filming, living, celebrating
(create yourself a cinema of your own
go away agony ghost!
turn yourself into image
be beautiful or not
but be imagetic)
“…the philosopher behaves in relation to the reality of existence, so the artistically excitable man behaves in relation to the reality of dreams (…). This is not merely a case of agreeable and friendly images which he experiences with a complete understanding. They also include what is serious, cloudy, sad, dark, sudden scruples, teasing accidents, nervous expectations, in short, the entire “divine comedy” of life including the Inferno.” (Nietzsche in “The Birth of Tragedy”)
facing the blank page the writer is alone,
as we,
helpless, no bonds,
a question ticks
how to express?
this is what drives the thousands of images that will pulse on this festival´s white screen
how to let the personal demons out in images and still com-mun-ic-ate
what?
(so the image be not only the reflex of what rejects us)
(so the image be not hate alone, shaped as fantasy)
we think a lot about the image that fades away…
the image that is part of a see/not see process
are there not more possible images?
the subjectivity overlaps and the nihilist cries.
he is blind in the midst of excess, does not know how to wish
wants to ban the ghosts but does not understand where to place them
so there you are, take it!
because
the cinema is a ghost hunter!
a child’s game
that sees it as a private park
we stroll around then in a permanent fantasy (narrative or not)
in a deserted and calm place, or tense and cold, or hot and sexy,
by car or on foot, flying, or through the eyes of the persona,
watching underneath the skirt or over the door,
we are in all the oneiric places, quite awake,
the cinema keeps a wish to live burning in ourselves
live to see
live to know why to live
live to understand why one wants us
live to understand why the one who once loved us rejects us
“i film because I want to live.” says the japanese Naomi Kawase
full stop. no question marks, no exclamation marks.
no money, if necessary,
no prejudice,
no restrictions,
“i film because I want to live”
given fact
life goes on
and it is to the artist to deal with the cloudy,
as says niestzche and
as does the french Philippe Grandrieux
and it is to the artist to deal to deal with the teasing accidents,
as does the phillipinean Brillante Mendoza
and it is to the artist to represent people and things as pure ghosts, dream images
said Schopenhauer.
it is to the viewers to wait
be patient and daring in their choices
wait to assimilate
wait for their own inflection, for their voice
that again ticks in the mind:
“i see films because I too want to live.”
the nihilist that does not sleep in the films
already daydreams about the next session.
(f.a)
Indie 2009
37 films
38 sessions
14 countries
Indie, 9 years
170.000 viewers
free entrance
sao paulo
brazil
