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I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.
How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of "green"?
It is just seeing-it is a very simple word-and to be a visionary is to be a seer. The problem is that most people can't see.
Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.
A film fable so structured that all alchemical searchings are clearly filmwise (gold being discovered cinematically in each sequence ot mixed black-and-white and color) so that when the drama-discovery is actually made, it acts as a deliberate anti-climax of aesthetic perfection.
The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.
No one is out to get you. It's just that ... people are monkeys.
There are a lot of movies made for nobody.
The video maker doesn't easily face a blank page. Because the videomaker can run it either any way, this way or the other way and erase it if they don't like it and so on.
We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.
Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye? How aware of variations in heat waves can that eye be? Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of color. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.
Poetry is a totally different art than film.
The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.
If only, then, I had been more living out of the present
such a beautiful word ... present. The sense of it being, now to me, more beautiful than 'to look forward.
Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world's greatest filmmaker - which is to say, simply: see his films! ... by all means/above all else ... etcetera.
I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.
