Invisible Cinema

.. as the below mentioned exhibition takes most of its material and associations from the bigger Hollywood productions it is nice to come across this republished Anti-100 years of cinema manifesto of Jonas Mekkas at / and on / Invisible Cinema.

As you well know it was God who created this Earth and everything on it. And he thought it was all great. All painters and poets and musicians sang and celebrated the creation and that was all OK. But not for real. Something was missing. So about 100 years ago God decided to create the motion picture camera. And he did so. And then he created a filmmaker and said ‘now here is an instrument called motion picture camera. Now go and film and celebrate the beauty of the creation and the dreams of human spirit, and have fun with it.’
….. read on ….
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