Kult des Fragments

In representational films sometimes the image affirms its own presence as image, graphic entity, but most often it serves as vehicle to a photo-recorded event. Traditional and established avant-garde film teaches film to be an image, a representing. But film is a real thing and as a real thing it is not imitation. It does not reflect on life, it embodies the life of the mind. It is not a vehicle for ideas or portrayals of emotion outside of its own existence as emoted idea. Film is a variable intensity of light, an internal balance of time, a movement within a given space.

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Ernie Gehr, January 1971

[via thequeenofswords:experimentalcinema]

Everything, all that I’ve written, is grey. My life, even my mental life, has been like a drizzly day in which everything is non-occurrence and haziness, empty privilege and forgotten purpose. I agonize in tattered silks. In the light and in tedium I see but don’t know myself.

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Fernando Pessoa

[via anderalexander:shredyourtears]

(Source: nu-v44v, via watchinghereyes4512)

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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La vida es un proceso de realización, una combinación de estados por los que tenemos que pasar. Donde la gente falla es que en que desean elegir un estado y permanecer en él. Eso es una clase de muerte.

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Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, a.k.a. Anaïs Nin

[via frenchtwist]

I cannot live with You -
It would be Life -
And Life is over there -
Behind the Shelf
The Sexton keeps the Key to -

—Emily Dickinson, zit. nach Geoffrey Hartman: Das beredte Schweigen der Literatur. Frankfurt am Main 2000, S. 38