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…Art is simply inevitable. It was on the wall of a cave in France 30,000 years ago, and it’s because we are a species that’s driven by narrative. Art is storytelling, and we need to tell stories to pass along ideas and information, and to try and make sense out of all this chaos. And sometimes when you get a really good artist and a compelling story, you can almost achieve that thing that’s impossible which is entering the consciousness of another human being—literally seeing the world the way they see it. Then, if you have a really good piece of art and a really good artist, you are altered in some way, and so the experience is transformative and in the minute you’re experiencing that piece of art, you’re not alone. You’re connected to the arts. So I feel like that can’t be too bad.
Art is also about problem solving, and it’s obvious from the news, we have a little bit of a problem with problem solving. In my experience, the main obstacle to problem solving is an entrenched ideology. The great thing about making a movie or a piece of art is that that never comes into play. All the ideas are on the table. All the ideas and everything is open for discussion, and it turns out everybody succeeds by submitting to what the thing needs to be. Art, in my view, is a very elegant problem-solving model. -

Steven Soderbergh

You’ve probably seen this everywhere, and if you haven’t yet, make the time to read it.

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from filmprojections

washere:

Select Editorial / Commissioned 2012

Tatum Shaw. A talented southern gentleman. Miss you friend.

from washere

nevver:

Kurosawa

So rad

(Source: criterioncollection)

from nevver

likeafieldmouse:

Hiroshi Sugimoto - Theaters (1978-93)

Artist’s statement:

“I’m a habitual self-interlocutor. Around the time I started photographing at the Natural History Museum, one evening I had a near-hallucinatory vision. The question-and-answer session that led to this vision went something like this:

Suppose you shoot a whole movie in a single frame?

And the answer:

You get a shining screen.

Immediately I sprang to action, experimenting toward realizing this vision. Dressed up as a tourist, I walked into a cheap cinema in the East Village with a large-format camera. As soon as the movie started, I fixed the shutter at a wide-open aperture, and two hours later when the movie finished, I clicked the shutter closed.

That evening, I developed the film, and the vision exploded behind my eyes.”

from stayforthecredits

NO is a phenomenal film. Not only for its true historic subject but for its creative direction. All the ads are the original programming. Unreal. the style is acid-wash ‘80/’90s sweaters/sunshine - such a smart choice for the serious stakes of the times. The writing makes you laugh and cheer inside about the braveness of creative ideas and unsuspecting rebellious minds. I realize a lot has to do with having worked as an adman for the insights on how we struggle to concept and slave and sellllll strike so true. The ballast of idealism gets a taste of realism or capitalism, go on, take sides.

from thesearethemoviesiwatch