Heute keine Projektion: Innocence/Jean Renoir

Some further thoughts on innocence:

Jean Renoir talking to James Blue in 1970:

“I am very bad at casting. I am very bad, and sometimes to be bad helps me. In the way that I am attracted by a certain innocence. I am afraid of clichés, tricks. I am afraid of repeating situations we already saw on screen. People with not too much skill sometimes help me to keep a kind of – I use a very ambitious word, excuse me – to keep a kind of innocence”

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Renoir loved Andy Warhol

Be a standing cinema

Dress my friends up

just for show

See them as they really are

The question remains: How to film innocence? How translate a feeling into film without manipulating it? (stupid thoughts)

Le dejeneur sur lherbe

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la vie de jesus

but the camera poisons

scene/obscene

L’AMOUR “MONSTRE” DE TOUS LES TEMPS – Walerian Borowczyk

 

Heute keine Projektion: Wrong Cinema/Penetration

B: “the creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic, there is hardly a moment in between (…)” (Gertrude Stein)

ON HOW TO MAKE WRONG CINEMA

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Au hasard Balthazar

C: Bresson: “The soundtrack invented silence”

“It is not because Robert Bresson is a voyeur – it is because he is a film director. His eye is not passive but active, and this action itself has a sexual dimension” (J.M. Frodon)

Jean Epstein: “One doesn’t look at life, one penetrates it.

F: The first duty of an artist is not to fear unpopularity (Pier Paolo Pasolini)

With Alain Robbe-Grillet we try to reach a mirror floating in the water…and we drown

Projection/Penetration