Word: cinema
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...cinema is our fantasy and it is thus our experience. The cinema is mine and not yours—I experience it in my whole being and however you relate to it lies in the processes of your own subjectivity. The screen relates to me, and my dreams—and it enters me through a place that will open only for the filmed image...
...Cinema sets us free of each other—it is the true incarnation of Buber’s Eternal You and we are actualized in that relation. I will watch it. All of it. Even Batman Begins. And you can’t make me stop for it is mine...
...Think of this as a kind of exorcism—a way to show multiple perspectives of sound and image. Plus there’s the whole idea of ambient cinema. I come out of a tradition of collage—Harry Smith, Marcel Duchamp, Charles Ives, all European/Anglo American traditions, meet stuff like GrandMaster Flash, Afrika Bambaata and the Bomb Squad that produced Public Enemy. Plus I remix old blues records for the show as well. The idea is to apply DJ technique to cinema, but to keep things well chilled...
...light of these accolades, it is somewhat surprising to learn that Kwon-taek did not embark on his career in cinema with artistic aspirations. During his formative years the real motivation for his work was monetary...
...HFA’s greater failing, however, was its lack of contextualizing materials for the filmgoer new to Kwon-taek’s oeuvre, or Korean cinema and culture in general. A brief essay on the politics and culture of late 19th-century Korea would have gone a long way towards improving the viewing experience...