Cinema
is nothing but a series of relationships. The gaze at the object filmed is just
a marker of the relationship between the film maker and the subject. Placed
next to another shot, a relationship is constructed between not only those
shots, but to that sequence and the film maker. When a film is finished it
encompasses several of these relationships, and a new relationship with time
and how it is experienced.
When
projected through light, these relationships are sent over the heads of an
audience, and reflected back from the screen to retinas of these people, where
these relationships explode into thousands, if not millions more; relationships
of people to memory, to hopes, to fears. Time, light, color, sound, these are
vehicles for this vast set of relationships that we very simply call a film.
Social
histories, personal memories, the concrete and the theoretical, narrative or
abstract; a film is what is NOT there, but what is between each element in a
perpetually creative whole.
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