Monday 30 December 2013

Monday 18 November 2013

Jean-Jacques Rousseau


The ancient political thinkers forever spoke of morals and of virtue; ours speak only of commerce and money.



Discourse on the Sciences and Arts

Wednesday 23 October 2013

Tuesday 6 August 2013

Bernard Moitessier


You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all, and it is as simple as a ray of sunshine, as normal as the blue of the sky.

The Long Way, 1971

Thursday 6 June 2013

Stravinsky

"My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings. I shall even go further: my freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful, the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength.The more constraints on imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit"


Igor Stravinsky

Walkabout







Nicolas Roeg, 1971 (Criterion)

Wednesday 15 May 2013

Tarkovsky


“a miracle. Suddenly I found myself standing at the door of a room I had always wanted to enter and where he was moving freely and fully at ease. I felt encouraged and stimulated: someone was expressing what I had always wanted to say without knowing how. Tarkovsky for me is the greatest, the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as reflection, life as a dream."

Ingmar Bergman


“the three greatest tasks for film in the twentieth century are 1) To make the epic, that is, to tell the tales of the tribes of the world. 2) To keep it personal, because only in the eccentricities of our personal lives do we have any chance at the truth. 3) To do the dream work, that is, to illuminate the borders of the unconscious. The only filmmaker I know that does all these three things equally in every film he makes is Andrei Tarkovsky.”

Stan Brakhage