...finally got the chance to dive into henri bergson, also, re-reading gilles delueze but with special focus on the cinematics, discovering the beauty of robert bresson through his little zen-style book 'notes on the cinematographer'... agh all the frenchs... they are actually one people that I would really envy because of the numbers of mind-slicing intellectuals that they contributed to the modern civilization...
... my life these days... eight hours in architecture eight hours in cinema and eight hours in dream... which one is? all three deal with the realm of constructing meaning… in one way or another shuffling around images, sounds, and other sensory experiences with consciousness… through the same wires in the brain… that’s why I was always fascinated by dream… because that’s when all these images and sounds constructions coalesced together, trespassing their own boundaries… like the scene in toy story when the silent toys all ‘wake-up’ and come alive when the door is closed… a magnificent movie editing box right inside yourself… that’s it! that’s why cinema, that is the composition of images and sounds, as a medium is so emotionally captivating… it mirrors the very fundamental experience as a human, to dream, as important as to breathe… dream is when information is overlapped, layered, fade in and out, cut, juxtaposed, multiplied, exaggerated… remember michel gondry’s science of sleep?
... my life these days... eight hours in architecture eight hours in cinema and eight hours in dream... which one is? all three deal with the realm of constructing meaning… in one way or another shuffling around images, sounds, and other sensory experiences with consciousness… through the same wires in the brain… that’s why I was always fascinated by dream… because that’s when all these images and sounds constructions coalesced together, trespassing their own boundaries… like the scene in toy story when the silent toys all ‘wake-up’ and come alive when the door is closed… a magnificent movie editing box right inside yourself… that’s it! that’s why cinema, that is the composition of images and sounds, as a medium is so emotionally captivating… it mirrors the very fundamental experience as a human, to dream, as important as to breathe… dream is when information is overlapped, layered, fade in and out, cut, juxtaposed, multiplied, exaggerated… remember michel gondry’s science of sleep?