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]

The sands of Present Time are running out from under our feet. And why not ? The Great Conundrum: “What are we here for?” Is all that ever held us here in the first place. Fear. The answer to the riddle of the Ages has actually been out on the street since the First Step in Space. Who runs may read but few run fast enough. What are we here for ? Does the great metaphysical nut revolve around that ? Well, I’ll crack it for you, right now. What are we here for ? We are here to go.

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Brion Gysin

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(Source: interpc.fr, via theimpossibleheap)

My mission is to kill time, and time’s to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

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Emil Cioran

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