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Manifesto |
Why do I make films? About ten years ago I wrote this little manifesto with film-maker Ciriaco Tiso I still subscribe to it. Assertion Cinema is Not the films of millions, billions Cinema is Not the films of filmstars Cinema is Not the films shown on television Cinema is Not the circus of multinationals Cinema is Not the diktat of specialists Cinema is Íït the registration on video tape Cinema is Not the films with beautiful
photography, perfect framing, sumptuous scenography, clean and
conventional sound-track Cinema cannot exist without film, but a fi1in cannot start without the decision of the maker, deep down from the guts, independently of stupid programmers, cultural operators, fucking producers, any kind of managers, coordinators, bankers, subsidizors.Cinema is our films.. . Cinema is the negation of technicisme, semiologisme Cinema is the place where you and I recognize each other, where I and ï thers embrace. Cinema is all films not made, yet ecstatically contemplated in the explosion of existence Cinema is the domain ïf films impossible and frail Cinema is the emancipated burden ïf the margin in pursuit ïf its own world (kosmos) Cinema is the land of the damned and the drunk Cinema is the eternal reflection of Being. Cinema is society reproducing itself on one condition: that Being and (cosmic) Time appear through the mask of Reason. Cinema
is the point ïf convergence-divergence between reality and the unthinkable, imagination
and the impossible. Cinema is this promise-menace: the retrieval ïf
the unconceivable, the boldness ïf the unforeseen. |
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© 1999 Marios Karamanis Athens GREECE |
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