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Kuleshov discovered that the extraordinary new medium of film took advantage of the human need to impose order on the world.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
By choosing melodrama over realism, Chabrol is able to make use of the genre's outrageous coincidences, extreme emotions, and sudden psychological reversals, giving his film the texture of a distorted, subjective experience-the
Dave Kehr • When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade
Or it might establish a figure–ground “reversal” in which the space and the subject alternate as the focus of the eye, resulting in a sensation of movement, competition, and tension between figure and ground, or even the feeling that the eye is being tricked. When
Richard D. Zakia • Perception and Imaging: Photography--A Way of Seeing
It’s a truth on which all film grammar is based.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
You don’t have to be labeled an artistic person, necessarily; anyone can work on that kind of perception. The only obstacles are hesitation and lack of interest. The sitting practice of meditation allows a sense of solidness and a sense of slowness and the possibility of watching one’s mind operating all the time.
Chogyam Trungpa • True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art
