From: Philip Hood (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2006 - 07:37:03 PST
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Zev Robinson wrote:
> ... I have
> been able to see films that I would otherwise not have seen, and to be able
> to look at faves like tarkovsky and kurosawa over and over again, how they
> edit, how they compose, etc. Not something realistically feasible for most
> people with film prints.
>
> Zev
hey zev, I was talking a bit ago to a one time
friend of mine (who was clever in this respect)
and he said that before so many video editing tools
and etc, many film makers had to compose scenes
and edit and do this and that all in their
head, meaning they had to use more of their
imagination and memory ...
its like, a little to me, when these old bards
used to memorize all of the oddysea or all of
shakespeares works and play chess w/out boards
and all of these mythical things that we used to
hear about ... it seems very amazing - but not
so difficult if we try it hard, and maybe training
ourselves isn't bad this way ...
I'm happy w/ whatever we get, video, cheaper,
better film emulsions, etc, but what happens,
it seems, is that each step we take, the peoples
senses are getting duller - we are growing more
stupid and less capable over time ... I don't
really know, but I was talking to someone the
other day & they were saying how modern american
doctors, for
instance, when trained aren't learning how to
help the birthing process w/out machines and
this and that & so they've lost the ability to
"feel" and "sense" whats happening ... and they
can't do it and would be lost w/ out their
tools ... so its like they traded their eyes
for some tech tool, that made them dependent on
some electronic company & etc ... When I look at the
magnificent old technicolor productions, I start
to feel a little bit like gus from cats, when
I look at some of these hoop tricks that pass
for art now.
-ml
pth
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