Tomorrow Is Always Too Long"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet." —Orson Welles The click and whir of film looping through a reel exposes the filmmaker to some of the crucial fundamentals of their craft: the material and textures of film. You can allocate that sentiment to the taps on a keyboard and swish of a mouse for a modern day writer. However, the parenchyma of film, the reel and its components, remain an integral part in learning the process of filmmaking. Before you can make the blockbuster, you must learn how a camera, an extension of our eye, works. Furthermore, the filmmaker must educate themselves how the eye works and how the mind processes this alternate reality. Experimental and avant-garde film exists as way of exploring these first steps. Experimental film isn’t just a teaching tool,...
- 4/18/2015
- by Jacqueline Valencia
- MUBI
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