimes when films are loaded with music, it disconnects you from being attuned to something very simple, very evident—light, nature, sound, voices. When this is happening in places that are empty and mostly quiet, you enjoy it all the more.
Rafa Sales Ross • In Another Country: Isabelle Huppert on finding the language of emotion in Hong Sang-soo’s A Traveler’s Needs • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
We are all here tonight and watching this broadcast because we love movies.
Where did we fall in love with the movies?
At the movie theater.
Watching a film in the theater with an audience is an experience.
We can laugh together, cry together, scream and fight together, perhaps sit in devastated silence together.
And in a time in which the w
... See moreO cinema faz-se com os outros, mas é terrivelmente solitário. Para mim, sempre foi assim, algo da ordem da doença. É por isso que grandes cineastas tratam da sua doença num filme e que, quando o vemos, ele tem um poder curativo. Alguns filmes curaram-me, e esta componente solitária do cinema é muito importante para mim.
Pedro Costa and the Revolutionary Constellation of Portuguese ...
“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 -
“For me cinema is time and space.”
— Chantal Akerman (fonte)
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
cinema is also a language in a way, and I think the main language we experience is the one of cinema. I believe I could make a movie with someone who doesn’t speak a single language that I would understand but, because cinema is a language of its own, we would connect in the best possible way.
Rafa Sales Ross • In Another Country: Isabelle Huppert on finding the language of emotion in Hong Sang-soo’s A Traveler’s Needs • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
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